We all reminisce about the good old office days — Office pranks, brainstorming on a whiteboard and furtive glances by the water-cooler. …

A intro to Game Objects, Components and the Entity Component System in Unity — Intro This article is a sequel to my article on multiple dispatch. The benefits of multiple dispatch become clearest when we talk about numerical or scientific code but the Entity Component System (ECS) is more popular and talked about in the game dev community. While the scientific community and game dev…

Is DnD a board-game or a video-game? Dungeons and Dragons is a tabletop roleplaying game and while it does have its fair share of complicated rules, it’s not a board-game. The distinction is important because in DnD you roleplay as a character in a world entirely created by your dungeon master (DM). The rules are mostly there…

No CV required — The most common question I get asked on Twitch Streams and Twitter DMs is how do I get a good job? This question comes in a few variations “I didn’t study in the US, how can I get a job in the US?” “Do you think I need a PhD…

On the necessity of “Strong States” — Background I felt somewhat compelled to write this article after a few discussions with friends who thought my views were borderline insane. The strong negative emotions reminded me a lot of the criticism I faced when I suggested that homeschooling would be superior to the traditional schooling system. What was inconceivable…

This is my second post on homeschooling, written almost 8 months after the first one Deschooling Society. 8 months ago when I talked to my friends and family about homeschooling they worried that I was “losing it”, that spending too much time working from home made me lose my grasp…

How can that idiot be the president? How are they so rich? They have 0 logic…. It’s the people that are gullible!! At first glance it’s easy to dismiss the success of the corrupt as dumb luck, being in the right place at the right time. However, this viewpoint blinds…

Why do the Lebanese people suddenly care about Bitcoin? I just flew in from San Diego to Lebanon for the holidays and a shocking number of my conversations with friends and family have been about Bitcoin. Long story short, decades of government corruption and questionable policies by the Central Bank have led to a situation where depositors are not…

Suppose we’d like to design a humanoid robot, which data-structures do we need to represent the state of the robot at each point in time and how do we actually move the robot around? We can abstract away the muscles and nervous system of a humanoid and only work with…