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#1960: Children of the Future, Hear Me! - A Message From Friedrich Nietzsche
Wednesday • November 20th 2024 • 11:23:00 pm • 3KB

Children of the Future, Hear Me! - A Message From Friedrich Nietzsche You are more than mere creatures of flesh, more than transient mortals fleeting upon this planet. You are children of the stars, destined to climb not only to the heights of this earth,...

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#1959: JavaScript Gods
Tuesday • November 19th 2024 • 11:54:56 pm • 4KB

There was once an SQL rebellion, where many still lay slayed. Nerds and professors scoffed themselves into an early grave, an on the other side many fell to distributed map reduce functions. Both sides had great casualties, but as it always in the...

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#1958: An Eerie Little Poem About Two Eerie Places And A Strange Porcupine
Tuesday • November 19th 2024 • 12:06:31 am • 3KB

In all my adventures two odd places quietly stick out, the road between Plymouth and Ann Arbor in Michigan. That I ran at night, all by my lonesome, in hopes of proving that I could become an Ultra. I ran 18.7 miles, in some 6 or 8 hours, and stopped only...

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#1957: Rules and Shenanigans Of Little Adventures
Sunday • November 17th 2024 • 11:36:28 pm • 4KB

I only have three rules of adventure, but they come from my soul. First and foremost, eat all the sandwiches. My Grandma from the city used roasted chicken fat, for butter and flavoring, each a work of art, better off in my warm belly. And my Grandma from...

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#1956: A Cheerful Little Legacy; Or, Growing Up Is Slow But Not That Hard, You Just Have To Keep At It
Sunday • November 17th 2024 • 12:48:04 am • 4KB

You biggest problem is listening to everyone else, and doing exactly what they tell you to do. Eventually you figure out that people want you to become more convenient, and teachers couldn't care less about your education. If you follow their directions,...

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#1955: Bodybuilding For Golden Ladies
Saturday • November 16th 2024 • 1:08:12 am • 3KB

I write this at the end of the week that saw the public release of AlphaFold 3, an intelligent program for understanding Proteins, previously a difficult task. And Evo, a program for modeling DNA, all the way down from it nucleotides, the units of DNA, it...

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#1954: Fitness Advice For Teenage Girls: Don't Get Too Muscular, Maybe?
Friday • November 15th 2024 • 12:16:17 am • 4KB

Of course, there is the right way and the wrong way, if you just do sets, reps, and rest, you are not going to be buff any time soon. But if you start with aerobics, build up your endurance, for an hour long non-stop workout, similar to how joggers...

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#1953: My Dear Children - A Message From Abraham Lincoln
Wednesday • November 13th 2024 • 11:41:01 pm • 4KB

My dear children, I stand before you today, with a heart full of hope and a spirit full of urgency. The time has come to speak of a matter most dear to my heart—education. But I must tell you at the outset, education is not what you might think it to be....

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#1952: Working Out Is Very Bad!
Wednesday • November 13th 2024 • 12:03:25 am • 2KB

If you are a butterball cat, that just ate a fat rat. If you are a lumpy snake, who loves to eat cake. If you are a heavy panda, stuffing her face on a veranda If you are an ballooning elephant, who thinks obesity is important. If you are a pudgy duck,...

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#1951: Cat Calque; Or, The Case Of A Missing Idiom
Monday • November 11th 2024 • 11:49:41 pm • 4KB

Today, in my life long pursuit of mastery of english, I’ve learned about “calques”, or loan translations, in context of linguistics. The world loan signifies, a word that is on a loan from some other part of the world. So we are referring to a loaned word,...

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#1950: Is Philosophy Still A Thing?
Sunday • November 10th 2024 • 11:49:01 pm • 4KB

That in it self is a philosophical question, I will answer it, with a series of semmingly childish questions. They are not meant to be anwsered, or judge you, they are meant to be simple, naive, a litte conspiratorial, and noble and pure. They are meant to...

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#1949: Visual Programming === Future Of Programming
Sunday • November 10th 2024 • 12:07:03 am • 4KB

I’ve been learning about visual programming, connecting boxes with lines that represent information flow. Visual Programming is way ahead of everyone else, and also above their heads. Common sentiment that everyone is repeating, is that visual programming...

