{"id":1409,"date":"2020-06-30T01:01:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T06:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2020-06-30T01:01:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T06:01:39","slug":"weeknote-for-6-28-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/30\/weeknote-for-6-28-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeknote for 6\/28\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Math<\/h2>\n

\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I paused the math learning to set up some tools.<\/strong> To make it easier to study lists in Anki, I installed the Cloze Overlapper<\/a> add-on; and to create a math programming cookbook, I learned how to work with Jupyter notebooks (video tutorial<\/a>).<\/p>\n

People<\/h2>\n

\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I had a visit from my friend Cam and his family.<\/strong> It was really nice to catch up and to get to know his family better and reminisce about our college days.<\/p>\n

Health<\/h2>\n

\ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n

I’m waiting to see if my socializing was safe enough from the virus.<\/strong> It’s been a week, and so far so good.<\/p>\n

Productivity<\/h2>\n

\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Antonio Cangiano’s Technical Blogging<\/em><\/a> has a lot of promising advice.<\/strong> I’ve decided I need to do more writing, so I’m thinking of ramping up my blogging as a way to do that and to build some kind of presence in the cognitive science community.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Neil Fiore’s The Now Habit<\/em> is like productivity therapy.<\/strong> It had a lot more to say than the two things I remembered from the first time I read it (the unschedule and focusing meditation), and this time I want to think through his advice on reframing “have to” messages.<\/p>\n

\ud83e\udd2a<\/p>\n

I spent all Saturday on the harrowing process of finding a new printer<\/a>.<\/strong> I’d been putting off replacing my old, broken one because I do everything digitally, but for some kinds of inspiration and motivation I think print-outs will help me more than apps.<\/p>\n

Movies<\/h2>\n

\ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n

I was pleasantly surprised by 2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em>.<\/strong> When I half-watched it as a teenager, I thought it was way too slow and boring, but it turned out to have way more content than I expected, and this time I found it very evocative, especially having learned about uplift (video by Isaac Arthur<\/a>). About AI I learned that it’s good to have manual overrides, though HAL was fortunately not as capable as some of us expect a superintelligent AI to be. Hmmm, if HAL had won, would he have become the Star Child?<\/p>\n

Music<\/h2>\n

\ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n

The best part of watching 2001 was discovering Gy\u00f6rgy Ligeti<\/a>.<\/strong> It kickstarted a project I’d had in the back of my mind, a playlist I’m calling The Numinous Void<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Social issues<\/h2>\n

\ud83e\udd14<\/p>\n

Latasha Morrison’s Be the Bridge<\/em> is an engaging and gentle introduction to racial reconciliation.<\/strong> I may have discovered the next shell to crack in my personal education in race relations, since I found myself partially resisting the idea of collective guilt.<\/p>\n

I paid some cautious attention to Neil Shenvi’s critiques of critical race theory<\/a>.<\/strong> I only got through a few articles, but I thought his “Critical Race Theory and Christianity<\/a>” and his review of Stamped from the Beginning<\/em><\/a>\u00a0offered some reasonable counterpoints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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