Radar - August 2019 Issue

Victor Mono is a free programming font with semi-connected cursive italics, symbol ligatures and Latin, Cyrillic and Greek characters. Asses to try set as default emacs font? [2019-07-09 Tue 22:37]

• The Fifth Season (August 2015)
• The Obelisk Gate (August 2016)[20]
• The Stone Sky (August 2017)

Nora K. Jemisin is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and a psychologist. Her fiction explores a wide variety of themes, including cultural conflict and oppression.[1][2] She has won several awards for her work, including the Locus Award. As of her August 2018 win, the three books of her Broken Earth series have made her the only author to have won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in three consecutive years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._K._Jemisin [2018-09-22 Sat 17:13]

[2018-10-15 Mon 23:04] jq is like sed for JSON data - you can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep and friends let you play with text.

the standard unix password manager [2019-02-06 Wed 20:44]

Convert a cURL request to an Apache Bench test

an alternative to TransferWise from Filip http://trgo.co/en/r/m8pQKq?fbclid=IwAR2ePnPPowDKU-Ohm_I4OK5giCUjHfv10NutOL0yGmhcSLGN-UBEni4rNWw [2019-08-06 Tue 07:15]

Dialect of lisp aimed for explorative programming. [2019-08-15 Thu 22:48]

[2019-08-04 Sun 20:53] Nix: The Purely Functional Package Manager NixOS: is a Linux distribution built on top of the Nix package manager. Nix provides atomic upgrades and rollbacks, side-by-side installation of multiple versions of a package, multi-user package management and easy setup of build environments.

Racket is a general-purpose programming language as well as the world’s first ecosystem for language-oriented programming. [2019-08-10 Sat 21:47]

Works well although with few quirks. ido-mode and changing path, collapse JSON, company autocomplete with tab, check spelling. These things should be solved with configuration which I will do over time.

Endymion is the third science fiction novel by American writer Dan Simmons, part of his Hyperion Cantos fictional universe. Have to find time to read the third book. At time of writing this reading the forth book.

Bitcoin on rise again £8,953 per 1 BTC at the moment. Shall start puting some money into BTC regularly.

Should have choose version with two SIM currently have to switch them and lost one twice already. Battery life could be better but still good phone.

Pros:

• useful and works
• it has light

Cons:

• no firmware updates at all
• few times crashed
• lost pen somewhere already
• missing the night friendly light

Haven't been also this spring and can't see any planned sessions yet.

Still have plenty of books to read, although getting more and more tempted for the latest live presentations and books.

The wristband on the Ionic broke and I decided to get rid of the watch completely. Although tracking is useful made the decision because:

• putting in on/off every day for a shower was hard
• Fitbit pay was unreliable and haven't used it for some time
• worries about charging and the charging cable.
• In general, trying to simplify life and remove unnecessary items as well.

Done my first real web application in Clojure and it is used in production.

The main benefit of the backpack is plenty of space inside but if I had to buy a new one I would look for another. The zip design is very bad and gets easily stuck.

Trencianske Teplice spa was fine but would do a few changes next time. (Different hotel, company) Not sure about the health benefits.

Will try https://polgote.com/en/online-go-school to compare with http://yunguseng.com/ .

Rust is a multi-paradigm system programming language focused on safety, especially safe concurrency. Rust is syntactically similar to C++, but is designed to provide better memory safety while maintaining high performance. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language)

No time to learn

Tried Amazon cleaning service once and two cleaners came.

Pros: kitchen and bathroom now looks again like if human lived there

Cons: Expensive

Less fun than the first book and will have to reread the last two chapters at least still can highly recommend.

New personal favourite: 100% Cocoa with Hemp & Sea Salt: Absolute Black https://www.montezumas.co.uk/bars-c1/absolute-black-c69/100-cocoa-with-hemp-sea-salt-absolute-black-p400

Multiple options: Monzo, Revolut or TransferWise but no need to action yet.

On todo list to read but no time.

Second book was slightly different in feeling but still good. Need to find time for the last book. At this time I finished the whole series and it was fun.

My rating dropped sharply at the end of March and haven't recovered since. Haven't played in person much either. Prioritising Go over Chess at the moment.

No use after not having Fitbit watch anymore.

Tried the pool in Peckham twice. Should make it regular. Trouble the shower in the pool is not good so can't figure out a good routine.

Writing down tasks helps me to remember, prioritize, plan and resolve them. In combination with git-sync I keep my org files in sync between home and office. Haven't resolved mobile support yet and google calendar integration. todo super agenda

http://git-annex.branchable.com/ allows managing files with git, without checking the file contents into git. While that may seem paradoxical, it is useful when dealing with files larger than git can currently easily handle, whether due to limitations in memory, time, or disk space.

Helps to improve sleep pattern.

Tried for few months. Useful but expensive long term so for now on hold.

Tried for few months. Should start again in October.

[2019-08-23 Fri 07:32]

Dates & times 26 Oct 2019 Part of London Literature Festival

Matthew Sadler, Natasha Regan and Fan Hui discuss their world-first experiences with AI and DeepMind, an organisation at the forefront of artificial intelligence research.

They debate why games are such a good testing ground for artificial intelligence, possible future applications of AlphaZero and the emotions they’ve experienced on their groundbreaking journeys.

Grandmaster (GM) Sadler and Woman International Master (WIM) Regan were given unprecedented access to DeepMind’s AlphaZero.

AlphaZero is system that famously taught itself to play to a superhuman standard – from zero knowledge of chess – to beat the existing world-champion chess computer after just a few hours of training.

Game Changer is the result of their six-month investigation into AlphaZero’s gameplay and inner workings, and one of the most comprehensive analyses of an advanced AI program ever undertaken.

[2019-08-26 Mon 22:08]

Pros:

• better for writing descriptions
• ability to add attachments, links
• can use org-capture to store interesting links from browser to Radar
• Org, tags, statuses seems to be good fit for categorising items

Cons:

• no graph
• export to html/markdown needs more work
• not sure about the strategy to open new radar or handling new/old items
• need automate including copyrights for attachments