3 classics are freely available here from standardebooks.org: Start here: - Epictetus: The Enchiridion Continue here: - Marcus Aurelius: Meditations Persevere here: - Seneca: Dialogues…

Self-Assessment - some reliable tests Cartoons - relatable art! Reading - Books and articles Videos - Short/interesting videos and recommended channels Social Media - recommended accounts and #hashtags Items/Products see ADHD Products/Ideas to Help References See also Self-Assess…

Here are some interesting products/ideas I've seen that are popular with ADHD people. Alarmy App — Amazing app, an alarm you cannot ignore. Alarmy lets you set alarms that are really interesting and impossible to ignore. For example: Some people find it very very hard to get out …

Cargo-Bot…

I can't immediately list all the causes worth fighting for off the top of my head. Nor can I immediately list all the best ways to help them. So I'm building this page where I can record topics and related ways to help, as they arise. Climate Change - Practical things you can d…

One evening an old Cherokee Indian told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside every person. He said, 'My son, the battle is between two "wolves" inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, infe…

- Invent zero-point energy - Invent new battery technology - Vote in favor of climate-helping political candidates - Donate money to support climate-helping political candidates devote significant portion of your career, not just a hackathon. help develop proven business models…

I seem to have a few places where I'm collecting things. - Resources to help build your first product — all resources for building products - TIL — all things I learn as I learn them (particularly technical things) - List of Potentially Useful Concepts — all mental models - Aweso…

Recently I was situated on a mezzanine floor overlooking a heaving dance party, and had the opportunity to witness the spontaneous formation, growth, and eventual breakdown of a conga-line. It was a fascinating structure to observe, and when I searched for research on the mathema…

Course 1 from Code.org Some typing at level 16 (Literally you type: "hello world"…

Daisy the Dinosaur…

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten. THE DEFAULT MODE NETWORK OF THE BRAIN is a bunch of highways you've built inside your brain, where traffic flows all the time, whether you're daydreaming or focused on a task. It is within this…

Dialogue is a conversation between two people. Jill: How are you Jack? Jack: I'm good, Jill and you? Jill: Not good Jack. Not good at all. Dialogue in fiction should be *indirect.* Dialogue often has to do two or three things at once. - It has to reveal facts. (This is calle…

Research - Scientists develop new blood collection method using deadly snake venom — Paul Masci and Goce Dimeski helped develop the blood collection method. - Dr Paul Masci National Health and Medical Research Council — from Australian Research Data Common (ARDC). About. Related…

Where to begin. Economists LOL. Consider first this joke which does its best to sum up the problem: A physicist, a chemist, and an economist are stranded on a desert island with no implements and a single can of beans. The physicist says, "Let's smash the can open with a rock." T…

Emergence a thing of one type leads to a thing of an entirely different type, when viewed at a different scale. a phenomenon whereby larger entities arise through interactions among smaller or simpler entities such that the larger entities exhibit properties the smaller/simpler…

My grand father. Son of John Bambrick (b1866).…

Projects I've built on this topic - some-life — WIP - platform for testing evolutionary theories - Robots versus Electric Sheep — C# simulation of life - Lecture TimeTabling Using Genetic Algorithms — My undergraduate thesis from 1997 External references - Spore Prototypes — …

Published on 30 Jun 2016 Accompanying video for: F. Corucci, N. Cheney, H. Lipson, C. Laschi and J. Bongard, "Evolving swimming soft-bodied creatures" The Fifteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE XV) - Late Breaking Abstract Pub…

There's a long long tradition, dating back at least five years, of reimagining a movie to have a different premise, generally in which one or all characters are dead, imaginary, or linked in an unexpected way, possibly involving time-travel. "This amazing pixar fan theory" -- Pi…

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Nonsense is nonsense. But the study of nonsense? That is a science. —Saul Lieberman Git man page generator The Turbo Encabulator The original IEEE paper The first video covering the encabulator. An updated video. The retro encabulator (Rockwell Automation) The Chrysler Tur…

