I’m a teacher and a computer programmer, and I often find myself in the position of teaching computer programming to people who have never programmed a computer before. Part of the challenge of teaching computer programming is making the history and culture available to my students so they can better understand the tools I’m teaching them to use.
This talk is about about that process.
Introduction¶
GIMP comes with a so-called batch mode that allows you to do image processing from the command line. It also makes it easy to apply the same set of operations to a number of images. We have got a lot of questions on the mailing-lists on how to use the batch mode and this small page tries to explain the basics to you.
Simulate a class with 3 pupils and a teacher.
One pupil is not very smart and is often very confused by the questions and topic. One pupil is quite the smartalec and knows everything, except that he often makes subtle mistakes that are then corrected by the third pupil, who is more cautious and often asks clarifying questions to the teacher.
The teacher makes sure to address anything that needs to be corrected or clarified at the end of the learning session.
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overmono.bandcamp.com/track/cold-blooded
Not procrastitooting at all…
- But if you want to find unexpected stuff to rewild your noodle, I love using oddball search engines. A few of my favorites including Marginalia Search, which is “an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren’t aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed”. (It also runs on a single PC in Sweden, so if you use it, kick the creator a donation, lol.) Another one is Wiby, which focuses on older sites; and there’s Million Short, a search engine that removes the top million most-popular sites from its results, so you get more subterranean material. (View Highlight)
- Note: More offbeat Search Engine
- Another interesting one is Ooh! Directory. It’s an old-school throwback to the original Yahoo: A hand-curated directory of web sites, with an emphasis on ones run by individuals. It’s got a page that highlights the most recent posts by the sites in the directory, making it something like a low-fi RSS reader of a very specific blog-set (View Highlight)
- Note: should have searched for something like that myself lol
I've been schlepping a set of note cards that were left to digitize since 2022.08.28, so pretty much from one year ago, and it's now finally time to get them into the vault.
Some of these notes are really old and I think were really from the beginning of me getting a bit more into Category Theory, but it's now so far in the past that I can't really tell what my understanding of the topic at the time was. That card above sounds more like a definition than an actual ZK entry, and it makes me question how much I knew, was it when I was really just discovering things like "Category Theory is the algebra of composing things"?
1. think thoughts no one else is dumb enough to think and work harder than reasonable
2. confuse your friends
3. broadcast repeatedly until everyone is bored
Here are the stages:
Adopt personally
Find the totem
Repetitively broadcast
- Note: That I know how to do
- Note: Ok that I can relate to as well and know how to do. In a way, learning to draw and keeping sketchbooks was the start of the thing I'm still working on. But I really haven't broadcast too much over the last years.
- Adopt personally
- Find the totem
- Repetitively broadcast (View Highlight)
- Note: Yep. And I’m way far from being there. Never took the broadcast part seriously enough, but now I want to
- Note: That is maybe where I fail. Am I actually interested in spreading this idea beyond "I think this is cool and it works for me". Maybe that is enough as a message? The audience can choose, and my message is "this helps me build better software" in the sense that I would never posit that anything I do helps build better software, except if I were in the position to measure that objectively, which we all know is not possible
- Note: Indeed I should think about that more
- Note: Interesting
- Note: I think the whole premise of “take over when x” is the problem. A human wants to be engaged at all time, in fact rote work is something that leads you to check out rather than be fully engaged in mentality. Handiwork that seems menial is also where much quality can be created when doing more manual work, because there is constant attention. Maybe attention is a key term here, in terms of self fulfillment in a moral/philosophical sense too, not just being engaged, but indeed finding transcendence
- Note: Yep
- Note: Indeed I should think about that more
- Note: That is important, prime some sort of concept of your own first, or, consciously engage in having ai ideate, and in those cases, you are responsible on the priming itself, which can be steered a lot through in context prompting. Similar to midjourney, feeding some of your own material is a good way to steer into interesting and personal direction.
An ai - brain loop
- Note: Time to get writing...
While doing this, I came across Omnivore, which is a tool to manage snippets and the like, and apparently has the option to be self-hosted and can save full pages (which you can't export out of Readwise). This would be a good option to build the starting point of IDEA - A federated custom search engine. This has a section about self-hosting:
Here are 3 key synthesized questions:
How can we integrate scientific insights with a nuanced understanding of human nature and experience? Science provides models and knowledge but not complete understanding. We must complement it with perspectives accounting for the full complexity of consciousness, creativity, meaning-making, etc.
When applying science, how do we stay cognizant of inherent biases and avoid overreach? Scientific findings have limitations and biases. Problems arise when extending those findings beyond their valid scope without considering the larger human context.
Should application of science be more dialogical? "Scientifically proven" is often used to ignore feedback and impose scientific findings dictatorially. Greater humility and tight feedback loops may be needed between scientific findings and their application to society. More open dialogue could complement the insights from science.
Here are 3 key synthesized questions:
How can we integrate scientific insights with a nuanced understanding of human nature and experience? Science provides models and knowledge but not complete understanding. We must complement it with perspectives accounting for the full complexity of consciousness, creativity, meaning-making, etc.
When applying science, how do we stay cognizant of inherent biases and avoid overreach? Scientific findings have limitations and biases. Problems arise when extending those findings beyond their valid scope without considering the larger human context.
Should application of science be more dialogical? "Scientifically proven" is often used to ignore feedback and impose scientific findings dictatorially. Greater humility and tight feedback loops may be needed between scientific findings and their application to society. More open dialogue could complement the insights from science.
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