i like orange. i'm ok w cheese. things i'm doing now learning malay reading stuff, philo and fiction mostly contact have some thoughts? send me mail if ...
hate it when my phone tells me there's a software update and if you don't update the hackermans are going to get you! i know that's not what it says and i'm simplifying security risks. but it's every damned week it feels (i'm on samsung) and i swear apple's (i'm on my macbook typing this) almost the same too. it's not as grating, but you know how bigger apps like spotify or duolingo just says…
everytime i come to japan am seized by the urge to read murakami. perhaps it's tradition. i finished wind-up bird, my favourite murakami to date, on a plane trip. must've been in secondary school. hotels especially remind me of his writing. the hotel i'm in, when the lobby drops from your vision, looks like a panopticon, rectangles of doors forming brown squares dotting the pale brown circular (so…
it's pronounced /ziːn/ like magaZINE, not /zaɪn/ to rhyme with wine. but doesn't /zaɪn/ sound neater? i think so. i was told older folks pronounce it as /zaɪn/ in fanzines, but wikipedia doesn't seem to agree. potato, potato. got a zine and a cool screen-printed denim sleeve and keychain and sticker to go with it for 35. alter start . it is a music zine that focuses on the underground scene mostly…
finished a long and speaking silence by nghi vo. i've read everything by nghi vo so far. shame, i didn't like it. spoilers ahead. think the books in the singing hills cycle all suffer from triteness. but in this it's particularly felt. it's cowardly in two ways: first, it doesn't respect the reader; secondly it doesn't trust itself. the issue itself is complex, but chih's stance is so unearned and…
finally done with the introduction to the republic. god damn, waterfield. feel like i've been thoroughly inducted. we'll see. finished maoyu (まおゆう魔王勇者; i finished one of the mangas) too! decent read, though i'm not sure how to feel about the ending. it has some interesting ideas though. i might try log horizon again, but i suspect it suffers from the things i don't like more, and the things i…
got access to my latest instagram account circa 2024. all the images there are taken using or rather filtered using the huji app. it still works on my phone, but i've always wanted to figure out how such a filter is done. i also backed a camcorder (yashica journey) and a camera (rewindpix) on kickstarter but i'm not totally sure when those are coming. think that learning to edit pics to my liking…
exploring a few news sites and something like reddit alternatives, which is the last social media sort of site use. so far, have liked hn. wish there was something similar for books. but i also think a lot of social media related to books gets tiring to read quickly. or tires me out at least. also trying out rss feeds again using netnewswire , which seems awesome. trying out 1440 , which seems…
read/watched bunch of things on ai today. decided to figure out the bubble thing which i vaguely understood. knew it was related to the .com bubble. the first result on youtube, so i watched this by the plain bagel and then this too. later this on the .com crash by booneu caught my attention so i watched it and i got distracted, it's just a funny thing to watch. loops itself are not the problem,…
1 watched veritasium on markov chains bernoulli, the law of large numbers. initially required independence. nebraskov, or the tsar of probability. around 1905, related to russian revolution. h: since law of large numbers was assumed to require independence, then if law of large numbers applies, events are independent. applied it to social statistics which seem to conform to the law of large…