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📅 day [[2025-01-01]]

📓 garden/flancian/2025-01-01.md by @flancian

[[New Years Eve]] was great, [[2025]] started great!
- Party at [[AG]]‘s
- Then at a friend’s
- Then at [[Zentralwäscherei]], where I met some old and new interesting people!
- -> [[Bitwäscherei]]
[[Yi Jian Mei]] is stuck in my head (in the sense that it comes up spontaneously every day or so) and I don’t mind

📅 day [[2024-12-29]]

📓 garden/flancian/2024-12-29.md by @flancian

Checking out [[bull]] by [[stapelberg]]!

📅 day [[2024-12-28]]

📓 garden/flancian/2024-12-28.md by @flancian

[[j0lms]]: [[plurality]]
[[flancia meet]]
- was quiet but it still felt good to be ‘back’ :)
had coffee with my neighbours, it was great!
cleaned the house a bit
talked to my mum, I enjoyed it and it was great seeing her
started a new notebook (ha), this one is a square with a pixel grid — a gift from the [[nintendo museum]] by [[mpd]]
share photos
run collect over notebooks and papers, this usually makes me feel better (I have a lot of context all around, putting it back in one place/pile usually helps manage it/consolidate)
[[december 2024 adventure]]
[[agora writing]]
had interesting conversations in the [[fediverse]] about:
- [[ai]]
- [[sustainability]]
- leading to [[ilich]], who I still haven’t read — will try to set up his book in my [[kobo]] to read it tonight/soon
I read about [[recursively enumerable]] sets and languages — I remembered these were some of my favorite back when I studied computer science when I was 27 or 28. This led me to read again about complexity classes, hierarchies and then [[diophantine]] sets :)
Also had a great time playing with [[Lady Burup]], and we even watched [[3blue1brown]] together! Pictures likely in the Fediverse :)

📅 day [[2024-12-27]]

📓 garden/flancian/2024-12-27.md by @flancian

[[maqna]] looks cool
[[open letters]] is making a comeback? :)
like [[december 2024 adventure]], late but surely and with gusto
[[maybe]]

📅 day [[2024-12-26]]

📓 garden/flancian/2024-12-26.md by @flancian

Walked to [[Glattpark]] with [[AG]] going by [[Katzenbach]], it was very nice. We enjoyed the sun.
Read further about [[prime gaps]] and [[twin primes]].
- Also about the [[gamma function]].
- Also about [[holomorphic]] and [[analytic]] functions. And [[Brook Taylor]].

📅 day [[2024-12-24]]

📓 garden/flancian/2024-12-24.md by @flancian

[[smallcircles]]
I’m back baby :)
Travel was hard at times but also beautiful
Listening to [[Que He Sacado Con Quererte]] by [[Violeta Parra]]
- and then to [[Run Run Se Fue Pa’l Norte]], hermosas

📅 day [[2024-12-23]]

📓 garden/flancian/2024-12-23.md by @flancian

Back home!
- After 15 days spent in the US west coast (working) and then Japan (traveling with friends).
- I slept home in Oerlikon alone as I crashed not so long after arriving due to jet lag; [[AG]] will come with [[Lady Burup]] later today.
- I woke up at 6am after only 7 hours of sleep due to jetlag despite only getting five hours yesterday and I decided to just get up and start doing things; I’ll try to take a nap later today as needed.
Non-prioritized list of things I want to take a look at now that come to mind and I wanted to jot down:
- [[Cline]] — I heard it’s a good AI plugin for [[vscode]] that is not too opinionated/walled-gardeny (is that a word? maybe it should be)
- [[Posty]] — something cooked by [[Oliphant]] over at the Fediverse which sounds a lot like something I wanted to build/I wanted to see someone build)
- This [[talk by Dan Dennett]] who passed away this year.
- [[social.coop]] activity — some threads on Mastodon, some on Matrix, some on Loomio surely
All in all this is supposed to be a free "jetlag recovery day" so I’ll just try to enjoy it and also spend time offline.
I read [[Alan Watts]]‘s Wikipedia page (again? unsure) and I wondered again about his alcoholism and relatively early death at 58.
I finished [[The Moon is a Harsh Mistress]] today, after starting it and reading most of it yesterday during the flights. I liked it quite a bit! In particular the relationship between the protagonist/narrator and Mike/[[Mycroft]], the AI; and how it went straight into the topic of collaborating with AI towards the revolution.

