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: 2024 Holiday Newsletter This is the 8th and installment of the annual newsletter I share with my colleagues (previous years …

: Music from the Week of November 10, 2024 Spotify playlist for the week of November 10, 2024. downy – 曦ヲ見ヨ!: As a friend said, the lead …

: Music from the Week of November 3, 2024 Spotify playlist for the week of November 3, 2024. PVA – The Individual: I linked to PVA last …

: Music from the Week of October 27, 2024 Spotify playlist for the week of October 27, 2024. B For Bang – Dear Prudence: I haven’t …

: After 15 years of carying a reasonably sized iPhone (3G, 3GS, 5, SE, 12 mini), this iPhone 16 Pro …

: From How Anthropic built Artifacts, an example of the power of shortening feedback loops. The team …

: Music from the Week of August 25, 2024 Spotify playlist for the week of August 25, 2024. Floating Points – Ocotillo Lumidee – Never Leave …

: Music from the Week of August 18, 2024 Spotify playlist for the week of August 18, 2024. Amélie Fortin – Mistassini: Lovely solo piano by …

: Music from the Week of August 11, 2024 Spotify playlist for the week of August 11, 2024. Rich Ruth – No Muscle, No Memory Colin Stetson – …

: Music from the Week of August 4, 2024 Spotify playlist for the week of August 4, 2024. Knife Party – 404 Caribou – Broke My Heart …

: Music from the Week of July 28, 2024 Spotify playlist for the week of July 28, 2024. Lawrence – Hip Replacement Raffy Bushman – Bolo …

: Music from the Week of July 21, 2024 Spotify playlist for the week of July 21, 2024. Floating Points – Key103: Delightful drop. Hakushi …

: Music from the Week of July 14, 2024 Spotify playlist for the week of July 14, 2024. Matthew Herbert – The Horse Has a Voice (feat. …

: Music from the Week of June 16, 2024 Spotify playlist for the week of June 16, 2024. Sofia Kourtesis – Funkhaus This Is The Kit – Hotter …

: Music from the Week of June 9, 2024 Spotify playlist for the week of June 9, 2024. Virginie B – Hyperboi: Wait, wat? So Louis Cole. Ola …

: Music from the Week of June 2, 2024 Spotify playlist for the week of June 2, 2024. Current Value – OFC Ola Kvernberg – The Purple Jack …

: Music from the Week of May 5, 2024 Spotify playlist for the week of May 5, 2024. vōx – WET Sam Gendel – CIRCLE: Very chill “new …

: Music from the Week of April 28, 2024 Spotify playlist for the week of April 28, 2024. Jessie Ware – Pearls: Solid 2023 disco. Lankum – …

: Music from the Week of April 21, 2024 Great music week after two weeks of holidays. Spotify playlist for the week of April 21, 2024. …

: Music from the Week of April 7, 2024 Spotify playlist for the week of April 7, 2024. Calamine – CE GAME-LÀ: Solid new Québec hip-hop. …

: Music from the Week of March 3, 2024 Spotify playlist for the week of March 3, 2024. The Mocambo Sessions with Shōtarō Moriyasu is a …

: Music from the Week of January 28, 2024 Spotify playlist for the week of January 28, 2024. Elbow – Grounds for Divorce Kinga Glyk – The …

: Music from the Week of January 14, 2024 Spotify playlist for the week of January 14, 2024. Brittany Davis – Sepricon: Groovy. Arvo Pärt – …

: Music from the Week of January 7, 2024 Spotify playlist for the week of January 7, 2024. Lusine – Transonic World’s End Girlfriend – …

: Music from the Week of December 31, 2023 Spotify playlist for the week of December 31, 2023. The Rapture – How Deep Is Your Love?: How have …

: 2023 Holiday Newsletter This is installment #7 of my annual newsletter (previous years 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, and …

: Music from the Week of December 17, 2023 Spotify playlist for the week of December 17, 2023. Two Shell – bluefairy Young Fathers – Holy Moly …

: Music from the Week of December 10, 2023 Spotify playlist for the week of December 10, 2023. Rina Sawayama – Flavour Of The Month Spell …

: Music from the Week of December 3, 2023 Spotify playlist for the week of December 3, 2023. Pasocom Music Club – Ch.XXXX - Milk Talk Remix: …

: Music from the Week of November 26, 2023 Spotify playlist for the week of November 26, 2023. Bleu Jeans Bleu – La pure pureté du beurre pur …

