This is my publicly accessible collection of annotated bookmarks. This page gathers up all the links at the end of my week notes and various other places on the site. Links may die. The internet is alive and changing.
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In [24] Hilden proves that $K_{2n}$ is finitely generated, and in [7] Birman finds the presentation with the smallest number of generators and in terms of elements of $B_{2n}$. \[ \{\sigma_1; \ \sigma_2 \sigma_1^2 \sigma_2; \ \sigma_{2i} \sigma_{2i-1} \sigma_{2i+1} \sigma_{2i}, \ 1\leq i \leq n-1\} \]
It’s a perfect game full stop, but especially for those seeking to rekindle their creativity, or simply to sit down and create with friends.
⤝ Week Notes 52: One Year! Woo!
The problem is that I completely underestimated how much space and equipment you need to keep a hundred tiny plants alive indoors.
It’s fun and I am trying to make it the thing I reach for instead of my phone for baths, quilting, workouts, making my eggs.
My set hacky up is a bookmarklet that copies a command to my clipboard that I can quickly paste into a command prompt. This calls a bash script that calls a python script.
Mathematicians are really powerful, in part because of their amazing ability to invent language all the time. Sometimes it even leads to rare natural language grammar, like “subspace preserved under addition”. All four words are math inventions with a precise meaning. Take a page out of the math book and dare to get freaky with the language for whatever you’re doing. — fi-le.net
Having worked for years as a lounge lizard, I was smitten with the insight that the cocktail pianist is signaled out to conduct his ritual of group urban chanting on the themes of love and existence—a kind of medicine man at the ever-present altaric piano, surrounded by his boozy tribe sipping sacraments in the circle of our common misery. — Piano bar - Wikipedia
I find a lot of these via my RSS feed which is my new algorithm these days. I love the randomness. Not completely random though… folk I follow generally have similar deeper values so although interests are varied, their values will underpin the sharing of found gems, so I appreciate that. — @to… | zkbro
This is what Paul Atreides sticks on the radio as he traverses Arrakis on the worm.
“The complex and many-faceted only confuses me, and I must search for unity. What is it, this one thing, and how do I find my way to it? Traces of this perfect thing appear in many guises — and everything that is unimportant falls away.”
— Arvo Pärt ⤝ Week Notes 38
we were looking at
the ceiling and then
we saw the sky
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you any different. — Kurt Vonnegut on Farting Around | Hacker News
If LaTeX was being designed now, it would probably have more code in the preloaded format, but in 1993 when LaTeX2e was designed there was room for around 100 commands (including
\label) in a document after you had loadedamsmathso having the option of not loading such packages was a vital option.
If you write weeknotes, I feel like we’re already almost friends because of the format, the commitment, and the humility. Weeknoters are loggers, not always bloggers. — What is it about people who write Weeknotes? - Twelvety
E. read through his recent [journal] entries and commented that nearly all of them are about how he wished he wrote more. I laughed and said that if he read personal blogs, he’d find that most bloggers also write about how they wished they wrote more. Whether it’s online or offline, it’s the same, eh?
Trying to understand LLMs by using the rules of human psychology is like trying to understand a game of Scrabble by using the rules of Pictionary.
Along those lines at some urging from John Tukey and others, I finally adopted what I called “Great Thoughts Time.” When I went to lunch Friday noon, I would only discuss great thoughts after that. By great thoughts I mean ones like: “What will be the role of computers in all of AT&T?”, “How will computers change science?”
⤝ The Standard 3-Strand Braid and Its Track Plan
Sylvia has a bit on styling BearBlog to handle short form content. Lots of nice CSS shenanigans worth stealing. Do I want a micro-posts section?
Nanuq is a Bearblog export mung-er.
Le Robert en Ligne: an online Fr-Fr dictionary.
The Twentieth Century Renaissance of the Recorder in Germany: it turns out that recorder playing went out of style for a few centuries.
Steve’s post about Homemade Notebooks looks like a wonderful rabbit hole.
Personal Canon: a template for creating a “personal canon” of influences with some rational for why to do so
More stuff about solo RPGs. I’m not sure why I’m collecting all these. I don’t play them but I like them as an idea.