I read some terrible fan fiction once, in the style of Steven King's Misery, but about a man who takes Roger Waters hostage to force him to add his own lyrics to Momentary Lapse of Reason; and once he's been there for months the captor plays him a casette... it is one of Roger's …

Try it Live: Google Doodle: Kids Coding Ages? 4 and up Can you speed it up? No Can you see where it is up to when it's running? Yes Can you pause it? No Can you move it one step at a time? No Can you undo a change you've just made? Yes Can you skip levels if they're …

Other reading - Flexagons explained with Idyll See Also - secretGeek: Hexaflexagons!…

"Lioconcha hieroglyphica" these venus shells with the squiggle writing make the head go Wot? Images from this imgur gallery References imgur gallery Wikipedia: Lioconcha hieroglyphica…

The universe that we experience is 3 Dimensional, or, if you treat time as a limited dimension, 4 Dimensional. There's a famous novella entitled "Flatland: A romance of Many Dimensions" primarily concerned with life in a 2-Dimensional universe, but also covering a 2-Dimensional …

Ages? Can you speed it up? Can you see where it is up to when it's running? Can you pause it? Can you move it one step at a time? Can you undo a change you've just made? Can you skip levels if they're boring? Notes: See also - How to become a programmer - Google Doodle: K…

Human Resource Machine…

The uncontrollable urge to write excessively. One of the symptoms of Geschwind Syndrome. Graphomania, a related though less specific term. In meetings, where people talk and talk and say nothing, and waste your time and have no consideration for anyone but themselves, I am alw…

disclaimer a close family member owns the clinic not just bendy which specialises in "connective tissue disorders including Hypermobility Spectrum and Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes" hence i cannot be trusted to be impartial on the topic generally. Furthermore I have no qualifications i…

for any formal, consistent system there will always be statements about the natural numbers that are true, but that are unprovable within the system. arithmetical truth cannot be defined in arithmetic. truth in the standard model of the system cannot be defined within the syste…

If you've ever been staying in a hotel and suddenly the hotel manager asks you to move rooms, you might find it pretty damn annoying. If it happens twice you might find it damn near intolerable. Well let me tell you Hilbert's Grand Hotel is a nightmare. I don't know where he gets…

Text is brilliant. You should always bet on text. Text has tremendous power. But interactivity is good too. A Journey Through the History of Ideas (Succesful or Discarded) in the Realm that intersects Text with Interactivity.     Here is a series of *ideas* I find interestin…

Born 1838 or 1840. (Some evidence for either date) Born 1840 Bethnal Green, England 1863 Marriage of Robert Bambrick and Jane Pratt in Walkerville SA, December 16. —Marriage 1872 Illegal Grog-Selling. For having supplied a man with a couple of nobblers at the Defiance Mine, …

Son of John Bambrick (b1791). Charge of the Light Brigade. Extract from pg 134, "Forgotten Heroes: The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Roy Dutton…

My great grand father, son of Robert Bambrick (b1827), father of Eric Bambrick (b1893) large version of letter (2MB)…

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47+ Math Based 'Explorable Explanations' https://www.geogebra.org/graphing Mathletics Downloadable Resources for Early Learners Video Channels Claire Gallagher: Maths the Wacky Way — 12+ videos for kids Maths Kitchen: Prepare for GCSE…

Some physics resources, particularly explorable explanations. Contents Somewhat Complete Curricula Collections of Physics-Based Explorables Falsted List Physics Lessons from Landgreen PhET Physics Simulations Test Tube Games Somewhat Complete Curricula How to become a GOOD Theore…

Here are the rules of Leon Coin (lb-coin). The emoji: 🏅 ...is used as the official emoji until a new emoji issuing foundation is established as a subsidiary of unicode and a custom emoji is thus available. Alternatively I would like to create an SVG to act as the official logo o…

