Victor Loux — bookmarks

Who Am I Without My Voice?

nytimes.com/2024/06/12/magazine/losing-voice-singer.html

I was a singer heading out on tour. Losing my voice was terrifying — but it ended up teaching me everything about myself.

Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe | Cameron Sun

csun.io/2024/06/08/probabilistic-tic-tac-toe.html

Finding the Hardest Spelling Bee Puzzle

christopherwolfram.com/projects/spelling-bee/

The Spelling Bee is a word puzzle published daily by The New York Times. The rules are very simple, which got me thinking about generating puzzles automatically. In this project, I created a metric for measuring the approximate difficulty of Spelling Bee puzzles, which I used to study the space of all Spelling Bees. In particular, I found the easiest and hardest puzzles, and also looked at how the subset of human curated puzzles published by The New York Times fit into the broader space.

How Tennis Balls Became Yellow, Feat. David Attenborough

kottke.org/24/06/how-tennis-balls-became-yellow-feat-david-attenborough

Somehow, I didn’t know that until quite recently, tennis balls were white instead of yellow (Wimbledon used white balls unti

Systems: The Purpose of a System is What It Does

anildash.com/2024/05/29/systems-the-purpose-of-a-system/

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

A Woman Who Left Society to Live With Bears Weighs in on “Man or Bear”

bikepacking.com/plog/man-or-bear-debate/

In this piece, long-term bicycle traveler Laura Killingbeck reflects on the "Man or Bear" debate and adds her unique perspective...

Break free from modern addiction

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An online course and community to help you break free from modern addiction and live a fulfilling life. Get access today.

Strudel REPL

strudel.cc/

JavaScript version of tidalcycles

Commenting vs. making

chiefofstuff.substack.com/p/commenting-vs-making

issue no. 0011

Career advice for people with bad luck

chiefofstuff.substack.com/p/career-advice-for-people-with-bad

startup, tag
product, tag
9 months ago

Most Common PIN Codes

informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/most-common-pin-codes/

How predictable is yours?

How German Isn’t It | Alex Cocotas

thebaffler.com/latest/how-german-isnt-it-cocotas

How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland?

uxdesign.cc/how-do-you-accidentally-run-for-president-of-iceland-0d71a4785a1e

A digital endorsement process gone wrong

True Life: I Called Off My Wedding | Los Angeles Review of Books

lareviewofbooks.org/article/true-life-i-called-off-my-wedding/

In an excerpt from LARB Quarterly no. 41, “Truth,” Sarah Yanni accounts for what she left behind when she called off her wedding—and what she couldn’t....