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My name is Maria. I'm a software developer and AI researcher. I'm an avid note taker and a digital gardening enthusiast

And this is my digital garden 🌳 I happen to own quite a few of them. Recently I had an epiphany that I should try to keep some amount of my notes in HTML format, for it shall swiftly outlive every other technology I use now

In the next section I will share some insights on how you should live your life

Living a Life

I. HOW TO BEGIN. Arthur Ashe

• START WHERE YOU ARE
• USE WHAT YOU HAVE
• DO WHAT YOU CAN

II. HOW TO PROCEED. Richard Hamming

• WORK ON SOMETHING IMPORTANT
• BE EMOTIONALLY INVOLVED
• TRY TO MAKE A TOUGH PROBLEM INTO AN EASIER ONE BUT STILL IMPORTANT
• FOCUS ON DOING! DON'T DEPEND ON SHEER LUCK

II. HOW TO END. Marcus Aurelius

• YOU ARE THE ONE WITH THE UNIVERSE
• WHAT'S NATURAL IS GOOD FOR YOU
• REMEMBER ALL THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE YOU

I think I learned this from an old Unix documentary I found on YouTube...

• Quasi-category | Wikipedia
• Higher Category Theory | Wikipedia
• Process Calculus | Wikipedia

This page was made in Neovim

Why is Neovim a superior editor?

• Scriptable in Lua (not Elisp or Vimscript!)
• Lua is the best language
• I memorized Vim key bindings so well I can't use any other edytore animor
• So many edits you want to make are a series of %s-s
• Macros
• I also love vifm a lot, which is a two-pane directory editor file manager Midnight Commander clone with convenient (aka vi-like) key bindings, and so my vifm and nvim shell out into one another a lot

Why not original Vim? I have a story to tell about that. I started using Vim many, many years ago when I just started the exploring Linux thing. The default suggested command line editor for LinuxNewbies is nano

I can't say I like nano. I feel silly when I use it. Using Vim was more pleasant: I just entered insert mode whenever I opened a file and got a much more decent editing experience, almost comparable to gedit

I eventually learned how to use Vim properly, but then I entered my Lisp phase and couldn't afford editing in Vim anymore, because I needed Emacs

I can't say I like Emacs's default keybindings. Learning them is cool because by learning them you automatically acquire extra shell command editing skills. The built-in vi¹ emulation modes - and I think Emacs has three of them - weren't very good. Thankfully, there's evil-mode which I liked so much I couldn't come back to Vim anymore

¹ Sic, not Vim

Neovim is so much better than Emacs with evil-mode though

End of story

Also, Neovim has a very cool VS Code integration

my $academic_plan;

I had to fill_this_in in_a_hurry, and I didn't pick the numbers carefully, but these are the figures I have to achieve now