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I Over Engineered a Journal to Understand My Needs I have a hard time communicating my needs. I'm much better suited to being a people pleaser. Keep it a buck, I would make a great 1930's wife. I would avoid conflict and never bring up my wants or needs. What issues do I have anyway right? I'd live on a farm with goats and lambs giving my working man healthy children. I'd never speak up and I'd…
Playing Rocket League and Navigating your Career as a Software Engineer are not so Dissimilar Experiences TLDR - As we automate more and more of our work, we should be asking ourselves how we want to steward the technology we build. We should be asking ourselves how we want to shape the future of our work. We should be asking ourselves how our work impacts the future of our communities. Don’t Let…
Intelligent Curation Tagging for Creative Workflows Github link: fineshyt 1 Problem and Motivation I have thousands of photos. Like approximately 14,000 RAW, TIFF, RAF, JPG, and JPEG files. Setting aside the time, cost, and workflows I do not know of using tools such as lightroom or Pixea, Its also hard to find which photos are meet my imaginary threshold for being an artful memory. Which am I…
Building an Open-Source Safety Net for Home Hemodialysis Home hemodialysis gives patients their lives back but it introduces the risk of isolation. If a patient's blood pressure crashes or a line disconnects while their care partner is in the other room asleep, the machine sounds an alarm, but it only beeps in the room. It doesn't text the spouse, it doesn't alert the clinic, and it doesn't notify…
A Brief and Impassioned Review of Hamilton the Musical and my Love/Mostly Hate Relationship with America Here me out. I love black washing US history. We all know Beethoven was black 1. I am convinced Pushkin 2 only ever really fired on D’anthes 3 after D’anthes used the n word, alledgedly. I am not here to provide proof 4, I’m just saying I can go all day with black washing history but Hamilton…
Where to go from here Things are complicated My interest lately is in how knowledge is structured and acted upon. I want to explore how and why technology becomes a lens and a vehicle for cognition, reasoning, and understanding. For instance, due to the advent of computers we recently became able to view cognition algorithmically 1. A more interesting example may be considering it *necessary* to…
A Rant on "The Genetic Lottery" by Kathryn Paige Harden Personally, it is so weird being black. You tell people that being poor inhibits my chance at a life of liberty in the pursuit of happiness 1, and Kathryn Paige Harden says "Bet, let me test your genes to make sure you can tho?" You tell people that the barrier 2 of entry 3 to higher education creates inequitable outcomes 4, but Kathryn Paige…
Emperor, Hostage, Despot! Nationalist Power Dreams of Empire My exploration of major European ideological shifts began with Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish 1 , which illuminated the transition from sovereign power to institutional control, offering a framework for understanding modern mechanisms of governance. This was complemented by Hannah Arendt’s On Revolution 2 , which dissected the…
Rules for Radicals Chicago is a horribly corrupt place to live to this day 1 Revolution for as long as I can tell meant violent popular uprisings. Consider Haiti, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Algeria, China, India, South Africa, America etc. Zizek spoke on the Kurdish city that was able to obtain something of a utopian order in his latest book Heaven in Disorder 2 but nah, they losing. Socotra, Columbia,…
What Shines A review of The Temple of the Golden Pavilion . spoilers ahead TLDR: Can acts of destruction be virtuous? The point of this post is to consider how an act of destruction becomes moral. Whether violence is moral is outside the scope. Terrorism as an extension of moral philosophy is outside the scope. Intro 1950 saw the infamous Kinkaku-Ji destroyed. This had been the second time since…
Don't Let the Medium Dictate a Purpose for the Message Recently I had a conversation that went like this: Zo: Qwelian, do you think we get AI? Me: I think it’s a pretty long shot. Maybe we get legit humanlike virtual AI assistants at best. Zo: Yeah, we just gotta prevent the AI revolt if they become self-aware. Engineering class hierarchies into AI could be a solution. Me: Bruh why are we…
Notes on Being Black and 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro 100 Amazing Facts about the Negro with Complete Proof: A Short Cut to the World History of the Negro 1 There are multiple states of experience in the communities of Americana. Most probably due to extractive, globally expansive policies of the colonial enterprise. Now, this isn’t to say that ethnic/cultural diversity isn’t a thing and…
a gift * all images are taken from Attack on Titan chapter 131, written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama. none of the media is owned by me * Attack on Titan is one of the best manga to come out in recent memory but it is bogged down by a convoluted plot, contradictory exposition of its themes, questionable character development, and a random twist that does nothing to diminish or enhance the…
Making Blockbuster Movies that are Ideologically Meaningful Yet Unpolished in Order to Push Your View of the World Isn't Really Enjoyable Nolan has crafted an original story, with an incredibly relevant narrative, As we move through our climate crisis, one must ask will the future forgive us? Nolan explores this dichotomy expertly, thematically. But Tenet has no character, unlike Twelve Monkeys 1.…
Black Rednecks and White Liberals Part1 Cracker history or redneck history stemming from Scots-Irish immigrants rubbed off on southern blacks so much so that when the great migration occured the blacks brought that redneck culture to the north. No coincidence that the KKK might have emerged out of that ruckus, right? Part 2 Middleman minorities earn the eyre of the societies they integrate into…
Using GCP, FastAPI, Docker, and Huggingface to Deploy SOTA Language Models I have found using more than 2 models is too large for most deployed containers. If you know a way around this let me know. Initial Set Up This stack will use FastAPI to serve an endpoint to our model. FastAPI requires uvicorn for serving, and pydantic to handle typing of the request messages. The Huggingface Transformers…
A Modern Full Stack REST Application Plaid is a popular API that exposes a user's banking information through REST endpoints. We will make use of their service to create a REST API to create authorization information. We will then create a React application that consumes the API to create auth tokens for a user. This tutorial assumes familiarity with React and full-stack development. The repo for…
The Undiscovered Self pt. 2 Carl Jung has warned us of the psychic driving performed by the state and church; manifesting the warped conflict between ideals brought about by scientific progress and imperial power. The creation of the mass man, resulting in a lack of unconscious exploration and psychic freedom is for Jung the crisis of western civilization. Jung's moral prophetization is found in…
The Undiscovered Self pt 1 As social beings, humans can find themselves lost in a state of subjective annihilation resulting in what Jung terms the mass man. This “mass man” is more a function of society or the political collective rather than of the individual self. Another type of subjective annihilation can be found in the collective believer. Jung does not take this to be one who truly…