Share with us what is happening in your ZK this week. December 8, 2023
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Swimming with Ideas
This is another installment of the What Are You Working On? thread. Please be courageous and add to this thread by telling us what is happening in and around your ZK journey. Join the community and enlighten us about your knowledge path trajectory. I do this for selfish reasons. It helps me clarify my goals and visualize my thinking. And sometimes, a conversation sparks an idea worth exploring. This is an invitation to you to up your participation in the discussion.
Ideas I'm exploring with my ZK:
- I have been contemplating the concept of intelligence density and its implications. My focus has been on my own intellectual capacity and how to make improvements. I have noticed a significant lack of intellectual richness in what little media I'm exposed to.
- A note requires a UUID, but the need to have it in the filename is unclear. Is this just forced on us because of a past nostalgic habit?
- My productivity is negatively impacted by a decline in focus in the evening hours. I plan to implement a new routine scheduled for 8:00 PM to steer my performance consciously. We'll see if this approach is successful.
- I'm done with Air Quality, Pollution & Smoke GEOL454, onto Young Adult Literature EDCI445 university class. I have a short winter break in which to focus on programming and woodworking.
Things I'm reading: all fiction for a change.
- Difficult loves. Calvino, Italo. 1970. - Relationships
- Heartburn. Ephron, Nora. 1983. - Food/relationship Fiction
- The path to the spiders' nests. Calvino, Italo. 1947. - WW2 Youth Literature
- Lessons in chemistry. Garmus, Bonnie. 2022. - Humor
Music I'm listening to:
★★★★★
The "My rolling ten-day zettel production" is produced by a script for attachment to my daily journaling template. I do my journaling in Bear to keep personal journaling separate from my knowledge work.
Let me know if you would like to discuss any of these notes.
My ten day zettel production
Will Simpson
My zettelkasten is for my ideas, not the ideas of others. I don’t want to waste my time tinkering with my ZK; I’d rather dive into the work itself. My peak cognition is behind me. One day soon, I will read my last book, write my last note, eat my last meal, and kiss my sweetie for the last time.
kestrelcreek.com
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Ideas I'm exploring with my ZK:
Things I'm reading
Music I'm listening to:
Zettels of the last couple of days
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I am a Zettler
@Will said:
I assume the word "us" in this point refers to you? Some of us have never put a UUID in the filename. I don't think the need is unclear: whether you need the ID in the filename or not depends on how your system is designed.
Ideas I'm exploring with my ZK
Things I'm reading
Music I'm listening to
My 30 day zettel production
Edmund Gröpl
Writing is your voice. Make it easy to listen.
That's an interesting topic for me. And I'm still searching for motivating concepts and strategies.
Edmund Gröpl
Writing is your voice. Make it easy to listen.
These are ideas I wish I'd paid more (any) attention to when I started out. I'm now working on this. It is harder than it should be. You're thinking that you want to "minimize the cost of change" is strong advice. As a Python programmer and having all my notes as separate markdown files, it is easier to manipulate them than if they were in some proprietary database format. It still isn't trivial.
A quick check on the basic formatting goal of each note having YAML frontmatter. I came to this late. I'm working on a fix.
Total files: 3719
Files without YAML: 1250
Percentage of files without YAML: 33.61%
Will Simpson
My zettelkasten is for my ideas, not the ideas of others. I don’t want to waste my time tinkering with my ZK; I’d rather dive into the work itself. My peak cognition is behind me. One day soon, I will read my last book, write my last note, eat my last meal, and kiss my sweetie for the last time.
kestrelcreek.com
Then Peter Attia and Ben Patrick are your main guys.
I am a Zettler
For a few days this week, I collaborated with ChatGPT4 on a SAML2 service provider in Python with single-logout capability. Here's the text of a LinkedIn-style post taken from a Zettel on the adventure.
🐍 Python SAML2 Service Provider Project: a productive struggle with ChatGPT4 🚀
I completed a Python-based SAML2 Service Provider using the Flask and pysaml2 libraries today. Technical difficulties and the memory limitations of the famous Large Language Model marked the collaboration with ChatGPT4. Some highlights:
one had to write
ChatGPT4 repeatedly forgot this detail--among others. It was necessary to add this correction to the custom instructions.
🤖 Collaborative Setbacks with ChatGPT4: ChatGPT's token memory limitations led to frequent context loss. Equally frequent re-statement of the programming context and the project objectives during the collaboration helped avoid the false confidence often associated with effortless learning. Instead, such desirable difficulties fostered an improved understanding and retention of the SAML2 implementation details.
🌐 Real-World Application and Reinforced Learning: Programming a SAML2 service provider with single-logout capability is a worthwhile programming exercise in digital identity management. The collaboration with ChatGPT4, despite setbacks and limitations, enhanced the learning process, emphasizing persistence and in-depth problem-solving.
#Python #SAML2 #pysaml2 #Security #DigitalIdentity #desirabledifficulty #productivestruggle
The code is available on GitHub at https://github.com/flengyel/pysaml2-service-provider
I have other adventures, but writing about them may have to wait.
GitHub. Erdős #2. Problems worthy of attack / prove their worth by hitting back. -- Piet Hein. Alter ego: Erel Dogg (not the first). CC BY-SA 4.0.
Thank You 😊. - Two good starting points for the new year. 👍
Edmund Gröpl
Writing is your voice. Make it easy to listen.
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Yes, it seems to be hard work. But the good news are: The structure of my ZK is getter better prepared for any analysis, every day.
Total files: 4242
Permanent Notes: 1000 (really, 😀)
Good Notes: 20,1 %
Definition of Good (DoG)
What’s your Definition of Good?
Edmund Gröpl
Writing is your voice. Make it easy to listen.
No relationship between my concept of "good" and metadata or any formalities is established, since I treat them as obligatory, but as necessary evils.
I am a Zettler
@Sascha
Yes, for sure. My Definition of Good (DoG) is based on formal parameters only, that can be measured automatically by a script. It describes the quality standards for a note in my Zettelkasten in a state that they can be effectively inspected.
For me it is something like a base line.
It's a perfect criteria. But how to meaure? Number of visits for this note? Number of changes? Number of backlinks to this idea? Or a key in YAML with an estimated value of 0 - 10?
But what are the criteria for high quality? (Good = High quality)
Not an easy task. And what I've learned from data science:
Edmund Gröpl
Writing is your voice. Make it easy to listen.