Note index

Find me on Twitter

why Twitter?

Simply put, I've found Twitter to be a nice site for receiving ~~insight porn~~ food for thought, replenishing my motivation supply, tracking general events and patterns of thought in people-I-aspire-to-be-like's lives and their communities, and at times sharing one-off semi-interesting thoughts that don't really deserve to be posted anywhere else.

b-but isn't social media evil?

My experience has been pretty much the reverse of what people usually say about Twitter; I'm predicting it's because people are not so good at curating their own feed and unfollowing/disengaging from what pointlessly hurts them and throws them into an "outrage" state, are not aware of it, and blame it on the platform instead of their own faults. But what do I know - I may be now caught in a trap of the "algorithms" and enjoying it; anyhow, I have not noticed any signs of addiction or other things typically said to be caused by social media usage.

Note index

I like taking notes when reading something. Below are my notes on some books I've been on-and-off reading. No idea if anything here will be useful to anyone aside from me, but I do try to preserve the context (basically, the only principle I use when taking notes is something like "take notes like there's a very real possibility of becoming an amnesiac")

kant_prolegomena.html - Notes on Kant's "Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics"

moore_crit_thinking_analysis.html - Notes on David T. Moore's "Critical Thinking and Intelligence Analysis"

rationality_from_ai_to_zombies.html - Notes on Eliezer Yudkowsky's "Rationality: From AI to Zombies"

By the way, pages above have been generated using Emacs, org-mode, org-mode manual (use C-h i or the web-based version), and the Worg org-to-html exporting guide.

The configuration I use is:

(setq org-html-scripts nil) (setq org-publish-project-alist '(("org-notes" :base-directory "~/org/website/" :base-extension "org" :publishing-directory "~/website/" :recursive t :publishing-function org-html-publish-to-html :headline-levels 4 :html-preamble "<a href=\"index.html\">Go back to note index</a>Page last updated: %d<hr>" :html-postamble nil)))

#+options: ':nil *:t -:t ::t <:t H:3 \n:nil ^:t arch:headline #+options: author:t broken-links:nil c:nil creator:nil #+options: d:(not "LOGBOOK") date:t e:t email:nil f:t inline:t num:t #+options: p:nil pri:nil prop:nil stat:t tags:t tasks:t tex:t #+options: timestamp:t title:t toc:t todo:t |:t #+author: Kassy #+language: en #+select_tags: export #+exclude_tags: noexport #+creator: Emacs 27.2 (Org mode 9.4.4) #+OPTIONS: tex:t #+HTML_CONTAINER: div #+HTML_DOCTYPE: xhtml-strict #+HTML_HEAD: <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="../favicon.ico"> <link href="../style.css" rel="stylesheet"> #+MACRO: color @@html:$2@@ #+MACRO: imo @@html:$1@@

Note: I still have to set #+title and #+date at the beginning of each file, and have to specify path to #+setupfile as well (for me it is #+SETUPFILE: ~/.emacs.d/org-templates/level-1.org)