Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

Testability of the Claim That Cognitive Science Can Be Effectively Applied to Embodied Non-Neural Systems [Essay assignment]

I got the results for the two evening courses I took last term, with VG for both (i.e., I passed!)

Midnight Sun Half Marathon in Tromsø, Norway

Jag anmälde mig till halvmaraton på Tromsø Midnight Sun Marathon i september 2025, innan jag ens hade klarat min första HM i Uppsala. Då visste jag inte att träningen skulle gå helt åt skogen under vintern och att jag knappt skulle komma igång med löpningen igen förrän det blev varmt i år.

Exploring color matching in JavaScript [2013 post brought back from the dead]

I wrote this post back in 2013 for HTML5 Hub, which later became the Intel Developer Zone. The site’s gone through many changes over the years and this post is no longer there, so I figured I’d repost it here instead. This is mostly unedited from the original posting, except for some extra headings and removing one dead link from the final section. The following should also show, for the record, that I used dashes before ChatGPT thought it was cool.

Climate science: Changes in the cryosphere and climate denialism [UU lecture notes]

This lecture was given by Veijo Pohjola, Professor at the Department of Earth Sciences at Uppsala. He’s been working with glaciers for about 40 years. These are my rough notes and paraphrased questions/answers.

Placebo effect [UU lecture notes]

This lecture was given by Tomas Furmark, Professor of Psychology at Uppsala University. My rough notes are below. Note that all of this, including the question/answer sections, is paraphrased - not exact quotes.