Or how you can learn to get in touch with your body and emotions. During my first free improv workshop, I was asked what motivated me to participate. I don’t want to treat my body as a foreign tissue on my brain. It was taken as a grim joke. Yet…

See the Hacker News discussion thread When a deer sees an incoming car, it freezes. For us, it looks stupid. But for the deer, this instinctive reaction seems to be the best. And it would be the best reaction if the car were a predator: too big to fight, too…

A few tips on automatic time tracking, especially for people with ADHD: how to get immediate feedback, for actions, not guilt. tl;dr: Qbserve when I was on macOS, now RescueTime + Custom New URL Tab (Chrome extension) pointing its report, so I get immediate feedback on my productivity (motivates me…

Demons invaded Earth and ruined Doom HUD. Some alternative titles: A devilishly minimalistic style vs death by Candy Crush glitter. An immersive vs casual game. A dark journey vs demon piñata. Impressions Autumn 2019 I played Doom 2016 for the first time, and immediately fell in love. Everything was exactly in…

On TypeScript, ESlint, jest, TSDoc, Travis-CI, and VSCode (with inspiration from the Zen of Python) It is fun to write fast without constraints, and run code in a flash. That is why I fell in love with Python and the Jupyter Notebook environment, a great tool for prototyping and interacting…

“Posągi” (1989) translated from Polish by Anna Karpiuk and Piotr Migdał What bliss when a tyrant’s tall statues are shattered But in each shard of bronze in each shrapnel of stone There lingers a trace of the spark that once fluttered In the one that was thrown from the throne …

“To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.” — stolen from a few sources When our Quantum Game v2.0 team first got together to work on the game, we realized we were all quite different — a physicist, a designer, a writer, and a…

It seems that some artifacts generated by artificial neural networks are eerily similar to those created by our altered states of mind, be it dreams or thanks to psychedelics. While mentioning psychedelics (and showing trippy computer-generated images) has some entertainment value, my motivation is different, as explained in Exploring human…

Did you play Quantum Game with Photons? It’s a puzzle game with photons, superposition and quantum measurement, right in your browser. With true quantum mechanics underneath! Good news: there will be part 2. You may have noticed an opening for the game. In short, we were invited by Artur Ekert…