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A couple days ago I must’ve been thinking about python haphazardly as I remember becoming curious what’s happening with Mojo. I wound up on this page and the ray tracing segment piqued my interest (I’d also recommend the matrix multiplication optimization article). I then wandered to this C++ ray tracing made simple course. If you clone this repo and go to the homework_assignment…
You may have noticed my website and e-mail has changed. Apologies about all the renaming over the years. I was well overdue for one anyhow. And in accordance with my new domain name, I’ve updated my about page if you’d like to read why this website exists, what my mission is and the message I want to share with the world. Today a friend of mine forwarded a brilliant article titled The…
An excerpt from Fr. Chad Ripperger’s non-academic book titled “Shop Talk” where he explains how his formation as a mechanic taught him many lessons in the realms of philosophy and theology. This chapter’s called The Idiot . One thing I’ve observed is that not learning how to use a basic set of tools and do basic repairs is effeminizing on a man. He becomes dependent…
Modernism can be understood as the “synthesis of all heresies” by its moral philosophical attitudes and arguments. This is not to be confused with postmodernism which throws away intelligibility altogether. Orthodox Teaching In Catholic Theology God does not demand the impossible. But God demands that I do X. Therefore, doing X is possible for me. Modernist Theology Doing X is…
Here’s a common cheat sheet tool I swear by. It’s a curl service called cht.sh . It helps you find the most relevant information on a given task one wants to accomplish in a programming language without having to switch to a browser and wind up getting side tracked while coding. I use a zsh function shown below which allows me to call the service like a program with arguments, the…
I wish I had the time to write a full cited article on weather ops (there’s honestly a lot more interesting stuff to write about anyways), but with recent weather events in the NYC metro area, it’d be a waste to not bring forth a brief insight on the situation. There was recently massive floods in NYC area, about 2 months worth of rain in a period of 24 hours. Mainstream media outlets…
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“Majesta Domini” (Christ in Glory) or “The Vision of Ezekiel”, 4th century apse in a private royal chapel. Christ sits on a rainbow. The four beasts are overlapped by a transparent aureole surrounding Christ. Ezekiel sits on the left while John (of the Book of Revelation) sits on the right. Pri de mon th is a time where we need to not just be more outspoken, but act upon the way the world is…
In this article, I show you why AI is not something to despair over. Then I show you why you can’t be overly presumptuous with it either. Deboonking Artificial Intelligence Before tackling how chat models shape up against human minds, first we should get a grasp on the will and the intellect. St. Thomas Aquinas was keen on describing human will in more ways than just free: We cannot love…
I’ve made some desktop wallpapers out of pure boredom using GIMP. The possibilities are endless with that program. Feel free to use the backgrounds. I may add more wallpapers to that folder in the future.
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My first crack at a logical paradigm programming language. If you already know java or C++, I’d highly recommend learning prolog because it will make you a better problem solver in imperative languages. /* Homework Assignment 2 Programming Languages Spring 2023 */ /* Instructions */ /* This section deals with general submission instructions. Use this source file. You will be able to code in…
O Sacred Heart of Jesus who for love of me did gently carry my cross to Calvary. Grant me to suffer and to live with thee. Amen. My name’s Tom Fasano and you’ve stumbled upon my personal website, TendToTheFlame.com . Here I periodically publish writings on life, tech, politics, religion and what have you, in addition to the occasional video or meme. My Interests Ostensive Metaphysics,…
I ran in to an old friend yesterday at church, who gave me a Benedictus issue for January, which basically has morning and evening prayers, the mass for the day, and a meditation from a saint or classical author. The meditation for today by Fr. John Rickaby, written in 1927, is thought provoking and not easily accessible online, so I wanted to share it here. The revelation of Christ could not be…
To answer this question, we must understand the greater purpose of life. It’s to adore God, who is life Himself. If we have offended God, we must make an act of contrition in full faith and adoration by confessing our sins. If one goes through the motions of the confessional without faith, they have completely missed the point of pleasing God. A true confession is sorrowful. It’s made…
PayPal has done major damage control and reported their comprehensive outline for a communist social credit system as an “error”. There’s no doubt people within the company still want such a system, which is why I stand by my position of a total boycott. This is a friendly reminder to stop using Paypal’s (and presumably Venmo’s) services, as on November the 3rd they…
Do Most People Live Fulfilling Lives? It’s been 15 years of the “smart phone era” and it’s basically mainstream consensus that the new models have nothing going for them. From this key observation, we can project that in a decades time, smart phones will be the next flip phone. More importantly, we know by that time a new technology will have been phased in and from the…
In this article I talk about rights in terms of both normative ethics and meta ethics, not in the applied sense like that of a liberal democracy. The christian worldview is not even compatible with its modern concept of “rights”, as they are seen as ad hoc vehicles to pursue our desires, where as in virtue ethics we have moral duties to not offend God. What are Rights? Where do they…
Honor and remember the men who died in corrupt wars. Pray for them and their families today. Visit this website , blog , or listen to this podcast to hear the gruesome testimony of naval veterans who survived the USS Liberty sabotage attack.
