11 september 2023

Starting to talk in the town

I recently entered into ~tilde.town. At the beginning I was a little shy, not knowing if this community was really for me, worried about many small things like looking stupid in face of command line gurus.

But after a week or two of chatting time to time, I feel like this community is really cool. The main chat is just wandering between townies' stories, computer science and other cool stuff.

I did not get the time to explore the town creative stuff too deeply, but it sounds like the town is really a good place for creativity.

And most of all there are cool people here !

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05 september 2023

Smile !

Recently I started to try smiling. When I walk in the streets, or in the uni, I smile. In fact, I smile to people.

I don't think it really has a lot of effects on others (except people may think I'm silly).

But I really feel happier overall.

I'm not saying that if you are depressed, you should just smile and everything is gonna be alright. But I believe we don't smile enough. Actually, we don't have fun enough. Everyone walks across streets looking like they just had a funeral.

It is not your choice to be happy, but you can probably choose to add a bit of fun in your life, even with simple things.

:smile

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04 september 2023

Critical thinking is absent

I started recently to feel quite depressed about the lack of critical thinking in many places.

The other day, I looked at an interview of a guy that has a lot of culture, a lot of historical knowledge. That is very cool, and I'm always super excited about people that have knowledge ! But There was basically no reasoning behind it.

The university updated the internal rules of the CS department. I was also ashamed of the total lack of any thoughts about possible side effects of decisions, or possible hidden causes to some problems.

Globally, I see that a lot of people just use common sense as their only way to think. Common sense is sometimes true, but has no value in an argument. It feels like people just don't care about thinking correctly (and don't get me wrong, I'm not saying "young people are dumb", that is true for every generation).

Maybe I'm biased, maybe I'm just wrong, but I really feel like the whole society really needs more critical thinking, because it is really sad as it is now.

That is part of why I think we should be taught critical thinking (zetetic) at school.

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03 september 2023

Last day of holidays.

I have spent 2 months in new zealand, back in france 3 days ago. I still have some jetlag.

I am split between regret of these awesome holidays, excitation to return into university, desire for more freetime...

I hope that this year's lessons will be with more math and theorical computer science.

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02 september 2023

First post in this blog !

I just arrived in the ~tilde town !

I really love the idea of this place. The internet of the 90' always looked better to me, and I'm a text-only fan !

Tile Town's blogging engine (ttbp) is quite nice, and allows a very simple gestion of a text-only blog.

Why text only ?

I wanted for a while to make a blog. A more text-only blog. I already have a more "modern" blog here : osk42.quarto.pub (it's french). It's better for certain things : it "looks good", I can host my CV here, I can have stats of how many people visit it, I can experiment cool stuff... But it's also quite bloat, because it has to load js libraries and execute things on the client side. So it is also good to have a place where I can keep it simple.

Also, text-based information is much better for many reasons, as explained in this article from karl voit.

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