Merge pull request #21 from jsr6720/post-journaling

not part of the archive. today

_posts/2024-05-19-journaling-why-write.md

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+---
+layout: post
+author: James Rowe
+title:  "Journaling, why write?"
+date: 2024-05-19 16:00:59 -0400
+tags: personal reflection archive
+uid: 70796E95-880F-464C-8A0B-EB4B4BA04FC1
+---
+
+## What is it?
+
+Call it a memoir, journal, diary or even just the humble shopping list(do commit messages count?)[^commits]. Making a mark is the very essence of an idea wrought to life. The smallest note can persist through antiquity in both humorous and unintended ways.[^assholes] 
+
+What is it about our ancestors that resulted in the first one to raise their [left-hand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_painting#/media/File:SantaCruz-CuevaManos-P2210651b.jpg) and make an outline of it? Was it their rock? Their home? Were they bored? Consumed in ritual? For the lolz?
+
+## Why do I write?
+
+Mostly as means of reflection. Of planning. Being able to move backwards in time and connect with my thoughts is useful. Mostly that in writing I clarify my thoughts[^archive]. For the joy of writing, and re-writing.
+
+Not that I've kept all my memos, sometimes it's best to let go and move forward. For every 100 pages I've written I've consulted maybe 1. But if my conscious thoughts are to stop with me, maybe some of this chaff will fall a few steps further.[^philosophy]
+
+## So what is this site?
+
+I've always thought of it as personal observations and musings of the world around me. Especially as it pertains to the things that I've focused my life on. I started to collect some of my digital litter from across the interwebs and I figured if I can't remember my login to [txcowboycoder.wordpress.com](https://txcowboycoder.wordpress.com) I can at least reassert ownership of it here.
+
+## llm and creating a persona from discovered work
+
+No. Don't. I feel like the series *Black Mirror* has a number of episodes that covers this, *[Be Right Back](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back)* comes to mind. But as predictable human species may be in aggregate I still hope(?) that individually we are irrational agents[^irrational].
+
+That even if an ai or llm could predict this next move, could it predict all of them? Is the AI version of myself the idealized outcome of myself? So many questions Tony. Best to just leave me behind and pursue [the woman in red](https://web.archive.org/web/20230210144152/https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/Woman_in_Red).
+
+Besides are billions of tokens not just the hyper realized version of [The Library of Alexandria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria)? All human knowledge organized, categorized and cross referenced?
+
+> be yourself everyone else is taken - Oscar Wilde
+
+### A sub-note on llms
+
+<img src="/assets/posts-images/chatgpt-4o-mocking-me-with-response.png" alt="chatgpt-4o mocking me" class="center-img img-stylish"/>
+
+## Famous entries I think of from time to time
+
+### The first computer "bug"
+
+<img src="/assets/posts-images/first-actual-case-of-bug-NMAH-92-13129.jpg" width="50%" alt="first computer bug" class="center-img img-stylish"/>
+
+> Downloaded from https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_334663 with companion [meta-data](/assets/posts-images/file_metadata_NMAH-NMAH2000-03035_info.txt) [^guid]
+
+### The light has gone out - Roosevelt
+
+A more somber entry. But I think of what weight two crosses bore that day.
+
+<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Light_has_gone_out.jpg" width="50%" alt="light has gone out theodore roosevelt" class="center-img img-stylish"/>
+
+### The birth of an airline
+
+Just a [simple napkin](https://swamedia.com/releases/release-f98b1533f40d99e9c2d9269559049e22-herb-rollin-the-birth-of-southwest-airlines) and an idea.
+
+### Many examples of letters
+
+Of which [John and Abigail Adams](https://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/letter/) come to mind.
+
+### Memoirs and diaries
+
+*Diary of Anne Frank* maybe being the most famous. *[Ernest Shackleton's diary of the Quest Expedition, 1921-22](https://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/archives/shackleton/articles/1537,3,9.html)* another.
+
+### Family roots
+
+So many (all?) of the episodes of [Family Roots](https://www.pbs.org/show/finding-your-roots/) relies on someone writing something down.
+
+### Ending with some humor
+
+Closing with some humor. With my own distortion.
+
+But James, digital will go poof one day. I know. Which is why I wrote this in `plaintext` so I can spool it to pdf and print to paperback and maybe even laser etch into scrap metal and send it to space!
+
+<img src="/assets/posts-images/xkcd-digitial-data-jrowe.png" width="50%" alt="xkcd 1683 digital data" class="center-img img-stylish"/>
+
+---
+
+##### Author's Note
+
+If Steve Jobs gets to put a dent into the universe, then why not my observations of his dent? I was here. I saw.
+
+On the golden records[^voyager] of humanity, having etched perhaps a singular micron is a fun thought. Who knows, maybe I'll be the sole surviving record of copper ingots.[^copper]
+
+##### Significant revisions
+
+tags: {{ page.tags | join: ", " }} <!-- todo move this somewhere -->
+
+- {{ page.date | date_to_string: "ordinal", "US" }} Originally published on [{{ site.url }}]({{ site.url }}) with uid {{ page.uid }}
+
+##### EOF/Footnotes
+
+[^assholes]: For this post, please allow me to set aside serious works documenting atrocities. These deserve their own preservation and study far beyond any of my personal ramblings.
+
+[^guid]: americanhistory.si.edu gets it. Included in their meta data is a `guid`. I see you Director Howard Hathaway Aiken. I wondered if I was silly to include a guid in my headers. I wonder no more.
+
+[^archive]: I had a lot of fun writing this, but I think one day destined for the [`_archive`](https://github.com/jsr6720/jsr6720.github.io/blob/main/_archive/README.md) collection.
+
+[^commits]: Bummer. [GitHubs Archive Program](https://archiveprogram.github.com/faq/) excludes commit data.
+
+[^philosophy]: I took one philosophy class in college. And here we are.
+
+[^irrational]: Lots of what I understand on this comes from [Dan Ariely](https://web.archive.org/web/20240402003230/https://danariely.com/books/). But also [smbc web comics](https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/rational-2) by someone named [Weinersmith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zach_Weinersmith)
+
+[^copper]: I laugh only because I moved my own [Verizon Complaints](/_archive/2011-01-09-verizon-restocking-fee-is-not-a-penalty.md) to an archive myself. See [the oldest known customer complaint](https://web.archive.org/web/20240418012802/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/ea-nasir-copper-merchant-ur) saved by a merchant.
+
+[^voyager]: I think its fascinating that someone had to decide what to add to the [golden record](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record). If the digital landscape is infinite will one day this get picked up by a planetary life scan? "No signs of intelligent life captain". Ha! Definitely for the lolz.

