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hrrrggghhhh......philosophy of art......praxis.........the idea that a certain level of complexity or a certain kind of technical skill is what qualifies something as art is bullshit.............so you have to think that way about your own art too you have to be consistent.........you have to choose how you refer to your art thoughtfully to reflect this or it will never sink into your brain..............save me jacob geller video essay "Who's Afraid of Modern Art" ............

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"chatGPT will confidently spit out information cobbled together from various sources in its dataset that sounds correct even when it blatantly isn't"

correct! that's why it's important to remember that chatbots don't have any sort of inherent fact-checking

"this means it's LYING to you! why, i work at a library, and just the other day, i had three college students submit lists of entirely nonexistent articles that chatGPT had cited as sources!"

well i think "lying" is anthropomorphizing it a little bit too m- oh my god what the fuck graduate students are using chatGPT as a resource? for writing PAPERS???? and not even googling the articles they asked you for first??? and you think the issue here is fucking CHATGPT???????

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Hey guys!

I’m so excited to share this language learning challenge that I created with you!

It’s called Brick-By-Brick Language Learning Challenge and it’s made for anyone who already knows the basics of their target language and wants to improve their knowledge :)

If you participate in this challenge, make sure to use the hashtag #brickbybricklearning and to tag me here on tumblr (@mylinguisticadventure) and on instagram (@mylinguisticadventure). 

That’s it for now. Happy language learning!

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okay yes it's often bad and hard and sometimes i am so anxious my whole body feels like it's vibrating but also at the same time the gps took me a different way on my drive and i got to see more of the river than i usually do and yesterday the sun was still above the horizon after 7pm and that was amazing and the whole sky turned an orange-gold like how they try to make ice cream taste; you know, one of those evenings that just tears you open no matter how jaded you get. it's warm for the first time here and people had lined up against the water just to stand outside and watch the sunset

and yeah it's tax season no i haven't done mine yet but when i mentioned it offhand in a single side-comment three days later my friend sent me a list of helpful tips and followed up to see if i'd need help on them

there's this parking lot for a walking trail near where i live and one of the two google reviews is my actual favorite: love it here. there were so many beautiful parking spots but sadly we could only take one. and no this person isn't going to go viral and probably the only people navigating to this spot are extremely local - but there's something so precious to me about someone taking the time to write something that will make strangers in their community laugh, even though there's no way for me to tell them good one! directly

yes i am not doing well sometimes i'm doing even very-badly but recently i have been given enough breathing room to say okay, this situation is bad, but then it will be over, and you will be moving onto the next thing and it's true that i need to get groceries and pay rent and argue with my health insurance but it is also true that in the absolute stress and anarchy of my life today someone recognized my dog before they recognized me and was so excited because "they tell everyone about the greyhound in the area and didn't get a picture before so can they take a picture now please"

in class we all stand in a circle and are all grown adults and for a moment while the teacher is figuring something out, we all hold hands, just to be silly and connected. for no reason at all at 8pm on a thursday my friends and i start breaking out the dance moves to high school musical. my coworker gchats me during a meeting about the book he recommended to me and i'm enjoying reading

i help a high school set up for a star-themed dance and while putting up streamers i find graffiti that says if you're reading this, i love you, and we're both going to get out of here right next to fuck everyone, live out of spite, don't let the fuckers make you die. on the bridge where i walk my dog someone has written i love you and on the sidewalk in chalk someone has written i love you and on the side of the water tower someone has written i love you

at the bottom of a text post an internet poet says - i love you, i love you, i love you. i've never met you, i love you because you exist and we exist together. and isnt that enough for now. just for this moment, i mean. like, if you just close your eyes and breathe - somewhere, across this world, i love you, because you're here with me.

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I had a thought, y'know when you meet someone and you tell them your name and they immediately have to find a way to relate your name to a personal experience?

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is everyone else going through it this week. it feels like everyone burnt out simultaneously

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an introduction to computer systems: a masterpost

Contains resources pertaining to:

Hardware

Operating Systems

Networking

Complexity

The Web

Security

Mobile and IoT

All links were taken from my university's recommended reading list. Resources are underneath the read more below. (Fun fact: did you know you can only add up to 100 links? Something I learned just now! Sorry the last few links aren't hyperlinked)

Low-Level Technologies

Introduction (Recommended Reading)

Code.org Computer Science is Changing Everything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvyTEx1wyOY

Intro to Computer Science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzJ46YA_RaA

Why learn about how computers work? “…we need to create a generation of producers not consumers” Eben Upton http://www.wired.co.uk/article/eben-upton-raspberry-pi

What is a computer

Very basic: https://www.gcflearnfree.org/computerbasics/what-is-a-computer/1/

Embodied systems Video: Towards Third Age of Computing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkTF0X3oB40

General history http://theconversation.com/the-history-of-computing-is-both-evolution-and-revolution-57126

Evolution of computer science infographic https://www.computersciencezone.org/evolution-of-computer-science-infographic/

Basic but good from code.org

What Makes a Computer, a Computer? https://youtu.be/mCq8-xTH7jA

Hardware (Recommended Reading)

