This is a modified letter I just sent to close ones but the more people who read it, the better. The Italian town with the first fatality stopped COVID-19 transmission by locking everything down and testing everyone early. Over half the positives were asymptomatic. Bavaria and California are already following suit. Details at the bottom. …
This post was written for the European sport psychology associations, FEPSAC and ENYSSP. It’s shared here to add multimedia, lending a taste of these worlds rather than important content; just clicking through them suffices. A big thank-you to Mali Maeder from pexels.com, who provided me with a free featured image. Two other great resources I …
A bunch of Windows scripts, working on Win10 as of Jan. 1st, 2019, with youtube-dl working as of Apr. 21st, 2020. Legend: program directory file code variable key Audiovisual media downloader (youtube-dl) Useful for backing media up directly from social networking sites. Originally from yt-dl.org, which I updated to include FFmpeg to merge audio/video and …
This needs to be published now, in light of today’s news of the Frenchman hoverboarding the English Channel. It spurred from a chat about electric vehicles and quickly turned into a mini research project on personal flight machines. I’d sat on it for a year, wanting to make a proper analysis of the field, but …
Clinical records & trends This is how I keep my clinical records organized and local (here’s nicer but there’s a playlist too). Remember kids: there is no cloud, it’s just someone else’s computer. If you prefer the document without macros you can get it here, and then add these macros to it. If you don’t …
At long last, the thesis behind my joint MSc in Sport Psychology/Sport Science from the universities of Thessaly and Leipzig, defended June 24th, 2015 in Trikala, Greece. For full citations see the original DOCX (only rendering correctly using the Delicious font) or PDF (two options: nice font or easy to highlight), also available on Zenodo, …
“I don’t even know what to ask!” — Everyone So how does it all work? What is Bitcoin, even? Well, here’s my last summer’s talk on the tech first heralded by Nakamoto’s seminal 2008 whitepaper. The slides, transcript, and subtitles are free to use and chapter (plus FAQ) navigation is available right on YouTube. Subtitles …
Another staple of Vancouver is its phenomenal improv scene. From Instant Theatre to Blind Tiger to the Sunday Service to Second Storey Theatre to Vancouver Theatre Sports League — early homes to improv legends Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles — to my own personal favourites, the Fictionals, this city is just teeming with improvisers. And …
In about five years of living in Vancouver I’ve gotten a pretty good feel for the lay of the land: its magnificent nature, hilarious improv, world-famous sushi, the futuristic yet completely down-to-earth crypto community, the great cultural treasure that is The Drive, and the wonderful location in general clearly substantiating Raincouver’s other moniker of Hollywood …
I learned so much in interviewing Hou. His integrity and grounding presence shines through his smile, as you’ll quickly see. I’m only sorry about the audio. Most is quite bearable, but some I had to fade out to quiet the wind and planes and text vibrations. The camera auto-refocused often but this is less annoying. …
Originally started on Steemit, summarizing the original BBC article and adding a much broader perspective from talking with Chinese-Canadians in Vancouver. Cross-posted on Medium. China is creating a new social credit system to rate citizens’ trustworthiness. “By 2020, everyone in China will be enrolled in a vast national database that compiles fiscal and government information, …
A talk explaining some theory and then the practical elements behind regaining control over your Android device at DCTRL in Vancouver last December. The key topic was how to remove as much Google and manufacturer bloatware from Android phones as possible while still maintaining a fully functioning device, based on my experiences tinkering with my …