LightBot…

There's a bunch of long lost friends from over the years that I haven't been able to find via any usual social medium. Such people include: - David Keegan, (i think full name David Nicholas Keegan) originally from Rockhampton - Ben Ross (Benjamin Paul Ross) originally from Rockh…

Writing can sing. Writing can soar. How do writers elevate their craft to carry you along with their words? I've never known, until I read this: This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to…

from: twitter Reference - Wikipedia: Mandelbrot set - About Fractal Theory - MandelMacro - The Mandelwat set…

There are some really cool maths education games. I wish these had been around when I was younger. But I can still play them and learn from them now. My favorites are: - Prodigy Game — an impressive adventure game, that uses maths challenges as a way to defeat monsters. Pluses:…

Album cover for 'The Infinite Road' by Toyz External Links - Album cover for 'The Infinite Road'…

A moral panic is a feeling of fear spread among a large number of people that some evil threatens the well-being of society —Wikipedia The Moral Panics have been arriving thick and fast thanks to our aging population and the communication power of social media. But most of us a…

Articles I haven't been able to get my hands on: - "BUILDING URBAN MODELS WITH MULTI- CELLULAR AUTOMATA" - "Self-replicating and self-repairing multicellular automata" - "Rule-Based Simulation of Multi-Cellular Biological Systems" External Links - https://github.com/Polkm/cell-t…

Using spintax we can create pretty cool name generators. I'm thinking of entering Nanowrimo some time, and this is part of the fun. Boy's name Combining some common boy's names (John, Mark, Richard, David, Leon) I've made this spintax pattern: {R|L|J|M|D}{i|oh|eo|ar|a}{n|k|{v|…

(These are just my half baked thoughts. I am happy to adjust them in part or in whole, and to annotate them with links to relevant research etc.) In Economics (and econ. of capitalism) it is generally understood that Monopolies are Bad. Monopolies mean that a single player gets t…

General article: How computers got shockingly good at recognizing images CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition - hacker's guide to neural nets - by Andrej Karpathy The guide above became a course at Stanford. The entire lecture series is on line: - Stanf…

As someone who struggles to speak up, I remember when I first learned about "assertiveness" This was a revelation. I tended to be passive, and I feared that speaking up would be too aggressive. In my mind, there was passive on one side, aggressive on the other, and very little …

I am a little reluctant to share this concept too widely. Once people have considered the ramifications of the following suggestion, they may be willing to undertake the possibility of finding a comfortable bed and some nice meals for me in a quiet facility with a lot of locks on…

"Optical Lego Recognition" is a computer vision and machine learning category (part of CBIR or "Content-based image retrieval") whereby a computer can recognise lego pieces from still or moving images of lego blocks. (Moving, because they may be on a conveyor belt, or I guess the…

An inner world.…

A famous non-repeating tiling pattern, invented (discovered.) by Roger Penrose, a giant in the worlds of mathematics and floor-coverings. The following logo program produces a penrose tiling. I found this at http://logo.twentygototen.org/E3_yJcQ4. I haven't looked through it en…

"Mr Escher's office please" "Up the stairs, keep turning right" —@MooseAllain In Real Life Cartoon —New Yorker Cartoon By Robert Leighton Logo Version to piece :size lt 60 fd :size lt 120 fd (3* :size) lt 120 fd (4 * :size) lt 60 fd (1* :size) lt 120 fd (3* :size)…

Politics essentially boils down to: People who want no changes to power & freedom. (i.e. they probably have it already. Or they fear things getting even worse.) People who want more power & freedom for themselves regardless of others. (they may or not have it themselves but proba…

It is good to be prepared for any eventually. I'm not particularly enamored by wrongdoing, but you never know when the gendarmes will turn on you and clap you in irons. So when I read about the way inmates manage to play role playing games while on the inside I thought, "Here's …

- http://ribbonfarm.com - https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences - http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.co.uk/ - http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.co.uk/ - http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ - https://meaningness.com/ - http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/ - http://slatestarcodex.co…

