waivej

I got exposed to programming neural networks in the early 90s. It solved certain problems incredibly fast like the traveling salesman problem. I was tinkering with 3D graphics and fractals and map pathfinding. Though it didn’t occur to me how much more power was there.

“Data” was so much smaller then. I had a minuscule hard drive if any, no internet, 8 bit graphics but nothing photo realistic, glimpses of windows and os2, and barely a mouse. In retrospect, it was like embedded programming.

I love stuff like this and brainstorm ideas for the ones in my garage. Of course you could do a cheap ev conversion or do a 24 Hours of Lemons race. What if you simply took it apart to individual bolts? Make a bicycle pedal car? Propane or wood gasifier conversion? Turn it into a treehouse? Replace the glass with screens and use it for driving games? Tiny office/camper? Grill/smoker?

Coldest winter of my life was near London. Heater was wired to cheap middle of the night electricity so you had to plan a day ahead to have hot water or heat. Friends had to go to hardware store to get tokens to feed their rental heaters. Ran out at night? Put on a extra blanket and get there early the next day.

Our Omron arm cuff one reads 20 pts too high. We didn’t realize until a doctor had us bring it in.

My Charge HR with “sensitive” sleep tracking setting was one of my favorite features. It always knew exactly how much sleep I got. I switched to a Garmin 935 and never look at the sleep data because it’s never accurate.

I actually use an old version of Photoshop in a Windows VM because it's faster than a native modern version. As a perk, I don't worry that it's going to break if I upgrade OSX.

I asked my father (retired math professor) and he responded

"I am not sure what book to suggest. But if your friend wants to get away from the algebra of coordinate geometry maybe a book on geometric constructions.—How to do things with a ruler and compass."

I've been with them for 2+ years and am hooked. We use Green Chef as well for 6 meaks per week.

Everyone complains about the lack of convenience but it saves me mind capacity more than anything and I never have to go to the store. We also like variety in food. Recipes show up, I cook for 30 minutes and we have family meals.

$20/meal to feed three adults and a toddler is a bargain to me as well.

I prefer Blue Apron to others and cringe to think they might make it easier. Note, I could barely cook before and took twice as long. I just use a giant cutting board and a favorite spatula and knife and occasionally use more than one pan. I also overlap things like preheating the pans and chopping while things cook.

We recreate some of the meals but have a hard time getting the quantities to match up. It usually means I have to make a double batch for guests or have leftovers and need to stock the pantry with various sauces and vinegars.

My first experience with the "web" was a friend showing me this "browser" thing a friend was working on at another college. It was like the text link thing (gopher?) that let you read man pages on other college networks with inline images. It was so slow and boring. I thought it was the dumbest thing ever. I went outside to mountain bike in the nice summer weather afterwards.

I didn't imagine it would have much use and was already annoyed by the guys that used FTP to download porn images. They would use terminals in the computer labs to amas collections that you could look at one by one with xv. The browser seemed to speed up the effort of downloading index files, manually typing in filenames, switching to binary mode, then back, etc.

I had to switch it to sensitive mode for the same reason. It's also more useful as a relative metric than specific number.

We have a toddler so time became extremely tight. Though it's been wonderful to have nice meals together as a family. The sheer time involved to plan and shop for ingredients makes it seem like a bargain to us.

Not having to entertain in a grocery cart or plan meals around ingredients that can't be bought in small quantities is even better. I suppose it depends a bit on the types of things you like to eat.

Occasionally there is one that I'll have a snack afterwards, but I tend to have a pretty big appetite and find the quantity fine.