A single-layer perceptron in x86 assembly to distinguish between circles and rectangles. - GitHub - barrettotte/perceptron-asm: A single-layer perceptron in x86 assembly to distinguish between circ...

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love my tsundoku.

Email is often used as a synchronous (real-time) comms channel when it shouldn't be. Learn why email is async and how to keep it that way.

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On asking people to consider stuff that sounds crazy

Neuroscience has found that gestures are not merely important as tools of expression but as guides of cognition and perception.

Last month I delivered a keynote for YOW! Fantastic conference, wonderful people, excellent approach to an online conference given *waves hands at everything.* Here’s the pitch for the talk: …

Want to improve your knife skills? Take a look at this list of Japanese vegetable cutting techniques. Start from the basics, and work your way up to master.

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are man-made hazardous chemicals that are spread globally in the atmosphere and as a result they can be found in the rainwater and snow in even the most remote locations on Earth. During the last 20 years, guideline values for PFAS in drinking water, surface waters and soils have decreased dramatically due to new insights into their toxicity. As a result, the levels in environmental media are now ubiquitously above guideline levels.

What happens when your mental battery gets drained & how I've personally experienced this in recent times.

The phrase "digital garden" is a metaphor for thinking about writing and creating that focuses less on the resulting "showpiece" and more on the process, care, and craft it takes to get there. While not everybody has or works in a dirt…

A different ‘Big One’ is approaching. Climate change is hastening its arrival.

posts and code related to personal studies. Contribute to fogus/thunks development by creating an account on GitHub.

I recently read John Ousterhout’s book, Philosophy of Software Design. This blog post includes my commentary on some parts that stuck with me. This is neither a review nor a summary of the bo…

An invitation to care-minded architecture and shared spaces in Ghana. A provocation for better places.

What this means is that the door a writer could step through to make a career 50 or even 20 years ago, the one opening onto a life where someone who works hard and does well could buy a house on...

It is difficult to brainstorm fresh, transformative ideas. Telling everyone that “no idea is a bad idea” isn’t enough of a prompt. These questions will stretch you beyond your daily experience; if you’re lucky, they could even lead to a unique business model and a long-term competitive moat.

Nature - Difficult tasks can lead to build-up of a signalling molecule in the brain, triggering fatigue.

Hacking the happiness treadmill