References Are Good


  February 6, 2021 |  May 30, 2025 |   12 minutes12 m. (2450 words)
Graphic showing a fragment of the Swiss Tech Convention Center shaped like an arrowhead

Last night I received an e-mail in which one of my visitors asked me a few questions after reading the post about parsing phone numbers in Clojure. The question was seemingly simple and concerned a technical detail of software construction, but in reality the reader touched on a very important subject that I had been pondering years ago, and I decided to summarise it here.

# # # # # # # > Clojure > C

EEG is chasing foamy waves


Meditation experiment with the Muse 2 headband


   November 20, 2020 |  October 1, 2023 |   40 minutes40 m. (8340 words)
Picture of Muse 2 headband with branwave activity graph in the background

Every couple of years, there’s an increase in devices that enable individuals to measure the bioelectrical activity of their brains at home. These devices exploit the occurrence of fluctuating brain wave frequencies, which vary according to the user’s psychophysical state. Driven by a pandemic-induced fondness for my residence, I decided to purchase one of these gadgets. After several weeks, I sought to offer a subjective review of the chosen model and conduct an experiment using raw data.

# # # # # # > Muse > Muse 2 > Muse S