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- April 22, 1958
- 57 Perry Street
- New York City
-

-

Dear Hume,

-

- You ask advice: ah, what a very human and very dangerous thing to do! For to give advice - to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To - presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal—to point with a trembling - finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself. -

-

-     I am not a fool, but I respect your sincerity in asking my - advice. I ask you though, in listening to what I say, to remember that all advice can - only be a product of the man who gives it. What is truth to one may be a disaster to - another. I do not see life through your eyes, nor you through mine. If I were to attempt - to give you - specific advice, it would be too much like the blind leading the blind. -

-

- - "To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to - suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of - troubles..." - -
- (Shakespeare) -

-

- And indeed, that IS the question: whether to float with the tide, or to swim for a goal. - It is a choice we must all make consciously or unconsciously at one time in our lives. - So few people understand this! Think of any decision you've ever made which had a - bearing on your future: I may be wrong, but I don't see how it could have been anything - but a choice however indirect—between the two things I've mentioned: the floating - or the swimming. -

-

-     But why not float if you have no goal? That is another question. - It is unquestionably better to enjoy the floating than to swim in uncertainty. So how - does a man find a goal? Not a castle in the stars, but a real and tangible thing. How - can a man be sure he's not after the "big rock candy mountain," the enticing sugar-candy - goal that has little taste and no substance? -

-

-     The answer—and, in a sense, the tragedy of life—is - that we seek to understand the goal and not the man. We set up a goal which demands of - us certain things: and we do these things. We adjust to the demands of a concept which - CANNOT be valid. When you were young, let us say that you wanted to be a fireman. I feel - reasonably safe in saying that you no longer want to be a fireman. Why? Because your - perspective has changed. It's not the fireman who has changed, but you. Every man is the - sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you - become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every - reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective. -

-

-     So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to - the demands of a goal we see from a different angle every day? How could we ever hope to - accomplish anything other than galloping neurosis? -

-

-     The answer, then, must not deal with goals at all, or not with - tangible goals, anyway. It would take reams of paper to develop this subject to - fulfillment. God only knows how many books have been written on "the meaning of man" and - that sort of thing, and god only knows how many people have pondered the subject. (I use - the term "god only knows" purely as an expression.) There's very little sense in my - trying to give it up to you in the proverbial nutshell, because I'm the first to admit - my absolute lack of qualifications for reducing the meaning of life to one or two - paragraphs. -

-

-     I'm going to steer clear of the word "existentialism," but you - might keep it in mind as a key of sorts. You might also try something called - Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre, and another little thing called - Existentialism: From Dostoyevsky to Sartre. These are merely suggestions. If - you're genuinely statisfied with what you are and what you're doing, then give those - books a wide berth. (Let sleeping dogs lie.) But back to the answer. As I said, to put - our faith in tangible goals would seem to be, at best, unwise. So we do not strive to be - firemen, we do not strive to be bankers, nor policemen, nor doctors. WE STRIVE TO BE - OURSELVES. -

-

-     But don't misunderstand me. I don't mean that we can't BE - firemen, bankers, or doctors—but that we must make the goal conform to the - individual, rather than make the individual conform to the goal. In every man, heredity - and environment have combined to produce a creature of certain abilities and - desires—including a deeply ingrained need to function in such a way that his life - will be MEANINGFUL. A man has to BE something; he has to matter. -

-

-     As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man - must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward - the gratification of his DESIRES. In doing this, he is fulfilling a need (giving himself - identity by functioning in a set pattern toward a set goal) he avoids frustrating his - potential (choosing a path which puts no limit on his self-development), and he avoids - the terror of seeing his goal wilt or lose its charm as he draws closer to it (rather - than bending himself to meet the demands of that which he seeks, he has bent his goal to - conform to his own abilities and desires). -

-

-     In short, he has not dedicated his life to reaching a - pre-defined goal, but he has rather chosen a way of like he KNOWS he will enjoy. The - goal is absolutely secondary: it is the - functioning toward the goal which is important. And it seems almost ridiculous to - say that a man MUST function in a pattern of his own choosing; for to let another man - define your own goals is to give up one of the most meaningful aspects of life—the - definitive act of will which makes a man an individual. -

-

-     Let's assume that you think you have a choice of eight paths to - follow (all pre-defined paths, of course). And let's assume that you can't see any real - purpose in any of the eight. Then—and here is the essence of all I've - said—you MUST FIND A NINTH PATH. -

-

-     Naturally, it isn't as easy as it sounds. you've lived a - relatively narrow life, a vertical rather than a horizontal existence. So it isn't any - too difficult to understand why you seem to feel the way you do. But a man who - procrastinates in his CHOOSING will inevitably have his choice made for him by - circumstance. -

