Wed Nov 10
Search results are only as good as the search engine’s ability to figure out what a page is about. Sure a keyword may appear in a page, but is it the topic of the page, or just some off-hand mention? I didn’t really know anything about data mining or keyword extraction starting out, so I’ve had to learn on the fly....
When Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi recognized the idea of flow, we finally had a name to define the pleasure we get from what we do. Many of us experience "the flow" each day; we lose all the distractions, dive into something, and do not notice how the time flew by. Csikszentmihalyi doesn't mention losing track of time...
Really weird but really neat book. A book in which the protagonist and environment, were constant highlights. The supernatural gift of navigating the maze of rooms, makes Piranesi a delight. Fugue state aside. The internal monologue. Peaceful descriptions and endless ocean waves. Put me in a mood that I hadn’t felt...
This article describes the concepts of finite fields, from the ground up, to a level at which it is possible to understand modern encryption algorithms. I assume only a high-school understanding of math.