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Scottish and looking forward to my country being independent and thriving. No more chains on the unicorn

Wife, mother, woman. SNP member. Scottish Independence supporter. Views are my own.

I want to be what I want to be

Just a general dude who loves photography. Learning photography and other stuff all the time.

Check out my Flickr account (https://flickr.com/venkatmangudi)

Streamer|Accountant| NGE: Battle Orchestra WR Holder. |

Logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

Or the one.

There are still FOUR lights.

Independent Researcher in Psychology

Geeky and nerdy guy looking for friends that share similar interests 😀

Breton social et libéral, DSI littéraire passionné par les pôles, l’opéra, les estampes, la généalogie, la Bretagne et les Alpes

Manhattan.

#emacs #gaming #macos #linguistics #anthropology #history #metal #nyc #openbsd #posix #zsh

#UPSC Aspirants, Dream#IAS,
“Loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.” ― Paulo Coelho #IASAspirant's
University Of Rajasthan

Independent journalist, S. Asia

Bylines: The Atlantic, LA Times, @thecaravanindia ll Ex Health Editor, The Hindu II SOASAlum

vidyakrishnan13@gmail.com

#developer #programming #music #learning #frontend #gamedev #writing

Header Photo by Roman Kraft on Unsplash

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Born in Hong Kong, lived in Australia, working holiday in UK.

STEM researcher in Big Data. Also, part-time Mongolian goat and Head Replicant.

24
he/him
software dev, looking for work atm

I'm a bit pathetic and have no self-confidence😅

Hardwork, what is that? I have random spurts of motivation. Often times I have no idea what the person talking to me is saying, and I imagine that the speaker knows too well by the expression on my face.

For some reason I decided to acquire a CS degree even though I've never been especially talented at math, and I tend to struggle with its many abstractions: "From this proposition, it follows that...yes, to YOU, perhaps...".

I once spent 8 hours on a saturday writing a Pong clone with C++/allegro. It was the first time I found a meaningful way to apply the math I learned: If the ball is a circle and the paddle is rectangle, I need to determine where the edge of the ball intersects with the edge of the paddle, which is...the tangent line? That's neat!
I still don't know what to do with calculus: Integration by trignometric substitution...great. Perhaps I haven't been creative enough.

I've spent some time reading books that interest me, some of which are:
"E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction" by D. F. Wallace
"This is Water" by D. F. Wallace
"Paul's Case" by Willa Cather
"The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein
"How to Read a Book" by Adler and van Doren
"Brave New World" by A. Huxley
"Amusing Ourselves to Death" by N. Postman
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Nietzsche
"The Societ of the Spectacle" by G. Debord
"One Dimensional Man" by H. Marcuse
"Postmodernism" by F. Jameson
"A People's History of the United States" by H. Zinn
"Capitalist Realism" by M. Fisher
"Custom Reality and You" by P. Coffin

In terms of music, I mostly listen to whatever local bands my friends listen to. I've never been to a concert but I've been to a few local shows. Some bands I've listened to are: Hop Along, The Front Bottoms, Carseat Headrest, Lilith (lilithworldwide), Slaughter Beach Dog, American Football, Modern Baseball, Birdspotter (birdspotterpa), Blind Pilot, and Neutral Milk Hotel.
In addition to contemporary music, I have also recently been exploring the classical: Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Chopin, Liszt, and Satie.
Finally, I've quite recently begun exploring jazz. To date, I've only listented to "Portrait in Jazz" by the Bill Evans Trio.

I have some experience playing the guitar, though I do not know many songs. One song I learned to play recently is "Three Rounds and a Sound" by Blind Pilot.
In addition to guitar, I very recently begun learning the piano. At time of writing, I am very near able to play Satie's "Gymnopedie No. 1" at length.

I tend to stay away from movies, but I enjoy "The Shining" by S. Kubrick.

For as long as I can remember, I have been exceptionally nervous and hesistant when it comes to taking risks.

I enjoy playing with GNU/Linux, especially with terminal commands.

I tend to be easily distracted and to have trouble concentrating.