Week of new experiments

Algorithm

Simple Sorts

Selection Sort

Sort a list of []Type by searching for the smallest (or largest) element of the array, removing the found element from the list, and copying it to a new list.

Time Complexity: $O(n^2)$

Example

 1func selectionSort(list []int) []int {
 2	newList := []int{}
 3	for range list {
 4 …

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The week of Gumma's funeral

Abstract

I invest too much of my time into low value, low reward activities. This can be doom scrolling Twitter, reading the latest drama on reddit, or getting sucked into a rabbit hole on Youtube. Sometimes this takes the form of playing a mindless game, or getting sucked into binge watching something on Netflix. I've …

The Rubber meets the road

The key to living well in a high tech world is to spend much less time using technology. In recent years, our culture's relationship with personal technology has transformed from something exciting into something darker. Innovations like smartphones and social media are useful, but many of us are increasingly troubled by how much control these tools seem to exert over our daily experiences – including how we spend our free time and how we feel about ourselves. In Digital Minimalism, Newport proposes a bold solution: a minimalist approach to technology use in which you radically reduce the time you spend online, focusing on a small set of carefully-selected activities while happily ignoring the rest.

Recap

Cal discusses the impact of the youth ban on social media in Australia, and really dives into the big picture of the motivation behind such a new regulation. Discusses downsides of social media, such as the faux-social connections it triggers in our brains, and how this further ties into the loneliness epidemic …

New Year; New Routines