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My journey to stop typing like an ape and improve my typing speed.

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A couple posts back I shared an experiment I was doing with some machine learning models, to make a novel tool for language learning. Specifically, I was interested in creating an Interlinear Audio Bible , where each verse in the Bible is read in two different languages — first in the listeners’ native language, then in the language they’re learning. As I explained in that post, the go

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A few years ago, when I wrote a post about the history of Smallpox , I… got a little obsessed. I went DEEP down the rabbit-hole, learning everything I could about how smallpox affected people, families, and civilization. In the event that you and I had any long conversation during that time, I almost definitely spent some of that time talking your ear off about it. (sorry, not sorry) I thou

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When a new project, decision, or chapter-of-life comes our way, there also quite often seems to come a simple but nearly-invisible choice for us to make: We can chose the easy path , where we proceed “the way we’ve always done it”, going forward well-founded on the ideas and knowledge that we’ve already acquired and tested over the years… Or, we can chose the more sc

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I find myself holding a couple aspirations in increasing value as the years go on: The first of these is the minimizing of “noise” — of distraction, of clutter, and of that which fruitlessly wastes attention. The other is the maximizing of “signal” — those rich and value-filled experiences, learning opportunities, content, and relationships. Pursuing these seem to be more a

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These past two weeks I had the supreme honor of taking the Permaculture Design Course on the Greening The Desert project in the Dead Sea valley, Jordan, where they have succeeded in turning a plot of completely dead desert land into a thriving food-generating ecosystem. It was incredibly cool. I had such an great experience meeting amazing people, and learning amazing things about caring for creat

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“If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come .” ~ C.S. Lewis in his 1939 sermon, Learning in War-Time

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Skill and concern mixed together can be powerful, and there are people today with seemingly more of both than ever. In almost any field you can list, you will be able to find someone who is at least 10x more skilled than you, and 10x more concerned than you are. I think it’s worth learning from those people. How does someone 10x as concerned as you approach the problem you’re facing wh

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For those who weren’t able to be a part of the final peace camp evening, or who want to re-watch my Learning to Dream Again session, here it is! So glad to get to meet you all and to be able to spend some time with you!

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Hi! 👋🏻 I’m Josh Müller . I love technology, leadership, restoration, learning and creating new things, and living a full and beautiful life! This is my Hello page — how I prefer to keep in touch, and why: Email 📧 is the best way to contact me. You can start an email conversation with me from my contact page 📃 . Or, if you want to encrypt your email with PGP , you can use my 🔐 Public Key

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While I mentioned a few weeks back that I'm now recovering from AI Psychosis , that doesn't mean I've given up on the technology completely. I'm writing more emails, and engaging with human beings as much as I can, and that part's been great. I still use agents as a glorified typewriter to generate code, and still very much get my hands in the dirt and sling code myself. I've also gotten quite obs

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An ancient methodology for learning, which formed the basis of classical education in the Middle Ages and Rennaisance.

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Mahsa Abdollahi and colleagues use microphones and machine learning to estimate honey bee colony strength without opening the hive—arguing that audio IoT plus edge-sized models could give beekeepers a detailed picture of colony health while we are only beginning to learn how to listen.