So the gym fell through this afternoon so I spent some time going through pad drills one through five on the beat up old wavemaster in my garage. Not as rough as the typical class at the dojang but I at least got my heart rate up, worked up a sweat and wore the skin off one of my knuckles.
I asked the girls for a set of boxers hand wraps for Fathers Day.
Achievement: HAL 8999 – 1/100 Set up virtualenv for HAL8999Installed sklearn, pandas, numpy, matplotlibUnable to install tensorflow since I’m on python 3.7 and the pip installs only work for 3.6 and earlier. I can sort that out later.Read up through Example 1-1 in Hands-On Machine LearningAuthor is a little fast and loose with the example[…]
Some druids apparently wandered by and cast Wall of Thorns in my yard so I spent a good sized chunk of the morning clearing blackberry brambles. While my hands were busy being impaled by the thorns which unerringly find the weak points in my gloves I got to thinking about some of the things on[…]
Just out of curiosity I started looking into how to get jupyter to display text and math formatted as markdown and latex in output cells. This got into my head when I was looking at symbolic integration and differentiation of functions and how to format the output in a more civilized manner. I don’t have[…]
So far this morning I’ve Gotten jupyter notebooks running natively on my workstation rather than using the linux subsystem as a workaround Learned how to integrate functions in python using scipy Got exporting of jupyter notebooks to html working properly Built a scale model of the terrain around my home town in Unity Gained three[…]
There comes a point when it’s clear that you’re not the central figure in your kid’s life. It’s a good thing. You know it’s going to happen someday. You accept it as a natural part of growing up. The problem is, that moment sneaks up on you when you least expect it and then punches[…]
One of the benefits of coming back to an existing wordpress blog rather than continuing to try to roll my own in github.io is that I can easily piggyback on other people writing plugins to solve the same problems. So far, the Crayon and MathJax-Latex plugins seem to fit the bill. Testing syntax highlighting [python][…]
I’ve been disconnected from social media for two years now. I still occasionally shitpost on reddit but that’s a habit I’ve largely broken myself of. I find, however, that I do need to find someplace to write things down that is both isolated enough from the internet that I don’t get much traffic but public[…]
I don’t know when this phrase entered my vocabulary. The only recollection I have of it is a comment that I can’t remember by a person I can’t recall on a messages board I’m uncertain of: definitely a first world problem. That little phrase so accurately and powerfully put into perspective the minor irritation the[…]
Cultural identity pings
I was looking at some photos taken at a recent festival at Bodghaya and one of them were of the boards used by people making multiple prostrations. I’ve meditated with people who similarly, although less frequently, prostrate themselves. I never prostrate myself. I understand many of the reasons for prostration but it never feels like[…]
