blue-lock
August 30 2023
the daily energy management struggles
any blue moons (the beer) under the blue moon?
from nomic import AtlasProject
map = AtlasProject(name="highlights").maps[0]
'''
id topic_depth_1 topic_depth_2 topic_depth_3
0 41700088 Software Development Habits and Goal Setting Model-based design
1 41700089 Life and happiness Habits and Goal Setting Goal Setting
2 41700090 Science and Technology Memory Action
3 41700091 Life and happiness Negative emotions Negative beliefs and sadness
4 41700147 Science and Technology Science Human error
... ... ... ... ...
10167 41701259 Philosophy and religion Evolutionary biology Human Nature
10168 41701260 Philosophy and religion Evolutionary biology Human Nature
10169 41701261 Philosophy and religion Evolutionary biology religion
10170 41701173 Philosophy and religion philosophy Islam
10171 41701175 Philosophy and religion Family and Work Education
[10172 rows x 4 columns]
'''
'''
df: pandas.DataFrame property
A pandas dataframe associating each datapoint on your map to their topics as each topic depth.
'''
df = map.topics.df
# extract topics from the map as a pandas df and put them into a set and then a list that is written to a file
topics = set()
for i in range(len(df)):
topics.add(df['topic_depth_1'][i])
topics.add(df['topic_depth_2'][i])
topics.add(df['topic_depth_3'][i])
# remove topics from set that are empty strings or have (number) in them
'''
Writing
Writing (2)
Writing (3)
should be Writing only
'''
for topic in topics.copy():
if topic == '' or topic[-1] == ')':
topics.remove(topic)
topics = list(topics)
topics.sort()
with open('topics.txt', 'w') as f:
for topic in topics:
f.write(topic + '\n')
August 22 2023
New season of Hearthstone! Goodbye, next forty-eight hours.
New season of Hearthstone! Goodbye, next forty-eight hours. I'll be captive to this relentless obsession. Alongside Baldur's Gate 3, of course.
This patch, it sucks from the get-go. Bannana Slammas for life, I suppose.
The billboards up in Soho stir something within me. Something McLuhan might've coined, about the package being more valuable more than the item inside. The ads on NYC's billboards, uncountable as they are, most fade from memory like a worn-out jazz record. But their very existence on the giant sized wall, catching the eye of the odd twenty-somethings, mid-pilgrimage to their temple of Equinox, that broadcasts its own message. Sure, I could plaster an ad on some wall in a silent town but that lacks the jazz, the hum and pulse of the viewer's gaze, which makes all the difference in selling the song. Plenty artists wallow unseen, only a handful get to wallow under the spotlight.
Leaders need this one thing more than anything else: good sense. It's the same when it comes to your body, your thoughts, your work life. Be your own arbiter of good judgement.
Photos...they've been the game for me on Instagram lately, kind of like a guilty pleasure I suppose. Don't know why.
It's ludicrous when you think about how I'm using Instagram, disregarding entirely how they mapped out the service. Truly not giving a flying fuckkk. It's like a Finstagram, but taken to the logical conclusion of really only using Instagram for a glorified photo storage service. Picture it: me following no one, completely ignoring ads on the feed the company worked so hard on to build! A strange way to play, right?
But in its way, it's transformative. Instagram morphs into something else, a simple yet miraculous platform for my photos, a sanctuary. It's effortless to stick in my favorite tunes too, lending a voice to every image. And the filters? Oh, the filters. An array of options with a single, easy tap. Quite something, isn't it?
Oddly enough, I found myself the central character in some LLM tutorial – an instructional piece about using these LLMs for cold outreach on LinkedIn, of all things. Seeing this offered some clarity, unsheathing the mystery of the spam deluge that keeps finding me. Particularly from the VCs, the constant hum in the background. Leave me alone dammit!
Random post logic – all credit goes to the original creator: milkythemes!
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const api = new GhostContentAPI({
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key: apiKey,
version: ghostVersion
});
const postUrl = [];
const randomBtn = document.getElementsByClassName("btn-random");
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randomPostSelector[i].text = `Loading...`
}
api.posts
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posts.forEach((post) => {
postUrl.push(post.slug)
});
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Blue Lock got dark!
Hey, the kid's scored a page on Wikipedia!