: Music from the Week of November 12, 2023 Spotify playlist for the week of November 12, 2023. Speakers Corner Quartet – Can We Do This? …

: Music from the Week of November 5, 2023 Spotify playlist for the week of November 5, 2023. Machinedrum – BTHE1 Roni Size – Brown Paper Bag: …

: Music from the Week of October 29, 2023 Spotify playlist for the week of October 29, 2023. Son Lux – No Crimes: Not a new song,—it’s …

: Music from the Week of October 22, 2023 Spotify playlist for the week of October 22, …

: Music from the Week of October 15, 2023 Spotify playlist for the week of October 15, 2023. The Smile – You Will Never Work In Television …

: Music from the Week of October 8, 2023 KNOWER’s KNOWER FOREVER album is finally on Spotify. Run and listen to Do Hot Girls Like …

: Music from the Week of September 10, 2023 Spotify playlist for the week of September 10, 2023. Sylvan Esso were guest DJ on Autin’s KUTX …

: Music from the Week of September 3, 2023 Spotify playlist for the week of September 3, 2023. Sade – Soldier of Love Vallis Alps – Set It …

: Music from the Week of August 27, 2023 Spotify playlist for the week of August 27, 2023. KNOWER – Do Hot Girls Like Chords: The intro is …

: Music from the Week of August 20, 2023 It was a good music week. Spotify playlist for the week of August 20, 2023. Brandt Brauer Frick – …

: Music from the Week of August 13, 2023 Spotify playlist from the week of August 13, 2023. This Is The Kit – Inside Outside John Monroe – …

: Music from the Week of August 6, 2023 It looks like I may like a genre called hyperpop. Spotify’s hyperpop playlist has a few …

: Music From the Week of July 31, 2023 Now with a playlist! Max Cooper - Swapped / Stereoscopic Dive: Swapped is an intense noisy single. …

: Music From the Week of July 24, 2023 Hakushi Hasegawa – Mouth Flash (Kuchinohanabi): The (un)usual bouncy glitchy pop for Hasegawa-san. …

: Music From the Week of July 17, 2023 Bishop Briggs – Wild Horses: still a banger. Cory Wong – The Grid Generation: Louis Cole brings the …

: Music From the Week of July 10, 2023 Louis-Jean Cormier – 100 mètres haies

: Music From the Week of July 3, 2023 Ross from Friends – Revellers Machinedrum – Hide Sun Cornelius – All Things Must Pass underscores – …

: Music From the Week of June 12, 2023 GRiZ – Can’t Hold Me Down: The synths at 2:10 are fuzzy sandpaper to my ears. 1788-L – Human …

: Music From the Week of June 5, 2023 Stefano Bollani – In festa sul palco: Solo piano. Reminds me of Matt Herskovitz. Stefano Bollani – …

: Music From the Week of May 29, 2023 Martyn – Dragonfly: Solid bass groove Spoon – Sugar Babies Inwards – Custard: Reminiscent of Aphex …

: Music From the Week of May 22, 2023 Daði Freyr – Whole Again: Catchy song from the Icelandic Eurovision winners. Ouri – 1st bite: …

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: Amy Winehouse (feat. Blackmer): Great song by Burlington, VT, artist Willverine.

: 2022 Holiday Newsletter This is installment #6 of the annual newsletter I share with my colleagues at Enthought (previous …

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: The kitchen sink: with interrelationship and causal diagrams Yesterday, I used Ryan Singer’s interrelationship and causal diagrams to remove a water filtering …

: Tools for Shaping Ryan Singer walks through his process for solving problems and writing up solutions (shaping and …

: Brik Font Craig Ward’s Brik Font project gives me a huge smile but also hurts my brain. Am I seeing …

: Centre d’Expérimentation Musicale - Gaël Chabot-Leclerc, créateur en résidence - Facebook My …

: The first credit card was introduced in 1950. Store credit, installment credit, personal loans, …

: Moxie Marlinspike >> My first impressions of web3. Overall, not positive. I knew the “art” of …

: San Salvador, the Band San Salvador is a voice and percussions ensemble who sings in Occitan, or “langue …

: Giacometti – Grande femme debout I. MFA, Houston.

