I’ve recently been using more analog stuff. After one too many Youtube binges it’s long overdue for me to take phone addiction seriously; I wanna avoid instinctively reaching for a phone and infintely scrolling during downtimes. So, this last month I started using a physical journal, an analog wrist watch, an analog wall clock, and a paper fridge calendar. Grandpa mode on. I was pretty hesitant to…
Lately I started getting into the credit card points game. It’s a weird game…there’s a lot of danger with credit, some perverse pyramid-scheme elements with affiliate links, and kind of incentivizes you to spend more. But it’s kinda fun lol. Here’s what I’ve done. Credit Cards Before 2018 I got the Citi Double Cash shortly after my first credit card for the 2% back, with no sign-up bonus (SUB).…
I started experimenting with zettelkasten -style note taking. This meant I quickly made hundreds of files and needed to organize them somehow. I could have a single folder and just search, but I often can’t remember an appropriate query and I like browsing through files sometimes for discoverability because I don’t know exactly what I’m looking for. So here’s 👏 3 👏 tips 👏 that I’ve found useful…
In the main square, there were lots of stalls selling fruit juice. The posted price for a large mixed drink was 20 Morrocan Dihrams. I tried buying it a couple times. Once I asked for a better price. I got 15 dihrams and a picture with me in the stall. Once I tried to make two juice stalls compete. One says yes to 15 dihrams for two large mixed drinks, the other says that’s way too low, but that…
I want to visualize stuff in high dimensions. Plotting the first two principle components is an option. T-SNE is another, a method that clusters points that are close in high dimensional space. But I want even more intuition! So I made a way to generate a video that shows every pair of dimensions, with smooth rotations between pairs. Above you’re seeing all 2D projections of some 4D spiral. Even…