“I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter.” – Pablo Neruda
‘I’m getting wistful for folklore, for the old stories, for languages whispered around the fire, for dreaming. … Learning about machine learning and the artificial neuron is fascinating. But can it hold a flame to learning about the consciousness of the universe? I do not want to choose. I do not want to be fit into a mechanical box and whirr like a cog day in and day out for money. And yet, without it I cannot afford to live and then I cannot afford to dream. …’
I’ve rewritten this month’s compost three times and every day it just didn’t feel right. I am and was stuck in indecision brought on by change. Who will I be at the end of this year? Is it someone I want to know or someone who is disappointing? I asked myself this question over and over again while making slight changes to what I am studying and how I think I might be able to use future skills for good. If I’m not in alignment with myself I fall rather quickly into and existential funk. But I’m back on track now and I think this year just might have some suprises in store. I don’t know what they are yet obviously, but this year feels different and I’m going to take that as a good sign. I need to dig deep into hope for a better future and not just for myself.
Language Studies
Latin I may be slightly addicted to ‘Legentibus’ app and reading short stories every day.
Attic Greek Only one person showed up to the first study group session. I fear everyone has bailed on me. But it was a fun session nevertheless.
Hieroglyphs My eyes have glazed over from transliterating the names of pharaohs. …
French The holidays and the cold I had this month have pretty much blown French out of the water. I’m doing lessons again by tacking them on to my daily Legentibus reading habit.
Links
- How I’m learning languages faster than ever
- We need to talk about Nolan’s Odyssey trailer…
- Academia Is Breaking: AI Papers, Mass Retractions, and Funding Cuts (News Updates)
- Study techniques that helped me SURVIVE my computer science degree
- You’re wasting time while studying
- Doing Things Differently in 2026 (Mindset Shift)
- How I’m learning languages faster than ever
Reads
– ‘Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage To Egypt’ Katherine Frank (Finished)
– ‘The Science of Middle Earth’
– ‘Why Machines Learn’ Anil Ananthaswamy
– ‘On Fairy Stories’ J.R.R. Tolkien (Finished)