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Dr Pen

>>> Lava lamps better than massive computers

> To produce unpredictable, chaotic data for strong encryption, a computer must have source random data. The real world is a great source for randomness, bc events in the physical world are unpredictable

This strikes me as a metaphor for most of GenAI, certainly in terms of inventive, bonkers, off-kilter unique creativity and original thinking. It just can't.

#ai #genai #academicchatter #academia #learning #creativity

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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Montaigne

I gladly return to the subject of the ineptitude of our education. Its goal has been to make us not good or wise, but learned; it has attained this goal. It has not taught us to follow and embrace virtue and wisdom, but has imprinted in us their derivation and etymology. We know how to decline virtue, if we cannot love it. If we do not know what wisdom is by practice and experience, we know it by jargon and by rote.
 
[Je retombe volontiers sur ce discours de l’ineptie de nostre institution : Elle a eu pour sa fin, de nous faire, non bons & sages, mais sçavans : elle y est arrivée. Elle ne nous a pas appris de suyvre & embrasser la vertu & la prudence : mais elle nous en a imprimé la derivation & l’etymologie. Nous sçavons decliner vertu, si nous ne sçavons l’aymer. Si nous ne sçavons que c’est que prudence par effect, & par experience, nous le sçavons par jargon & par cœur.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essay (1578), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption], Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17) (1595) [tr. Frame (1943)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

WIST Quotations · Essay (1578), "Of Presumption [De la Presomption], Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17) (1595) [tr. Frame (1943)] - Montaigne, Michel de | WIST QuotationsI gladly return to the subject of the ineptitude of our education. Its goal has been to make us not good or wise, but learned; it has attained this goal. It has not taught us to follow and embrace virtue and wisdom, but has imprinted in us their derivation and…
#quote#quotes#quotation
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💧🌏 Greg Cocks

RiverREM - Generating River Relative Elevation Model (REM) Visualisations
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github.com/OpenTopography/Rive <-- shared GitHub repository
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opentopography.github.io/River <-- shared documentation
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opentopography.org/blog/new-pa <-- shared Open Topography blog post about RiverREM
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H/T Heidi Luchsinger / Open Topography
[this post should not be considered as an endorsement of this product aka caveat emptor]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #Python #LiDAR #RiverREM #visualisation #hydrology #water #river #rivervalley #floodplain #terraces #GitHub #opensource #opendata #DEM #REM #model #modeling #RiverRelativeModel #documentation #tutorial #learning #tool #elevation #raster #sinuosity #drainage

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Mad A. Argon :qurio:

After I started my first #IT job (and created my Digital Ocean VPS at that time) I decided to create kind of character card for myself, like in #RPG, for writing down my #sysadmin skill levels and progress. I did it in Postgres, probably because database container was one of first things I had on my VPS then.

I created slightly complex system of arbitrary skill and knowledge points, trying hard to not overestimate my skill levels. Like in standard games there are bigger gaps between higher levels and separate "overall sysadmin level" with own points, indirectly dependent on skills' levels' upgrades (and more directly on other kind of knowledge points). Many things are highly relative here as it is not possible to accurately describe own degree of knowledge in numbers. Also some kind of skills could have more "levels" (e.g. familiarity with more complex software learned gradually with time) than others. I have point scale for 10 levels now. And I am almost sure I wouldn't reach higher than 6-7 "overall sysadmin level" in my lifetime :blobcatsweat:

I didn't update it since October 2023. Today I log in and tried to clean that mess. I feel I should make short paper notes about my progress frequently, like I was doing in previous job. Updates would be easier...

#admin#geek#nerd
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💧🌏 Greg Cocks

Understanding Geological Time With Associate Professor Stijn Glorie [video]
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youtu.be/H2M2ZuVe9pE?si=iTahPK <-- shared video
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“A/Prof Stijn Glorie is a geochronologist at University of Adelaide who uses radio-isotope decay to date rocks, revealing Earth’s evolution and aiding insights into mountains, ores, and climate-tectonics links…”
#geology #time #learning #education #dating #age #epochs #understanding #rocks #structuralgeology #Quaternary #conception

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Wolfensteijn

It took a couple of weeks learning how the the values yaml files for rook ceph are supposed to be written. But I have finally managed to get a rook ceph storage cluster configured on a Talos kubernetes cluster!

I can do this stuff!

Next step is getting it to work with an ArgoCD CI/CD pipeline.

#HomeLab#Learning#Talos
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James Akers

My oh my, The Mind Benders class I taught at FOCI wrapped up last night and what a wonderful whirlwind! I had the most amazing students who time and time again, were so hungry for knowledge, and wanted to learn more and more.
We learned to bend neon, make digital vector patterns, blink the neon with programmable microcontrollers and I even showed them how they could work with a glassblower to pull their own tubes.

My TA, @dinkytown was incredible- typically fulfilling the class's needs before I even asked her. I am thrilled that she learned a bunch in the class.
It was able to train two FOCI staff members to bombard (the dangerous process of purifying and putting gas in the tubes)- so now FOCI neon renters can get their tubes filled quicker.
The artist talk and demo I gave was well attended, and now FOCI has the doodle I made during the demo in their permanent collection.

Lila and I, smiling with my show title in the background
A very messy table with some students in the background. Two neon color samples, transformers, digitally drawn patterns, circuit playgrounds, notebooks and beverages covering the table
Students working and bending neon around a big octagonal table at FOCI. Neon torches and fire abound, clear glass tubes scattered around the table.
A class poster to the left, and a show poster to the right. The class poster has a doodle made with colors that can only be bought in california (yellow, turquoise, purple and pink) and the show poster has my Soul Selling Timer with a neon green "DATA DRIVEN" in the forground in an acrylic box emblazoned with big tech logos carved into it and big red button on the top.
#neon#class#roadtrip
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Badass Britt :mastodon_lgbt:

The amount of work and perseverance it’s taken me to accrue 24 University credits over the past 12 months has been significantly more difficult than I imagined.

Has it been worth it? Going back to University in my late 30’s?

Absolutely.

✅It’s given me purpose.
✅ It’s helped me develop better critical thinking skills.
✅ It’s opened my eyes to disciplines I knew nothing about.
✅ It’s given my overactive mind a place to grow.
✅ It’s taught me that my learning disabilities do not define me. I am worthy and capable.

💜🫶🏻 Here’s to the next year!
#school #learning #university

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