This weekend three of us were knocked out sick. Hugh V was as bright as could be. He was sick two days prior. So we did lots of snuggling and outside walks.
Sick for Easter
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Let’s use the list of chapters…
‘Let’s use the list of chapters…’ That is what Hugh V said tonight as we looked for a bedtime story. He knows each story in the book. But now he also know how to use an index at three years old! So proud and happy.
Useful Modeling
I find the documentation here very useful for modeling Events and Physical objects.
Hats and other things
Katja has taken a liking to skiing. the local rental shop will rent her a set of skis and boots for $129 for the season. As much as I want to help her have access to skis I want to help her understand money and entrepreneurship.
I put it out there that she will need to pay for the skis for next year (the ski pass is free till age 12). There was silence for a few minutes after which she said that she could make hats. She likes to crochet. I suggested that hand made hats might be in the order of $25-$30 and that six of them might generate enough income for the skis.
Since concocting this plan on Friday she has lined up training for hat making (a friend), and discovered where she can sell them (the annual ski swap event). This is going to be fun and interesting to support. Some time in the future we’ll take a look at the business model canvas.
All a board.
AI and Society
I have been reflecting on how our environment is shaped by algorithms. We are presented options via algorithms (in cases like direct marketing). We are sometimes subject to the impacts of automation systems such as systems in California which assign the possibility of bail based an algorithmic assessment of the case file.
In an AI based culture we can’t control the AI based nature of those things reported around us(variable prices or news articles), but we can focus our relationships on those around us. The question of social importance is where does the AI influence us in the decision making process? The problem in legal frameworks are that the decision processes are directed graphs with bounded options. However we are not bounded in our decision making as individuals. That is, AI may not actually be more equitable or just than a human decision maker.
In a sense then to reduce decisions to AI decision makers is to show a certain amount of apathy.
Font queries
What do I want to do?
In the context of a pipeline I want to test a font against an known orthography version to know if it will support the orthography.
To that end here is a start:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4458696/finding-out-what-characters-a-given-font-supports
Another interesting site is: https://fontdrop.info/. It provides information from the metadata. Is list the languages it supports. But I wonder, what does "language support" or "supported languages" mean in these contexts? Where do the list of languages come from? Where are these languages' requirements cataloged?
Making a Violin
I was looking up some resources for making a violin in my area. Violinorum says there are three, one in salem and two in portland. I want to make three violins.
https://www.theluthierslibrary.com/
https://www.theluthierslibrary.com/luthiers_library/mainMenu.do
https://www.kerrviolins.com/baroque-and-classical-instruments.html
http://www.sandysviolin.com/handmade-violins-violas.html
https://www.herrmannviolins.com/violin-making
And then of course there is the bow making too.
couple of articles:
https://www.yamaha.com/en/musical_instrument_guide/violin/selection/
https://extension.okstate.edu/fact-sheets/using-wood-for-violin-makers.html
https://www.benningviolins.com/types-of-wood-for-making-a-violin.html
Twitter self hosted archive…
This is interesting software for a self hosted archive.
https://github.com/tweetback/tweetback
Spatial Coverage on the OLAC network
The issues is that OLAC and these other uses of Dublin Core don't agree in the semantics of spatial coverage.
https://archive-intranet.ardc.edu.au/display/DOC/Spatial+coverage#:~:text=Spatial%20coverage%20refers%20to%20a,the%20focus%20of%20an%20activity.
Critical question here, is one where we ask: "what do English think geography is for language?"
Thinking deeply about:
https://twitter.com/elararchive/status/1637559068398157824?s=46&t=Zdt2jeAjeFQx6k372aS64A
Timothy 5:xx
Paul is writing Timothy. I interpreted text as theoretical. Paul lays out some classes (groups) and some ways to define those classes. However, what if these abstract ways are really an abstract (depersonalized) way of describing a specific situation. Then when Timothy receives the letter the advice is specific, it is actionable, and clear.