The universe is 13.8 billion years old, and yet we can “see” objects that are now more than 45 billion light-years away. Let that twist up your brain as you drop off to sleep tonight.
~ From physicist Brian Greene on Twitter
Scala, Java, Unix, MacOS tutorials (page 147)
If you’ve never heard of The Hero’s Journey, Wikipedia states that it’s a “common template of a broad category of tales that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, and in a decisive crisis wins a victory, and then comes home changed or transformed.” The concept was originally introduced by Joseph Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, in 1949. This image comes from thewritersjourney.com.
AndroidAuthority.com has a good, detailed article titled, How Google is powering the world’s AI.
I don’t remember the original source of this, but it shows a Zen Buddhist way to give thanks for a meal (interdependence and all that) (Happy Thanksgiving).
“If an alien in a galaxy 65 million light years away is looking at us through a telescope right now, then they are looking at dinosaurs.”
(I don’t know the original source of this quote, but I like it.)
Rolling Stone and Business Insider report that Elon Musk asks himself six questions “any time he needs to come up with an idea, solve a problem, or decide whether to start a business.”
I used Scrivener 2 in the process of writing Functional Programming, Simplified, and Scrivener 3 is now out. macstories.net has a review of it.
Li Haoyi wrote an article, What’s wrong with SBT?, where he discusses (in detail) some of the problems of SBT.
I was wondering where the term “key fob” originally came from, and I found this theatlantic.com article about its etymology.
Girl in a store: Mom, we have to get away from these candles, the smell makes me sick.
Mother: Oh, dear, you know that’s all in your head.
Me: Actually, it’s a possible indicator of mast cell disease.
*mother and daughter silently turn and walk away*
When I wrote the Scala Cookbook, I gave each recipe and then each chapter my full attention. I thought that if I wrote each recipe as well as possible, and included important recipes in each chapter, well, I wanted each chapter to be worth the price of the entire book. That was my goal.
As a result of this effort -- and perhaps to the chagrin of my editor -- the Scala collections chapters ended up being 130 pages in length.
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National Geographic has an article titled, Mysterious Particles are Slamming Into the Earth.
time.com has this article about the iPhone X and a few quotes from Jonathan Ive.
Here’s a link to some slides from a Lightbend presentation titled, Scala 2.13 & Beyond.
“I view spiritual practice as the freeing of awareness from identification with anything ... One of the ways to do that is, for example, to pick an object of concentration and focus on that, and let everything else come and go. So let’s say I’m gonna follow my breath, rising and falling, rising and falling. Now my awareness can feel that muscle going up and down, that’s really where the focus is.”
“Then the thought will come into my mind, ‘This won’t work, what kind of Mickey Mouse thing is this?’, or ‘I’m hungry...,’ whatever thought comes in. At that moment, I notice the thought, acknowledge it, and go back to the breath. That’s all, just keep going back. That’s the whole instruction of the game.”
Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot can now jump on and off platforms, and also does a back flip. The video is here on YouTube.
inc.com has this article about a Google study that shows that the best managers use emotional intelligence.
Here’s a Popular Science article, Should we try to fix global warming with fake volcanic eruptions?