🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

Remember to lock your doors when you go through a bad neighborhood!

#cat #cats #bigcats #gif #humor

I have just brought back to life another old watch in my collection. Havent used it in years but this one is somewhat special. It represents time with just an hour hand which sweeps only once every 24 hours.

The inner circle represents day night cycle, when the hand is in the dark area the sun is down. The small outer ring represents when the moon is visible or not. The small circle near the bottom represents the moons phase.

I feel like there should have been a band with all the most famous italian-american singers in it, like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Frankie Valli.

They should have been named the "Riga tones"

#music #humor #italy #italian

I got bored so i wanted to see if we could remember how to represent a multilayer perceptron using linear algebra. I think i summed it up fairly well.

#science #ai #neuralnetworks #programming

This new grey ink im using is kinda nice. It is holding up pretty well and has a nice contrast.

#calligraphy #writing

Ya know... looking back on the various algorithms I invented I'm not really sure how much of it is luck (trial and error) and how much of it comes from knowledge (math, algorithms, etc)... I have invented a few fairly well used algorithms that are novel and performant that were systematic trial and error in the end and don't resemble my original plans on paper at all. I have others that are a mathematical symphony that just git together well from the first go.

Then again I only create new algorithms when I'm learning new ideas or revisiting them, usually inspired by the thought process it takes for me to understand an idea and apply it in other somewhat abstract ways. So maybe invention is just an extension of learning in a way. Afterall i often find when I am learning I try to predict the next logical step, such as with math. Which is sort of like inventing the idea yourself if you haven't turned the page in the textbook yet to get the answer.

Perhaps the people who are inventors of anything are also the ones who learn through exploration rather than just repetition.

#science

so I just tried some imported Bulgarian Feta for the first time.

It was really really good. Still had the sharp taste of feta, and a similar crumbling texture. But it was creamier, you could taste the milkyness just a bit more (even though it was firm like feta).. It had some strange but delicious flavors I couldnt really place.. My whole breakfast was a few cubes of feta and 2 pieces of the jerky I made (trying to go low-carb, maybe keto)... Really nice!

New branch of particle physics maybe... Exciting!

https://www.quantamagazine.org/milestone-evidence-for-anyons-a-third-kingdom-of-particles-20200512/

#QotoJounal #Science #Physics

I think one of the most common and harmful thought we all have is "I can be excessively self-indulgent now as long as I make up for it later". It is at the root of most drug addiction, procrastination, failure of greatness, weight problems, and social problems. A habit best broken.

I have a feel a psychologist would have a thing or two to say if they saw my self-written exemplar I use when practicing my Copper plate script...

#calligraphy #art #writing

Just inked up some Iroshizuku ink for the first time in over a year. I dont usually use water soluble inks. It is performing better than I recall.

I have this really weird hankering to do some linear algebra all of a sudden, but I dont have anything to do. Havent had to do any too recently so thought I'd ease back in with some sort of a simple problem... maybe ill try deriving the matrix for a single layer perceptron...

Do me a favor, if you spend any time at all writing using a pen, get yourself a fountain pen. They are so much nicer.