Callum Rafter

I created and printed an ASCII art rendition of the Xerox Alto to commemorate my time with M. Mitchell Waldrop’s The Dream Machine.

My favourite ten photos, filtered down from ten thousand, from my recent trip across central Japan, Bali and eastern Australia.

Walking back using Typed Racket for the remainder of my time with HtDP.

Moving away from HtDP’s commented type declarations, ‘checked-’ functions, and custom predicates to make programs simpler, more reliable, and faster.

Photos from Bletchley Park’s National Museum of Computing.

Photos from my wanderings during a recent trip to London.

Photos from my recent trips to Manchester’s Science and Industry Museum and Cambridge’s Centre for Computing History and Computer Laboratory.

Photos of my favourite Hiroshige works exhibited in The British Museum.

A proposition for managing the opposing objectives of being contented with one’s lot and wanting to achieve something greater.

My experience after having used a dumbphone daily for the last year.

A continuation of my attempts to capture the beauty of everyday experiences.

Performing Quicksort on a simple array to better understand its workings.

A brief overview of what I’ve been doing the past few years.

A recount of my path towards reducing distraction to enable faster progress towards that which matters most.

Becoming more attentive to common surroundings through appreciation of their current forms and fleeting nature.

A highlighting of the importance of intentionality with smartphone use, as it is easily all-consuming, and the alternative dumbphone.

The need for amusement in all aspects of an individual’s life is to their detriment—awareness and action must then be taken.

Increasing the enjoyability of my workspace to reduce friction towards action and encourage greater achievement.

Advice for entering the field of Artificial Intelligence.

Advice for entering the field of Deep Learning.

Advice for entering the field of Machine Learning without formal education.

The mechanics of memory, learning and the implementation of knowledge.

A perspective on the inevitability of death, the finiteness of life and the beauty that we experience as a result.

The importance of focused work for productivity and performance.

Ideas and methods to ensure you adequately prioritise that which is most important so that you are able to achieve excellence in those defined areas.

An important perspective on the idea and the inevitability of death and how acceptance of this grants freedom in all other aspects of life.

How best to enjoy alcohol without over-consumption; applicable to any vice.

How to perform your best through the knowledge of one’s personal capabilities and further, the capabilities of peers.

A route to wealth that is more rapidly attainable and preferable so that you are able to live out the life you desire for an extended period of time.

Tools for productivity and freedom, allowing you to lead the life you desire without total commitment to working and increasing wealth unnecessarily.

Increase success in all aspects of your life through partaking in more activities that result in delayed gratification and through consistency in these actions.

Cultivate the life that you wish to achieve by defining your goals and consistently performing actions that enable progress towards them.