Map generated via: Medieval Fantasy City Generator This article steps through using ThreeJS to create a random city, filled with sky scrapers, that you can fly through: How to do a procedural city in 100 lines Here's a video about Pixel City, by Shamus Young: External Reference…

Will humans ever build a *real* Artificial Intelligence? This question has been asked in many different ways over the centuries, and the current way of phrasing the question is to do with Aritificial "General" Intelligence. There are various weasel-words that are added to AI, su…

Ah, Captain Bambrick. Brother of my ancestor (John Bambrick (1791)) we don't know a heck of a lot about Robert, but what we do know is highly interesting. ...From Cornet to Lieutenant by Purch.…

Son of John Bambrick (b1791) and Harriet Ann Redlan Bambrick (nee Bailey) Came to Australia in 1849 Married Jane Pratt. References - South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900) Sat 13 Oct 1849 Page 3 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE, "Robert Bambrick and wife"…

Political. First son of Robert Bambrick (b1827) and first of my Bambrick relatives to be born in Australia. There are some discrepancies as to when Robert Prince Bambrick was born (hence his year of birth is not in the title of the article) He was known as Bob. From his involveme…

robozzle…

A group of companions is {huddled|seated} in a{ tavern| treehouse| village square|n alley| forest path}. They {receive|accept|uncover|discover} a {message|code|codex|scroll|parchment|notebook|grimoire|manuscript|pouch} from a {{talking|singing|shadowy} {owl|cat|horse|lion|wolf}|{…

Role Playing Games are a lot of fun. What are some good introductory role-playing games for kids? (And particularly for girls) - HeroKids — sounds great, review here, buy it here — I did! - No Thank You, Evil! — review, playtest review, audio review; Less combat focus than HeroKi…

Run Marco!…

How to use secure copy program. from to command remote local scp | remote | local | scp foobar.txt remoteusername@remotehost.edu:/some/remote/directory your_username@remotehost.edu:foobar.txt /some/local/directory Copy the file "foobar.txt" from a remote host to the local…

This is a page of self-help books and by self-help books I mean, *all* books. Why do people read "Don Quixote"? Because they need more Don Quixote in their life. ALL books are self-help books. All products are self-help products. People buy new products to upgrade their life. …

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Sorting (for example the act of putting an unsorted list of numbers into ascending order) is a fundamental food of the computer science diet. There are many different algorithms for sorting, and an understanding of their similarities and differences can give you a good understand…

Spaced Repetition is a technique for helping you remember things in the long term, in an efficient way. If you paid someone to stand next to you and shout a fact at you, every waking minute of the day, for six weeks, you may remember the fact they shouted. But would it have been…

If two items are structurally identical in all aspects except size, then the smaller item will have a greater proportion of area to volume, both in terms of surface area and cross-sectional area. External Links - secretGeek.net: The Principle of Scale - Wikipedia: Square Cube La…

A philosophy, an outlook, a system of values, an approach to life.…

Ever been stuck? Ever had a problem you can't solve? A missing item you can't find? A bout of procrastination you can't overcome? A situation where you can't seem to find a way forward, you're blocked in every direction. Your motivation is gone. Your options are nil.…

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{99c0749c-fc92-9cf7-6c4e-ce49d06b5d2e} External references (disregard) Mind Games: The Tortured Lives of ‘Targeted Individuals’ Thousands of people think that the government is using implanted chips and electronic beams to control their minds. They are desperate to prove they ar…

Doc: A paradox! Marty: What? Doc: A paradox! Marty: You mean one of those things that destroys the universe? — *Back to the Future II* A temporal paradox is any paradox that arises due to a person, object, or information, travelling backward in time. As discussed in Unbound…

A series of tests, quizzes, or self-assessments you can take. - Anxiety and Depression Checklist - Burns Depression Checklist - ADHD Psychcentral, ADHD: 3 minute test - Totally ADD test - ADHD Self Test for Women and Girls — "This self-test is not intended to diagnose or to repla…

