Morpheus

I used to think foam earplugs suck because they didn't fit into my ear. Turns out you have to roll them! Sadly the first time I encountered foam earplugs in a library they didn't include instructions. Rolling them they get thin and easily fit into your ear. Once I knew...

This small project was a joint effort between Tassilo Neubauer (Morpheus) and Andre Assis. We originally started working on this over a year ago. We ran a ton of experiments, and we want to document what we've done and found. We hope that other people can pick up from where...

Keeping ants is a fun hobby if you like seeing things grow. As a teenager I kept three colonies of ants. To get started with ant-keeping, you do not really need that much material. When I first got started with this hobby, I got a medium-sized formicarium with a water-dispenser...

I am tired, but haven't given up on Halfhaven yet, so I am lowering my standards and will probably just write more unstructured brainstorming exercises. Today I am just posting 25 questions that interested me that I came up with while looking around my room. 1. What advice/concrete instructions would...

Currently, I am a bit unsatisfied with my food options in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. So this post is just me reflecting a bit on some of my favorite meals when I lived in different places and thinking about if I can find something better for my daily routines....

Epistemic Status: Journal There are problem classes that I was bad at fixing where I implicitly judged them as something fixed, that I couldn't change. Followed by learning that actually there was something I could do. That there was a learnable skill involved the skill was just not obvious. I...

I recently visited my girlfriend's parents in India. Here is what that experience taught me: Eliezer Yudkowsky has this facebook post where he makes some inferences about the economy after noticing two taxis stayed in the same place while he got his groceries. I had a few similar experiences while...