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changeset 11: 9f4fb0ad2731
parent 10: 5ae7a67b209e
child 12: 6b286d6cf099
author: ellis <ellis@rwest.io>
date: Sun, 19 Nov 2023 22:12:35 -0500
files: hello-world.org
description: web
     1.1--- a/hello-world.org	Sun Nov 19 21:07:54 2023 -0500
     1.2+++ b/hello-world.org	Sun Nov 19 22:12:35 2023 -0500
     1.3@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
     1.4 #+TITLE: hello world
     1.5+#+AUTHOR: Richard Westhaver <ellis@rwest.io>
     1.6+#+OPTIONS: ^:nil toc:nil num:nil html-postamble:nil
     1.7+#+HTML_HEAD: <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.xz.style/serve/inter.css">
     1.8+#+HTML_HEAD: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://packy.rwest.io/style/css/new.min.css"/>
     1.9+#+HTML_HEAD: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://packy.rwest.io/style/css/terminal.css"/>
    1.10 
    1.11 If we've spoken recently I may have mentioned this new venture, but I
    1.12 certainly didn't communicate my intentions well. Now is the time to
    1.13@@ -45,13 +50,13 @@
    1.14 + UConn graduate 2016 (economics+philosophy)
    1.15 
    1.16 For most of my life, music has been my muse. I played piano and drums
    1.17-in the school bands, played gigs in the local scene and in college
    1.18-started gravitating towards digital recording, sound design, and the
    1.19-process of making music. I started to recognize all the little things
    1.20-about music that made it so attractive to me: Composition, Rhythm,
    1.21-Design, Creativity... All these fundamental concepts, which weave
    1.22-between eachother to produce a piece of music. It's something I started
    1.23-to think about deeply and apply to other mediums -- most importantly,
    1.24+in the school bands, gigs in the local scene and in college started
    1.25+gravitating towards digital recording, sound design, and the process
    1.26+of making music. I started to recognize all the little things about
    1.27+music that made it so attractive to me: Composition, Rhythm, Design,
    1.28+Creativity... All these fundamental concepts, which weave between
    1.29+eachother to produce a piece of music. It's something I started to
    1.30+think about deeply and apply to other mediums -- most importantly,
    1.31 computers.
    1.32 
    1.33 Programming, in many ways is music to computers. Programmers /are/
    1.34@@ -86,10 +91,23 @@
    1.35 myself.
    1.36 
    1.37 * Philosophy
    1.38+I wasn't a Computer Science major at UConn. The only programming I did
    1.39+in a classroom setting was in a statistics class in a program called
    1.40+Stata. As is the case with other self-taught hackers my idea of
    1.41+computer systems and how they should operate is probably worth
    1.42+explaining to avoid confusion.
    1.43+
    1.44+I call this section /Philosophy/, because I want you to question
    1.45+it. Philosophy is the way things are from the leisure of a single
    1.46+man's armchair, so I encourage you to pick it apart for yourself.
    1.47 ** Computers
    1.48 ** Compilers
    1.49 ** Companies
    1.50 * Next Steps
    1.51-We have a long way to go. 
    1.52-** Code
    1.53-** Services
    1.54+We have a long way to go. The important thing is to keep up the
    1.55+momentum. Before the start of 2024 you can expect another update on
    1.56+some of the projects below.
    1.57+** the.compiler.company
    1.58+** infra
    1.59+** core
    1.60+** nas-t