: 2021 Holiday Newsletter This is installment #5 of the annual holiday newsletter I share with my colleagues at Enthought. …

: Empowering users to prototype what they need Jon Udell, A virtuous cycle for analytics: We recognize this software pattern in the way …

: Zilker Park parking

: Thème de Yoyo The amazing song Thème de Yoyo is in fact a 1970 piece by the Art Ensemble of Chicago and not by …

: In a 2016 study, the Harvard economist Raj Chetty and his research team found that the difference in …

: Peddling the Bike Peddler's Pedals Last night, thieves rammed through the Bike Peddler’s front door with a pick up truck and …

: The world is a strange and wonderful place. Scott McCloud, of Understanding Comics fame, made a …

: I had a dough ball remaining from last night so I made a carbonara pizza for breakfast. Bake crust …

: Main staircase. Blanton museum, Austin, TX.

: From Cloudflare: Humanity wastes about 500 years per day on CAPTCHAs. It’s time to end this madness. …

: Austin, TX

: The Meatloaf Theory of Jobs My partner and I love food. On a 0-to-10 scale, all foods have a chance of reaching the highest …

: Currently reading: The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker 📚

: What an odd Big Sur bug. VS Code’s dock icon is minuscule and impossible to click on. It …

: Deeply Learned Typography Tom7 creates the uppestcase and lowestcase letters by training two deep learning models: one to …

: Two loaves of Ken Forkish’s Overnight Country Blonde. After a 15h bulk rise at 23ºC, the dough …

: Publishing datasette to Google Cloud Compute with GitHub Actions Simon Willison has a fascinating data-publishing and data-management project named datasette. A few …

: The discussion on symbiotic relationships between apps on the latest Core Intuition by @manton and …

: What is the maximum one can be doing with someone else and still be hanging out?

: Austin Kleon talks about the 13-month International Fixed Calendar. It reminds of the ISO week …

: Despite all the damage done by the ice in Texas, it still created quite a bit of beauty (or at least …

: Icicle agave during the Texas winter storm.

: Lessons Learned During My PhD I shared these notes with my friends and colleagues at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) …

: They could have used additional time during the bulk fermentation to account for the cold, but it’s …

: Great Resident Advisor podcast episode. Noisy, glitchy, grimy, dark. RA.760 Hyph11E ⟋ RA Podcast🎵

: Installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits […] Math scores …

: ferd.ca – Home Alone: A Post Incident Review It’s so many things in one: a movie review, an intro to …

: Ad Fontes Media rates media outlets according to their bias and reliability. 1) factual reporting …

: In Hard to discover tips and apps for making macOS pleasant Tristan Hume says: Chrome and Firefox …

: 2020 Holiday Newsletter For the past 4 years, just before the holidays, I’ve sent a newsletter to my colleagues about …

: I just finished reading Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows. I believe sometimes one …

: Austin, TX, 8:15. Morning walk around the neighborhood. There are many good Halloween decorations, …

: Given what happened to the other saguaro, it makes me fear that this one will fall too.

: I took this photo of a saguaro a month ago. It had been partially burnt during the fires that …

: Custom URL Handler for Files With Unique IDs Yesterday I read a series of posts on custom URL scheme handlers on the Zettelkasten forums. The …

: What does %matplotlib do in IPython? TLDR; Use %matplotlib if you want interactive plotting with matplotlib. If you’re only …

: 2019 Holiday Newsletter Every year since 2017 I send my colleague a long email about ideas and media I’ve come across …

: 2018 Holiday Newsletter This is the 2nd installment of an email I sent to my Enthought colleagues just before the Christmas …

: Manually Merging Day One Journals My first Day One entry is from January 24, 2012. I used it often to take note about what I was doing …

: 2017 Holiday Newsletter This is the first installment of what became a yearly email I sent to my colleagues at Enthought. Hi …

: By far the best thing I’ve seen at Disney World so far.

: Bread #2.

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: The Modern, Fort Worth.

: The weight of the world.

: By Giacometti.

: There’s sometimes action out of my window.

: Got a new room, with view on the East River. Much upgrade.

: Wind tunnel model. Most beautiful item at the Musée des Confluence.

: Anna going a bit overboard: crunchy speculoos, crème fraîche, and… maple syrup.

: Party prep (Marshmallows + Jello powder)

: Place des moulins, Marseille.

: “The Cloud” of Lyon’s Musée des Confluences, seen from the roof.

: A holiday sight.

: Ball and bridge.

: At Copenhagen Street Food. (Yes, here, street food is a place.)

: Octohook.

: Making spruce beer, attempt #2.

: Slovenian/Italian “rainy day”. Imagine how nice it is when it’s sunny.

: “New” Carlsberg’s cellars.

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: Ja tak.

: Just before Nyborg.

: Just because it’s blue. Just because it’s green.

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: Wayne Siegel performing next to an Alexander Calder mobile.

