gtpedrosa · HackerTrans

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

I'm in the same boat and curious if other more experienced users have any resources to point to. My anedoctal data point is that after starting with doom emacs and having problems to set it up on another machine i fund out all i needed was a very small configuration file to accomplish my orgmode/agenda usage needs. So all it took was an issue and a clear vision of the goal to find a way through. Maybe it is a healthy approach to keep the complexity manageable to your usage

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letztes Jahrdiscuss

That was an interesting read. Even more if you take a look into another of the author's text on the decline of personal thought [1]. I believe the author is engaging with very interesting questions: what is knowledge? How can I achieve it? How does it feel during the pursuit?

Of course the answer is deeply personal. My take is that I agree with the author on that knowledge should be inhabited, as I quoted Arendt on a former blog entry of mine [2] "For memory and depth are the same, or rather depth can only be reached by man through remembrance.".

If your journey using whatever tool du jour helps you, more power to you! But if it feels like a burden, drop it and adapt. In my process, I tried many different methods of note taking, but the one I haven't dropped is pen and paper. The act of writing is thinking to me. I do not have a plan to go through what I have written and treat them as a fortuitous encounter rather than having a procedure/method in place. But I still find the idea of having digital notes somewhat appealing, luring even.

[1]https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/cognitive-offshoring-and-th... [2]https://gtpedrosa.github.io/blog/on-taking-notes-and-learnin...

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letztes Jahrdiscuss

This brings back memories. We used this in my mechanical engineering mechanisms class. It was cool to have the (simplified!) symbolic formulas describing the movements we were designing.

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vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

I'm keeping a detailed log of my activities in orgmode. But only because I have to input the hours in another system. It is interesting that even though the categories summarized are from the org-clock-table, I write small descriptions on each category for each day. For instance I might have multiple entries throughout the day for "Client X - Report", but I summarize what I've actually done in the notes. At the end of week I export it and archive with the clocktable along it, using a narrow-subtree. I also paste them in an archived section with the Year/week so I keep track of the activities and they are searcheable. So far, the clock tables themselves have been most valuable to me, especially for review purposes. Still, I believe a brag document complements this quite well and is something I plan to restart doing.

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vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Instead of relying on things like "Playlist made for you" I still like leveraging the algorithm to discover "new vectors" by actively going to a song that some aspect caught my attention and going to its radio (only tried on Spotify). Sometimes I'm surprised with new soundscapes.

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vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

On my master's thesis, I ended up using a line that I wrote when preparing the template at the beginning of my 'journey': "I thank everyone who contributed to making this work possible." By the end of the master's program, I didn't feel the need to update it, as it remained true to me. I felt that if someone was going to read that section, they would immediately identify themselves there, and I didn't have to name them.

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vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

Tangent since it is not exclusive to image processing, but When I was studying Fourier Transforms at university I recall that the book "Fourier Series" by Gerogi P. Tolstov helped me a lot. Just throwing it out there in case it helps anyone, including to refresh the definitions the article starts with.

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vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Jago: A life underwater [1]. It's been a while so I'll refer to the synopsis [2]: "JAGO: A LIFE UNDERWATER is the story of Rohani - an 80-year-old hunter who hobbles around on land but who dives like a fish on a single breath descending to great depths for several minutes to stalk his prey like a true underwater predator."

I have found the life story of Rohani incredibly humbling and his connection to the sea unique. He lived on it. He lived in it. The images pictured this relation in such a way that left me mesmerized. The human aspect of the documentary is worth it by itself, but if you want some stunning underwater images, you are in for a treat.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5141686/ [2] https://www.amazon.com/Jago-Life-Underwater-James-Reed/dp/B0...