An Illustrated History of Computers http://www.computersciencelab.com/ComputerHistory/History.htm

Basic computer hardware: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs101/hardware-1.html 

Moore’s law: 50 Years of Moore's Law https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/silicon-innovations/moores-law-technology.html 

Fetch execute cycle:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/education/guides/zws8d2p/revision

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNN_tTXABUA

Representing information:

https://introcs.cs.princeton.edu/java/61data/  (don’t need to understand Java programs just representation)

Basic but good from code.org:

Introducing How Computers Work https://youtu.be/OAx_6-wdslM

Binary & Data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USCBCmwMCDA

Circuits and Logic https://youtu.be/ZoqMiFKspAA

CPU, Memory, Input & Output https://youtu.be/DKGZlaPlVLY

Hardware and Software https://youtu.be/xnyFYiK2rSY 

Overview: https://www.espressif.com/en/products/hardware/esp8266ex/overview

Hardware (Further Reading)

The difference engine http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/ada-lovelace-charles-babbage--the-difference-engine/3500830

First computer in Australia: CSIRAC, designed and built by CSIR [now CSIRO] scientists, was the first stored-memory electronic computer in Australia. https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/articles/3145?pid=5 

Collossus Computer: http://www.colossus-computer.com/colossus1.html

Lunar module

An article about one of the original Lunar Module programmers visiting the MIT Faculty Club including a video of him walking through the source code: http://hackaday.com/2016/07/05/don-eyles-walks-us-through-the-lunar-module-source-code/

A paper from the same guy discussing the Lunar Module software and a couple of the LM problems which arose: http://www.doneyles.com/LM/Tales.html

SOCs (System on a Chip): https://www.techradar.com/news/computing/pc/system-on-a-chip-what-you-need-to-know-about-socs-1147235

Tensor Processing Units: History and hardware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXxN4fv01c8

Moore's Law https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2008/09/moore/

Koomey's Law https://www.makeuseof.com/is-koomeys-law-new-moores-law/

Von Neumann architechture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture

Instruction pipelining: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruction_pipelining

Operating System (Recommended Reading)

History 40 years of Unix http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8205976.stm

What is an operating system https://www.gcflearnfree.org/computerbasics/understanding-operating-systems/1/ (very basic)

Operating system concepts https://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~pxk/416/notes/03-concepts.html

Using the command line https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/issues/essentials-bash-vol1/

How does Linux work? What is Linux? https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Linux_Guide/How_Linux_Works

File allocation https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/file-system-operating-systems/

Operating System (Further Reading)

This is an excellent free book on how to use the command line interface on the Raspberry Pi. Essential Bash: https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/issues/command-line-second-edition/

Linux Device Driver: https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/linux-device-drivers/0596005903/ch01.html

File system design case studies: https://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~pxk/416/notes/13-fs-studies.html

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a21771/code-for-apollo-moon-landings-on-github/

Moonjs: An Online Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) Simulator: http://svtsim.com/moonjs/agc.html

Networking (Recommended Reading)

Great overview https://web.stanford.edu/class/msande91si/www-spr04/readings/week1/InternetWhitepaper.htm

Internet history http://www.computerhistory.org/internethistory/

How the internet works - videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv0XCaUkfNk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_LPdttKXPc

Stanford networking lectures

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs101/network-1-introduction.html

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs101/network-2-wifi.html

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs101/network-3-internet.html

What is TCP/IP https://securitydiaries.com/tcp-ip-stack/

Basic networking commands: https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/issues/21 

Code.org – basic but good

What is the Internet? https://youtu.be/Dxcc6ycZ73M

Wires, Cables & WiFi https://youtu.be/ZhEf7e4kopM

IP Addresses & DNS https://youtu.be/5o8CwafCxnU

Packets, Routing & Reliability https://youtu.be/AYdF7b3nMto

Networking (Further Reading)

Metcalfe's law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe's_law (the number of connections grows quadratically: n devices, connections ∝ n2)

Story of WiFi http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2015/03/05/4183467.htm

General internet history https://www.investintech.com/resources/articles/historyinternet/

Computer as communications device http://www.ais.org/~jrh/licklider/computer-as-communications-device.htm

Submarine cable map of international data cables carrying internet: http://www.submarinecablemap.com

High Level Technologies

Complexity (Recommended Reading)

Universality: https://introcs.cs.princeton.edu/java/53universality/

How Computers Work – Software https://web.archive.org/web/20180124105031/http:/codeinthebrowser.org/how-computers-work-software.html

BBC radio programs on programming languages “Codes that changed the World” http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05qqhqp

Interpreted vs Compiled code https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/compiled-versus-interpreted-languages/

Turing machine https://vimeo.com/46913004

Assembly code on the Pi: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/raspberrypi/tutorials/os/

Complexity (Further Reading)

Turing machine simulator https://turingmachine.io/ 

50 years of basic https://time.com/69316/basic/ 

Hack a language for PHP programming by Facebook: http://www.wired.com/2014/03/facebook-hack/

