I see that the original aim of my map: to be able to pinpoint any location on the map with just one piece of information instead of two, was rather randomly far-fetched. What I was imagining, was creating a mapping of all the points in two dimensions to a system in one dimension. Which per …
My own Map
I wanted to make my own map, and plotting system. Here’s what I imagined. Note: This post is a summary of all that I’ve read, and found to be related to this specific idea of mine — I don’t really know what I can do that would be counted as entirely ingenuous. How the images …
Chat Noir — A game
via gamedesign.jp The awesomest game ever made. And if you happen to be some awesome programmer/mathematician who knows an infallible technique to win this, please do tell me! Posted via web from The Mystic Ranger
Nature by Numbers
via youtube.com If it weren’t for that one technical error of the golden spiral being put onto the snail’s shell, which is actually a logarithmic spiral, this would’ve been the awesomest video ever made. Update: That error, is not an error. Apparently, I was trusting my false residual memory of the same, and a comment …
Major Joke: That kid makes up questions for himself, and even those he can’t solve
Major truth: He is truly awesome. Or at least, so I believe. When Lockhart said, In fact, if I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child’s natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I couldn’t possibly do as good a job as is currently being done. I didn’t quite agree with …
What gives us more pleasure: the pursuit of of our desires or the attainment of them?
From Tony Robbins’s ‘The Monk who sold his Ferrari’: “How would you drop an egg thruogh a height of four feet, with a floor of concrete below, and still not have it cracked?” Trivially, we all begin by thinking how to circumvent the hardness of the concrete, or the weakness of the egg. We do …
Do we value only what we struggle for?
When was the last time you were delighted to get something you were ‘supposed’ to? For instance, how many of us would actually delight in receiving breakfast? Not me! What we do not struggle for, we take as granted — the most fundamental example being our own existence. Rarely would one find somebody so conscientious, he …
The Find Your Great Work Movie — by Michael Bungay Stanier
via greatworkmovie.com I hope I do. =) Soon, that too! Posted via web from The Mystic Ranger