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vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

I think the Makani documentary does a good job explaining the problem in less than 2 min [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/qd_hEja6bzE?t=392

Regarding the size x quantity, I believe the reason lies in where the best wind is, which is usually high above the ground. The roughness of the terrain and obstacles generate shear and turbulence, which translates into more stress for the components. The higher wind has a more uniform distribution across the rotor and is higher in magnitude than in lower heights. So for small wind turbines to have access to the best wind, you would have to build expensive structures to reach there, making it infeasible. Hence kite approaches like the one posted and Makani (with different principles).

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vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Haven't read the whole article yet, but the state of latex editing in emacs diagram caught my attention. Anyone has a clue what software was used to create it? Found the color schemes and hyperlinks pretty neat.

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vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Can't help but remember LCD Soundsystem + Miles Davis duet from 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huEtJw7pfLk

Blew my mind back than as it still does today

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vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Love the feel of the site. Curious about the tech stack used and as others pointed out, images attribution. Nice work!

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vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

This reminded me of what Audre Lorde said about poetry in the documentary "Berlin Years (84-92)": one of the objectives of poetry is to change feelings. This made me look at poetry differently and slowly grow an appreciation for it.

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vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Hey, this Discord server seems to be a valuable resource. Do you mind sharing where to find it? I would love to try to get a deeper dive into some math subjects sometime in near future.

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vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

Your comment regarding the archers reminded me of "The Grail Quest" book series by Bernard Cornwell

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vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

Benjamim Moser wrote a whole book no the matter, called "Autoimperialismo". It litterally goes on how Brasilia's architecture is designed to convey the superiority of the state over the people. In fact there is no space for people. No sidewalks. Nothing is "reachable" by a pedestrian. And yet, it is the seat of the three powers.

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vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

Some of my personal favourites in Brazil: Hilda Hilst and Manoel de Barros, mostly for poetry. In Portugal: Valter Hugo Mãe (vhm). He got a lot of exposure in Brazil recently. His books are widely available.

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vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

I have started using emacs in 2016 because of org-mode. It was powerful enough to make me use emacs on a daily basis since them. However, I have been using RStudio/Sublime as IDE/editor, not emacs.

Curiously last weekend I have found a video about org-roam and the presenter mentioned he was using Doom emacs. I was curious enough to try it. It uses vim key bindings by default. To get started I highly recommend this series by Zaiste [0], he explains how to set up the environment and digs into org-mode which were my main concerns. I found the sections on projectile, magit, dired and avy very helpful. Now I am tempted to give it a try in one of my projects. The downfall so far is I didnt find an in depth explanation on how to grok it with python.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCMh7srOqvw&list=PLhXZp00uXB...

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vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

I've tried Mendeley, Zotero and Jabref and stuck with Jabref for my masters thesis. Couldn't recommend it enough, even though haven't given Zotero a serious try.

Synced bibtex and pdfs folder in linux and windows with dropbox, worked like a charm.The best part was configuring it based on this blog post (http://griechenzicken.blogspot.com/2011/10/configuring-jabre...) and making pdf links work on both machines. I wrote a blog post about why Jabref, but unfortunately it is in portuguese (https://gtpedrosa.github.io/blog/gerenciador-de-refer%C3%AAn...).

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vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

I came in just to give a shout out to Docear as well. There is an extensive blog post comparing Docear, Zotero and Mendeley made by Joeran Beel (Docear's team)[0]. I can't recommend it enough. It helped to get the review of my MSc thesis done easily combining a mind map approach to actually cliackable pdf links (in sync in multiple pcs), all this with bibfile integration. I actually blogged about it in portuguese [1].

However due to the literary suite paradigm I would recommend Jabref (which is integrated in Docear) instead [2], if you are coming from Zotero/Mendeley, which is what I Did. Docear alone is capable of much more. I was not aware it is not really active these days. It is really unfortunate.

[0] https://www.scss.tcd.ie/joeran.beel/blog/2014/01/15/comprehe... [1] https://gtpedrosa.github.io/blog/apresentando-o-docear/ [2] http://www.jabref.org/

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