Notices by Logan Dice (logandice@mastodon.social), page 7

Windows 95 in an Electron App. Seriously.

https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95

Conversion tables in Interstellar

The most impactful article I've read in the past year - The Cook and the Chef: Musk’s Secret Sauce

https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/11/the-cook-and-the-chef-musks-secret-sauce.html

A blogger spent several months talking to Elon Musk and researching his companies, trying to figure out how he thinks and what makes him able to do what he does.

The answer - thinking from first principles. This article describes it in detail.

Key phases of software development

Boolean logic

3. Genetic engineering may not be able to be controlled when it’s unleashed from a laboratory. Synvivia is developing what amounts to the kill switch for synthetic biology outside of a lab. Synvivia’s genetically encoded bio-containment system engineers organisms to only live when they have access to specific, small molecules.3. Geneti

But, of course, life, uh, finds a way.

2. Send Reality is looking to offer full 3D-modeling for virtual walk-throughs of real estate listings. The company sends photographers out to the listing with an iPad, a commodity depth sensor and a specialized Send Reality app. These photographers take hundreds of thousands of photos, and the Send Reality technology stitches those photos together to create a complete 3D model.

3. Genetic engineering may not be able to be controlled when it’s unleashed from a laboratory. Synvivia is developing what amounts to the kill switch for synthetic biology outside of a lab. Synvivia’s genetically encoded bio-containment system engineers organisms to only live when they have access to specific, small molecules.

But, of course, life, uh, finds a way.

2. Send Reality is looking to offer full 3D-modeling for virtual walk-throughs of real estate listings. The company sends photographers out to the listing with an iPad, a commodity depth sensor and a specialized Send Reality app. These photographers take hundreds of thousands of photos, and the Send Reality technology stitches those photos together to create a complete 3D model.

My favorite ones:

1. Phiar building an augmented reality navigation app for driving that shows a driver exactly where to go without taking their eyes off the wheel.

63 startups from the latest YC batch:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/20/here-are-the-63-startups-that-launched-today-at-y-combinators-s18-demo-day-1/

Interesting thing to note - hardly any of them are software-only. Seems like everything is about real-world hard tech now.

Interviewer: What's your biggest strength?

Me: I'm an expert in machine learning.

Interviewer: What's 9 + 10?

Me: Its 3.

Interviewer: Not even close. It's 19.

Me: It's 16.

Interviewer: Wrong. Its still 19.

Me: It's 18.

Interviewer: No, it's 19.

Me: it's 19.

Interviewer: You're hired!

When debugging code: