meta-irrational
notes, will fill in later cacm article (russinovitch/Hansel and about juniors ai slop search Based on the search results, the provided information exclusively details preceptorship models within nursing and health sciences education (e.g., nursing, pharmacy, medical radiation technology). There is no information regarding a “preceptorship model of computing education.” PubMed Central (PMC) (.gov)…
From a different Tanya Reilly talk this time, this is also my new headcanon: Fear will keep the lesser systems in line… fear of this borrow checker.
Thanks to Laura Nolan who suggested this video from Usenix 2017: Tanya Reilly with good life advice https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon17americas/program/presentation/reilly
So, Drobo went out of business, so I’m in the market for a new NAS. In the meantime, I stumbled across a config change that made the Time Machine partition functional as a backup target. (I created a Time Machine partition when I first got the the Drobo, but it has never worked properly until […]
Reverse psychology doesn’t work on me.
I have decided to try a practice called a “digital declutter.” For the rest of this month, I intend to limit my use of online/electronic/digital technology as much as possible. This includes texting, email, listening to podcasts, TV, etc. Likely not going to have a lot of posts between now and end of June, but […]
Ten years ago, I hacked out a limited parser in Python for YAML, which I named monkeyYaml. I even blogged about it. It turns out that this code is still in use. Not only as a backup, but as the *only* parser for front matter in the test262 repository. Initially, I used import yaml to […]
I really like my idea of what philosophy is supposed to be. Unfortunately this doesn’t seem to align with what philosophy is to other people. Notably, I took two philosophy courses in undergrad and earned a D in the first and a D+ in the second. But now I’m taking a sabbatical, and I am […]
Hello again! It’s been almost ten years since I last posted here. Back in 2014 I was working on a chemistry app for pre-medical students; my idea was to make it easier to understand and remember enough organic chemistry to do well in the required classes and on the MCAT exam. I realized that it […]
I was thinking some more about the new game “Shadow of Mordor” (read the review by Carolyn Petit here). I can’t really add anything to her review — she makes it sound like the plot of God of War was transplanted into an Assassin’s Creed game set among some of Tolkien’s ideas — not truly […]