(initial draft date 2024-11-17)
Desire to improve fitness
I want to improve my overall level of fitness. VO2 max seems to be a reasonable way to measure this. A proxy for VO2max is a …
read more(initial draft date 2024-11-17)
I want to improve my overall level of fitness. VO2 max seems to be a reasonable way to measure this. A proxy for VO2max is a …
read moreI have been interested in the idea of neuroplasticity for a while now. It seems to be a very positive idea about the brain. The brain can rewire - sometimes very quickly - to handle new …
read moreI did Spanish in school a long time ago until I was 15 years old. I have made a few attempts to learn it properly since then, but have not managed to succeed yet …
read moreOver the last couple of summers Cathal has done some classes for kids at local college. The classes are aimed at children who are interested in things like Science and Maths, but there is …
read moreToday I learned about pygame with my dad. We are working on our physics simulator, it simulates gravitational pull. We are planning on adding vectors and another mass.
read moreI am going to try some small experiments based on reading this book.
The first one will be based on the idea of structuring a work session. I am going to try this …
read moreResults will depend on the corpus used. I am not interested in accuracy, so just got a Spanish corpus from nltk.
A list of resources and practices to get python beyond the basics
I am using Fluent Python by Luciano Romalho as the starting point. I bought this …
read moreThe fissile material was Plutonium. It was in the shape of 2 hemispheres with a central core of Berillium and Polonium - the initiator. The initiator's job was to produce some neutrons to start the …
read moreI wanted to see if I could use Chat GPT to become a better cook. I tried the Sous Chef GPT that Open AI produced themselves a while ago. I told …
read moreThe Emperor of Austria-Hungary insisted on freedom of movement of people within the Empire. This allowed large numbers of people to move from the east of the country …
read moreThis is an idea from Daniel Dennett's book Intuition pumps and other tools for thinking.
The idea here is that a little kid could say something like the above and not really know what …
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