THE MENTAL UNBURDENING
Who’s ready for another rambling diatribe of way too much stuff for a single blog post? That was a rhetorical question, what are you even doing here if you are complaining? Who defines blog post length? Fie to you! So. Aside from the handy draft I’ve just published, I’ve yet again allowed almost a year between posts on this site. Looking back it’s like an uncomfortably abrubt series of time capsules showing me at various stages of life in the last few years.
THE VALUE OF TIME AND THE JOY OF LABOUR
So this post has been sitting in my drafts an extremely long time, and I’m digging it up now in another half hearted attempt to get some thoughts down on this site (more thoughts in a new post after this, IF YOU BELIEVE ME). I’m presenting it as is. For context, this is around end January 2020. I’ve had an exhausting, but ultimately satisfying, week! Though before we dive into the juicy flesh of tonight’s title; a quick update of the yolov3-telegram person detector.
LIFE IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
I’ve been thinking on and off about this blog since my last post. As it my usual wont I’ve left things hanging. I’ve spent most of my spare time since January doing a wide variety of DIY tasks about my house, from the menial, to the (for one person alone) monumental. At the same time physical exhaustion isn’t the only reason I haven’t posted here. I have a post languishing in my drafts about the simple pleasure in physical labour and creation, but stress from work and life have led to emotional health and motivation for writing ebbing to a seasonal low.
PERSON WITH PROBABILITY 69%*, OR FUN WITH MACHINE LEARNING AND TELEGRAM BOTS
Another week, another post. That’s what I would say if I’ve been consistently posting these like I implied I would in the last post. Regardless, in starting this post I was almost foiled by the annoying editor changes of WordPress. The new editor no longer has the strike-through option front and centre. How am I supposed to use my favourite syntactic sugar now? Where is it even. Ah, there we go.
WITTY TITLE FOR 2020: NO. 1*
It has been 793 days since my last blog post and quite a bit has happened since then. You may consider this a bit of a summary of past blog posts I was too lazy to write too busy to get around to (spoilers: I don’t) and likely hopelessly optimistic plan for the year ahead in terms of posts. No more shall I feel the dejected anxiety of “Why write this when literally everyone else has written about this?
COMPLETING A THESIS
Wow, it has been almost a year since I last posted here. So much for commitments to writing more. I think though I can attribute this to one big thing. My thesis. Urgh, it feels painful to even write about it. I’m sick of thinking of it, but a thesis I did complete. I don’t feel particularly happy about it, but I think that kind of neurosis is probably why it took so long to complete.
WHY READING EMAILS CAREFULLY IS IMPORTANT
Gather round everyone, this is a story about why I am procrastinating in writing this blog post. Meta, huh? I’m not sure which emotion I feel strongest right now: dismay, anger (at myself, and others), shame, resignation. They’re all there in a delightfully dark melange of mindfeels which I will call my maximum fun chamber (aka, my skull). There is a conference at my faculty this coming week, the 27th Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa, let’s just call it PRASA.
FLASHING LSI9240 SERIES CARDS TO IT MODE
Hello friends, I’ve been posting a lot I’ve come out of hiding to chronicle some work I’m doing on setting up a ZFS based NAS, because dat error correction. My ZFS distro of choice for this adventure is FreeNAS, since it is well supported and has a plethora of plugins to support all the things I want to do. I’ll go into hardware another time, but suffice to say, the less between ZFS and your drives the better.
FELICITOUS POLYTHEISTIC CELEBRATION DAY!
Saturnalia, Yule, Christmas, all equally valid events at some point in history. The short is, I hope today has been slightly better than average for the vast majority of you out there. Much has happened since my last post, I finally got round to finishing the AfrikaBurn posts I finally finished my degree! YAY Seriously though I am quite happy with the achievement, using some dubious sources and rough estimation I am now 1 of 100 000 qualified in my field of study, neat.
AFRIKABURN PART 1 (FINALLY!)
Heyo! So I guess I’ve been pretty busy, in fact I am still busy. This is just me procrastinating so I don’t go insane oh god there is still so much work left before the deadline wtf. Anyway… Here is the first part of my AfrikaBurn series. These are basically vignettes from my ‘Burner diary I wrote during the experience. Day 0 It’s Sunday and Liesbeth and I have finally finished packing.