§ The key to good luck is an open mind

Richard Wiseman turned his findings into a luck school where people could learn luck-inducing techniques based on four main principles of luck: maximizing chance opportunities, listening to your intuition, expecting good fortune, and turning bad luck to good.

Keep looking.

§ NSWindow title bar and toolbar showcase

I built a showcase for several combinations of styles of title bar and toolbar of NSWindow. Just to serve as a note of everything I want to remember about the NSWindow styles.

§ A neural network in 11 lines of Python

A bare bones neural network implementation to describe the inner workings of backpropagation.

§ Grit is a muscle, train it

It's the ability to do hard things regardless of whether the environment is supportive, and it's the ability to maintain determination and motivation for long term goals through all the shit work between now and then.

§ Dictionary of unusual words

I have compiled a list of 17,000 English words, ranging from merely uncommon words to the rarest of the rare words, nearly obsolete and just plain nutty! Each word is listed along with a brief, one-line definition. You should be able to get the general sense of most words, without having to read through pages of dictionary definitions.

§ Think like a programmer

I don't get JavaScript. I can't make components from scratch. My mind goes blank when I stare at a blank JavaScript file. I guess I can't do it because I don't know how to think like a programmer.

Break things down into small logical problems.

§ Do milk and sugar cause acne?

But the dietary influences don't stop there. It is not just sugar, but the bad fats we eat that may also contribute to acne.

Lots of ways to help fight acne.

§ Tuning PostgreSQL queries

There are no hard and fast rules when it comes to optimizing sql queries.

§ Prompt magic

Enhancing the system prompt

§ What are you worth?

And there will come a day when you would give everything you have left to have what you have right now.

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