Monthly_challenge

2022-09-06

Monthly Challenges Log Sep 2021 - Daily book reading 2021-09-11, The Power of Less by Leo Babauta, Ch 13 2021-09-10, The Power of Less by Leo Babauta, Ch 12 2021-09-09, The Power of Less by Leo Babauta, Ch 11 2021-09-08, The Power of Less by Leo Babauta, Ch 9,10 2021-09-07, The Power of Less by Leo Babauta, Ch 7,8,9 2021-09-06, The Power of Less by Leo Babauta, Ch 4,5,6

FIRE

2022-09-06

Let’s say you have a FIRE number. Let’s say that happily one day you were able to hit that number. Would you really retire early? This is a good thought experiment to assess your current work environment. Obviously the point of FIRE is to have enough money to actually call it quits in whatever you do. But let’s stop for a minute and determine if we did suddenly have what we needed to live financially independent lives, no debts and enough passive income to pay our bills, would we really stop working?…

Tandy100

2022-08-25

TRS-80_Model_100 I recently acquired one of the worlds first truly portable computers that is laptop sized, the Tandy TRS-80 Model 100. This computer was released around 1983. It contains a full keyboard, runs MS BASIC, and can be powered off 4 AA batteries for roughly 20 hours. At its core is a 2.4 MHz 8085 microprocessor with 24K RAM. That’s about 55X the compute power and 1/3 the memory that the Apollo program used to send men to the moon!…

Automata

2022-08-24

For awhile now I have had more than a passing interest in a computer science phenomenon known as cellular automata. These are computations that follow a set of rules (aka algorithms) to produce “cells” of that morph overtime and can make elaborate and often complex structures from relatively simple rules. While these were discovered in the 1940’s, the classic example of cellular automata is Conway’s Game of Life (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life) .…