Life logging, journaling… what now? The idea behind this post grew from an insight I had, two months ago. I realised that I was bookmarking a lot of web pages because I liked what they explained and wanted to remember what I read. More precisely, I wanted to remember that I had read that. At that time, this seemed the more natural way to approach this problem.
A month later, more or less, I landed in this New York times article: The Data-Driven Life.
The 100 most common words in Icelandic, automatically generated from Wikipedia
3 minutes read | 556 wordsThe file can be downloaded at the end of the post
As you may already know, I’m travelling to Iceland this July, and started learning Icelandic a few months ago. It advances slowly but firmly, but I found a problem:when you are self-learning a new language, an invaluable tool is a list of most common words.
Music to listen with this post: Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsvkii’s Concert 35 D-major, Allegro (Spotify link , Youtube link). I’ll write why this piece in a forthcoming post.
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A week and a half ago, @nochiel, a twitter follower retweeted the following, initially written by @marcoarment (lead developer of Tumblr and Instapaper):
New and old
For around 4/5 years I have been the proud owner of a Canon Ixus 30. A small and versatile pocket digital camera. But I missed a lot being able to tweak some settings, having manual focus, aperture and exposition controls is fantastic. Moreover, it shoots in RAW.
Using it is quite easy if you have used a previous Canon model and if you have ever touched a digital reflex.
Today, while I was thinking of the best implementation solution for the vector operations, I realised that I am just not motivated by writing a raytracer in Forth. I’ll have to find something more interesting, or at least, more Forth minded to work on.
If I want to raytrace, better to improve the Lisp raytracer, which is sitting idly in my Code/Lisp folder. Steps that will follow in the raytracer path:
- Mr(s) Red Square is doomed to donate