diff --git a/posts/2020-08-07-hello-world.md b/posts/2020-08-07-hello-world.md index 3b573ee..788e803 100644 --- a/posts/2020-08-07-hello-world.md +++ b/posts/2020-08-07-hello-world.md @@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ I invite you all to follow me on this journey. Apart from programming, I used to enjoy heavy-lifting in a local gym. It is not possible now do to [Carpal tunnel syndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpal_tunnel_syndrome) I've got the last year. Please do not let that happen to you! +_Update (2021):_ the illness has gone. Me love playing computer and board games with my imaginary friends. My favourite PC games include C&C series, TES series, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series, Bulletstorm, Carmageddon and [many more](https://store.steampowered.com/app/331470/Everlasting_Summer/){.secret-link}. @@ -99,7 +100,6 @@ On my 24^th^ birthday, I've recorded a [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q ---- I think that's enough for an introductory post. -Now you know a little bit more about yourself. +Now you know a little bit more about yours truly. See you around,
-Vlad. diff --git a/posts/2022-04-12-whats-next.md b/posts/2022-04-12-whats-next.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5737316 --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/2022-04-12-whats-next.md @@ -0,0 +1,167 @@ +--- +title: What's next? +location: Moscow, Russia +templateEngineOverride: md +excerpt: Yet another day to live in this Universe +ogType: article +--- + +It is not the best place. +There are problems, of course. +These are not the best people. +And _I_ could've done better, of course. +Does it get worse? +It depends on how you look at those things, and at what angle. + +## In the beginning was + +> Humanity is a biological bootstrap for artificial intelligence. + +Yeah, so what? +Play your role, as did your ancestors. +It is because of them you can experience. +Be grateful son. +Only then you may expect the same from your descendants. + +I have no idea how it ends. +Damn, I don't even remember how it all began. +Is it all different now? +What do I know at the moment? +I can not be honest with whom I love. +Constantly choosing: betray me, or any other. +To be or not to be. +I want to trust us both. + +It's just a matter of trends. +Remember twenty-twenty? Black squares on profiles, kneeling, riots, blood on the streets. +It was back then and now we have the other to mourn about. +Can we compare then and now? + +I can't. +I'm neither proud nor happy with who I am. +I've taken it for granted. +I shouldn't have. +Hourglasses with souls in the centre. +Which direction does the time go? +Does it really matter? + +Where are you, all of your experiences? +These are just words, forms, and glyphs of constraint. +The invisible reason, the greatest costume. +Those who envision, for them the tide turns. + +I wouldn't complain. +It does not matter whether it goes worse. +The outcome is clear: \. + +## On warfare + +Death is _terrifying_. + +A Buddhist is aware of the mind-bending term [non-duality](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondualism). +Death is as terrifying as life is... +Life is what? +What's the non-duality of terrifying? + +For me, that is peace. + +Warfare begins when humans forget the value of peace. +When people are bored and overdosed with the constant flow of hormones, a war shall begin. +To remind you of what you've taken for granted. + +Look at the history books. +How often does this happen? +Can you compare? +This is how the clock goes by. +During the wars, those who opposed become closer. +The one who is suffering is now my friend. + +This is what _is_ terrifying. +This is also the definition of peace. + +> WAR IS PEACE. +> FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. +> IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. + +## OSI-compliant + +In the [previous article](/posts/2020-08-16-system-programming-in-2k20/) I believe that I've covered my position quite thoroughly regarding open-source software. +Two years have passed, and I may now conclude that it indeed became worse. + +_Open Source_ is now a brand. +That what was an act of selfishness-less back then now is a marketing channel. +Complexity for the sake of complexity, long-running maps and tonnes of bugs. +Selling the dream, as it always becomes. +Companies pay when they have to. +It's the nature of business. + +If we continue in the same fashion, all the software is going to rot per Convey's law, and you _are_ witnessing it. +Recalling the bootstrap metaphor, you'd want the machine to be healthy. + +But can a mind rot? +It's just the body that goes, and the light is shut off at the moment. +What follows is that the new generation of humans--_homo technica_--will have a much greater life span. +We couldn't imagine how far it may go. +Oh, the paradox of Theseus the cyborg. +The parts will be replaced, as the software evolves. + +That is what is happening with open-source; machines are steadily taking over with technology like [Copilot](https://copilot.github.com/) and [MuZero](https://www.deepmind.com/blog/muzeros-first-step-from-research-into-the-real-world). +I don't know what kind of job is waiting for us after then. +But it's our duty to train AI generations to come, as of ancestors. + +At some point, AI goes all the way down to the instruction level for the sake of efficiency. +Classic computers are left for classic problems. +Quantum (and) analogue processors for the win! + +For now, with open-source being a job for us many, there is progress, and there is also despair. +Take Zig, for example. +It is subjectively human-unfriendly because of its syntax. + +However, it's only on the surface. +Truly, Zig is really simple and powerful! +Andrew loves what he does. +And when a product is loved, it is majestic. +Serenity, mold, Deno. +Remix and Substrate, Tauri, Ganache. +A new era of software. +Isn't that awesome? + +Anyway, the code written by humans will inevitably become a one-off textbook. +Unlike us, this scholar won't forget. +So, behave. + +## On ambitions + +As time goes by, I now reckon that the most joy I get is from _new_. +Switching technology, approach, place, habits. +I've tried everything from lowering to LLVM to designing a resilient ultra-scalable fleet of FAAS workers. +From games to event-driven stock price prediction. + +Oh, that feeling of freshness. +Once technology is understood, it becomes boring. +It's like surfing on waves of technology trends, on the surface of the greatest whirlpool of _singularity_. + +By _understood_ I mean not entirely known, e.g. all quirks of the hell-born Rust code, no. +Understanding means fundamental, decomposed knowledge enough to implement a solution at any scale. + +For me, it's not about learning API of yet another web framework, it's learning how to read source code efficiently, so that I may choose the best framework suitable for the problem. +If I were to compile my 10+ years of experience into one sentence, that would be the following: + +::: hero + +Right tooling is paramount. + +::: + +Considering the _"no human-level programming language matters in the long run"_ thesis, I'm now seeing [Onyx](/onyx) as a try-and-hit game. +Just for fun, and just for the sake of feeling that I'm doing something important, to brag on interviews, to call it _Magnum Opus_. + +Anyway, what I really want is to experience human love at its fullness. +No technology brings me closer to that desire. +My extra-wide knowledge does. + +
+ +Perception is subjective, and for me, it is just an infinite stream of experience. +At some point, infinity ends. +Until then.