Osamu Tezuka is the guy who made Astro Boy.
Monthly Archives: October 2022
New KDE Plasma widgets
So I upgraded my Ubuntu from 20.04 to 22.04. That mostly went without problem but there are still a few gremlins to iron out. One change was some of the desktop widgets I was using in the previous version seem to have been replaced. I found the replacements easily enough. I particularly like the new CPU activity widget, it’s a much more sensible way to visualise 24 CPU cores than the previous widget which just gave one reading instead of 24.
Quote for the day
I would like to know more about this: “CMOS latchup was a serious problem well into the 1980s. It no longer is.” from How the FPGA Came to Be, Part 1.
Today’s reading
I’m reading a bunch of things today. Among them: a dead tree version of The Unix Programming Environment; the wiki page for Seymour Cray; and Lex Fridman’s interview with Donald Knuth.
DNS with dnsmasq
The Engineering Design Process
I’m reading Smarter Faster Better which shows The Engineering Design Process:
He Huang
I found this hilarious comedian: He Huang.
The Tao of Programming
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Bloom’s taxonomy
Today I learned about Bloom’s taxonomy as presented in How to Teach Anything: Break Down Complex Topics and Explain with Clarity, While Keeping Engagement and Motivation:
- Remember
- Retrieving, recognizing, and recalling relevant knowledge from long‐term memory.
- Understand
- Constructing meaning from oral, written, and graphic messages through interpreting, exemplifying, classifying, summarizing, inferring, comparing, and explaining.
- Apply
- Carrying out or using a procedure for executing or implementing.
- Analyze
- Breaking material into constituent parts and determining how the parts relate to one another and to an overall structure or purpose through differentiating, organizing, and attributing.
- Evaluate
- Making judgments based on criteria and standards through checking and critiquing.
- Create
- Putting elements together to form a coherent or functional whole; reorganizing elements into a new pattern or structure through generating, planning, or producing.
The SQ3R method
In How to Teach Anything: Break Down Complex Topics and Explain with Clarity, While Keeping Engagement and Motivation I learned about the SQ3R method, wherein “American educator Francis P. Robinson developed a method meant to help students really get the most comprehension from the texts they’re assigned—and, ergo, the subject they’re studying. Robinson sought a way to make reading more active, helping readers by creating dynamic engagement with books so the information stuck in their minds.”:
- survey
- question
- read
- recite
- review