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Back in early 2022, about two months before starting college, I spent a great portion of my time reading about Stoicism. For those who don’t know, Stoicism is a philosophy that originated in ancient Greece and Rome that focuses on helping people navigate the chaos of life through personal virtue and rational thought. Its main idea is that while we cannot control external events, we have power over our own judgments and reactions—a principle often called the “Dichotomy of Control.” As someone who considered himself a Stoic at the time, I was brought back to the concept of journaling—something Marcus Aurelius himself used to do every morning—and I started to research it more and to wonder what that looked like in the digital age. This inquiry led me to discover the Productivity Community on YouTube—their apps, manners, methods, and aesthetics—and I quickly became an adept of their cult. With all this, I also saw the different ways people in this space used notebooks and note-taking apps, which made my interest in this niche grow. Eventually, I decided to test some of these apps, like Notion, Standard Notes, and Obsidian. I wanted to create a second brain for myself and started compiling my knowledge into personal encyclopedias—something I abandoned after finding little use for them—and I decided to start my personal journal, which I have been writing in religiously every day for over three years now. ...

These are some of my thoughs (maybe a quick review?) after reading Patrick Dixon’s book on AI. His book is a great introduction to the topic for people who are still not familiar with what artificial intelligence is, and it shows a wide range of real world applications of AI as well as the author’s predictions for the future. Patrick Dixon is a futurist and has been writing about the future of the world for many years. Since I am a programmer and particularly interested in LLMs and generative AI, I figured his book would be a good read. ...

This is a summary I have written for a college exam and thought it would be cool to share it here. Language Levels High Level High-level languages are designed to provide programmers with a convenient development environment and control abstractions that make it easier to create programs. They have several advantages, such as: Benefits: Ease of Reading and Learning: The syntax of high-level languages is designed to resemble human language, making the code more readable and accessible to beginners and experienced programmers. Productivity: These languages offer high-level constructs, such as control structures and predefined functions, that allow programmers to write code faster. Portability: Generally, code written in a high-level language can be easily ported to different platforms as most of the hardware complexity is abstracted. Simplified Maintenance: The readability and organized structure of high-level code makes maintenance and error identification easier. Global Optimizations: High-level language compilers and interpreters can perform global optimizations, improving the efficiency of the generated code. Disadvantages: ...

I want to get a remote job after I graduate, so that I can leave this shitty city where I live and move to the countryside or to another country. This place is too violent, loud, dirty and you almost have no peace at all living here. Every night feels like you are going to get your phone stolen or get killed by some criminal. Everything is expensive and everyone is trying to take advantages in detriment of other people. I like cyberpunk cities, but not in real life. ...

Ok, you probably already know about chatGPT at this point. That language model is great and I use it every day to help me do my stuff and learn to program, but, as someone who likes cyberpunk culture, it makes me wonder how the future is going to look like if this kind of technology evolves even more and gets popular amongst other people. Just a few years ago, most people did not have smartphones and now, they are an integral part of our lives. In a similar way, we are currently in a transition period where LLMs are becoming accessible. ...