Blog: 2023-12-26

Having some fun looking at the international math olympiad questions historically: https://www.imo-official.org/problems.aspx but dang they're hard!

Also this is poetic, from the Happy Hacking keyboard design philosophy:

> Because keyboards are accessories to PC makers, they focus on minimizing the manufacturing costs. But that’s incorrect. When America’s cowboys were in the middle of a trip and their horse died, they would leave the horse there. But even if they were in the middle of a desert, they would take their saddle with them. The horse was a consumable good, but the saddle was an interface that their bodies had gotten used to. In the same vein, PCs are consumable goods, while keyboards are important interfaces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Hacking_Keyboard

Getting deep in the control key lore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_key

Strange that IAS doesn't have some historic figures like Albert Einstein here: https://www.ias.edu/sss/past-scholars