Does the world need another programming language? http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/06/does-the-world-need-yet-anothe.html

Some new / important languages of note:

Go new Google language, https://golang.org/

Julia for numerical analysis and computational science https://julialang.org/

R data analysis language, important for big data manipulation https://www.r-project.org/

Rust Mozilla systems programming language https://www.rust-lang.org/

Android ART virtual machine https://android.jlelse.eu/closer-look-at-android-runtime-dvm-vs-art-1dc5240c3924

JavaScript on server Node.js https://www.w3schools.com/nodejs/nodejs_intro.asp

Web (Recommended Reading)

Code.org – basic but good - HTTP & HTML https://youtu.be/kBXQZMmiA4s

Good overview https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs101/network-4-web.html

Cookies https://privacypolicies.com/blog/browser-cookies-guide/, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Cookies

HTTP https://dev.opera.com/articles/http-basic-introduction/

HTML https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp

XML https://www.w3schools.com/xml/default.asp

Javascript tutorial https://www.w3schools.com/js/

Ajax intro https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_ajax_intro.asp

Web (Further Reading)

Some more about cookies: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/apr/23/cookies-and-web-tracking-intro, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Cookies

Status codes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes

Electron: https://www.electronjs.org/

Security (Recommended Reading)

Code.org – basic but good - Encryption & Public Keys https://youtu.be/ZghMPWGXexs

How encryption works: explained http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-15/how-encryption-works-explained/8732148

Encryption https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/33949/htg-explains-what-is-encryption-and-how-does-it-work/

Good SSL tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQsKdtjwtYI

VPN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJdW0_yB9vo

PKI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uusOyoDQ0c

Good intro to Linux file security https://developer.ibm.com/technologies/linux/tutorials/l-lpic1-104-5/

How asymmetric (public key) encryption works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5FEqGYLL0o

Excellent coverage for most of the topics https://gpgtools.tenderapp.com/kb/how-to/introduction-to-cryptography

Cyber warfare e.g. Stuxnet computer worm http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/security/the-real-story-of-stuxnet

NSA, PRISM etc: http://www.theguardian.com/world/the-nsa-file

Mobile and IoT (Recommended Reading)

IoT introductions

https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-is-the-internet-of-things-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-iot-right-now/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mBO2vqLv38

Cloud computing introductions

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/overview/what-is-cloud-computing/

http://au.pcmag.com/networking-communications-software-products/29902/feature/what-is-cloud-computing

Wearable computing

https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/book/the-encyclopedia-of-human-computer-interaction-2nd-ed/wearable-computing

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musings on motherhood

Kyung-Sook Shin (“Please Look After Mom”), Nguyen Thanh Binh, Ocean Vuong (“Headfirst”), Ritika Jyala (excerpt from “The Flesh I Burned”), Gustav Klimt “Mother and Child” (detail from The Three Ages of Woman), Sue Zhao (“My mother texts me instructions to cook silken tofu”)

buy me a coffee

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Beautiful from Ordinary Days

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Sometimes you read a line from a book and it’s like something from your own head or something from your journal. And that part of you is a bit more defined, a bit sharper, and a bit easier to understand and explain to others.

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oh teehee I'm in a silly goofy mood (I am hanging on by a fucking thread)

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The thing is that at some point you need to confront the fact that thinking you’re the worst person on planet earth is also a form of ego.

“You’re not the main character” often applies to people who think everything will go their way. But not every story is a heroes journey. Some are tragedies. Do you see yourself as the main character of a tragedy? You’re not the main character applies to that as well.

Thinking that you’re so uniquely annoying that that literally nobody on planet earth would like you is also a form of thinking you’re special and can also in certain ways be harmful to the people around you.

At some point you need to realize that there is no main character. Nobody on planet earth is inherently at their core more or less lovable than other people and even with very big mistakes almost nobody is beyond redemption or love. And you are not some special exception to either of those things. Thinking that you are is just your ego and mental illnesses talking.

Sometimes getting better involves being kind to yourself. Sometimes it involves getting a damn grip. Which one do you need? That’s up to you to find out. Probably some combination of both.

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*steps out of my room covered in blood, severely disheveled, and with signs of having been crying for hours* I sent that e-mail I had to send

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*steps out of my room covered in blood, severely disheveled, and with signs of having been crying for hours* I sent that e-mail I had to send

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Genuinely the posts where people collate and juxtapose a bunch of different media texts to convey an idea with all the citations at the bottom are the best thing to have come out of this site in the entire eight years I've been on here. It's so sexy. Intertextuality is genuinely one of the things that I go feral for without hesitation and I adore it it's such a good use of the medium I hope it never stops

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I think it's so important to have a "nature" calendar in your head, like a way of tracking time that's completely separate from anything work or obligation related, not holidays or anything stressful. For instance I look forward to august because at 8pm every night house finches hang around my window for a few weeks. In spring I love waiting for the magnolias to blossom. Just ways of tracking the time with zero stakes that's completely removed from life's zeitgeist and that you really look forward to

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Beware!