_whitepapers/README.md

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 # Whitepapers Readme
 
-I like to read whitepapers, but often I either print them out and mark them up or forget where to find them. This will be my digital archive of things I read online that power discussions. IE Primary sources only.
+I like to read whitepapers, but often I either print them out and mark them up or forget where to find them. This will be my digital archive of things I read online that power discussions. Maybe.. Always trying new things.
+
+# 2024-05-21
+
+[Link Rot and Content Drift in Scholarly Publications](/_whitepapers/pl_2024.05.17_link-rot_report.pdf)
+
+**Personal note** Based on this and my own porting of old content I've tried to use [https://archive.org](https://archive.org) and since storage is indefinitely free just import it here. Just in trying to download this again I had trouble finding it. Was it on slashdot? Wired? digg?
+
+Pew Research Center, "Link Rot and Content Drift in Scholarly Publications," Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C., Report, May 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2024/05/pl_2024.05.17_link-rot_report.pdf. [Accessed: May 21, 2024].
 
 # 2024-05-14 
 

assets/posts-images/file_metadata_NMAH-NMAH2000-03035_info.txt

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+Smithsonian Institution
+______________________
+Asset Name:
+damsmdm:NMAH-NMAH2000-03035
+
+File Usage:
+
+Not determined
+There are restrictions for re-using this media. For more information, visit the Smithsonian's Terms of Use page at https://www.si.edu/Termsofuse
+
+
+______________________
+Object details:
+
+Title: Log Book With Computer Bug
+Smithsonian Record ID: edanmdm:nmah_334663
+
+	Title
+	Log Book With Computer Bug
+
+	Metadata Usage
+	CC0
+
+	Guid
+	http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a3-b8b7-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
+
+	Data Source
+	National Museum of American History
+
+	Director
+	Aiken, Howard Hathaway
+
+	Maker
+	Harvard University
+
+	Maker
+	IBM
+
+	Maker
+	Harvard University
+
+	Maker
+	Aiken, Howard
+
+	Physical Description
+	tape (overall material)
+
+	Physical Description
+	paper (overall material)
+
+	Physical Description
+	cloth (overall material)
+
+	Physical Description
+	ink (overall material)
+
+	Physical Description
+	biologicals (overall material)
+
+	Measurements
+	overall: 1.5 cm x 48.4 cm x 29.5 cm; 9/16 in x 19 1/16 in x 11 5/8 in
+
+	Description
+	American engineers have been calling small flaws in machines "bugs" for over a century. Thomas Edison talked about bugs in electrical circuits in the 1870s. When the first computers were built during the early 1940s, people working on them found bugs in both the hardware of the machines and in the programs that ran them. 
+
+	Description
+	In 1947, engineers working on the Mark II computer at Harvard University found a moth stuck in one of the components. They taped the insect in their logbook and labeled it "first actual case of bug being found." The words "bug" and "debug" soon became a standard part of the language of computer programmers.
+
+	Description
+	Among those working on the Mark II in 1947 was mathematician and computer programmer Grace Hopper, who later became a Navy rear admiral. This log book was probably not Hopper's, but she and the rest of the Mark II team helped popularize the use of the term computer bug and the related phrase "debug."
+
+	Description
+	References:
+
+	Description
+	Grace Murray Hopper,"The First Bug," Annals of the History of Computing,vol. 3 #3, 1981, pp. 285-286.
+
+	Description
+	P. A. Kidwell, "Stalking the ElusiveComputer Bug," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vo.20, #4, 1998, pp.5-9.
+
+	Location
+	Currently not on view
+
+	Place Made
+	United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge
+
+	Credit Line
+	Transfer from United States Department of Defense, Naval Surface Warfare Center
+
+	ID Number
+	1994.0191.01
+
+	Catalog number
+	1994.0191.1
+
+	Accession number
+	1994.0191
+
+	Date made
+	1947
+
+	Object Name
+	log book
+
+	Subject
+	Computer Bug
+
+______________________
+