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#1948: How I Successfully Used AI To Learn Important Programming Embarrassments
Saturday • November 9th 2024 • 12:58:34 am • 3KB

Artificial Intelligence makes a lot of people angry, because they feel that AI does not create new things. But I want to show you two ways, in which I learned important things, in a way not possible for me before. First the big one, I use the magic words ...

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#1947: The Fancy Beast Workout: Dumbbells, Non-Stop Dance, Focus, Trance, Dried Fruit, And Intensity
Friday • November 8th 2024 • 12:16:54 am • 4KB

A workout does not actually start at t eh gym, because a workout is not about strength. A workout is above all else about endurance, that is what joggers first work on. At first, it is hard to run the full jogging route, but joggers keep training, and...

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#1946: The True Gift
Wednesday • November 6th 2024 • 11:46:34 pm • 3KB

Become a wise rebel, and step over, all the word's trouble. Either way education is something you must do, only you can learn. To give someone, the control of your knowledge. In a generation or two, it becomes about your control. And you being a cog, in a...

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#1945: The Hoist Must Make You Moist - A Message From Abraham Lincoln
Tuesday • November 5th 2024 • 5:37:20 pm • 4KB

To thee, my sisters and brothers of iron and zest, Gather ‘round as I take up this quest. In halls where strength and valor dwell, Permit me now this tale to tell. Strength, friends, is not wrought in the furnace of toil alone, but forged through steady...

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#1944: Programming Late; Or, Adventure And Invention
Tuesday • November 5th 2024 • 12:34:07 am • 2KB

It Is 11:48, so this weird little poem may not be that great. But non-the less it must be written, as I have been bitten. I did not finish my code this weekend, I hope it is not a trend. It was a bug in my code, that I was running in node. It was too...

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#1943: Is Programming Fun?
Monday • November 4th 2024 • 12:38:30 am • 4KB

Programming is a language on top of your spoken language, it is not a language for people – it is a language for machines. Both are equally important, being able to program, is as huge as being able to talk to other people and read books. And learning...

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#1942: Use AI To Learn On Your Own, It Is Dangerous To Just Pretend To Learn In School
Saturday • November 2nd 2024 • 11:28:49 pm • 4KB

You were never dumb, that was just a way to keep you quiet. The teacher kept you scared, and made you feel stupid. So that they din;'t have to work very hard, so that they didn't actually had to teach. They got paid either way, so they chose tricking you...

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#1941: The Unfortunate And Misleading Myth Of Sets And Reps
Saturday • November 2nd 2024 • 12:40:29 am • 5KB

For your muscles to grow, you must constantly challenge them. You have to move more and faster, lift heavier, longer, and eliminate rest. And you have to do so wisely, because injury is failure. You have to move to the beat of music, to enter a trance...

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#1940: Artificial Intelligence Helps
Thursday • October 31st 2024 • 11:45:18 pm • 4KB

We’ve built schools around the idea, of shared education, and that was wrong. It was not a mistake, but a deliberate choice out of desperation. There are many students, and few teachers. The result was, ineffective education. That is exactly what one...

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#1939: Automatic AI Magic; Or, How I Am Experimenting With AI Today
Wednesday • October 30th 2024 • 11:39:21 pm • 4KB

I am working on a visual programming language, specifically aimed at busy young people. I want it to feel like a computer game, and I want it to make the young programmer powerful Being able to dominate enemies ruins a game, but it does make, a visual...

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#1938: A Tiny Halloween Discovery For Dance Instructors
Wednesday • October 30th 2024 • 12:39:38 am • 2KB

Nobody is purrfect and I wear a tail to the gym, especially on Halloween. It occurred to me that our distant ancestors used to have one, and I try to have some extra fun. I aim to figure out what our tails were for, by hopping and dancing on my gym floor....

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#1937: Are People Who Don't Dress For Halloween Just Pretending To Be Adults?
Monday • October 28th 2024 • 11:43:26 pm • 2KB

“Ladies and Germtermen, beware, of those who don’t a Halloween Costume wear.” -- Abraham Lincoln You are never too old, to break the mold. In fact you may age all too quick, unless you find your costume click. And you don’t have to look silly, you should...