Productivity Entertainment

2025-03-29

#notes #productivity

Productivity entertainment is a form of procrastination in which you amuse yourself by passively consuming something that you could plausibly use to be productive.

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The Chicago L's Vista Paradox

2025-02-21

#til

I’ve noticed while traveling out of Chicago on the L (the elevated train line) that the Willis Sears Tower appears as though it’s shooting upward out of the surrounding skyline. It’s pretty striking when you first see it. For a moment it honestly looks like the Tower is growing taller. Today I learned from the fantastic Futility Closet that this effect is called the Vista paradox.

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Searching for Autograms

2024-12-01

#recreational-math #word-play #programming

This sentence contains three a’s, three c’s, two d’s, twenty-seven e’s, four f’s, one g, five h’s, eleven i’s, two l’s, sixteen n’s, seven o’s, five r’s, twenty-nine s’s, sixteen t’s, two u’s, six v’s, six w’s, six x’s, and three y’s.

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Hill Climbing Art in Python

2024-04-03

#programming #python #generative-art

I thought it would be cool to write a hill climbing algorithm that replicates images by drawing random circles.

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