August is when and why I'm relearning Math
I had this identity baked into my system in where I'm bad or mediocre at math, and I'm trying to solve that this August
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a slightly curated (a little useful, I guess) notebook by samnathis
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Step 3 of installing MCPs into my brain
My mind’s eye has definitely been upgrading lately 🧠. Mental images are starting to look way more vivid; I can even rotate an object in 3D and check it out from every angle like it's actually floating right in front of me. Granted, it takes a ton of focus; but it’s working. Even my memory is starting to sharpen up a bit (nothing drastic yet, but progress is progress 📈). The real magic tho isn't…
Step 2 of installing MCPs into my brain
Nothing has changed yet. 🌀 🚪 All I've been doing so far is mentally going in from our front door into our bedroom then back out. My wife, however, just looked at the more than 6-digit room code once from a game that we've been playing called "Plants on Fire" 🔥 and typed it back without missing a beat. It's genuinely fun, and plants do really belong in tower defense lol Memory has never been my…
Step 1 of installing MCPs into my brain
Working dad reflection on AI use at work and how it has affected his mental faculties and dependencies
I just got my impacted wisdom tooth removed
So yeah, that's where I'm at. It's Day 3 of recovery. I'm on a soft-food diet, my jaw is still tender, and I'm typing this while nursing a cup of iced coffee. Feels like a good time to catch up. I've been mostly offline on this blog since April. Not because I vanished — I just fell into a rabbit hole. It started with a simple itch: I wanted a better way to log my days. I was using Obsidian and…
Progressive loop;
I've been stuck in a progressive loop lately, and it's not healthy. Late night build sessions and 5-to-6 hour sleep is probably taking a toll on my health. What's the point of feeling smart if you can't let that level of intelligence leak through other life domains? So yes, we're focusing on the boring stuff again, like sleep and nutrition. But mostly sleep.
Today was a good day to remember but I can't seem to write it down
A personal struggle with journaling
You probably don't need an AI subscription to do wild things
Thoughts on the state of free AI
A scoreboard for chill-ass games
simple 2-player scoreboard
As above so below
Why does it seem like all these "aliens are real" narratives only happen in the US? Maybe Brazil too. And what's with the dissonance between the messages that NASA tells the public versus the shambles that is American politics? It's all over my Reddit feed, and I just can't seem to figure out why. Maybe our country is just too small for such activities. Maybe the corruption here is far worse than…