A journaling experiment for March 26-30th, 2018
I am live-blogging my entire process and thought patterns around work this week. Follow along!
Posts:
- Sat at 10:46 - Fixing Bushwhich
- Fri at 14:03 - Searching files and filenames with ag
- Fri at 08:57 - Carbon Zerow
- Wed at 15:51 - Thesis and Open Source Cities
- Wed at 14:08 - After lunch
- Wed at 12:26 - Social Networks
- Wed at 11:39 - Roadtrip to Pittsburgh
- Wed at 11:21 - Monteregian hills, larks, and Mohawk
- Tue at 11:52 - Tuesday morning
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Writing up a review and summary of the Language Endangerment Index used by endangeredlanguages.com, I had a wonderful experience. I didn’t like the fact that the LEI waved over some issues with language assessment raised by the other standards - in particular, by the UNESCO standard, which specifically prohibited counting up all of the measurements of the numbers into a single stat - and assigning a single number to a language as a measure of its endangerment. I found this to be qualitatively interesting as a method for fitting a square into a circle-shaped hole, but not exactly the most scientific approach to complexity, and to not be well backed up with reasons besides that they were building an assessment index.
Then, I found Grenoble’s response, which summarised my feelings much better than I could have, and using the appropriately hedged scientific language (unlike this blog, which is not academic and which should be taken with a grain of salt). It was immensely satisfying to have my doubts validated.
And the writing continues. Ten pages since last week this time.
I also just sat down with my friend Ruy, in the midst of writing this post, to discuss the now upcoming Open Source Montreal meetup! Probably on April 9th, this will be the first meetup just about open source, language agnostic, in Montreal. I’m excited for it - I had thoughts about running a FLOSS event in each city I visit, through @opensourcecities. I wonder how this will go.
Next up: it’s 1600. Time for a long break, because the 1600-1800 hour gap is almost never productive for me, no matter how hard I force it.