Observed on the stream

A hard kettlebell workout routine; 2:32 video, 20 minute workout. NP and I had a Kettlebell coach (Darrell, who has 10 kids last I checked his FB page), and we would have our sessions one after the other because one of us had to watch the kid. My session was first and NP would hand off S to me, and I would take her home. Weather permitting I’d take S to the Monon Trail. The kettlebell studio was in the now torn-down strip mall in the corner of City Center Dr and S Rangeline Rd in Carmel.

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Interesting thread on a edible mushroom cultivator in Chicago by patio11. Doordarshan (India’s public TV broadcaster) often used to air a documentary on mushroom cultivation and I used to pester my dad that we should get into cultivating mushrooms since it looked so interesting. I don’t think i was even a big fan of eating mushrooms back then.

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A history of The Olivetti Company with pictures from Abort Retry Fail substack which chronicles the history of the computing industry. Found an interesting profile about Cirrus Logic and Suhas Patil, and wikipedia tells me he is the father of DJ Patil - who was the Chief Data Scientist (golden era of Data “scientists” one could say) in the Obama administration.

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Sutskever 30 implementation is a collection of 30 Jupyter Notebooks that implement the papers listed in the Sutskever’s 30 papers list. See also PaperCode — a “leetcode” (training ground) for AI/ML models.

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Molte the Elder a contemporary of Bismarck; also one of the first humans whose recorded voice is preserved (on wax cylinders).

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The story behind Sponge Daddy (which we use at home). A great example of UX driven product development and then finding the product market fit, interestingly, he changed his product to appeal to a broader market (kitchen sink) than originally thought (workers’ hands).

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A different kind of legacy — Top 100 Landowner List (I assume only cover USA) with some interesting notes:

Buck Family — A native of South Portland, Maine, PETER BUCK (1930—2021) studied at Bowdoin College before earning advanced degrees in physics at Columbia University. While employed at GE, Buck made the fateful decision to loan Fred DeLuca, the son of a family friend, $1,000 to launch Pete’s Super Submarines in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Buck also tendered a suggestion to his new partner: Study the culinary creations of Amato’s, a popular Italian sandwich shop at the corner of India and Newbury Streets near where Buck grew up. His advice and his investment helped to create Subway. Decades later, when the sandwich shop became a global powerhouse, Buck returned to his roots and invested a portion of his profits in Maine timberland, which now belongs to his heirs.

I also remember watching a video short on Ted Turner’s stewardship and conservation efforts of his lands, especially reintroducing the American Bison.