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Personal impact of COVID19 - 2020 May 23
The whole pandemic situation and the lockdowns associated with it have certainly taken a large personal toll on many. I had my first big taste of this lately.
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Common sense - 2020 May 18
After reflecting on recent events I now think that "common sense" doesn't exist. By this I don't mean to say that it's rare but rather that the concept itself is mostly bogus and causes an enormous amount of harm.
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Stockfish vs AlphaZero - 2020 May 10
The match of the strongest traditional chess engine Stockfish vs the AlphaZero chess engine was extremely interesting on a number of levels.
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Air quality - 2020 May 03
The air quality in Melbourne is noticeably better at the moment.
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Number pyramid problem - 2020 April 29
Got asked about an interesting mathematics problem the other day, here's some thoughts about it.
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Maker vs manager schedules - 2020 April 27
Due to world events lately I've been able to spend a lot more time on the maker schedule as compared to the manager schedule. This has been amazingly good for my ability to do creative work because I work on especially hard problems that take a lot of uninterrupted time to be able to effectively work on.
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Software workloads in the COVID19 world - 2020 April 05
I thought the coronavirus lockdown would give me substantially more time to write, I was wrong, like other high end software practitioners demand didn't drop anywhere near as much as I'd expected it to.
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Platinum status quarantine - 2020 March 26
Given that I'm in isolation due to the whole coronavirus thing it's somewhat ironic that I received the platinum airline status card in the mail yesterday.
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One percent a day - 2020 March 24
Making a one percent gain each and every day for a year has a far higher impact than people realize. Exponential growth can be especially counter-intuitive in cases like this.
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Daily writing goal - 2020 March 23
Over the last year I've lamented that I've been too busy to write regularly. Due to the worldwide events that are going on I've decided I will aim to write something every day even if I don't publish it.
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