humor
SERPENTINE, SERPENTINE!
The OG This DK Should've Serpentined Archer Serpentine Rickon, Serpentine!
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geography
Phoenix, Arizona (and More!)
it's really fucked up that Phoenix is the fifth largest city in the US — Jared 🗿🌱 🇰🇵 (@b1g_damage) November 7, 2022 Intuitively, I'd think that all the top 5 most populous cities would be the ones that come up most in conversation. The actual top 5: 1.
programming
AI, Regex, Twitter, Blockquotes, Readwise, Ghost
This may sound like a laundry list of random buzzword items -- but in reality these are all stakeholders to complete one seemingly simple task: converting blockquotes from Readwise format into Ghost Twitter Card format. First, I'd like to go on record stating that I hate writing regex.
writing
World Building in Obsidian
I am exploring the art of world building in Obsidian, taking inspiration from Hunter X Hunter and Game of Thrones. I am learning that world building is made up of parts which can be linked together by backlinks and surfacing to create interesting callbacks and payoffs.
essays
Why I Migrated 300+ Posts From Obsidian Publish to Ghost
303. 303 posts manually backfilled one by one from Obsidian Publish to Ghost, with great effort and mental + physical expense. But why? The Goal of a Zettelkasten For the uninitiated, a zettelkasten is a form of a personal knowledge management system (PKM). The Zettelkasten method prioritizes small pieces of information
music
Red 🤝 Naruto AMVs
TL;DRAll of Red's music make for amazing Naruto AMVs. Any song on their End of Silence album would make a great background track for a Naruto v Sasuke fight scene. Also includes examples of some of my favorite Naruto AMVs from the early 2010s era. red hands
Ghost Is Slow?
ghost is super slow…[1] 202301250311 * image uploads and delivery * seems to be a large package size partially my internet at fault ↩︎
humor
Can a Robot Write a Symphony? Yes Lol
https://t.co/bXEqFi8zqr (View Tweet) Imagine creativity just turns out to be a subset of computation. Imagine that the logic leaps of conjecture and discovering good explanations is just an eigenvector calculation in the frontal lobe or some shit.
game-theory
The Silent Side Effect
Area under the curve doesn't look super good for Xanax (View Tweet) The rebound effect of drugs is an insane, under appreciated side effect due to future discounting. Being in pain now warrants a cure, but it may be the proverbial "kicking the can down the road&
weather
Is Ice More Compressable Than Gas?
The compressibility of water is a function of pressure and temperature. At 0 °C, at the limit of zero pressure, the compressibility is 5.1×10−10 Pa−1. At the zero-pressure limit, the compressibility reaches a minimum of 4.4×10−10 Pa−1 around 45 °C before increasing
sleep
You Probably Won't Get Much Done At 4AM
How to have fun as an adult pic.twitter.com/jdQUX54SeB — Giddy🌍🇨🇦 (@giddywillz) June 17, 2022 …the thoughts you’re avoiding are usually giving you feedback. There is something in your life you’re uncomfortable with, something you need to change. Start listening to them. It might be depressing or
computer
Quick Capture Shortcut for 2023 Vault
Getting the Quick Capture Obsidian (Mac) shortcut working wasn't as I'd worried it would be. I just needed to change a few settings to the new value and change the to process tag.