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This time-lapse drone video following the climbing route up Mount Everest does more to make clear the sheer scale of Everest, and in greater detail, than the eponymous 1998 documentary I first saw in an IMAX theatre—which wasn’t exactly a slouch. This video, however, uses a commercially available drone that starts at around C$2,750 (and it’s no coincidence that it was posted by the drone manufacturer, because oh lord does …

Why do governments go after companies and executives of services of more weakly encrypted tools? It’s very hard, this early, to pierce through what’s going on with the French authorities’ arrest of Pavel Durov, the CEO of Telegram — but that doesn’t stop people from having pet theories. Was it retaliation from the US and the FBI for not backdooring Telegram? Was it a favor to Durov so he could …

Paulo Uccello’s The Hunt in the Forest, c. 1465–1470 This post annotates a talk I gave on August 24, 2024 at the final XOXO Festival in Portland, Oregon. The talk was about why I left the internet, how the Covid Tracking Project got me back online, and most of all how the work we did at CTP led to me to believe that we—the weirdos of internet-making and online life—have …

It isn’t, as the Celestron website one-sidedly states on its page about observing Pluto, a “fun holiday to celebrate.” What today is is the anniversary of a terrible day for science and knowledge, a day in which a very political vote was taken, which has done tremendous harm to science education and communication over the last 18 years.“It” is the 18th anniversary of the highly controversial vote by four percent …

Reflecting on my reading over the past year, I have found that I have been drawn to a considerable amount of historical fiction, most of which takes the lives of marginalised women as a starting point. Here are my top recommendations in this genre – as usual, in no particular order. The Maiden by Kate Foster In June I did a literary walking tour of Edinburgh (I know, a book …

Just learned this evening that my Mom has passed away.Not much to say right now. Lots to process. She was an exceptionally good person, a medical pro who cared about everyone.Not sure if I'll have much else to say on the matter. Just, marking the day, I suppose. Hug 'em if you got 'em.

In the past several years I've seen a number of posts attacking the company AirBnb, which is fine, but often they go further and attack the general concept of short-term housing rental outside of hotels. These posts have struck me as oblivious at best, and sometimes even callously indifferent. I rarely hear arguments in favor of short-term housing rental outside of travel industry promotion, so I wanted to give my …

I have just come back from a short break in Alnmouth, and where we were staying had a “4D Sudoku” puzzle. The website for this puzzle is long gone, the Twitter account has not been updated since 2011, there does not appear to be any solution anywhere on the internet. I was on my own.

Here we are againI will add to this, but it appears that new tools on both sides of the marketplace are emerging both for shoppers to get better deals and for shops to screw over their customers.Back in 2013 I looked at an area of work for a “data locker” product for Telefonica. Big data but for the masses, what would make sense. Tiny data, maybe?The shopper tool here showing …

How to use multiple Erlang/Elixir versions in Windows

Hi! Here’s the game we’ve been working on for 6.8 years! You can see the launch trailer and all the details on the store page, but for some reason what I feel like sharing here is the very quickly knocked together trailer I made for the developer commentary, which comes with the Special Edition of the game. It just feels like the sort of thing long time blog followers might …

Anton Podviaznikov namevalue tableBordernone tableWidthinitial tableFontSizeinitial tableCellPaddingBottom0.8rem tableFirstRowColor#555 noteHeaderPropsnone linkIconyes slugcv About Engineer. From Ukraine. SF->NYC->Miami. Work Experience 2017-2021Mulesoft/Salesforce 2014-2017Runnable 2011-2013CircuitHub 2010-2011Montora 2007-2010Eclipse/Sigma Education 2008-2010Master degree in Software Engineering. 2004-2008Bachelor degree in Software Engineering. Contact Websitehttps://podviaznikov.com [email protected] GitHubpodviaznikov LinkedInpodviaznikov

What is the smallest number of points in the -dimensional (hyper)cube needed to hit every -dimensional subcube? To be clear, a subcube of dimension is obtained by fixing coordinates to some specific values and then letting the other coordinates vary. Therefore, in total there are copies of in and our set of points must intersect each of them. For example, and an optimal construction is shown below with the red …

Six years ago I spent a week training a neural network to write blog posts and the results were terrible. Now with LLMs I want to see how much easier and better the results are.

“Things I’m Not Eating Anymore” is a photography project I hope will also serve as motivation to continue improving my overall health and eating habits. You can read the first post in this series that does a much better job of explaining all that, here. For a brief period during elementary school, I attended after-school care at Mrs. Murray’s house on the Main Street of my hometown. She watched a …