{"id":64,"date":"2022-01-04T03:59:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T03:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wordgeeks.net\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2022-09-23T05:03:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T05:03:20","slug":"short-notes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.wordgeeks.net\/?page_id=64","title":{"rendered":"Short Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I finished the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L4aNmdL3Hr0&amp;list=PL8dPuuaLjXtN07XYqqWSKpPrtNDiCHTzU\">Navigating Digital Information crash course a while ago<\/a>. Due to the early education I received, this small course surprisingly helped a lot. The simple act to check where a piece of information came from can go a long way.<ul><li>When I first started grad school, it was very painful, as when I read papers, I believed all of them were &#8220;correct&#8221;, yet they said things differently. There were different schools, and each of them had their own strengths and inevitably their own biases.<\/li><li>When I read the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/38242135-ai-superpowers\">AI Superpower<\/a>, I was also struggling. Why everything is so promising in the book and all the issues (demographics, inequality, upcoming regulation, etc. etc.) simply don&#8217;t exist? Well, as reputable as the author is, he IS a capital investor in that market.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>I bought <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbuy.com\/site\/services\/total-tech-support\/pcmcat1494357892646.c?id=pcmcat1494357892646\">Best Buy Total Tech Support<\/a> about 2 years ago. Sure they do seem to cover every &#8220;tech&#8221; issue. But after you find out they won&#8217;t cover some repair and then look closely enough, it doesn&#8217;t give much: you still need to pay for the addition protection (and you have the manufacture warranty anyway), I don&#8217;t really need computer\/car services, and I can just buy a security software myself. The lesson? Don&#8217;t get marketed.<\/li><li>Richard Stallman often still seems &#8220;radical&#8221;, even if I believe most of his free software perspectives. There&#8217;s one particular critic, <a href=\"https:\/\/stallman.org\/netflix.html\">about Netflix<\/a>, that I feel related, but never to his extent (&#8220;A friend once asked me to watch a video with her that she was going to display on her computer using Netflix. I declined, saying that Netflix was such a threat to freedom that I felt uncomfortable with legitimizing it in this way.&#8221;).<ul><li>But for a while, I get similar feeling toward Medium. Personal blogs are supposed to be free (both as in &#8220;free beer&#8221; and as in &#8220;free speech&#8221;) express of information, I will never become a &#8220;member&#8221; to read a &#8220;blog&#8221;, they are fundamentally incompatible with each other. If someone really has something so eagerly to share with the world, they could well have set up their own blog.<\/li><li>Another &#8220;disservice&#8221;: to prevent you from just clearing cookies, some sort of fingerprinting must have been used to keep track of the &#8220;used&#8221; (not the &#8220;user&#8221;).<\/li><li>Another &#8220;disservice&#8221;: I don&#8217;t need another algorithm curated feed.<\/li><li>Yet another &#8220;disservice&#8221;: I found articles on Medium typically lower quality.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>(Rant) Things on the Internet can be of staggeringly low quality, yet still appear on top of search results because of SEO.<ul><li>This &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/andela.com\/insights\/an-introduction-to-asynchronous-programming-in-python-with-async-io\/\">tutorial<\/a>&#8221; for async Python, contains code that doesn&#8217;t convey anything, and doesn&#8217;t offer any conceptual explanation at all. But it still manages to be the second result on Google.<\/li><li>And what&#8217;s worse, full of inaccuracies like &#8220;<em>Coroutines<\/em> are functions that schedule the execution of the events&#8221; or non-explanations like &#8220;<code>await to await<\/code> the result of the coroutine and passes the control to the event loop&#8221; (seriously?).<\/li><li>I&#8217;ve written <a href=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/boyou\/0e0d244e1ffe92c487d218efccf59fb7\">a script<\/a> to just hide all results from certain domains. The list can keep growing, and maybe it&#8217;s something that can become a open source project like ublock origin lists.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished the Navigating Digital Information crash course a while ago. Due to the early education I received, this small course surprisingly helped a lot. The simple act to check where a piece of information came from can go a long way. When I first started grad school, it was very painful, as when I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.wordgeeks.net\/?page_id=64\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Short Notes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-64","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wordgeeks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wordgeeks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wordgeeks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wordgeeks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wordgeeks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wordgeeks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wordgeeks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wordgeeks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}