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Clouds obscuring a mountain valley over vivid green meadows. There are cows in the background.

A fire salamander relaxing on a dirt trail on a summer afternoon in Austria.

A panorama showing the peaks of the Austrian Alps at twilight. The sun is going down and green waves of mountain peaks are sitting beneath a gold and blue sky.

A view of the Scottish Highlands. Olive green hills are criss-crossed with white dirt trails.

A flock of sheep on the peak of Gamskarkogel in Austria. A wooden cross stands on the peak in the background.

A sheep in the foreground with the Austrian Alps in the background. There is a stormy sky with the sun setting, painting the clouds purple and gold.

The view of the valley from Coire an t-Sneachda. There is a woman standing on a cliff's edge in the right foreground.

Running and incomplete list of ideas that have changed the way I look at things

Twitter (or decentralized alternatives) is a great interstitial journaling tool

Using the idea of Leary’s “Quantum Universe”, where all matter can be reduced to a digital 1/0 representation, I wonder what the compression ratio for memories in our brains is, and what (lossy) algorithm is used to achieve it.