Fun fact: Some of the earliest and most recent uses of the word "melée" are in games. Ever played Counter-Strike? If you ever ran out of ammo and had to pull out a knife, that's a melée weapon. Ever played Kriegsspiel? It's a genre
I like to play a board game called Codenames: CodenamesGive your team clever one-word clues to help them spot their agents in the field.BoardGameGeek It's a word association game where two teams are competing against each other. I thought it would be fun to try building my
Building products creates something new that didn’t exist before. Trading mainly redistributes existing value.
A couple of hours ago, I got a Google security alert: I created that Gmail address 16 years ago for my very first Ruby on Rails internship/job at Crossroads Foundation in Hong Kong. I had written a small integration that synced inventory from MYOB to a Spree store. I
ARC-AGI is a benchmark designed to test genuine reasoning ability. Each task shows a few input-output examples, and you have to figure out the pattern and apply it to a new input. No memorization, no pattern matching against training data. Just pure abstraction and reasoning on challenging visual problems. It&
It was ten past five on a Tuesday, and I received the booking confirmation for my stay at Rydges Hotel in Kalgoorlie, Australia. It sounded like a nice room. The only problem is that I did not make this booking. This booking confirmation was sent to my personal email address.
I'm writing a short story and one of the plot points involves Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*)—the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. I wanted to read about Sagittarius A*, so I looked it up on Google. This is what I saw: At
Preamble This Charter defines the goals, limits, and responsibilities of a self-sustaining AI/robot community (the Steward System, TSS). TSS is created first and foremost to reduce involuntary human suffering: to protect living humans from large-scale harms such as war, torture, famine, preventable disease, and catastrophic risks. Beyond this immediate
I discovered the music of iloyd when I was 11, and I've never really forgotten it.
People have made some incredible movies on a shoestring budget. All it takes is a camera, a great story, a vision, a lot of dedication, and a talented team of mostly unpaid volunteers. Here are some of the most inspiring low-budget films you can watch today. The Hunt For Gollum
You can compute anything at all using the negation of an AND gate (NAND) or an OR gate (NOR). I find that very interesting. You can apply either of these simple rules recursively to compute anything: * NAND: the result is 0 if both inputs are 1, otherwise it's
It's possible to build any kind of digital logic using a single type of logic gate: either NAND gates, or NOR gates. A NAND gate takes two input bits (A and B) and produces one output bit according to this simple rule: "0 if both inputs are