Reading about the TI MSP430 microcontroller. A pretty nifty looking device. It is referenced in Zen and the Forth Language: EFORTH for the MSP430 from Texas Instruments.
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Author Archives: Jay Jay
Bluesky’s user safety situation
Some interesting discussion about content moderation and user safety: Bluesky’s user safety situation.
Math binge
Some fun math videos:
- How To Count Past Infinity
- The Banach–Tarski Paradox
- Numberphile v. Math: the truth about 1+2+3+…=-1/12
And some fun math articles:
Quantum mechanics: How the future might influence the past
Boltzmann brain
This is great: Boltzmann brain. The idea is roughly that maybe it’s more likely that your brain (or this entire galaxy) just randomly coalesced rather than evolved from the big bang as we believe it did.
Forth
I’m reading Discover FORTH: Learning and Programming the FORTH Language and I have a growing interest in the programming language Forth. Here are a few resources:
And some other books on Forth:
And there are a heap of Forth books by Juergen Pintaske.
Rules of Thumb for Software Development Estimations
Looks like an interesting article, but I only read the comic and the tl;dr bullet points: Rules of Thumb for Software Development Estimations.
The illusion of free will
I have conjured a rabbit hole for myself: we fall into the illusion of free will.
Why Split Lexing and Parsing Into Two Separate Phases?
An interesting and easy to read explanation of why you might like to keep lexing and parsing separate: Why Split Lexing and Parsing Into Two Separate Phases?
How to interpret, understand, and act on feedback
This was a good read: How to interpret, understand, and act on feedback. It’s some commentary on how to take feedback in a useful, mature, and Emotionally Intelligent way.