{"id":2171,"date":"2024-06-16T09:45:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T14:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=2171"},"modified":"2024-06-16T09:45:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T14:45:06","slug":"weeknote-for-6-2-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2024\/06\/16\/weeknote-for-6-2-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeknote for 6\/2\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Learning<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83e\udd14<\/p>\n<p><strong>I collected more miscellaneous ideas and resources for my memory system.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I found out interpreters have a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Interpreting_notes\">visual note-taking approach<\/a> similar to sketchnotes to give them a basis for translating a speech, which I could use as another source of ideas for my mnemonic language.<\/li>\n<li>Thinking more about <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_gA2lcNWloU?t=566\">using familiar bodily movements for mnemonics<\/a>, I realized I\u2019m already very familiar with one kind\u2014playing an instrument.<\/li>\n<li>Inspired by the AI VTuber <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neuro-sama\">Neuro-sama<\/a> I\u2019d discovered, I contemplated creating an AI character I could chat with to explore and learn the world of my mnemonic language.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Productivity<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83e\uddd0<\/p>\n<p><strong>I learned about <a href=\"http:\/\/Make.com\">Make.com<\/a> automations while developing a scenario that will let me easily register in Notion that I worked on a task on a particular day.<\/strong> I find the Make platform cryptic, so I\u2019m having to understand its visual programming language by experimentation. I didn\u2019t finish the automation by the time I decided to move on, but my copious notes should prepare me for the next attempt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I started exploring alphabetic shorthands that will be quicker to learn than Gregg and let me both write and type faster.<\/strong> In contrast with symbolic shorthands like Gregg that redesign the letter shapes, alphabetic ones use regular longhand letters and focus on abbreviating the words. It turns out there are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/shorthand\/comments\/11nytc4\/the_quest_to_cmpare_alphabetic_shorthands\/\">a lot of the alphabetic kind<\/a> to choose from, so it\u2019ll take some time to evaluate them and decide on one.<\/p>\n<h2>Fiction<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n<p><strong>My questions about the mysterious original Backrooms photo were answered when I found out Internet sleuths had finally tracked down its source (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uUpH1LNkh10\">Broogli announcement video<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/news\/the-location-of-the-backrooms-has-finally-been-discovered-after-six-years-of-search\">Know Your Meme article<\/a>).<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Q: What kind of business was it?<\/strong> A: Formerly a furniture store, then a hobby store at the time of the photo.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Q: Where was it?<\/strong> A: Oshkosh, WI.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Q: Why was the photo taken?<\/strong> A: To document the process of remodeling the space because of water damage and plans to convert it to an RC car racing track.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Q: What would the photographer think of what became of their photo?<\/strong> A: The people involved are taking it in stride. The manager said, \u201cI find it a little fascinating that a picture that was taken over 20 years ago has created as much interest as it has\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenorthwestern.com\/story\/news\/local\/oshkosh\/2024\/05\/31\/the-backrooms-internet-meme-stems-from-oshkosh-hobby-store\/73923543007\/\"><em>The Northwestern<\/em><\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><!-- notionvc: 21a43269-ab08-4699-b548-b5d452f953c3 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning \ud83e\udd14 I collected more miscellaneous ideas and resources for my memory system. I found out interpreters have a visual note-taking approach similar to sketchnotes to give them a basis for translating a speech, which I could use as another &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2024\/06\/16\/weeknote-for-6-2-2024\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,186,215,51,217,78,50,167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-fiction","category-gregg-shorthand","category-learning","category-liminal-spaces","category-memory","category-productivity","category-weeknotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2172,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions\/2172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}