Concrete numbers and data can help rational discussion of issues, including the trade-off between lives and jobs in the current lock-down situation.
2020-04-16
2020-04-15
Try manual keyframe animation
I created a very simple key-frame animation via layers with Procreate; more to come.
Electric power flow
After installing Tesla solar panel and power-wall last month, I have been watching the daily power flows among the grid, solar, home, and battery with intrigue.
With weather forecast, I can imagine programming the electric system to optimize the schedules of home appliance usage (e.g., laundry when the sun is bright) and charging from the grid (e.g., backup for an incoming power outage).
2020-04-13
Practice drawing splashes
I started with vector drawings to enforce simplicity and moved on to raster sketches for better expressibility.
Church-state separation
Why the US is celebrating Easter, a Christian holiday, but not holidays of other regions or cultures, such as Holi, Ramadan, or Passover?
What does it mean for a non-Christian to put her hand on a holy Bible in a state ritual like court oath or citizenship ceremony?
National holidays should be centered on nations (e.g., Independence Day), not religions.
2020-04-12
Oil painting footprints over a yoga mat
I saw these every day during my morning stretch.
Scaffolding knowledge
Every information is a piece of an entire knowledge, so instead of treating what we learn as separate fragments, it is more effective to memorize and understand them as a whole.
This is possible because knowledge often repeats in different forms, such as through history or books.
In effect, Funes not only remembered every leaf on every tree of every wood, but even every one of the times he had perceived or imagined it.
To think is to forget a difference, to generalize, to abstract. In the overly replete world of Funes there were nothing but details, almost contiguous details.
– Funes the Memorious
2020-04-10
Quick practice sketches of fountains
I drew these based on reference photos taken a while ago around the Adobe San Jose campus.
2020-04-06
Pay for individual articles instead of whole publications
Recently I noticed a few interesting articles that I would like to read but are behind paywalls that asked me to subscribe to the encompassing publications.
Since not all articles of a given publication are of sufficient quality or interests to me, and different readers can have different preferences anyway, I wonder if it would make more sense to pay for individual articles instead of entire publications.
The publishers may be able to charge more per article and yet readers can choose to pay what they need.
The readers, writers and even advertisers can be better aligned, rewarding good individual writers and articles over bad ones.
Unbundling is already happening for music and academic papers, and could be more prevalent for news.