-

-     So if you now number yourself among the disenchanted, then you - have no choice but to accept things as they are, or to seriously seek something else. - But beware of looking for - goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you - can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life. But you say, "I don't know where to - look; I don't know what to look for." -

-

-     And there's the crux. Is it worth giving up what I have to look - for something better? I don't know—is it? Who can make that decision but you? But - even by DECIDING TO LOOK, you go a long way toward making the choice. -

-

-     If I don't call this to a halt, I'm going to find myself writing - a book. I hope it's not as confusing as it looks at first glance. Keep in mind, of - course, that this is MY WAY of looking at things. I happen to think that it's pretty - generally applicable, but you may not. Each of us has to create our own credo—this - merely happens to be mine. -

-

-     If any part of it doesn't seem to make sense, by all means call - it to my attention. I'm not trying to send you out "on the road" in search of Valhalla, - but merely pointing out that it is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to - you by life as you know it. There is more to it than that—no one HAS to do - something he doesn't want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that's what - you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. You'll have - lots of company. -

-
-

    And that's it for now. Until I hear from you again, I remain,

-

- your friend...
- Hunter -

-
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May 06, 2022

-

Change

-

- "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in - a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of - smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a - Ride!" -
- (Hunter S.Thompson) -

-

-     There comes a time in one's life, perhaps multiple, when there - is an unquestionable need for change. Maybe you're not sure how, why, or where it came - from, or where even it is you're headed, or how to get there, but here you are taking - your first steps toward a new life. A journey into the unknown. I've just set out on one - of these journeys, and even as I sit here typing this now I can't help but feel a little - bit nervous, but even more excited. I have absolutely no idea where I'm headed to be - quite honest. But I know where I've been. -

-

-     Growing up I would always be taking things apart, I HAD to see - what was inside. What makes this thing, a thing. What makes it tick? Can it tick faster? - For no particular reason I just had to know every little detail about what made the - thing the thing that it was and why it did what it did. It's a gift and a curse of - sorts. Quickly this led to taking apart things of increasing complexity, our home - computer for instance. Luckily I was able to get it put back together before my parents - got home because it was made clear that this was not allowed, and the CPU didn't seem to - mind the sudden absence of thermal compound either. I must have been around 7 or 8 years - old at that time, and it still puzzles me just what is going on inside there. -

-

-     I have a better idea now, naturally I had to figure out just - what all those pieces were, what they did, and how they did it. What if I replaced some - of these parts with other parts? As I honed my web searching skills to try to answer the - seemingly endless hows and whys I ended up building myself a little hotrod computer and - then raced it against other peoples' computers because why not, right? And I actually - won! It was an overclocking contest called the winter suicides, a kind of computer drag - race. Highest CPU clock speed wins, you have to boot into Windows XP, open CPU-Z, and - take a screenshot. If it crashes immediately after that (and it did) it still counts. I - got some pretty weird looks from my father as I stuck my computer outside in the snow - but that was a small price to pay for the grand prize which was a RAM kit (2GB of DDR400 - I believe) and RAM cooler. -

-

-     After getting comfortable with hardware I started to study the - software side of things, I tried teaching myself C++ (and didn't get very far), I did - teach myself HTML and CSS, some JavaScript, and started playing around with Linux. It - took until only a year or two ago to finally be completely on Linux full time (gaming - holding me back), I even have a Linux phone now (Pinephone Pro). At this point I reached - high school and my attention moved from computers to cars. -

-

To be continued...

-
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May 20, 2022

-

It's about time, NVIDIA

-

   It's about time... NVIDIA has finally released and is starting to - support Open-source software with their new modules released recently for the Linux - kernel. NVIDIA historically has been seemingly against Linux/OSS for whatever reason. - This is a huge step forward both for end users and NVIDIA. -

-

- - NVIDIA open-gpu-kernel-modules on github. -

-
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May 29, 2022

-

Predicting Housing Prices

-

- A recent project I had for class was to use - scikit-learn - to create a regression model that will predict the price of a house based on some - features of that house. -

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How?

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  1. - Pick out and analyze certain features from the dataset. Used here is the - Ames Iowa Housing Data - set. -
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  2. - Do some signal processing to provide a clearer input down the line, improving - accuracy -
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  3. Make predictions on sale price
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  4. - Compare the predicted prices to recorded actual sale prices and score the results -
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What's important?

