Isaac Wyatt
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May 12, 2023 | 鈱氾笍 Fitbit Charge 5 & Uses Page Update Uses Today I received a Fitbit Charge 5. I bought it because: My Fitbit Charge 3 has been having many battery issues lately I'm uncertain and slightly skeptical that Google will...
May 08, 2023 | 馃挕 Language Efficiency & Liar's Dividend TIL re: Coding: Efficiency of Programming Languages Sometimes I wonder how much faster our computers would be if folks were writing in lower level programming languages. At what...
April 28, 2023 | 馃挕 TIL: Phatic TIL The word "phatic": denoting or relating to language used for general purposes of social interaction, rather than to convey information or ask questions. Utterances such as hello, how are you? and nice...
April 19, 2023 | 馃幃 myhouse.wad & 馃挕 Synthetic Helium /now/ Played myhouse.wd. 9/10 If you like custom wads for the og Doom and Doom2, then you may really like "myhouse.wad": https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/134292-myhousewad/ make...
April 18, 2023 | 馃挕 TIL: Magic the Gathering is Turing Complete Magic the Gathering is Turing Complete I came across a Hacker News post that discussed the Prolog programming language. I had read about Prolog years ago and thought it...
April 17, 2023 | 馃挕 TIL: Ray-casting, Ray-tracing, and BSP Ray-casting, Ray-tracing, and Binary Space Partitions In the process of creating a Doom Wad, I've been thinking about customizing some enemy AI behavior that would require...
April 08, 2023 | 馃挕 TIL: Emergence TIL there is a systematic study of the concept of Emergence in the general of non-domain specific domains, and as a bonus, it comes from another digital gardener. As a system thinker, operations...
April 07, 2023 | 馃挕 Eudaimonia, Ikigai, and the Hierarchy of Fulfillment [!topics] Topics: Hierarchy of Fulfillment Today I learned about "Eudaimonia" and "Ikigai", and their relation to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. This is interesting...
February 23, 2023 | 馃 Ultima Underworld and Affine Texture Mapping [!topics] Topics: TIL (Today I learned) I played the video game Ultima Underworld in the early/mid 1990s. If I recall correctly, a close friend replayed it within the...