picture of sin

Sina’s PKM

Category - Essays

Longer form ramblings!

These are the potential candidates to be made into blog posts.

Remember this rule: All my writing is pseudo-intellectual. If it sounds smart, it is because I have decieved you. Tricked. Bamboozled.

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History of the launcher
[ Category - Programming ][ Category - Essays ] A small review of the launcher So Alfred is a category of software which is called a “launcher”, which is basically a search box like the windows start button, where you type in an application and it gets launched

recommendation takeover
[ Category - Essays ][ TODO - Expand ] Any widely spread enough recommendation algorithm, if used enough, will stop catering to the user's taste and start shaping their taste instead

vector of choices
[ Category - Mindset ] [ Category - Essays ] You walk upon a locked door

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The importance of studying cinema in a global context
[ Category - Essays ]* Originally for my film class The importance of studying cinema in the global context

enlightenment-completeness
[ Category - Philosophy ][ Category - Meditation ][ Category - Essays ] In complexity theory, there is a concept of reduction, which (at a high level) is reducing one problem to another such that if you were to solve one, the other would also be solved (by using the same methodology you used to solve the first one)

abstraction
[ Category - Programming ][ Category - Patterns ][ Category - Essays ] The abstraction is the most important mental trick in the programmer’s toolbox

good hygiene habits
[ Category - Philosophy ][ Category - Essays ] Hygiene is the art of perserving good health through habits

not appreciating a field
[ Category - Essays ] It’s important to appreciate the genius that goes into every field of study

programmer hero's journey
[ Category - Essays ][ Category - Programming ] So I read a lot of programming blog posts

unique perspective overconfidence
[ Category - Anti-patterns ][ Category - Essays ] The anti-pattern Here’s a trend I find myself doing

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