PyCharm Edu

This one of JetBrain's products. Written by some of their Czeck developers. PyCharm is their Python product. PyCharm Edu teaches you how to use it.

When I read where these guys were from, I was strongly tempted to not use it. But now I have spent some time using it, I am impressed!

I even looked up the Czech Republic in Wikipedia, to see where all these smarts came from.

Agricultural Robots

These were simply called Agricultural Machinery but in today's terms, they would be called Robots.

Many companies and many people in the Industrial Midwest were employed in making them, and now they are used in all of the affluent countries.

An example is a threshing machine, that also employed a team of horses and a number of men with pitchforks. Robots can also include other things in an integrated system.

But they tend to reduce the number of additional things required as they get improved. An example here is the modern Combine.

The only exception I know of here is the rice paddies where wheeled vehicles could not be used - but I have not searched rice farming machinery, to make sure.

Crypto as the Ultimate Good

Bitcoin News

This a carefully reasoned article about the philosophy behind Bitcoin. And explains why it attracts such fervid support.

I have felt this way myself but found its implementation to be seriously flawed. Perhaps in 20 years, or so, these problems may be fixed, but right now it's a can of worms.

Quite Often, I do not Like People

This mood comes and goes, but when it comes it can be powerful.

I know other people can feel this way, but they do not often admit it, as if it were something to be ashamed of. By contrast, I feel it is natural in many situations and has to be expected,

It can be carried to extremes, certainly and this why people should feel free to express it occasionally.

One common way is through sports, where care is usually taken to keep violence within bounds.

Expressing anger towards parents (or any authority figure) is a common problem, and quite often it is handled poorly and leads to more violence.

Little Awareness

This was one of the goals of Meditation, to become more aware of one's surroundings and become more aware of one's self.

But this goal has been forgotten in the search for more pleasure instead.

This change has also caused us to become less aware that we have become less aware.

There does not appear to be a solution to this.

Nauvoo in the 19th Century

We don't know much about this. It was a ghost town, with few people in it. The Temple had been destroyed and only a few brick houses remained.

Emma Smith, the wife of the founder, Joseph Smith, had married another man, Major Bidaman who had no interest in Religion.

He rebuilt the Nauvoo House, that only had two walls standing, into a fine three-story building. Emma lived there until she died in 1879. She tried to operate it as a hotel but failed at this.

There were poor roads to Nauvoo, and most people arrived by Steamboat. Emma's sons had moved, with their wives and children, to Plano, Illinois, and then Lamoni, Iowa to be with the RLDS Church.

This church developed an interest in Nauvoo early in the 20th Century (I need some dates here) and they dug up the bones of Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum, placed them on display, then covered them with Cement.

The Laytons (relatives of ours) were hired to restore the Mansion House but had to tear most of it down.

Our family moved to Nauvoo in 1922, then the depression made Ourths move to Kirtland, Ohio, where our Uncle Jack found them a job managing a Millionaire's Farm. After WWII, they returned to Nauvoo and bought a farm. Arnold Ourth died trying to make it work.

Google Colab

Welcome to Colaboratory

This makes it easy to do Jupyter Notebooks, which I have heard a lot about, but never got into.

But first I have to get into Python, a very popular software language, that is used for all the newest AI  and ML developments. I have a good book Introducing Python for that.

I will also get help from O'Reilly Books Online.