-

- Well, I don't know much about appraising houses. But I have heard the term "price per - square foot" so we'll start with that: -

-

-

- There is a feature for 'Above Grade Living Area' meaning floor area that's not basement. - It looks linear, there were a couple outliers to take care of but this should be a good - signal. -

-

Next I calculated the age of every house at time of sale and plotted it:

-

-

- Exactly what I'd expect to see. Price drops as age goes up, a few outliers. We'll - include that in the model. -

-

Next I chose the area of the lot:

-

-

- Lot area positively affects sale price because land has value. Most of the houses here - have similarly sized lots. -

-

Pre-Processing

-
-

- Here is an example where using - StandardScaler() - just doesn't cut it. The values are all scaled in a way where they can be compared - to one-another, but outliers have a huge effect on the clarity of the signal as a - whole. -

- -
- - -
- -
-

- You should clearly see in the second figure that an old shed represented in the top left - corner will sell for far less than a brand new mansion represented in the bottom right - corner. This is the result of using the - QuantileTransformer() - for scaling. -

-

The Model

-

- A simple - LinearRegression() - should do just fine, with - QuantileTransformer() - scaling of course. -

-
- -
-

- Predictions were within about $35-$40k on average.
- It's a little fuzzy in the higher end of prices, I believe due to the small sample size. - There are a few outliers that can probably be reduced with some deeper cleaning however - I was worried about going too far and creating a different story. An "ideal" model in - this case would look like a straight line. -

-

Conclusion

-

- This model was designed with a focus on quality and consistency. With some refinement, - the margin of error should be able to be reduced to a reasonable number and then - reliable, accurate predictions can be made for any application where there is a need to - assess the value of a property. -

-

- I think a large limiting factor here is the size of the dataset compared to the quality - of the features provided. There are - more features - from this dataset that can be included but I think the largest gains will be had from - simply feeding in more data. As you stray from the "low hanging fruit" features, the - quality of your model overall starts to go down. -

-

Here's an interesting case, Overall Condition of Property:

-
- -
-

- You would expect sale price to increase with quality, no? Yet it goes down.. Why?
- I believe it's because a lot of sellers want to say that their house is of highest - quality, no matter the condition. It seems that most normal people (who aren't liars) - dont't care to rate their property and just say it's average. Both of these combined - actually create a negative trend for quality which definitely won't help predictions! -

-

- I would like to expand this in the future, maybe scraping websites like Zillow to gather - more data.
- We'll see. -

-
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Jun 02, 2022

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Back to School

-

Where the hell have I been!?

-

- Looking back at the past 5 weeks, it's impressive the amount of new things that have - been shoved in my face. A list I'll try to make contains: -

- -

- It doesn't seem like much at the time except chaos, but then about a week later it - finally sets in. After tomorrow we'll be halfway through the course and while I guess - you could say that it's half over, or that it signifies progress, I feel it's more like - being halfway up Mount Everest and looking—trying to squint through the clouds and - make out what looks like the peak. I don't see a peak and maybe it's because I'm - nearsighted but I can also tell you that if were to look down then I can't see where - I've started either! -

-

- It's been quite a ride and I hope to see it to the end. I don't have time to even think - about it further. It's where I perform my best though, on my heels. Probably by - design... -

-

After?

-

- I would like to use these skills to expand on some of the class projects I've worked on - and I have some other ideas using language processing I think would be fun to play with. - I think it would be fun to create an internet chat bot, we'll start with text but if - speech recognition is practical then I may add and play with that too. I would also like - to make some sort of "Propaganda Detector" -

-
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Jun 14, 2022

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What Goes Into a Successful Reddit Post?

-

- In an attempt to find out what about a Reddit post makes it successful I will use some - classification models to try to determine which features have the highest influence on - making a correct prediction. In particular I use - Random Forest - and - KNNeighbors - classifiers. Then I'll score the results and see what the highest predictors are. -

-

- To find what goes into making a successful Reddit post we'll have to do a few things, - first of which is collecting data: -

-

Introducing Scrapey!

-

- Scrapey is my scraper script that takes a snapshot - of Reddit/r/all hot and saves the data to a .csv file including a calculated age for - each post about every 12 minutes. Run time is about 2 minutes per iteration and each - time adds about 100 unique posts to the list while updating any post it's already seen. -

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- I run this in the background in a terminal and it updates my data set every ~12 minutes. - I have records of all posts within about 12 minutes of them disappearing from /r/all. -

-

EDA

-

- Next I take a quick look to see what looks useful, what - doesn't, and check for outliers that will throw off the model. There were a few outliers - to drop from the num_comments column. -

- Chosen Features: - -

- Then I split the data I'm going to use into two dataframes (numeric and non) to prepare - for further processing. -

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Clean

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Cleaning the data further consists of:

