Category: Blog
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2017-04-02
This/Each Week Advance on HackerRank moved to learning goals. i have not made any progress on this Read Hacker News I am going to remove this because i read it all the time Read Indie Hackers Moved to learning goals Eat Less, Eat Better, Drink More Water ✔️ Yoga at least once a week ✔️ Watch…
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Product Review: Anker PowerCore+ 26800
I recently bought an Anker PowerCore+ 26800 to add to my EDC. It has several big Pros and one big Con. Pros 26,800mah of capacity means it will charge my phone almost seven times on a single charge. This will be perfect for Burning Man! Quick Charge 3.0 means it will charge very quickly and it…
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You Should Use Private Internet Access!
Private Internet Access took out a full page ad in the New York Times at enormous cost to let people know about this important issue. Just one more reason I am proud to give them $5/mo for security and privacy online. They are a really really great vpn service which allows all your devices to…
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23andMe – My Genes
I recently signed up to do 23andMe. This is a service that sequences your DNA and provides in-depth analyses of various traits and risk factors as well as a detailed analysis of your family history and origins. They offer two options: a cheaper $100 Ancestry Service which just shows you where you’re from, or the more…
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Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises
In July of last year, I listened to Brett McKay’s Art of Manliness podcast Episode #219: The Real Life Story of Hemingway and The Sun Also Rises. McKay likes interviewing biographers who are writing about figures who are the actual subject of his interviews. In this episode, he talks with author Lesley Blume about her new book…
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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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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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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…