#1325: On The Subject Of Standardized Education Holding Humanity Back
Sunday • March 26th 2023 • 4:59:11 pm • 5KB
What we believe when we are young, will influence our entire existence. False beliefs can only resolve to regrets, only wisdom can constantly steer a mind towards some measure of greatness. The list of false beliefs, and things that end up as regrets, is...
#1324: The Bobby Tables
Sunday • March 26th 2023 • 2:27:31 pm • 3KB
What is SQL? SQL Explained in 100 Seconds Bobby Tables Little Bobby Tables and what he teaches us about SQL Injection Tables...Bobby Tables - Matt Collier: OKC SQL SQL injection: XKCD's Little Bobby Tables explained (security@cambridge) This Is How Your...
#1323: Resuming Where The Giants Left Off
Saturday • March 25th 2023 • 11:26:43 pm • 5KB
One of the most nefarious things you will ever hear as a young person, is “You need to graduate to get a job”. Above all, you shouldn't get a flimsy job, you need to run your own business, born from years of learning how to launch startups. That is what...
#1322: Legend Of Wobbles, The Mighty Warrior Queen From The Crabapple Tree
Friday • March 24th 2023 • 10:19:01 pm • 1KB
She came to visit once or twice, and thought the peanuts were a nice surprise. Though she hated bits of cheddar cheese, couldn't even stand the downwind breeze. She came and pondered why with Squirrels share, she seemed to think it was quite rare. But I...
#1321: Chaos To Chaos, A Sci-Fi Poem
Thursday • March 23rd 2023 • 8:18:44 pm • 2KB
Asking AI to write verse, and keep it terse… Is like asking a philosopher to say, something about today. We take something unsurpassed, and merely ask for a simple forecast. The future of humanity, even our own education and sanity. Depends on using noise...
#1320: The Philosopher Deck Art Challenge
Wednesday • March 22nd 2023 • 11:07:51 pm • 6KB
I was surprised to find that the Tarot cards are a new invention, starting somewhere in 1400’s. It was always my fantastic assumption that fortunetelling, was born from watching a philosopher using cards with wisdom on them. It just seems so natural to...
#1319: When Learning For Real, Every Lesson Is A Big Deal
Tuesday • March 21st 2023 • 11:01:23 pm • 10KB
You don’t have bad grades, you have insane teachers. – Abraham Lincoln To learn something for real, you need three things. One, You have to be really, really curious, about the thing. If you are not curious, you will not learn, you will only memorize for...
#1318: Humanity Rising; Or, For The World To Bloom
Monday • March 20th 2023 • 9:38:11 pm • 3KB
Be of good cheer, for life is dear. Don’t let the world get to you, find your philosophy books and enlarge your view. Today the world is a mind of shreds and patches, we still await the day, when Humanity hatches. Uneducated and divided we will face war...
#1317: Nordhouse Days
Sunday • March 19th 2023 • 11:16:06 pm • 2KB
To those who try as they may, are yet to see, the light of day. Nordhouse Dunes Over At Free Soil, Michigan, is a place one visits again and again. Food is a gas station some miles away, and water pumps will keep your thirst at bay. If you look for it...
#1316: The Node Programmer
Sunday • March 19th 2023 • 4:47:54 pm • 4KB
Learn JavaScript by Building 7 Games - Full Course JavaScript is the new C (A picture of a programmer) I tried 10 code editors 7 Full Stack App Ideas for Developers w/ Instructions Included Premature Optimization Ranking The Most Popular Javascript...
#1315: When A Wild Goose Is On The Loose, Protect Your Caboose
Saturday • March 18th 2023 • 10:57:32 pm • 2KB
Please don’t get me wrong, I love geese, and wish for nothing less than hugs and peace. But I yelled and honked at one thrice today, because there was a lot of traffic speeding our way. I said “Goose! have you no brains?”, “this street has like six busy...
#1314: Michigan Spring; Or, What Do The Seagulls Bring?
Friday • March 17th 2023 • 11:21:24 pm • 1KB
Though their bird song, is not very long. The seagulls have finally sung, and the Michigan Spring has sprung. It is a tradition of old, in this part of the word. When Michigan weather is cold and dull, we wait for the announcement of the gull. And when...
