Herman Yung 12/24/16 Herman Yung 12/24/16

A bunch of videos of boxes flying around at Amazon

Maybe you thought the internet was a giant long cable, but nope, this is the internet. A giant warehouse of goods flying around to get to you so you never have to leave the house for anything.

Herman Yung 12/19/16 Herman Yung 12/19/16

The Most Dangerous Writing App erases your progress if you stop typing

I tried to write this entire post body using The Most Dangerous Writing App. But then it erased it. But thankfully, I took a screengrab of the page before it went all red.

The Most Dangerous Writing app is a panic-inducing writing space that lets you compose your thoughts and erases it if you get distracted or stop typing.

Herman Yung 12/17/16 Herman Yung 12/17/16

You are listening to Los Angeles

This is fun. Well, not fun fun, but it's sort of cool and relaxing I guess. You Are Listening To Los Angeles is a website that combines LA police scanner radio with ambient music/noise to calm you down and set a mood. What mood is that? I dunno. But it reminds me of the movie Drive for some reason.

If you don't think LA scanners are interesting, you can switch the police scanner to another major US city.

Herman Yung 12/14/16 Herman Yung 12/14/16

Breaking News is shutting down – Medium

Wow, this is sort of bumming me out. Breakingnews.com, a breaking news start-up from NBC, is shutting down after December 31 of this year. I wonder what the reasons are. It seemed like Breakingnews.com was genuinely useful.

Herman Yung 12/12/16 Herman Yung 12/12/16

Best roadtrip routes as determined by machines

This is a great data mining project from Randy Olson who was inspired by Discovery News to plot out the optimal road trip path through every one of the 48 contiguous states.

With 50 landmarks to put in order, we would have to exhaustively evaluate 3 x 10^64
possible routes to find the shortest one.

That's a monumental task for a person, but not quite so big for a computer. So that's where Randy used Google Maps API and machine learning to plot out the map. But he didn't just make one map. He made several, and not just for the United States either (London, Canada, France, and Germany are included too!).

You can visit all 47 National Parks with almost no backtracking (efficient!!!), you can simply step foot in 48 states by visiting 50 major US landmarks, you can even skip the boring parts and go straight for popular destinations in all 48 states!

And if you don't drive, there are walking tours too for NYC and Philadelphia!