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Category: Article
(APL) A Mathematics of Arrays
Paper here.
(APL) An Array-Oriented Language with Static Rank Polymorphism
Using array dimensions as control structures?
Paper here.
Choosing a Switch: Why Cherry MX Whites
- Here is how I decided to go with the Cherry MX White Switch
User Guide Notes for @dyalogapl APL on OS X
- This is enough to leave you with a system that you can easily code in, feels familiar, and gives you pop up help for learning APL
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Getting Started with @dyalogapl APL on OS X for the Truly Impatient
- These are the steps that I took to get Dyalog up and running on an OS X 10.11 box for my first time ever
- Dyalog is easy to set up on OS X
- These notes are the shortest specific steps that I found to get Dyalog up and running
- My goal is to evaluate
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using my laptop keyboard - My notes follow
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Brené Brown: The price of invulnerability
- YouTube
- “equally fatalistic answers yet more creative”
- “on the verge of bliss and picturing something horrible happening”
- The fatalistic response if not universal
- Is a symptom of the universal
- We are losing our tolerance for vulnerability
- “Vulnerability is absolutely at the core of fear and anxiety and shame and very difficult emotions that we also experience”
- “Vulnerability is also the birthplace of joy, of love, of belonging, of creativity, of faith”
- “Perfection is a tool to protect ourselves”
- “Faith – vulnerability = extremism”
- “Spirituality is inherently vulnerable”
- “We live in a culture that tells us at there is never enough (goodness)”
- “We are not extraordinary enough”
- “Somehow an ordinary life has become synonymous with a meaningless life”
- “In our ordinary life in ordinary moments is where we can find the most joy”
- Numbing society
- Most addicted, medicated, obese, in-debt, adult cohort, busy society
- “We stay so busy that the truth of our lives can’t catch up”
- “You cannot selective numb emotion”
- Numb pain, numb joy
- How to recover
- Practice gratitude
- Stop and be thankful for what we have
- Honor what is ordinary about our lives
- The people we love
- Play, community, nature (honor what is ordinary)
- If don’t experience those good things, our reservoirs will be empty when the bad things happen
Emacs Keyboard Design 37: Possible
- Small changes to a 104 key ANSI skyrocket the price
- Stay close to the standard to make it affordable
Brené Brown: 3 Things You Can Do to Stop a Shame Spiral
- YouTube
- Three counter-intuitive things
- Talk to yourself like you are someone you love when you are feeling unworthy
- Reach out to someone you trust
- Tell your story
- Shame cannot survive being spoken
- Shame requires: Secrecy, silence, judgement
- Antidote: Empathy
Notation as a tool of thought
“You need this programming language…”
… at least, that’s what they tell you.