Annotations (in block quotes) were posted July 29th 2023. How do strong men become platform independent while maintaining a social following? I argue here the obvious solution to digital independence is to have your own platform, build a brand, and provide value where it’s not being delivered, especially content which will become censored on sterile corporate platforms. But this cannot by…
The maxim “your network is your net worth” could not be stressed enough in the age of the Internet. Although this technology’s main goal is to remotely monitor, propagandize, and gas light the masses, there is an unintended consequence of its existence: the ability to politically mobilize local communities. To my knowledge, organizing in-person meetups with like minded…
Feminism is without a doubt one of the key ideologies in perverting the Christian worldview. The rhetoric “patriarchy”, is a denial of spiritual fatherhood. I’d wager most feminists would admit they’d give up their man-like life in return for a loving father. “Toxic masculinity” is yet another buzz term thrown around by lefties who’re spouting a half…
This is a topic that can’t be ignored, and yet can easily devolve into a spiritually meaningless discussion. There’s a lot more that goes into “Prepping” than stocking your pantry. There’s a Christ-like mindset we must take on; spiritual preparation through prayer, fasting, penance etc. are our bedrock. Worldly preparation is meaningless without it. Agriculture is…
Writing and mailing letters is a dying skill. There’s no reason it has to be seeing its way out among younger folks. There is something utterly valuable about holding a letter in your hands, not just having it be a file on your hard drive. You can keep them, make a booklet out of them, share them with your friends: physical mediums are simply more personal (and less lame). I think…
Skeet shooting is a fun (yet expensive) sport hobby. Even if you aren’t good at least you’re shooting a gun. You can’t beat that. I’ve gotten free lessons by older guys, dudes who won’t miss a shot for an entire game. I’ve found people into guns are the most kind and down to earth. I’d highly recommend getting safety lessons and learning proper shooting…
This article does not make a positive claim, such as Flat Earth. Instead, the main goal is to question the scientific community’s unfounded authority to prescribe dogma, by revealing the pitfalls of one of its most esoteric teachings: gravity. The Gravity Hunch is Wrong. If mass attracts mass, then by Newton’s standards there must neccessarily be an acceleration and a force. Gravity is…
If you want to convey any appreciation or funny inside jokes, send me an e-mail with [GB] in the subject line and if I feel like it I will post them below. Joshua Liu said at 21:25:00 6/18/23 Website looks pretty clean Tom. rebis said at 15:47:00 4/13/23 Nice website. The guestbook is a nice touch that reminds me of a simpler web. Keep it up! polarhive said at 06:44:28 02/28/23 Cool wallpapers!…
One time I took a 7x7 v-cube and took the odd pieces and dyed them black and left the even pieces white. It gave this cool checker pattern design: Of course, now there’s only one permutation, but it’s more of a neat keepsake I can cherish rather than a mass manufactured puzzle I wouldn’t even bother to solve in the first place. Anyways, there’s probably better resources…