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prog


A Lisp hacker

150 2022-04-23 16:49 *

Actually, let this be my final reply. It's hard to say why I feel the need to cut off communication (for the third time now if I count your IRC channel), but I do. I'm hopeful the last two years will turn out to be among the worst in my life, and I'm coming to the realization that the last ten have been much more negative than positive. The internet really isn't a direct cause of this, and hasn't contributed significantly for a few years, but it doesn't help. Time and time again I've noticed when I remove it completely I've been happier, more productive, and fulfilled. It's simply far healthier to read John Edward Williams, or Dijkstra in the grass than the logs in my room.

Over the next few weeks I'll be graduating, while restoring and moving into a small 500ft2 flat neighboring some family. Over the next few months I'm going to be preparing to teach high-school math, and to apply for my graduate program; I might also start to garden again, perhaps more than I ever have (why not plant a hundred African Yams in the woods and plant 500ft2 or more of vegetables in the field?). I've committed an understanding of the formal language of "A Discipline of Programming" to memory (using the method of loci and set-theory diagrams), and I'm hoping soon to be able to think in it so as to provide a mechanism to transfer my math knowledge to computer science. Over the next couple years the plan is to teach, and do various internships, to pay the rent while attending OMSCS assuming everything goes according to plan.

Ideally over this time frame I would also make progress towards homesteading, and becoming proficient in language (mostly grammar, and rhetoric; but possibly further logic training or training in a foreign/classical language). It's not at all clear what I'll be able to achieve over such an extended time-frame. I'm hopeful.

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