📅 day [[2024-12-21]]

📓 garden/flancian/2024-12-21.md by @flancian

Writing this on the flight from [[Tokyo]] to [[Copenhagen]] while on my way back to [[Zürich]].
- I was (lightly) disappointed to see this flight did not head northwest as I expected, but rather northeast, despite what the map ‘navigation’ promised. This told me two things though:
  - "Western" planes are avoiding the whole of Russian airspace, likely because of the war. In retrospect I should have known this!
  - The navigation map available to the public in planes does not reflect in any way the course set by pilots. Instead it seems to just show the [[great circle]] to the destination from the current position. This held true through the trip. Indeed, the ‘projected path’ was roughly orthogonal to the true path at least until we reached the Bearing Strait (which is when I’m writing this).
- I was planning on catching up on coding and writing (beyond this short entry), but I forgot to charge my laptop and there are no chargers in economy, so there goes that plan :) Well, I have plenty of reading to do so it’ll be fine.

📅 day [[2024-12-15]]

📓 garden/flancian/2024-12-15.md by @flancian

I’m writing this on the [[Shinkansen]] from [[Hiroshima]] to [[Osaka]].
- The [[Hiroshima Museum]], by which I mean the [[Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum]], was very interesting and very shocking — even though I thought I knew what to expect, the effect on me was strong. I could notice it also on other people who were there.
- In Osaka I intend to:
  - Try interesting food (of course) :)
    - [[Kushikatsu]]? Hopefully there’s a meat-free version.
  - Visit new neighborhoods, like [[Shinsekai]] and [[Den Den Town]].

📅 day [[2024-12-13]]

📓 garden/flancian/2024-12-13.md by @flancian

I’m writing this on my way to [[Japan]] ([[Fukuoka]]) from [[Honolulu]] :)
- I just finished [[Story of your life]] and other stories by [[Ted Chiang]], I liked it a lot. I don’t know why I waited so long to read him more intensively after liking some of his short stories I read online.
- Some related concepts/topics:
  - [[Fermat’s Principle of Least Time]]
  - [[The Castle of the Pyrenees]] by [[Magritte]]
- He likes [[Borges]] (so do I as you might know). This came across most clearly maybe in his [[Golem]] related story, but there’s such an undercurrent in several stories and he uses the adjective [[Borgesian]] (IIRC) once.
[[Agora development]]:
- [[agora bot migration]]:
  - The current [[agora bot]] for Mastodon is still ceasing to work on [[2024-12-15]] as per https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/29/10-29-rip-botsin-space/ but I have failed to do anything about it… until now :)
  - To start with, I’ve now requested a post archive to save the ~~14k posts it has produced since it started operating~~ two years ago.
  - I’ll also look for an alternate instance, and try to set up a migration flow (for keeping followers).

📅 day [[2024-12-08]]

📓 garden/flancian/2024-12-08.md by @flancian

I’m flying to [[San Francisco]] to work from [[Sunnyvale]] for a few days. As I write this I’m on a SAS A330 sitting in 51A with the seat next to me empty, the plane being about 70% full.
I started listening to [[Right Concentration]] by [[Leigh Brasington]] (sp?) on the way to Copenhagen where I made my short connection.
Now I’ve finally started properly reading the [[Fediversalist Papers]] (I’ve been waiting for such an occasion) and found the report immediately engrossing.
- …and finished :) I tried taking good enough notes to then share with the Social.coop working groups and organizing Circle.
I’m still two hours away from San Francisco. Not much more battery left in my laptop, so maybe I’ll just keep reading something else.
I finished reading [[Thich Nhat Hanh]]‘s commentary on the [[Heart Sutra]]. I enjoyed it a lot :) Thank you Thich as usual.
- [[Mindfulness Bell]] is a journal that I’d like to check out.

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