Some things I noticed 06/21/2020:
  1. “That old berk, Thought the sun shone out of my brother’s every orifice, he did.” ? — Aberforth re: Elphias Doge re: Albus
  2. CERN would build an electron-positron to maximize production of Higgs bosons. Later, the machine would be replaced by a proton-proton smasher
  3. The hand-to-hand fighting lasted for up to eight hours, in pitch darkness, and while no shots were fired the battle was fought with rocks and clubs.”
  4. Activists just toppled the Junipero Serra statue in Golden Gate Park here in San Francisco
  5. The company has never been able to break into the social space, online activity that generates scads of lucrative data for targeting ads.”
  6. My experience convinced me I was not smart enough to be an expert in the theory of algorithms and that I liked procedural languages better than functional ones
  7. It’s the End of the World as We Know It

Some things I noticed 06/02/2020:
  1. Godot in-browser editor
  2. It started as a personal small tool for quick visualization of waveforms. Soon feature creep and perfectionism took over.
  3. We shot the entire sequence without a single blank firing gun, they were all rubber.
  4. first time in history astronauts enter ISS from commercially-made spacecraft
  5. the proposed law does not expressly provide a procedure where the subject-person is given a chance to present countervailing evidence
  6. Pure CSS art: Lace, Gaze, Francine, pink, vignes, zigario
  7. Global deaths due to various causes
  8. サプライズ花火
  9. Pretty Woman

Aporia

Day five.

As with most recent things, what’s happening in South Triangle is a timed misdirection. It will muddy the news cycle at a moment when clarity is not useful. After serving its purpose, the whole ruckus will come to pass. To get something done, any thing, one can’t go wrong leaning unto entropy, before doubling back. Also, track 12 of Gloc-9’s Matrikula comes to mind.

During the Islamic Golden Age, scholars gathered and translated all the world’s knowledge. One could object saying that education is not all about the content. Sure. To the extent that the actual point of schools is to babysit children so parents could work, they do well enough.

“The State shall assign the highest budgetary priority to education.” This underrated part of the constitution should allow for PTV to be under DepEd. After all, why should education stop? Mongols came. They destroyed libraries at the Siege of Baghdad. Arabic numerals survived.

Learning seems like nudging boundaries. One might expect to be able to go back to where one has been before, having covered it all. But knowledge does not wrap around a sphere. The number of unknown unknowns a person can encounter has no bounds. Once born, a person can only be more stupid.

February 2006. 73 people died at the PhilSports stadium stampede. About 400 people got injured. Enough for today.

Some things I noticed 02/23/2020:
  1. Progress is simply # of iterations × progress between iterations.
  2. Breed two images to create new ones using neural nets
  3. Only the present is real, and even it isn’t
  4. God sits on his throne so he too has to have one
  5. Basically, variations on how to eat sunshine.
  6. Now I’m a believer!
  7. This beats using Ra in a mnemonic to remember 予
  8. Manuskript
  9. Slow start. Best possible ending.

Rigoletto

It’s day 15 of the rewrites. For this one I set a time limit and tried to fill it up with random sentences. It’s not pretty.


The most reasonable thing to do is to stop writing. So I will do the opposite to see what happens.

Editing while writing takes a longer amount of time. If one always hesitates committing to what comes to mind, one would not be able to move on. Writing on modern text editors makes to urge to do this stronger. It is ironic. Paper encourages the writer to commit to the written words more. Otherwise, when one edits with paper one still sees the failed attempts. With computers, it’s as if the run-on sentence never happened. There is more time to dawdle.

Also, editing while writing disrupts the flow of thoughts. Thoughts are flimsy. Little distractions cut threads from spools for randomness where they come from.

Writing while reacting to prompts is weird this way. Right now I have ten minutes left to fill up. Because of what I wrote in the last paragraph, I imagine a sewing machine. Where would I go from that thought? But reacting to prompts is also how I managed to go on writing this far. Those “deep” stuff in my previous entries? I was only reacting to academics peddling books on podcasts. Those too are prompts.

Writing is bound to be hard when one is avoiding to write about oneself on purpose. There was a paragraph before this I deleted because I used the pronoun I a little too many times for comfort. I want to write as if I do not exist, but that is impossible. One can only do so much to avoid the first person perspective. When one cannot scratch anything below the surface, writing is a bore.

Because of that, this entry and machine-learning generated texts are not too different. We’re both trying to come up with a collection of words that fit grammatical rules and nothing else. Machines are of course are better at that. I used to use an editor app that corrects my grammar as I type. For this I did not bother. I’m using a borrowed tongue anyway, so I allow myself to lack finesse while writing about nothing.

Twelve minutes to go and I cannot come up with more meaningless words. The easiness is so hard. I will transfer this to the CMS now. Tomorrow’s ought to have more meaning. Eight minutes. Writing this way is not the way to go. Enough for today.


Editing this to something I felt comfortable re-publishing took three passes. The original was so all over the place. For each cluster of thoughts, I tried to find the kernel of what I must have been trying to say. Then I arranged the sentences around those to form paragraphs that seem to say something. After getting the hang of it, it felt methodical. It’s as if I’m following an unspoken algorithm. To be sure, everything is still bovine scat.

Some things I noticed 02/08/2020:
  1. As adults are also children, blame is spread too thin for resolution.
  2. Pomplamoose × Capaldi
  3. Como pluma al viento
  4. Eng subz plz. No time to learn Cantonese.
  5. The costs of nCoV treatment was not free at first.