Spacetime alarms

Alarm clocks are temporal. They tell you when some time criterion has been reached. They’re very useful. But often, I really want an alarm with a spatial criterion – a location alarm. Let’s consider some possible uses: Beep shrilly if anyone tries to steal this device from its current location. [I think there are accelerometer-based […]

Writing

All blog posts Data science Sanity checks as data sidekicks. Organizing knowledge A long time ago, I wrote my own note-taking software. This got me thinking a lot about how we organize knowledge on computers. We want to tag things, and for those tags to have their own hierarchy. (also) Wouldn’t it be great if our […]