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My values are developed by education, equality, justice, unity, whilst these "things" are incredibly nuanced I use my inner compass moderated with curiosity to evolve within myself and my circles of concern. I am evading the word influence as it implies domination.
#pluralistist #learning constantly transforming.
https://www.noemamag.com/living-things-are-not-machines-also-they-totally-are
Hey folks,
My non-blog week continues. Earlier, I made some progress on the end project for my #pyrography mini-course (the dragon outline).
I have a lot left to do on it, but it took me two attempts to burn an outline I wasn't completely dissatisfied with.
I'm now currently proofreading some of my fiction-writing. But my #Fibro pain is still really high, so I'll end up in a game soon.
F is for… #Fiction 
Life is stressful. Let’s talk about books
How to practice and master music
with minimal frustration
Mindfulness and music study skills are
the key to rewarding practice. But first, a sobering quote from Mark Twain: "Man is the animal most capable of learning from the experience of others ...but few do."
#musicians #learning #practice
Thinking about genAI vs human intelligence.
genAI hallucinates, unavoidably.
Humans make mistakes, unavoidably.
Mistakes aren't hallucinations. They are a step in a truth-finding process. They help the human who makes the mistake (and their fellow humans) to improve their criteria for true or false.
Hallucinations, when detected, are a trigger for the model to produce answers whose lack of validated truth is less detectable.
Relevant clumsiness vs sophisticated emptyness.
B is for Bread
or...
C is for Challah
Here is my recipe:
https://dotart.blog/karin-wanderer-learns/b-is-for
What a world. #Capitalism "externalizes" costs to the point where the costs are "externalized" into our own bodies.
Joi Ito has some good ideas about learning on his 2018 article on MIT Media Lab website: https://www.media.mit.edu/articles/the-educational-tyranny-of-the-neurotypicals/
Quote from the article that was originally published in the Wired magazine:
“I often say that education is what others do to you and learning is what you do for yourself. But I think that even the broad notion of education may be outdated, and we need a completely new approach to empower learning: We need to revamp our notion of "education" and shake loose the ordered and linear metrics of the society of the past, when we were focused on scale and the mass production of stuff. Accepting and respecting neurodiversity is the key to surviving the transformation driven by the internet and AI, which is shattering the Newtonian predictability of the past and replacing it with a Heisenbergian world of complexity and uncertainty.”
Ito, Joi. 2018. The educational tyranny of the neurotypicals. Accessed: 26 January 2019. https://www.media.mit.edu/articles/the-educational-tyranny-of-the-neurotypicals/
"We had a social emotional #learning display up in our children's section that had #books about treating your friends nicely, making sure that you use nice language and kind words, and not being a mean bully to people, and someone came in and was like, 'What is this? Why are we teaching kids this?'" https://www.liberalcurrents.com/halftheanswer/half-the-answer-3-at-the-library/
We readily inquire, “Does he know Greek or Latin?” “Can he write poetry and prose?” But what matters most is what we put last: “Has he become better and wiser?” We ought to find out not who understands most but who understands best. We work merely to fill the memory, leaving the understanding and the sense of right and wrong empty.
[Nous enquerons volontiers, Sçait-il du Grec ou du Latin ? escrit-il en vers ou en prose ? mais, s’il est devenu meilleur ou plus advisé, c’estoit le principal, & c’est ce qui demeure derriere. Il falloit s’enquerir qui est mieux sçavant, non qui est plus sçavant. Nous ne travaillons qu’à remplir la memoire, & laissons l’entendement & la conscience vuide.]
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essay (yyyy), “Of Pedantry[Du pedantisme] (1572-1578), Essays, Book 1, ch. 24 (1.24) (1595) [tr. Screech (1987), ch. 25]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
TIL about the bulk import functionality in django-import-export library.
https://django-import-export.readthedocs.io/en/latest/bulk_import.html
Some caveats:
- set `batch_size` for better performance
- doesn't work with many-to-many relationships
- no `pre_save` and `post_save` signals sent (it' doesn't call `model.save()`)
If you attend or work at a school, are you able to access and use Discord from that school's network? If you have any specific caveats, choose the “partial” answer and share more in a reply.
Feel free to boost widely; I'd love a wide sample! :)
Fellow agnostics, freaks and weirdos rejoice-- loving uncertainty can have psychological benefits. Open-mindedness, trying weird shit, etc. Things I'm a big fan of
https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/learning-to-love-uncertainty-may-have-psychological-benefits
With #Trump & #Musk seeking to crash the #economy & decimate #socialsecurity, the #GOP in #Congress shouts #USA while the #Democrats pray for mid-term #elections. Trump received less than 50% of the votes for his "mandate".
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-musk-intentionally-crashing-economy
F is for… Fortitude
Join us for more #ArtABCs
No AI, Yes alt text, CW as needed
My desire to learn to properly use watercolours is always subsumed by my urge to OBLITERATE THE CANVAS WITH THE HIGHEST SATURATION OF COLOURS POSSIBLE.
[Why brain. Why?]
