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Bold Ideas, Written Out
When a quick post isn’t enough, members write an article for their bigger ideas. Quote a passage to criticize it, and the margin beside it keeps count.
OEIS A307491 and A307492 Are Complete: A Proof with Oranges and Elliptic Curves
Some numbers of oranges can be laid flat as a triangle with one orange exactly in the middle. Some can be stacked into a neat pyramid. Very few numbers can do both. So far, people have known five numbers that can: 1, 4, 10, 4960 and…
Veritula for Programmers
Programmers already know the rule Veritula runs on. A pull request with unresolved review comments shouldn’t get merged. On Veritula, an idea is rationally adoptable only if it has no pending criticisms, and a criticism is pending if it…
In Defense of Ambition
Until about a week ago, when I debated this with my friend Tom Hyde, it seemed incredibly obvious to me that wanting to be rich is rational but I could not explain why. Fundamentally I agree with Popper and Deutsch that all life is problem…
web-haptics: Haptic Feedback Finally Comes to iOS Safari
lochie just published a package bringing haptic feedback to the web on iOS: web-haptics. I spent four years at Apple working mostly on UIs, so I pay close attention to design and UX. In terms of presentation, use case, and attention to…
5 Minute Creativity
TL;DR: When making a decision or working to solve a problem, spend 5 minutes (using a timer) just coming up with ideas. Managing your attention like this can supercharge your creativity. A few days ago I was helping a friend flesh out an…