I Over Engineered a Journal to Understand My Needs
I have a hard time communicating my needs. I'm much better suited to being a people pleaser. Keep it a buck, I would make a great 1930's wife. I would avoid conflict and never bring up my wants or…
Playing Rocket League and Navigating your Career as a Software Engineer are not so Dissimilar Experiences
TLDR - As we automate more and more of our work, we should be asking ourselves how we want to steward the technology we build. We should be asking ourselves how we want to shape the future of our…
Intelligent Curation Tagging for Creative Workflows
Github link: fineshyt (https://github.com/qweliant/fineshyt) Problem and Motivation I have thousands of photos. Like approximately 14,000 RAW, TIFF, RAF, JPG, and JPEG files. Setting aside the time…
Building an Open-Source Safety Net for Home Hemodialysis
Home hemodialysis gives patients their lives back but it introduces the risk of isolation. If a patient's blood pressure crashes or a line disconnects while their care partner is in the other room…
A Brief and Impassioned Review of Hamilton the Musical and my Love/Mostly Hate Relationship with America
A Brief and Impassioned Review of Hamilton the Musical and my Love/Mostly Hate Relationship with America Here me out. I love black washing US history. We all know Beethoven was black…
Where to go from here
Things are complicated My interest lately is in how knowledge is structured and acted upon. I want to explore how and why technology becomes a lens and a vehicle for cognition, reasoning, and…
A Rant on The Genetic Lottery by Kathryn Paige Harden
Personally, it is so weird being black. You tell people that being poor inhibits my chance at a life of liberty in the pursuit of happiness (https://youtu.be/6yG3KOhGxC0?si=lZTilW1atCpfYkKc&t=1764)…
Emperor, Hostage, Despot!
Nationalist Power Dreams of Empire (#daddymakeempire) My exploration of major European ideological shifts began with Michel Foucault’s _Discipline and Punish…
Rules for Radicals
Chicago is a horribly corrupt place to live to this day (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_history_of_Chicago) Revolution for as long as I can tell meant violent popular uprisings. Consider…
What Shines
A review of The Temple of the Golden Pavilion. spoilers ahead TLDR: Can acts of destruction be virtuous? The point of this post is to consider how an act of destruction becomes moral. Whether…
Dont Let the Medium Dictate a Purpose for the Message
Recently I had a conversation that went like this: Zo: Qwelian, do you think we get AI? Me: I think it’s a pretty long shot. Maybe we get legit humanlike virtual AI assistants at best. Zo: Yeah, we…
a gift
all images are taken from Attack on Titan chapter 131, written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama. none of the media is owned by me Attack on Titan is one of the best manga to come out in recent…
Notes on Being Black and 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
100 Amazing Facts about the Negro with Complete Proof: A Short Cut to the World History of the Negro (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/338377.100_Amazing_Facts_about_the_Negro_with_Complete_Proof)…
Making Blockbuster Movies that are Ideologically Meaningful Yet Unpolished in Order to Push Your View of the World Isnt Really Enjoyable
Nolan has crafted an original story, with an incredibly relevant narrative, As we move through our climate crisis, one must ask will the future forgive us? Nolan explores this dichotomy expertly…
Black Rednecks and White Liberals
Part1 Cracker history or redneck history stemming from Scots-Irish immigrants rubbed off on southern blacks so much so that when the great migration occured the blacks brought that redneck culture to…
Deploying Transformer Models
I have found using more than 2 models is too large for most deployed containers. If you know a way around this let me know. Initial Set Up This stack will use FastAPI to serve an endpoint to our…
Consuming the Plaid API with React and Go
Plaid is a popular API that exposes a user's banking information through REST endpoints. We will make use of their service to create a REST API to create authorization information. We will then…
The Undiscovered Self pt. 2
Carl Jung has warned us of the psychic driving performed by the state and church; manifesting the warped conflict between ideals brought about by scientific progress and imperial power. The creation…
The Undiscovered Self pt 1
As social beings, humans can find themselves lost in a state of subjective annihilation resulting in what Jung terms the mass man. This “mass man” is more a function of society or the political…