The Zen of Quakerism a nice short read about a Quaker, turned Zen Buddhist, returning to Quakerism. I found it via this /r/Quakers/ thread about the relationship between Buddhist meditation and Quaker worship. So juicy! ⤝ Week Notes 19
Writing on Paper: A Blaugust participant, responding to an e-mail I sent, wrote a post on paper. Wow!
Don’t make kids miserable about the news: Julia wise has some great perspectives on parenting. I love this piece about sharing the news. [Emphasis added.]
The other day, on a beautiful Sunday afternoon, a neighbor I hadn’t seen in a long time said hello as she walked past the house. “I hope your family is doing well,” she said, and then looked concerned. “As well as you can do in times like these. You must be even more worried, with kids.”
“Uh, well,” I said, “The kids live in the present, and we try to enjoy the present.”
Bouncepaw’s Links a deep rabbit hole of amazing links. Very geeky, PKM-y, and web-centric.
Dan Luu on what to learn has a lot of good insight about transferability of advice. ⤝ Week Notes 21
Zoe Loukia’s bear blog is so minimal and beautiful. I’m shocked by the austerity and simplicity of it all.
Perl Poetry has Listen by Sharon Hopkins
Alfred Valley designs a bunch of cool storytelling games. I went looking for how to spell “ossuary” and now I’ve got a dozen tabs open. I love going down internet rabbit holes like this.
Online game resources that I used at one time or another:
Hilma ad Klint Swedish mystic and artist. Pioneer of abstract art.
My Website is Ugly Because I Made It by Taylor Troesh: talks about websites as reflections of personal aesthetics. Also, a bit of CSS / number theory voodoo.
Olly Costello makes amazing botanical themed art about liberation. Found their work via pixel dirt.
The Mathematics of Juggling recent talk by Allen Knutson, who really went deep with this stuff.
Podcast: A Quaker Take on Parenting
Book: Esperanto Revolutionaries and Geeks by Guilherme Fians looks awesome.
If I’ve learned one thing from being a cartoonist, it’s how important playing is to creativity and happiness. My job is essentially to come up with 365 ideas a year. If you ever want to find out just how uninteresting you really are, get a job where the quality and frequency of your thoughts determine your livelihood. I’ve found that the only way I can keep writing every day, year after year, is to let my mind wander into new territories. To do that, I’ve had to cultivate a kind of mental playfulness. We’re not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand ourselves.
A forever world in Minecraft is the concept of starting a world in Minecraft single-player, and playing that for the rest of your life. — 0x30.dev
Almost two years of learning Russian on-and-off, and all I got was the ability to understand a fake language. That’s a common sort of trade-off you’ll get with language learning, and I’ll still keep at it, because I’m insane.
Remember: It’s better to be proud of a small garden than be frustrated by a big one!
Old writer puts on a sweater
sits down, leers into computer
screen and writes about life.
How holy can we get?
rsyncs and a restic call” backup infrastructureIn a world where everything seems to spiral towards negativity, writing becomes more and more important. Writing yourself, mind you: writing that helps to better form and steer thoughts in your mind, cluster them, extract ideas, and persist pleasant personal experiences. Writing as a cure for negativity.
[…] I am here to suggest that you try to stop thinking of documentation as a chore you do for others, and instead think of it as a way to explore your problem space and the space in your head around your intuitions about the problem, so you can shine light into the murkier corners of both. Writing documentation can function as valuable knowledge capture about your problem domain even when you are the only expert about what you are trying to do.
⤝ Week Notes 7: Almost at the end of term!
You may use/lend/sell/destroy a patented wrench. But you may not clone that wrench (or sell its clones), even if that wrench clones itself. The same legal framework applies to plants.
⤝ Week Notes 8: Last Week of Term
The three health risk behaviors are unhealthy diet, sedentary lifestyle, and tobacco use. The four chronic conditions are cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory disease, and diabetes. These four conditions cause more than 50 percent of all deaths in that vast majority of communities.
I think most of the resistance boils down perceiving the cost as higher than it really is, and the rewards as smaller than they really are. … In other words, the best deal in the world looks like a bad deal from the outside — i.e. when you’re not taking the deal. For now I’ll say this much: the number one thing is to never do an exercise you truly hate.
Published: May 17, 2021 @ 22:30.
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