Author: cjtrowbridge
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The Void
The other day I was doing kundalini and I saw myself before time, just an abstraction in and of the void. I realized that without memory and reaction, there really isn’t anything to what we think of as ourselves. The core of us is the void, and the void is immutable.
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Essay: We Should Be Using Dones In Place of Soldiers Whenever and Wherever Possible
CJ Trowbridge For Professor Carrigan English Composition Essay: We Should Be Using Dones In Place of Soldiers Whenever and Wherever Possible It is a cold night in Pakistan in 2011, and a group of soldiers jumps out of a helicopter. They knock down a door and rush into a house, killing everyone. Osama Bin Laden…
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Essay: Public Policy Analysis of Automatic Voter Registration in California
CJ Trowbridge For Proessor Vince Latino American Government Class 2017-03-16 California Public Policy Case Study Only about half of Americans are registered to vote, and only about half of those actually do (McGreevy). This is a problem for any democracy. If the public does not participate, then the democracy does not function. I recently…
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As I was taking this picture, another one pulled up next to me and the driver cackled out her window at me
As I was taking this picture, another one pulled up next to me and the driver cackled out her window at me
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The Woman at the Pharmacy
Yesterday, I was at the pharmacy picking up my PrEP, and there was a houseless woman who had been mugged. She had just come from her doctor getting replacements for her seizure medicine for this month; she couldn’t stop shaking. The people at the pharmacy told her that her insurance wouldn’t cover her meds since…
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“What is the answer to life the universe and everything?”
“What is the answer to life the universe and everything?”
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Getting Started With Golang
I went to a Software Engineering Daily meetup a couple days ago and spoke with several CEOs whose companies are focused on data science and machine learning. I asked about what languages they are looking for in new hires. These conversations cemented my desire to learn Golang in conjunction with TensorFlow as my next major engineering…
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Implementing the Webroot SecureAnywhere Business Endpoint Protection API in PHP
At Tech 2U, we sell Webroot SecureAnywhere Business Endpoint Protection as our antivirus product. This is typically used for managed enterprise endpoints. Webroot SecureAnywhere Business Endpoint Protection is managed through a web console which must be accessed each time a new endpoint is created; dozens of times every day for us. This web console is…
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❤️ Must Listen: Tim Ferriss Interviews Dr. Phil Zimbardo of the Stanford Prison Experiment on What Makes a Person Either Heroic or Evil Under Pressure
Tim Ferriss interviews Dr. Phil Zimbardo of the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment on what makes a person either heroic or evil under pressure. This was an amazing episode. They go very in depth on the research around this topic from antiquity to the cutting edge, and they identify several key things to watch out for in…