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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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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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27 Jun

“I need to use Emacs and I’m in a hurry.”

Emacs is one of those classic Linux tools that feels like you can keep learning it forever. Compact, extensible, and crammed with features, Emacs lets you grow into it over time. Your first time using Emacs should be...
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24 Jun

To Learn a New Programming Language, Start Over

Programmers take pride in their ability to learn new skills easily, relying on long-ingrained concepts and abstracted methodologies to pick up a new way of working with minimum difficulty. Switching smoothly between tools, languages, or environments is certainly an ability...
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14 Mar

Discrete Math for Computer Programming — Where Do I Start?

If you’re studying programming or computer science, you know discrete math is a core competency for developing software. Simple enough if you’re enrolled in college or a code school — discrete math is built right in, usually as...
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14 Mar

Learn R! — Resources

Whether you’re a budding data scientist, a student of programming, or a researcher delving into analytics, R is a language which — while unusual compared to the standard regimen of programming languages — has its own unique flair and...
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