NaNoWriMo is upon us! I’m doing a rewrite of my Silicon Valley adventure novel this month, and as of this email, at 8561 words! I hope to share it in serial form on this very Substack, so stay very tuned!
Here are some posts on NaNoWriMo and how to win it:
My friend Sarah, who has won NaNoWriMo three times so far, has a great post on what actually wins you NaNo.
I enjoyed reading this really insightful post on how not to crash and burn during NaNo, and how to overcome common roadblocks.
I wrote a post for the NaNoWriMo blog on how to write with ADHD.
And here’s a goal-setting website called PaceMaker. I’m using this for NaNo, and it’s insanely customizable. I haven’t seen another like it.
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and startup Neurobotics have come up with this brain-computer interface, that can read brain signals and reproduce the images that the subject is watching. The innovation seems to be in building a machine learning model that takes EEG signals and reconstructs images from them. I wonder about the challenges of that data, and I probably ought to read the paper they put out.
Guido Van Rossum, creator of the Python programming language, is retiring! Not just from his position at DropBox, but also from his self-appointed position as Benevolent Dictator For Life (BDFL) of Python. I’ve met him at PyCon, and he is very, very nice. I don’t pay enough attention to Python language development to really understand his role or more recent contributions, but maybe this is a good time to try figuring it out, as a Python programmer.
I’m an avid reader of /r/relationships and /r/AmITheAsshole, so this piece was a great, humanizing read. It’s about the moderators of those subreddits, as well as the Twitteraccounts that collect the best(?) of those subs.
GIF of the week: Pizza Rat, make way for Cigarette Cockroach.