Author: G-Mac
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An Observer No Longer – Covid Part 1
March 2020. For the first time in my life, I wasn’t watching from a distance. Isaac came home from school on a Thursday and didn’t go back for months.
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Emily
Written the day after we lost Emily. She beat cancer twice, and then an infection her new immune system couldn’t fight. She was intimidatingly talented, and she deserved much more…
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The Friendliness of Crowds
Two things I noticed on crowded platforms: how quickly strangers will help when you ask directly, and how easily a whole crowd will follow the wrong person down the wrong…
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AlgoArt — Yasmin: Weaving Threads of Code
Yasmin is a generative art experiment in making threads weave over and under each other. The technical challenge turned out to be the interesting bit: how do you get code…
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AlgoArt — Zara: On Process Over Outcome
Zara didn’t look the way I hoped it would. That turned out to be the point. A reflection on what you learn from algorithmic art that doesn’t come out impressive.
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Sentiment Analysis – installing packages
asasas galiquis@raspberrypi: $ sudo pip3 install -U numpy galiquis@raspberrypi: $ sudo pip3 install -U nltk galiquis@raspberrypi: $ sudo apt install python3-scipy galiquis@raspberrypi: $ sudo pip3 install -U scikit-learn test import…
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Getting Hacked much…
193.17.208.73 admin (4 lockouts) 175.126.62.151 admin (1 lockout) 81.105.61.68 galiquis (1 lockout) 88.227.146.219 admin (1 lockout) 88.234.248.125 admin (1 lockout) 175.42.21.138 admin (1 lockout) 217.26.6.74 admin (2 lockouts)…
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Letter to Isaac: Have Faith
A letter to my son about the thing that took me the longest to find. Faith isn’t an escape from reason. It’s where I ended up after taking reason seriously…
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Letter to Isaac: Be Nice… Love
Of all the things I want Isaac to carry with him, this is the simplest and the hardest: be kind. Not as performance, not as weakness. As the actual shape…
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Thought for the Day: Being Caught
Someone who is falling doesn’t need to be told. They need to be caught. A thought on what it looks like to move toward people rather than stand back and…