Consider the The Big Five Personality Traits, i.e. Openness to experience (inventive/curious vs. consistent/cautious) Conscientiousness (efficient/organized vs. easy-going/careless) Extraversion (outgoing/energetic vs. solitary/reserved) Agreeableness (friendly/compassionate vs.…

There are two kinds of male action heroes -- the tough guy and the pretty boy. The key to the tough guy is not what he does to other people but what other people do to him. In particular: he can take a punch. The defining feature of action hero stories is that the hero *does* …

Examples: A garden A farm A child you are raising A pet A inventory management system in a warehouse A busy dental practice A bus system A city wide transportation system The cutlery in a kitchen Specification symmathesy … living systems … systems which emerge from the communicat…

The Words are Important, The Words are Important —Nice Bird Okay, here's how we play the game. Custard, the band, put out a new album. And I go through it, one lyric at a time, writing down everything I know. I've been a Custard fan for a long time, and I'm from Custard's hometo…

aka, Sousou Gundam This is a toy I acquired in Hong Kong which I thought was the coolest thing ever. I find ordinary **Gundam** (and mecha) kind of OK, but these "super deformed" ("SD") miniatures are just brill. Combine it with the Samurai aesthetic, and I'm hooked. The littl…

See The Stupid-Ideas Powershell Slackathon…

The Blues Brothers, apart from being a masterpiece, is a work of Magical Realism. It combines gritty urban cinematography, with an unreal sense of wonder. The opening scenes work to make this an utterly real setting. But the moment they jump that bridge, we know the rules have…

Spellbooks are dangerous! Do Not Eat! If you find a spellbook lying around your home you should not go up to it and ask it any questions. Do not read anything on the spellbook, not even the title of the book. Although if you do NOT read the title, you are not going to know it…

A hundred prisoners are each locked in a room with three pirates, one of whom will walk the plank in the morning. Each prisoner has 10 bottles of wine, one of which has been poisoned; and each pirate has 12 coins, one of which is counterfeit and weighs either more or less than a…

zigzag our way through the boredom and pain —PF:POTW To live a successful life you may need to specifically train yourself to tolerate boredom and pain. Note that tolerance is different to sensitivity. People who have great endurance are not less "sensitive" to pain. They can …

This is a method for finding cycles in data structures.…

"Cheer up!"…

I wanted to draw a triangle, so I sat down on the ground and thought about it for a while. When it all comes down to it. What it is, you see. How it works. Well a triangle has. It has 3. - 3 points. - 3 corners. - 3 angles. It's 3 lines really. So I want to draw 3 lines. The …

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Son of John Bambrick (b1791) and Harriett Ann Redlan. Bambrick's grave in St Pancras Cemetery is unmarked, so a plaque was mounted in the Chapel of the Cemetery in 2002. Bambrick's medals are not publicly held. In 2012, replicas of his medals were displayed at the Royal Green J…

Why did that happen? Why does that happen? Why are things as they are? Why do bad things happen to good people? (Why do good things happen to bad people?) Why does life exist? Why are humans capable of asking why? Why are you here? Why am I here? Why are you here? Why are we here…

You might have lived in a city your whole life, or moved to a city from somewhere smaller, or visited a bunch of cities, without ever pondering this question: why on Earth do these monstrous places exist at all? These sort of questions can be considered on a philosophical scale,…

It is hard to find practical guides to doing anything magical. Magicians don't like to reveal where to place the hinges or what to feed your pet dove. So I like it when an article gives away the secrets, like this one: Charles Finch: "Writing Great Mystery Plots" Here's the kern…

The "Yerkes-Dodson Law of Arousal" is an extremely useful concept -- provided a few modifications are made to it. Firstly, it's not a law. It's a theory. Second, it's not a symmetrical curve. Breakdown happens. Third, there is no zone which is "optimal." Life is trickier than tha…