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The Nike Air Pressure and my spoiled self

“No, you can’t always get what you want” as the famous Rolling Stone song goes “but try and you might find — you get what you need.”

I’ve wanted things in life that I couldn’t always get, but there are very few things that I’ve wanted as badly as the Nike … Read the rest

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TREE(3) is a big number, I mean really big.

Mind sufficiently blown.

I like really big numbers. When I say “really big” I don’t mean numbers like a million or a billion, I mean numbers like Graham’s number which is so big that if you were try to store every digit in your brain it would sooner turn into … Read the rest

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Cool time-lapse video of downtown Austin and the Lake


Originally posted 18 July 2015 to joshkerr.com

I took this time lapse video using interval mode on my FujiFilm XT-1 camera and stitched it together into a video using Lightroom. It took me ten minutes to make this cool video. I plan to create more in the near future.

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Josh Kerr and President Obama

I met the President of the United States and it was an experience I will never forget. The president visited Austin to discuss his plans for promoting entrepreneurship in the US. The meeting happened at Capital Factory. He briefly spoke and then socialized with us.


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The smartest man in the world

His name is Grigori Perelman and he is a 46 year old Russian fellow who lives with his mother in St. Petersburg, Russia. He is a mathematician who solved the Poincare Conjecture, one of the most important and challenging problems in modern math.

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I almost invented Napster

I almost invented Napster in 1996, more than a year before Napster was created. I was in the right space at the right time, but when it was all said and done, I missed the opportunity. People often say “think outside the box” but inventing a new disruptive technology takes … Read the rest