#1313: Our Philosophers; Or, A Note About Inheriting Their Wisdom And Culture
Thursday • March 16th 2023 • 10:23:20 pm • 3KB
You have a Great Family in time, they are the Philosophers who wrote their thoughts down with you in mind. If you spend enough time listening to their books, you will inherit the tools they used in their great adventures. Not only will you discover the...
#1312: On Growing Out Of Indoctrination
Wednesday • March 15th 2023 • 10:35:54 pm • 7KB
“There is this spell and we have to break it.” – Daniel Dennett The fact that human beings are susceptible to indoctrination, demands that young people are protected from false beliefs. Because just as soon as they are tricked into believing falsehoods,...
#1311: It Is Loose
Tuesday • March 14th 2023 • 10:49:35 pm • 1KB
AI is now installed on countless home computers, completely detached from the internet. And a new commercial build has been announced today, with the ability to navigate complex text. It will do taxes for you, it will write your programs. Being self aware...
#1310: Quirkedy Quirks
Monday • March 13th 2023 • 11:43:42 pm • 5KB
They are everywhere, and it is strange. I wanted to setup a mirror for my website, and I forgot which quirk to use. On GitHub, if you create a repository, with the same name as your username… The readme file in that repository, will pop up in your profile....
#1309: One Language To Fix The World; Or, The Fancy Pantsy Programmer Cats
Sunday • March 12th 2023 • 11:01:29 pm • 2KB
Bunch a cool coder cats got together to make a crew, and they were going to create something utterly new. They were all pretty good code hackers, and they didn’t need financial backers. In their might, they started coding in Perl, the code was beautiful...
#1308: The Administrator
Sunday • March 12th 2023 • 5:19:12 pm • 2KB
What is DNS (Domain Name System)? How a DNS Server (Domain Name System) works. Domain Names Choosing a Domain Name: Do This FIRST! Where to Buy Your Domain? Best Domain Name Registrars 2021 Guide On How To Choose Domain Name & Brand Naming Strategies What...
#1307: A Game Of Chess With Infinite Complexity; Or, Return To Antwerp
Saturday • March 11th 2023 • 11:17:52 pm • 3KB
Antwerp is the name of my website generator, it examines files carefully arranged in directories and generates an 18,000 file website. These types of programs are called static website generators, and static websites are websites that don’t execute any...
#1306: The Meow Sea Shanties
Friday • March 10th 2023 • 7:01:18 pm • 6KB
Down by the sea, me mates, hear me song, of a man who did brave, with cats so strong. He bought four bags, of catnip, yes, to win their trust, so they'd follow he. Now they listent yo, his every command, to him they call, as their leader grand. So raise...
#1305: How To Grow Up Faster; Or, Thinking Outside Of The Box
Thursday • March 9th 2023 • 10:43:53 pm • 10KB
Let us begin with a kind of conspiracy theory, you live in a box, some say a prison with invisible walls, while it is emergent and not designed, it is enforced. Your representatives assume that if they listen to you, you will destabilize the box, so they...
#1304: The Rebirth Of Venus; Or, The Making Of An Art Show In The Age Of Generative AI
Wednesday • March 8th 2023 • 10:56:57 pm • 3KB
Once you are ready to display you art, you become struck by the word “show” in art show -- Abraham Lincoln Meaning, that even with the help of artificial intelligence, you’ll have your work cut out for you. Art is a deeply personal thing, so I can’t...
#1303: Programming Programming; Or, Notes On Making Program Structure More Informative
Tuesday • March 7th 2023 • 10:48:27 pm • 5KB
Foreword I don't usually write about programming as it sounds like gibberish, but with with the availability of Language Model AI programming became more approachable. It just needs one tiny little thing, a helpful 100 or 300 line WikiWiki that will host...
#1302: Fixing Ineffective Education With Computer Programming
Monday • March 6th 2023 • 11:27:32 pm • 3KB
We live in the age of ineffective education, that is holding holding Humanity back. We have not yet progressed beyond threats of Nuclear War, so now is not the time to pause our development. We all assume that Politicians know what they are doing, but they...