Holy crap in a hat what a weekend. An absolute blast but also suuuuper tiring. But hey gotta keep going.
A LOT. To summarize:
undisclosed location (outside) to climb 2-5:45
We keep going.
šš Went for an ocean swim with Katie at 6am. From the Marine Room to the Scripps Pier. Then a nice walk back with her.
I am thinking about a relatively long day today, but donāt know how that will end up working out. I need to cook at least one meal today. I am planning on working more on the Vim plugin today. Hopefully can get some more basics working. Really have no idea what I am doing.
Maybe I will write some script that builds an index page? I am really thinking about doing this.
Need to be able to link multiple things with different āreasonsā behind them. One link is so obviously not sufficient.
Also really wanting something to keep track of people better. Have written this before as well but might try to integrate it here, however maybe not servedā¦ Hmm not sure how I want to do this because I would like to keep some of this data private and some of it public. Need to think how this might be done.
Basically taking note of Spacy and NLTK. Will want to do Named Entity Recognition (NER) in the future. However for today would like to break down .md into a tree (so you can make a block reference to anything in the tree (or graph)). Anyway.
I mean all I really want is to break things down into concrete block down to the sentence level while respecting headers.
Unified looks to have some utilities that should span this nicely. However I am not sure I want to dive into this quite yet. It will be desperately needed. I am thinking about this mainly in the context of people. I want to be able to write about people and attach people to people, but only have some of it be public. That means being able to have very granular controls. I want to think about this more so the tabs are going to get closed now.
my brain is spinning (thanks coffee), but okay here are the main things to think about
First question is when to generate the index? For now it doesnāt really matter. I think I am just going to add it to my current watch script. Basically that means any time a file is changed the index will be regenerated. This is so much overhead but whatever
Would like to add artifacts directly in as well, but we will see.
Okay so after taking some time to write the code I am a bit annoyed. Mostly at myself for writing a hacky script. After this I am really finding out that I need a MUCH better way to work with this data how I want. I really am not sure how not to use a DB at this point. I mean of course it is possible without, but there are many semantics from a DB that would be so helpful here. So the question then is how to have a DB that works on an AST and links bidirectionally.
This is a much bigger question and will need more thought. I donāt really know exactly what this means yet.
For now the index will do.
I mean Spotify is great and all but i feel like I am screwing artists. Also I really wouldnāt mind owning music again. Just wondering a little bit how possible it would be to have ownership of music again. What does owning music look like? I mean in general what does digital ownership look like?
Not sure if this is any different really, but could you essentially run a service for artists which allows them an easy way to distribute their music (by running servers), but they can directly get paid for the album or song. Back to the iTunes model. I guess the question is why did that model fail in the streaming era (well I guess a lot more choice). But I am trying to think how you preserve choice as we have it now as well as provide a better service to artists. This is so not clear.
Really I just want a distributed system where I can make micropayments to artists and have it be transparent. They can set the price really. I wonder too what alternative forms of radio would be created. I mean if one person bought the music do they have the rights to rebroadcast it? I mean I can technically broadcast my spotify feed on the radio but Iām sure I would have someone knocking at my door eventually.
Wait this would actually be hilarious. I wonder if I could set up a radio station from my house which I could tune into from my car. That would be so good. I donāt think there are any legal bands for me to do this though. I mean could do illegally but lol.
Basically there is a lot more thought to come, but is on the mind for sure.
I think Iāve found a good set of libraries (and plugins + MOAR RESEARCH) to use for AST generation and parsing. I think there is a lot to be done here to use it in a meaningful way as well as with something to work with it efficiently (i think this will be the major challenge)
This is unifiedjs. Specifically using remark and retext. I really would like to explore retext more. I really like the fact that it is a ācollectiveā. Love this idea and need more of it. Hope I can help to contribute to it
Not sure what I am going to do yet, but definitely need to play with it
Got dinner and a couple of beers with Katie. Lots of great conversation, but really there is a lot more to say.
Maybe I can share a few things. Ummmm her quantum physics? homework was fucking gnarly as shit. Would definitely like to learn more just to understand and have conversations. This would also be great to share with Adam S. Really would like to start to review Quantum Country again
After discussing Prop22 with her I think my vote is drifting towards no. That is especially in the context of of uber/lyft aiming for self driving cars. Is it better to support people now, and have them be reliant on these jobs when they are obviously going to be taken away in the future? I think this is a hard question but the reality is (as she pointed out) that people were able to survive part time before these apps and they will be able to survive going forwards. Hopefully it will give the opportunity to people who do want to drive full time to get proper benefits. I still think this is a hard decision regardless, but I am starting to feel the vote drift towards no, which was aligned with my gut reaction. Will still have to think more about it.
Going to try to dedicate 10min a day to RBG reading regardless of if I really want to do it. Sometimes it just has to be done.
Of course the JMT as well, will have to really aim for this and prep for it.
Umm yeah lots more, but want to be a little careful how much to shareā¦. But yeah overall really great.
Apparently itās time to explore and be free. Iām down as fuck. Gotta jump in. Canāt worry too much about the impact I can have now. That doesnāt matter, just got to do some useless stuff to be happy, but I know I will continue to work and read and learn in the background regardless. Thatās cool too.
Home base
Man we have a lot, but there is always a lot and thatās a good thing. Just gonna keep it simple however because Iām going to read now
