An inexhaustive list of things I’ve done during my retreat at the Recurse Center: (explanatory links will be added when summary posts are finished) Worked on the Instacart Market Basket Analysis competition (1577th place at 0.3772453; max score 0.4091449) Did some introductory exercises with javascript coding and syntax on Freecodecamp Tried to implement a way … Continue reading
Author Archives: abehmiel
What Time Does the Shock Arrive at the Top of the Pipe?
During my first few days of unemployment, I wrote/mixed/mastered a quick 3-song release with 1 original (Melt Glass) and two covers (Mehmet Ali Ağca by Self Defense Family; Savings by Lungfish). It’s called “What Time Does the Shock Arrive at the Top of the Pipe?” and is available for free download on the Holistic Wellness … Continue reading
Body stuff / Feelings / Life / Photos
Periwinkle
Sheila used a ~1:1 dilution of the Arctic Fox “Periwinkle” hair dye with conditioner to achieve this effect. I love it! My hair was so dark that it required 3 bleachings to get to a point that it would properly take color, and we didn’t read the instructions properly on the 1st bleaching. Anyway, it … Continue reading
Recurse Center Admission!
Good news, everyone! My admission application to The Recurse Center has been accepted and I will be moving to New York City in early May to attend the Summer I batch from May 22 to August 10th. I’m really excited for this opportunity and think it’s perfect for my career trajectory. I’ve been dissatisfied with … Continue reading
Langton’s Ant in Python
I started a new repo on github that computes the Langton’s Ant cellular automata in python. For more information on Langton’s Ant, see its wikipedia page. Using classes in OOP is relatively unfamiliar to me, since most of the programing I’ve done in the last several years has been analysis scripts to extract trends and … Continue reading
Look Into the Void and See
When I made this 9-tile multimedia project a year and a half ago I never linked to it here. I used a tinkered version of Google’s Deep Dream to create some meditations on the fullness of space and sound. https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/lookintothevoidandsee/ Continue reading
Optical Illusion Buttons in Python
I wrote a short python script to generate optical illusion buttons that can’t be read very well unless you tilt the screen or image to a very low angle, almost edge-on, yielding images like this: If you’re doing it right, you should see the phrase, “NPR COOL DAD ROCK.” The code is below, to generate … Continue reading
