From a7da57c0736bec58d1fc4ec99d211099c31bb45f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Preston Pan Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 19:26:59 -0800 Subject: new content --- journal/20231208.org | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ journal/20231209.org | 13 +++++++++++++ journal/20231210.org | 17 +++++++++++++++++ journal/20231213.org | 13 +++++++++++++ journal/20231214.org | 14 ++++++++++++++ journal/20231215.org | 12 ++++++++++++ journal/20231217.org | 12 ++++++++++++ journal/20231220.org | 12 ++++++++++++ journal/20240110.org | 13 +++++++++++++ journal/20240123.org | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ journal/20240124.org | 17 +++++++++++++++++ journal/index.org | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++-- 12 files changed, 190 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 journal/20231208.org create mode 100644 journal/20231209.org create mode 100644 journal/20231210.org create mode 100644 journal/20231213.org create mode 100644 journal/20231214.org create mode 100644 journal/20231215.org create mode 100644 journal/20231217.org create mode 100644 journal/20231220.org create mode 100644 journal/20240110.org create mode 100644 journal/20240123.org create mode 100644 journal/20240124.org (limited to 'journal') diff --git a/journal/20231208.org b/journal/20231208.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3c207bc --- /dev/null +++ b/journal/20231208.org @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +#+TITLE: Daily Journal +#+STARTUP: showeverything +#+DESCRIPTION: My daily journal entry +#+AUTHOR: Preston Pan +#+HTML_HEAD: +#+html_head: +#+html_head: +#+options: broken-links:t +* Friday, 08 December 2023 +** 17:31 +Recently I have decided to start using emacs again, and this website is therefore +going to be updated much more. I have learned a little bit of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian +mechanics, and I am trying to learn some quantum mechanics as a result. I have my amateur +radio license now so I want to get my advanced amateur radio license. + +Also, I am kind of failing out of University because I don't really like any of the classes and +I obviously know a lot of the math and physics already, as well as a decent amount of programming. +I don't really know what University has to offer for me other than the paper, but it makes the +whole thing feel really pointless. Maybe I'll start a company, or starve on the streets, who knows! +** 21:57 +I'm just with my friend Jude right now because I am demonstrating the power of emacs and how it +can do journaling automatically and add it to my website which is integrated with all my other org files. diff --git a/journal/20231209.org b/journal/20231209.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..419f2a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/journal/20231209.org @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +#+TITLE: Daily Journal +#+STARTUP: showeverything +#+DESCRIPTION: My daily journal entry +#+AUTHOR: Preston Pan +#+HTML_HEAD: +#+html_head: +#+html_head: +#+options: broken-links:t +* Saturday, 09 December 2023 +** 18:37 +Today I lost my charger but later my friend Lucien returned it to me. He has the same computer +as me and I therefore lost some time today. However, it is fine because I managed to read +some of my quantum mechanics book. diff --git a/journal/20231210.org b/journal/20231210.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c64278a --- /dev/null +++ b/journal/20231210.org @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +#+TITLE: Daily Journal +#+STARTUP: showeverything +#+DESCRIPTION: My daily journal entry +#+AUTHOR: Preston Pan +#+HTML_HEAD: +#+html_head: +#+html_head: +#+options: broken-links:t +* Sunday, 10 December 2023 +** 15:21 +After not using my computer for a day due to not finding my charger, I have finally found it. I am now working on some quantum mechanics. +Specifically, I am trying to wrap my head around the Schrodinger equation and how that relates to position and velocity. I understand +currently that the time-evolution of the system is governed by it, and I understand how to solve the equation for certain assumptions. However, +I am unclear as to how Fourier Transforms have a connection to quantum systems. +** 21:10 +I have worked a lot on the website; I am currently attempting to figure out how to make it look good instead of bad, and I want to add a navbar. +I also probably want to reformat how I'm doing some things in org mode. I have a favicon now but it isn't good. diff --git a/journal/20231213.org b/journal/20231213.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..376f61f --- /dev/null +++ b/journal/20231213.org @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +#+TITLE: Daily Journal +#+STARTUP: showeverything +#+DESCRIPTION: My daily journal entry +#+AUTHOR: Preston Pan +#+HTML_HEAD: +#+html_head: +#+html_head: +#+options: broken-links:t +* Wednesday, 13 December 2023 +** 14:06 +Today, I am meeting my friend Matthew. +** 19:32 +That meeting is done. I played some really good piano and I think now I am going to work on the mindmap more. diff --git a/journal/20231214.org b/journal/20231214.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bfd05b1 --- /dev/null +++ b/journal/20231214.org @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +#+TITLE: Daily Journal +#+STARTUP: showeverything +#+DESCRIPTION: My daily journal entry +#+AUTHOR: Preston Pan +#+HTML_HEAD: +#+html_head: +#+html_head: +#+options: broken-links:t +* Thursday, 14 December 2023 +** 13:46 +Yesterday I had good conversations with many of my friends; I talked a decent bit about the Null +Philosophy with my dorm friends and I talked about the mindmap with Matthew Hinton. In any case, +I did not really work much on the mindmap yesterday so I believe I will do so today. I also need +to get my advanced license. diff --git a/journal/20231215.org b/journal/20231215.