Eager to Burst His Own Bubble, a Techie Made Apps to Randomize His Life
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Re: Eager to Burst His Own Bubble, a Techie Made Apps to Randomize His Life
#2Max's randomized living apps: https://maxhawkins.me/work/randomized_living.html
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#3This is an awesome idea.
I've spent a lot of energy making apps to automate my life and management my schedule. Now I'm tempted to also have it throw in something random now and again. I couldn't go to these extremes (I couldn't pick up and move to another country for instance) but it would be cool to say do things less extreme... like pick a random place for dinner or watch this random Netflix movie.
Re: Eager to Burst His Own Bubble, a Techie Made Apps to Randomize His Life
#4See also, Geohashing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohashing
"Geohashing is an outdoor recreational activity inspired by the webcomic xkcd, in which participants have to reach a random location (chosen by a computer algorithm), prove their achievement by taking a picture of a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or another mobile device and then tell the story of their trip online."
Re: Eager to Burst His Own Bubble, a Techie Made Apps to Randomize His Life
#5Well he won't meet me. I live in the No-Facebook Bubble.
Though sometimes the parties I help organise are listed on the Facebook by third parties. So there's that slim chance...
Re: Eager to Burst His Own Bubble, a Techie Made Apps to Randomize His Life
#6See also, Geohashing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohashing "Geohashing is an outdoor recreational activity inspired by the webcomic xkcd, in which participants have to reach a random location (chosen by a computer algorithm), prove their achievement by taking a picture of a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or another mobile device and then tell the story of their trip online."
Link to comic: https://xkcd.com/426/
Re: Eager to Burst His Own Bubble, a Techie Made Apps to Randomize His Life
#7I actually met Max while we both happened to be in Thailand in 2015. We spent the day on bicycles following the directions his script told him, without hesitation. Regardless of where it was in the city, that's where we went next (a laundry mat, daycare, cafes, and the zoo iirc). Nothing was skipped, because it was what the software told us to do.
Here are some pictures from that day https://goo.gl/photos/gyCNRz2rs7zLJrt79
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#8I love the idea of random surprises.
I created a simple app that picks random items from a Chinese ecommerce site within a set budget. My long term goal was to use ML to learn what each user liked and send them random items on a schedule, selecting from multiple sites.
I never finished it because other things took precedence but the random selection part works.
Anyone interested in this as a service?
Re: Eager to Burst His Own Bubble, a Techie Made Apps to Randomize His Life
#9I actually met Max while we both happened to be in Thailand in 2015. We spent the day on bicycles following the directions his script told him, without hesitation. Regardless of where it was in the city, that's where we went next (a laundry mat, daycare, cafes, and the zoo iirc). Nothing was skipped, because it was what the software told us to do. Here are some pictures from that day https://goo.gl/photos/gyCNRz2rs7z…
That's really interesting. I was thinking of doing a social experiment that's similar but the script would be crowd sourced and determined at the last possible moment.
Re: Eager to Burst His Own Bubble, a Techie Made Apps to Randomize His Life
#10Max should meet Luke Rhinehart -- The Dice Man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dice_Man