Progress

For some reason, I am very old this week: there's a new ache every day.

Apart from that, not much to tell.

Articles

• Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem -- Quanta Magazine
• Ripping Off Professional Criminals by Fermenting Onions - Phishing Darknet Users for Bitcoins
• Hiding in Plain Sight: Mexico’s Octopus Farm/Research Facade - EA Forum
• Paragraphica - Bjørn Karmann: Paragraphica is a context-to-image camera that uses location data and artificial intelligence to visualize a "photo" of a specific place and moment. The camera exists both as a physical prototype and a virtual camera that you can try.
• Patterns of mean-level change in personality traits across the life course: a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies - PubMed
• The Mystery of the Largest Light in the Sea - Nautilus
• Intravenous Caffeine - by Jeff Clark, MD
• Buy well. Buy once. - fellow.ventures: This sounds like the exact opposite of what they write. I certainly have more than 192 items, but I also don't need to put them in a spreadsheet and think about them that hard. That sounds suspiciously like “The things you own end up owning you” to me.
• We don’t trade with ants -- world spirit sock puppet
• The odd appeal of absurdly long YouTube videos that play nothing on purpose - The Verge

Libraries, programming, etc

• GitHub - Fictiverse/Redream: Realtime Diffusion, using Automatic1111 Stable Diffusion API
• GitHub - reactive-python/reactpy: It's React, but in Python: so silly I have to try it

Games

• Sea of Thieves
• Superhot VR
• The Invisible Hand

Backlog

• (free from EGS)

Recipes

• Karottenkuchen

Other media

• more Taskmaster, up to series 7 now
• Why Does Rice Sink Ships? - YouTube
• The Future of Vehicle Recycling - Cars stripped, boxed and on eBay within hours! - YouTube