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13 Feb

Learning What to Learn While Learning (What?) — A Lesson in Classic Greek

I’m striving slowly to pick up a little classical Greek, as a tool to aid study in other disciplines (philosophy, history, at al). It’s obviously a fascinating language with a fascinating history, but despite many corollaries to English (vice versa,...
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20 Nov

“Task Failed Successfully”

“Task failed successfully.” It’s a fake* prompt, which inspired a meme, which inspired a widespread descriptive term. It’s a joke, and an absurd joke, but like many absurd jokes it exists and persists because it reflects something real. The mimetic...
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21 Jul

Up with STEM, Down with STEM

Should you learn to program a robot if you’re never going to program a robot? If you value STEM education, the quick answer is yes because maybe soon you will need to program a robot, or a machine of some...
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23 Mar

Burning Diffuse from Both Ends

Part one of an unknown length series If you stumbled onto this article and expect to learn something of AI in a traditional fashion, you might spend your time better elsewhere (even if that’s another article on this blog). Usually...
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11 Jul

A Will to Fail

If you attempt a life goal and fail (the subject doesn’t matter), that’s your choice, and your burden. It’s your choice to try, and your knowledge that you may fail. If you should fail, you may fall back on your...
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23 Oct

What I Learned This Week (Ending 10/22)

I am perennially poor at maintaining habits, but they say start out small, so I’m attempting a weekly recap of what I learn each week (aimed, in general, at the world of computing, software development, and technology). This is week...
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26 Sep

Developers Need Better Onboarding — Make Learning a Guarantee

Initial setup: Most systems need setup. Don’t even discuss work before this gets completed. Make sure the new dev is where they need to be. Stressing out about getting work done while struggling to get your system working is a...
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21 Sep

Learning ReactJS, Part 1– Steps & Takeaways

This past March, I discovered my javascript skills felt out of date. I needed to catch up, so I learned Angular — took an online course, built a couple of minor projects, did some freelance work that used it. It...
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18 Aug

Today’s Little Git Adventure

Today’s lesson: pull before you make changes, and what do you when you forget that. The task started off well enough — branched off of master, made my changes, committed them. Ready to send my content upstream as a...
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12 Aug

More Ruby Miscellanea

I like to chronicle the little discoveries and revelations in my day’s work. It helps keep me clearheaded, gives me a reference for later, and lets me share my knowledge with the world. Granted, in large part, these “discoveries” have...
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