A Weighted Sum Is Not an AND
How one line of arithmetic nearly let any tree in the world open a sealed memory — and what I changed after it did.
When I was a kid, my sister and I buried a biscuit tin in the garden. Drawings, a cricket card, a note to whoever dug it up. We drew a map on notebook paper, and then we lost the map. We dug up half the garden and never found it.
I've thought about that tin more than I've thought about any photo in my camera roll. Every one of those lives in a scrolling grid, sorted by a timestamp I don't remember, viewable from anywhere, worth almost nothing. A memory that costs nothing to reach costs nothing to ignore.
So I spent this Shipaton building the app version of the tin.
What I'm building
Vantage Pointis a native Android app — Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, offline-first,...
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