Refractions of Indira’s Net

Aug 22, 2017

Can Typing Sound like Raindrops?

This was the most unexpected find at a recent kbd meetup: the Model F Keyboard.

Joe Strandberg (Ellipse) has been researching the switches in IBM’s model-M keyboard. The patent for those switches recently expired. He makes lots of claims about…

Zachary Jones

Jul 2, 2017

Mechanical Keyboards and Ambient Information

Mechanical keyboard enthusiasts have sprung a DIY trend in keyboard hacking. It could evolve the input device we often overlook.

Many great overviews exist about all of the facets you can customize. If you feel unfamiliar, you…

Zachary Jones

May 12, 2017

AI should Teach, not Service

AIs need to teach by visualizing their search strategies

One of the common things that I find missing in most implementations of machine learning is a presentation on how The algorithms working, and how it has…

Zachary Jones

Oct 2, 2016

An Attention Topology, as Measured in Distance Intention Effects Upon Water Crystals

The recent work by Radin, Lund, Emoto & Kizu [1] performs a well-blinded study on the effects of distance intention upon water crystallization, with positive quantitative effects…

Zachary Jones

May 30, 2016

It’s great to look at this problem. I’ve put a large amount of attention into the hiring evaluation. Reducing bias allows me to really listen to the person themselves.

But once I cross that gap then I find that it is only by really studying them, in the last stage of the interview, that I can determine how their skills…