Learning Journey

I started the year with a lack of idea generation; I didn’t use any creative risks and barely even changed other people’s ideas at all. I simply shared what others had created. I wanted to learn how to create my own content, and the best way to do that would be taking other people’s work and building it into a better, more compact version. I would take the information, and decide what is necessary to…

I created an article last week involving a tutorial on using a voice chatbot, like Siri or Cortana. I formatted the article to include a list, which are useful in the Google search engine because they take advantage of snippets. These are the little boxes that appear in your first result of the search, and usually give you a good, straightforward answer to your question. These are, however, bad for your website, as they prevent…

While I was writing my linux commands article, I thought about how people should know how to operate computers at a fairly advanced level. The commands are a foundation of being able to know your way around a computer; you know what to do when someone says “make a file” or “move to the ____ folder”. This will allow you to take full advantage of a machine, and will give you a basis on understanding…

These past few weeks, I’ve been writing articles for people to read. And read they did; I got, like, 40 views! In the process, I had to decide what I wanted to write about. The general theme of my site is a tech tutorials, but with the limited number of articles I will write in this time, I don’t want to have a meaningless site that instructs users to plug their computers in and click…

During my IDS check-in with my mentor, I she asked if I provided any sources on my learning journey. I do add links to my posts for further reading, but for tutorials, I don’t cite any sources. The reason I don’t do so is because I don’t need to; it just works. If you follow the tutorial and have faith in what I am saying, it will all work out. I think this is similar…

In the past week, I have started my blog. I chose a company (BlueHost) to host my website, and also created and am hosting my domain on it. It is a company owned by EIG, a MASSIVE international web hosting company. Companies having a large amount of control over the market allows them to provide an all-in-one package that I have used. The problem with this is that they can have hidden fine print to…

Fundamentally, humans and current AI models are different. They synthesize information in a different way. One uses knowledge, memories, and consciousness to make thoughts and turn those thoughts into speech. The other uses the average word that comes after another one in that specific context. For this reason, many refrain from using AI to write articles, or to help write articles for them. But why? AI might think differently than humans, but that’s not a…

The explosion in ChatGPT’s popularity has had a massive impact on students, teachers, and anyone who uses the internet. It’s an advanced language model that has sounds almost exactly like a human. People have found many uses for it, including having conversations or writing human-like articles (more on that later). One limitation of AI that I looked at was it being trained on data from the internet, which includes blog articles (Like mine) among others.…

I did more research into the way websites are hosted; what services, packages and and budgets are required to do so. On my journey to doing so, I discovered that there is a website called WHOIS that makes information on domain registrants private. Luckily, I chose a domain provider who makes that private for free, but there are providers that charge extra $$ per month just so you don’t have your address, phone number, and…

This week, I investigated methods to gain views and “impressions” on instagram. The @raspberrypiDIY page is doing well. The past few weeks, I’ve posted 1-3 times a day, everyday. My growth has been fairly consistent, and, frankly, I thought it wouldn’t go this well. I am crushing my goal of 500 followers by the end of the month, and I will launch the website this week. I plan on using the Instagram page to promote…

I decided I wanted to change topics, and did research into the way websites and brands can get promoted, specifically blogs. I used a variety of sources, and thought about the effect algorithms have on our consumption of content. Last month, I did no IDS related to animation. I have lost interest in the topic, and am working on a re-submission form for my topic. I hope it is not too late to resubmit, as…

This is pasted from OneNote. (enemy of the people) What did you do? I watched a long, dense video on different principles of animation. (And did anything but IDS for the rest of the month) (12 principles of animation – alan becker)  I was watching this long video on principles of animation, highlighting the different basics that I would normally not even think of (Think drag in capes, or a person’s arms stopping a moment…