WIP learning day topics
- Social choice, arrow’s impossibility
- carnism
- https://www.geckoboard.com/best-practice/statistical-fallacies/
- Pig (card game)
- https://scaleofuniverse.com/
- little known laws in sg
- blood facts
- veins are blue as our skin scatters red light
- stoic exercises
- http://www.matchu.ai/
- https://indieweb.org/
- https://ludii.games/index.php
- dwarf fortress
- how blood pressure monitor works
- microphone
- https://ciechanow.ski/sound/
- egg drop experiment
- crumpled paper demo
- singapore constitution
- kolmogorov complexity
- busy beaver on the counter machine
- uplift modelling
- Issue tracking
- Scihub, google scholar
- Setting up your own domain
- Evidence based creative teaching
- markdown, pandoc
- Game AI
- staying safe online
- keep software up to date
- setup 2FA for important accounts like email
- TNO aka Trust No One
- email is not secure
- whatsapp messages
- dropbox vs keybase
- https
- phishing
- beware of suspicious messages with links and file attachments
- security Now by Steve Gibson
- ledger for personal finance
- mechanical keyboard
- pomodoro method
- maker movement
- mismatch diseases
- type 2 diabetes
- obesity
- osteoporosis
- infinite set, CH
- Linux
- FOSS
- Four Freedom, Richard Stallman, emphasis on rights
- freedom to run
- freedom to study and change it
- freedom to redistribute copies
- freedom to distribute copies of modified versions
- Open Source, emphasis on pragmatic benefits
- Major examples:
- OS: Android, Linux
- DBs: MySQL, PostgreSQL
- 80000 hours
- Superman comic
- approaches
- Knock-out Whist
- Wim Hof breathing technique
- Sleep
- Equipment for working from home
- split keyboard
- gaming mouse
- standing desk
- Types of work
- solving human problems
- food, health, transport, etc
- solving non-human problems
- same as above but for other species
- improving our problem solving abilities
- Generating text
- Stablecoins
- why crypto currency?
- remove the middle man in finance
- borderless system
- financial services for the unbanked
- challenges
- smart contracts can have bugs
- audits, formal verification
- low liquidity
- volatility
- volatility is an issue to mass adoption
- Xfers to launch XSGD, https://www.xfers.com/sg/straitsx-sg/
- types of stablecoin
- commidity-backed, DGX
- fiat-backed, USDC
- crypto-backed, DAI
- seigniorage-style
- Risks in DeFi
- contract/technical risk
- bug in contract leading to lost of funds
- other attacks
- external risk
- economic risk
- peg break
- economic incentive does not work
- changing governance
- procedural security
- financial risk
- Incompleteness
- Tiny Home
- Play an IF game together
- Limited Animation
- Decentralized autonomous organization
- Exploring the sequence of SARS-CoV-2
- Infographics
- How bank loans work?
- perception
- We don’t notice our nose
- We don’t notice our blinking
- Color, odor, taste
- Vacuum Optimization
- coverage path planning
- travelling salesman problem with a twist
- Free will is an illusion
- Wombat
- Importance of Steam deck
- Proton
- AMD CPU iGPU running on Linux
- Open system, you can run whatever you want
- MET for different activities
- FB outage
- UBI
- Streaming
- ZK, evergreen notes