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For example, I've been reading in depth about reverse engineering lately and improving my web h4ck1ng skills by playing CTFs. And every night before bed, I read philosophy to stay sane. I'm currently reading "Negative Dialectics" by Theodor W. Adorno.
What about you?
Manifolds, tangent spaces, conditional extrema.
Also, Putonghua.
conditional extrema, differential geometry
calculus of variations on manifolds? physics detected 
Nah, just want to remember the topic for when I get back to dealing with more interesting stuff like Lie groups and algebras.
The end goal is to get into algebraic topology (and topological algebra).
I don't tolerate how impure physicists are.
Imagine the atrocity of actually applying math. /jk
haha algebraist brained corn meme
derham cohomology is important for dat so enjoy!
Homology theories are very beatiful, and I do want to recall the topic of de Rham cohomology.
EDIT: autocorrect can't distinguish between words 'homology' and 'cohomology'.
it starts out so beautiful but it can get so .... twisted https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/twisted+cohomology
Trying to read capital to improve my German. I’ve been getting back into making music again. Being forced to learn electronics.
What kind of music? One of my interests/goals is to create an one-person DSBM project.
Maybe this site will help, I've had it bookmarked for a while, it's amazing: There's no place like home (residence of electronics enthusiasts)
What’s DBSM? I generally make weird techno with the synths I have, atm I’m mostly using software though because I can’t really find a cool way to plug in everything so that I can be creative as well. I kind of wish I had some one to help me organise and plan my space with me because I’m fucking terrible at doing that. I can DM you my SoundCloud if you want to hear some of it. It’s nothing special and I don’t really like advertising it.
That website does look cool, but I don’t have money for equipment or components at the moment so I’m sticking to the theory for now. I only started a month ago and I’ve been out of school for a long time and I’m struggling with passing tests and the language barrier a little bit. Thanks for the website though I’ll definitely check it out.
I need to do a final project in two years I’ll probably try make a synthesiser. I’d really like to make a groove box but let’s see how far I get through this school and if I have what it takes.
DSBM stands for Depressive Suicidal Black Metal, here's an example of a project called Decalius, by just one guy.
Sure, DM me your SoundCloud. I'd like to hear it.
I understand. Electronic components are usually cheap, but equipment is not. When I was a teenager and started learning electronics, I blew up a lot of components because I didn't have equipment to measure current (I didn't have the money to buy it either) and sometimes my calculations failed. But I always had fun.
A groove box would be a really cool project. I hope everything goes well for you. 
Thanks I’ve really been struggling a lot and I’ve been very depressed so I kind of didn’t do anything the first month so I failed my first test. It made me feel even worse but I kind of used it as a wake up call to actually try. I’m feeling better now and I’ve been able to start studying and I don’t feel as overwhelmed as I did. I’m not that young anymore and I think all the dumb shit I did for the last 16 years fucked up my brain a little bit, but I’m lucky that I have people supporting me. Thanks for the kind words.
Edit: I’m Im not that into metal but I’ll check it out. I always like hearing new music
Also a random thing that pisses me off about electronics, there are obviously three different notations for logic gates a British an American and a European.
Although I am not from the United States, I was taught American notation. But when it comes to units of measurement, I use the International System.
Yeah it’s just one of those things where I just scratch my head and think why couldn’t they just pick one goddammit
Been slowly making my way through the TCP/IP Guide. Some of it is pretty outdated, but it's helping me understand a bit more how the Internet works as I continue to teach myself computer science fundamentals and web development.
Do you want to pursue web development professionally or just as a hobby?
I love this site, it has valuable resources.
Professionally. I've been teaching myself Web Dev for the past 4 years and have actually worked at a small start up briefly, but want to work at a small/medium size company at some point.
I can't afford to go back to school, but am familiar with the classic CS curriculum, in part thanks to the resources listed on that website you referenced. Thank you for that.
It's just taking me a long time as while I have a college degree, I have never had a strong background in mathematics, let alone the discrete mathematics generally required by most robust CS curriculum.
That said, I have a great support structure, with many mentors and a solid local and online community. I've even hung out with a few Linux kernel devs, who have graciously given me various pieces of advice on how to proceed learning the basics.
This TCP/IP book is sort of a detour, as I don't see myself utilizing the concepts directly (save for a bit of packet analysis), but I've noticed web developers, at least at the Jr level, tend to only have a surface level knowledge of how HTTP fits into the broader TCP/IP model, and I'd rather that not be the case for myself.
Thanks again for that resource. I've yet to dive deep into a lot of the books on that site, but it's been in my bookmarks for a while now, and I definitely will be getting around to inspecting them more deeply in the near future.
Reading: alongside the Gender Accelerationists Manifesto (go to c/womenby!), I have been reading this person's essays on Marxism. Also getting back into espresso making and making fermented hot sauce!
I also read it when it was posted here!
And thanks for the link to the blog, I've already bookmarked it.
Nice! There's some funky stuff in there like Dialectical Materialism and Quantum Mechanics.
Turbomachinery. Turbines are cool.
every day I learn more about the depths of human depravity and the complete fraudulence of American society
Every day I wake up and say death to U.S
I'm taking a Chinese class at the local community college. It's 101 so I'm kinda way way ahead having already learned a bit, but the practice has been very good being the big fish in a small pond rather than the other way around.
Also I have to learn to write characters by hand which is a big change when I'm used to typing like "whxhwyx" for "我很喜欢玩游戏"
你好! I'm doing the same. Are ya'll using a textbook? We're using Integrated Chinese.
I feel like I'm way behind though and barely keeping up with speech. Character memorization, recognition, and writing is way easier. I think its helping improve my handwriting because mine kinda sucks in English.
I'm sticking it through since I am learning for sure but I don't think I've ever spent so much time studying in a uni class before. It was like 5 hours a day last week.
Yeah, same textbook! I had gotten pretty far on HelloChinese app and independent study (mostly just listening to music and reading all the business signs in my neighborhood) so there's a lot of words and grammar and all that that I know, but my speaking is very not great and I the writing practice means I'm finally learning the radicals.
For reasons beyond my control I've spent the last few weeks learning all about the Android Storage Access Framework. I do not know Java. I got through it and figured out how to do what I needed, but it was an absolute nightmare and much of it makes no sense.
This weekend I read Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin. I enjoyed it quite a bit, big IT energy.
Reject Java because it has classes, inheritance and hierarchies.
Im getting into radical housing alternatives (like types of communal organisation etc.)
My dream: to live in a horizontal community, as self-sustaining as possible, with several comrades.
I've picked up Greek because i love declensions i guess - that's fun. I took to the alphabet faster than i t hought i would - most of it makes sense, and where it doesn't it's easy enough to adapt.
I've been reading more stuff that advances my knowledge, if not practically at least it's something new? deprecrating games and media, a lot. Been trying to level up my guitar playing - i have some material that's collectively almost three songs - but they're not done. Figuring out what "done" is is the driving force behind a lot of my exploration creatively though.
Urban design!!
Btw anyone else hate zoning laws that require certain amounts of empty space between buildings. Nah bruv. Stick those shits together, wall-to-wall.
I'be been trying to inderstand the user facing side of Amdroid nd failing misersblyzm