Sticky Header for Ubud! (Put this in the code injection header)
<style>
.c-header{
position: sticky;
z-index: 1;
top: 0;
background: var(--background-primary);
}
</style>
Some Hard Af Phone Backgrounds Ive Been Using
gotta love duotone!
ft hxh, blue lock, naruto, demon slayer, kh
note: you can customize your ios homepage to use multiple photos in a slideshow! mine change on lock
this one goes hardest (202301051926)
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May 23 2023
guidance, more bridgerton, demon slayer art, and of course, purple
Streams
- playing WoW
- playing with Guidance library
more guidance! (the stream f'd)
resulted in a Twitch thank you bot!
Videos
🥲 "escape the heavens with me"
cool artistic breakdown of mist breathing
ever afters rise up!!
Tweets
Raw Thoughts
Live streaming is a medium similar to a 1:n conversation. Flow is enforced by the camera, mistakes happen, and the results are always pretty novel. Live streaming is also unlike conversation because the streamer stays aware of the "performance gap", creating a new level of "self" awareness, similar to how observation changes the results of an experiment.
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An Awkward Yet Healthy Relationship
A collection of brother relationships in anime
Rin saying this is a great break from the norm of tyrant older brother trope in anime.
Itachi and Sasuke Take Notes
Starts evil, becomes good
Killua and Illumi Take Notes
Starts evil, stays evil
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Ego-San on the Sting of Defeat
Facing cognitive dissonance due to the failure of a goal requires choosing between delusion, metamorphosis, or quitting.
To give up your dream for the pursuit of it forms cognitive dissonance on multiple layers.
- The initial goal, G, was not achieved, so the mind has to contend with absolute failure. The system (other people, the planet, whatever) has rejected you from attaining the goal you set, despite your best efforts.
- Any future time spent on the dream becomes a sunk cost fallacy (I got this good, so I can't stop now, right?). As a fallacy, it only continues to get worse. Confirmation bias (which can be avoided with a simple strategy that is discussed below[1]) also prevents you from seeing other routes, locking your routine into the literal definition of insanity: “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”[2]
- The self you've cultivated and the strategy you have chosen have failed to materialize, and you realize you can't become the person you needed to be to attain your ultimate goal due to a combination of values/self-belief/etc.
In order to break the cognitive dissonance that is born from this paradox, the goal-failer faces a crossroads:
- Option one is to delude themselves into thinking that they never wanted the goal to begin with (sour grapes). This is a poor long term strategy due to the investment spent in fulfilling the goal with limited resources (financial, time, etc). Delusion is chosen carefully as a word here. It is delusion because you know the truth. You know you have failed to do what you set out to do. As a defense mechanism, you pivot to protect the visage of self you've put effort into.
- Option two is to transform into the person that can attain your dream. Much like how Barou realized there was no satisfaction to his goal of becoming the world's best striker by playing the way he always has, he was forced to evolve into a new person through the despair. The impossible combination of his ego, his skill, and the reality of the other players on the pitch broke him at his base and a new person was formed. This metamorphosis is a new person, with a new hypothesis and a new set of values, with the same goal. The Bayseian updating part of the mind takes in the new data and reformats the core assumption.[3]
- This new person as a willful organism has their goal in the front of their mind and can only be stopped by the laws of the universe (physics, genetics, etc.). In the long term, this strategy also succeeds at removing cognitive dissonance, but importantly, does not involve delusion. The goal-failer accepts their failure into their hearts and realizes to become the success they envision, the only route forward is to sacrifice the version of themselves that prevent attainment of their goal.
- Quit. Self explanatory.
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seems pretty suspicious they would draw those shadowy guys in the back![1]
They all got those overly dramatic anime poses too, like:
Calendar/Daily/2022-12-18: at time of writing -- Argentina narrowly cinched the world cup over France irl ↩︎
An amateur is defensive. The professional finds learning (and even, occasionally, being shown up) to be enjoyable; they like being challenged and humbled, and engage in education as an ongoing and endless process. (Location 1334)
at this age, i'll be a contender!
But he has the secret of those people to whom success comes by itself, whether it is due to being born under a lucky star or whether it is magic, or whether he has learned it from the Samanas. He always seems to be playing at business, it never makes much impression on him, it never masters him, he never fears failure, he is never worried about a loss.” (Location 598)
“Do not scold, my dear friend. Nothing was ever achieved by scolding. If a loss has been sustained, I will bear the loss. I am very satisfied with this journey. I have become acquainted with many people, I have become friendly with a Brahmin, children have sat on my knee, farmers have showed me their fields. Nobody took me for a merchant.” (Location 607)