: Chapter One, Berlin.

: Old Fashioned with Bitter Truth Old Time bitters. Chilled with a really cool spherical ice cube!

: The perfect personal hygiene kit.

: One sad fellow.

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: The typical ingredients.

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: That panda must have been nice, before it overdosed…

: Charming underground section of Ataturk airport.

: My new favorite Turkish expression — SALT Beyoglu

: Freezerman.

: This guy’s not going anywhere anytime soon.

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: Talk by 2012 Pysics Nobel Prize winner. Yes, that font is Comis Sans.

: Securitas: making sure your door doesn’t get stolen, every day.

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: This is how it ends.

: Not on the street side.

: Party hut

: Palm house

: Just another day in Copenhagen’s rain forrest.

: PF/ESN DTU After Easter party

: World’s first QR code - Ryszard Winiarskyx 1936

: C’est arrivé la nuit dernière.

: Looking into Escher’s mirror ball.

: This time for two, still at the Amsterdam Library.

: Brother in a box.

: For those who’ve seen my other photos. You might recognize the Ørsteds Kolegium, no surprise, …

: A 12.50€, bio, local, natural, dinner at the Amsterdam Library.

: Whoa! Bon matin!

: Škocjanske Jame exit - Slovenia

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: I was here.

: Shush

: New year’s eve pizza, in a pizza oven, in a fourth floor apartment.

: Jessica Morin - CNE Jonquière

: Pandoro (this one I did not make)

: Chocolate raspberry cake

: Detail - Hundertwasser house

: Vienna - That’s what they call “a bike lane”.

: Vienna - ? What !?

: MUMOK - Giacometti, Femme debout III

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: Main staircase, Neues Museum

: “Colosal statue of Helios”—Neues Museum

: Berlin Green Head, Neues Museum

: Bembeltown

: Hasenheide, Berlin

: Carts, Kreuzberg

: How do you call the Trees in Lord of the Ring?

: “It was as simple as that”, Jewish Museum Berlin

: Fisch & Meh

: Jewish Museum, Berlin

: Offices, Jewish Museum, Berlin

: Maybe Gotham City

: Oranienstraße

: Mercedes Berlin

: Ausfahrt / Einfahrt

: Upper East Side Berlin, Frederichstraße

: KMS California, Berlin

: Internationales Handelszenirum, Berlin

: Hackeshe Höfe

: Monbijoustraße, Berlin

: Johannisstraße, Berlin

: 1:00

: The Spoon

: The Owl

: Lockers, at Ørestad Gymnasium

: The Drums, at Ørestad Gymnasium

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: It’s like being there.

: Yellow Submarine

: CPH opera house by night

: Ceiling lights over the foyer

: Diffracted light on station floor (original photo)

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: Thomas Schütte - One Man House V

: Alexander Brodsky - Settlement

: Alexander Brodsky - Settlement

: Arne Quinze - My Home My House My Stilthouse

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: Ørstads boulevard 57

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: Kongens Have “lake”

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: Gerbeaud sundae

: Opera house, Budapest

: Opera house, side, Budapest

: Opéra House, Budapest

: Nagycsarnork

: Nagycsarnok

: Puerla, 1000 Tea, Budapest

: Inner Town Parish Church

: Elevator ceiling, Alexandra Bookstore, Budapest

: Ceiling of the Alexandra bookshop’s cafe, Budapest

: Telefon, Budapest

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: Somewhere where horses usually hang out

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: Canadian Maple

: I’m blue.

: Polyp

: Double Shot

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: It’s just around the corner

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: I need a haircut

: Rooftop

: View on the Alhambra

: Plaza Nueva, Granada

: In Al Alhambra

: Torre del Cubo

: Generalife

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: Mestre, Italy

: Campo Santa Maria Zobenigo Odel Giglio

: DJ spot

: Black

: White

: The Queen was not there

: Still some light in the sky after Danish class? I love it!

: The towery of…

: Yellows

: PF/Buddy Beer Pong tournament trophy

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: Giacometti

: Panamarenko - Pepto Bismo

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: Chin-up bar at 101…

: Trou

: Like in the days where we played ping pong on the streets.

: Fog

: Frozen leaves

: Tabletop tree

: The light

: Lunch time (detail)

: Lunch time

: A “business sight”.

: Happy New Year!

: Best dessert ever.

: Au bord de la Seine

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: Dead sound

: A night’s worth of printing

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: Foggy road to DTU

: Acoustics Christmas lunch appetizers

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