- -

Model

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- If the number of comments of a post is greater than the median total number of comments - then it's assigned a 1, otherwise a 0. This is the target column. I then try some - lemmatizing, it doesn't seem to add much. After that I create and join some dummies, - then split and feed the new dataframe into - Random Forest - and - KNNeighbors - classifiers. Both actually scored the same with - cross validation - so I mainly used the forest. -

-

Notebook Here

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Conclusion

-

Some Predictors from Top 25:

- -

- Popular words: 'like', 'just', 'time', 'new', 'oc', 'good', 'got', 'day', 'today', 'im', - 'dont', and 'love'. -

-

- People on Reddit (at least in the past few days) like their memes, porn, and talking - about their day. And it's preferred if the content is original and self posted. So yes, - post your memes to memes and shitposting, tag them NSFW, use some words from the list, - and rake in all that sweet karma! -

-

- But it's not that simple, this is a fairly simple model, with simple data. To go beyond - this I think the comments would have to be analyzed. - Lemmatisation I thought would - be the most influential piece, and I still think that thinking is correct. But in this - case it doesn't apply because there is no real meaning to be had from reddit post - titles, at least to a computer. (or I did something wrong) -

-

- There's a lot more seen by a human than just the text in the title, there's often an - image attached, most posts reference a recent/current event, they could be an inside - joke of sorts. For some posts there could be emojis in the title, and depending on their - combination they can take on a meaning completely different from their individual - meanings. The next step from here I believe is to analyze the comments section of these - posts because in this moment I think that's the easiest way to truly describe the - meaning of a post to a computer. With what was gathered here I'm only to get 10% above - baseline and I think that's all there is to be had here, I mean we can tweak for a few - percent probably but I don't think there's much left on the table. -

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Jul 01, 2022

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It's a post about nothing!

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The progress update

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- -

-

Bots

-

- After finding a number of ways not to begin the project formerly known as my capstone, - I've finally settled on a - dataset. - The project is about detecting bots, starting with twitter. I've - studied a - few - different - methods of bot detection and particularly like the - DeBot and - BotWalk methods and think I will try to mimic them, - in that order. -

-

- Long story short, DeBot uses a fancy method of time correlation to group accounts - together based on their posting habits. By identifying accounts that all have identical - posting habits that are beyond what a human could do by coincidence, this is a great - first step to identifying an inital group of seed bots. This can then be expanded by - using BotWalk's method of checking all the followers of the bot accounts and comparing - anomalous behavior to separate humans from non-humans. Rinse and repeat. I'll begin this - on twitter but hope to make it platform independent. -

-

The Real Capstone

-

- The bot project is too much to complete in this short amount of time, so instead I'm - working with a - small dataset - containing info about cars with some specs and I'll predict MPG. The problem itself for - me is trivial from past study/experience as an auto mechanic so I should have a nice - playground to focus completely on modeling. It's a very small data set too at < 400 - lines, I should be able to test multiple models in depth very quickly. It may or may not - be interesting, expect a write-up anyway. -

-

Cartman

-

- Well I guess I've adopted an 8 year old. Based on - this project - I've trained a chat bot with the personality of Eric Cartman. He's a feature of my - Discord bot living on a Raspberry Pi 4B, which I would say is probably the slowest - computer you would ever want to run something like this on. It takes a somewhat - reasonable amount of time to respond, almost feeling human if you make it think a bit. - The project uses PyTorch to train the model. I'd like - to re-create it using TensorFlow as an - exercise to understand each one better, but that's a project for another night. It also - only responds to one line at a time so it can't carry a conversation with context, - yet... -

-

Website

-

- I never thought I'd end up having a blog. I had no plans at all actually when I set up - this server, just to host a silly page that I would change from time to time whenever I - was bored. I've been looking at - Hugo as a way to organize what is now just a list of - divs in a single html file slowly growing out of control. Basically you just dump each - post into its own file, create a template of how to render them, and let it do its - thing. I should be able to create a template that recreates exactly what you see right - now, which is beginning to grow on me. -

-

- If you haven't noticed yet, (and I don't blame you if you haven't because only a handful - of people even visit this page) each time there is an update there is a completely new - background image, color scheme, a whole new theme. This is because this page is a near - identical representation of terminal windows open my computer and each time I update the - page I also update it with my current wallpaper, which generates the color scheme - dynamically using - Pywal. -

- TODO: - -

That's all for now

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Some games using wasm/webgl

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Browser performance as of January 2023

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Tested better:

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  1. Opera
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  2. Firefox Developer Edition
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  3. Brave
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Tested poor or broken:

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  1. Safari
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  3. Edge, see above^
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Consider anything else average or let me know otherwise

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