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9be750e --- /dev/null +++ b/journal/20231215.org @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +#+TITLE: Daily Journal +#+STARTUP: showeverything +#+DESCRIPTION: My daily journal entry +#+AUTHOR: Preston Pan +#+HTML_HEAD: +#+html_head: +#+html_head: +#+options: broken-links:t +* Friday, 15 December 2023 +** 13:31 +I went on an early morning run at 4 today; it felt really really good and I want to do it again. I then +woke up very late. diff --git a/journal/20231217.org b/journal/20231217.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6a70d9e --- /dev/null +++ b/journal/20231217.org @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +#+TITLE: Daily Journal +#+STARTUP: showeverything +#+DESCRIPTION: My daily journal entry +#+AUTHOR: Preston Pan +#+HTML_HEAD: +#+html_head: +#+html_head: +#+options: broken-links:t +* Sunday, 17 December 2023 +** 23:21 +Today I talked with my friend Jude and I also did some electrodynamics problems. We tried solving for the magnetic +field equations with special relativity and the Coulomb law as a postulate. diff --git a/journal/20231220.org b/journal/20231220.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8605381 --- /dev/null +++ b/journal/20231220.org @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +#+TITLE: Daily Journal +#+STARTUP: showeverything +#+DESCRIPTION: My daily journal entry +#+AUTHOR: Preston Pan +#+HTML_HEAD: +#+html_head: +#+html_head: +#+options: broken-links:t +* Wednesday, 20 December 2023 +** 16:35 +Shit is a little bit fucked, but I don't really feel that bad which is good. I do not know if I am going +to university anymore. diff --git a/journal/20240110.org b/journal/20240110.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..86465ca --- /dev/null +++ b/journal/20240110.org @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +#+TITLE: Daily Journal +#+STARTUP: showeverything +#+DESCRIPTION: My daily journal entry +#+AUTHOR: Preston Pan +#+HTML_HEAD: +#+html_head: +#+html_head: +#+options: broken-links:t +* Wednesday, 10 January 2024 +** 16:39 +I have remembered that journaling capabilities existed in emacs again. I've been working on a programming language +called stem for the past 6 days, and it's finally looking like a finished project. It is a stack based language +and it has a foreign language interface and metaprogramming. diff --git a/journal/20240123.org b/journal/20240123.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d86dc5b --- /dev/null +++ b/journal/20240123.org @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +#+TITLE: Daily Journal +#+STARTUP: showeverything +#+DESCRIPTION: My daily journal entry +#+AUTHOR: Preston Pan +#+HTML_HEAD: +#+html_head: +#+html_head: +#+options: broken-links:t +* Tuesday, 23 January 2024 +** 02:13 +I have decided to write in my journal yet again. I've been working on a programming language ~stem~ for the past +few weeks, and it has been exhilarating. I plan to add much more functionality to the programming language, as I +am already attempting to implement object oriented programming for it. Additionally, I have had ideas about how I would +implement a compiler for this programming language, and I have thought about writing a new lisp dialect based on +this language. + +In other news, I have become a University drop-out. I am still visiting my old university UVic from time to time, but I +am no longer enrolled in any classes at UVic nor am I staying there long term. I don't really know what I'm going to do. + +I found that university was utterly stiffling and didn't allow me to pursue my own interests. Additionally, I found that +many of the professors were unwilling to help me. Therefore, I dropped out. +** 11:34 +I just woke up. I will do my agenda tasks and then try to go to a BCIT convention to try to do some job-hunting. I'm pretty +excited for this. diff --git a/journal/20240124.org b/journal/20240124.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1b10e38 --- /dev/null +++ b/journal/20240124.org @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +#+TITLE: Daily Journal +#+STARTUP: showeverything +#+DESCRIPTION: My daily journal entry +#+AUTHOR: Preston Pan +#+HTML_HEAD: +#+html_head: +#+html_head: +#+options: broken-links:t +* Wednesday, 24 January 2024 +** 13:43 +For lunch, I ate rice and vegetables, mainly cauliflower, and two eggs. I plan to take my protein in the night, and I need to +get more protein soon. +*** TODO Get more protein +Vega to be mixed with milk. +** 15:44 +What's weird is I think my journal might be a little broken; I wrote the thing above yesterday. Oh well. I am also looking into +changing my website's css to make it less ugly. I also need to buy some vega protein. diff --git a/journal/index.org b/journal/index.org index bfdcb46..290f751 100644 --- a/journal/index.org +++ b/journal/index.org @@ -5,10 +5,18 @@ #+date: <2023-06-09 Fri> #+language: en #+OPTIONS: broken-links:t -* Journal! +#+html_head: +#+html_head: +#+html_head: +#+html_head: +#+html_head: +#+html_head: +#+html_head: +* Introduction This is my journal. It's basically my everyday life from a technology perspective (not many personal details although -there will be some). +there will be some). I will also be posting some TODOs that I have +throughout time. ** Entries Here is a list of all my journal entries: @@ -23,6 +31,17 @@ done #+end_src #+RESULTS: +- [[file:20240124.org][20240124.org]] +- [[file:20240123.org][20240123.org]] +- [[file:20240110.org][20240110.org]] +- [[file:20231220.org][20231220.org]] +- [[file:20231217.org][20231217.org]] +- [[file:20231215.org][20231215.org]] +- [[file:20231214.org][20231214.org]] +- [[file:20231213.org][20231213.org]] +- [[file:20231210.org][20231210.org]] +- [[file:20231209.org][20231209.org]] +- [[file:20231208.org][20231208.org]] - [[file:20230711.org][20230711.org]] - [[file:20230704.org][20230704.org]] - [[file:20230625.org][20230625.org]] -- cgit