Ah! I gotta stop "disappearing." I've been very motivated on my website but not updating very often. Along with my blog as well. So many things I wanted to write about but I just forgot to actually write! It's already been a month since my last blog? Time just goes way too fast.
Recent thoughts. I've just been taking education seriously because it serves as a good distraction and reminder of why I'm here. At the very least, I am in college to learn. It feels like a lot of people forget that college is for education. 2 weeks ago on a monday morning as I walked to my 8:00 AM class I deleted Instagram, then I deleted twitter. There was no planning for this, no performative taking a mental health break! story. I just did it because I wanted to. I didn't do it to focus on education, mental health, or anything like that. I don't even know what I did it, because Instagram was my primary messaging platform for everything. But last year ago or two years ago I wouldn't have deleted instagram at all with the same excuse of its "my primary messaging platform". To be honest, instagram being "primary messaging platform" is a lie now, because no one actually messages me directly anymore. The only messages I get are from 3 people consistently sending me reels, and group chats I am in that I do not interact with that all. I have a spam instagram acconut that I was doing what I said I would do: start using the app like how people used to use it: making random posts 1 photo square posts. But I won't be keeping up with it I guess
Well what changes did I notice? Well not much, there is probably a benefit somewhere. It does make me happy I am finally able to not always be hyper-updated in the lives of others. Particularly this one guy I absolutely hate. Oh, I just realized I could write an entire blog about this one dude I cannot stand. The gist of it is that in high school he used to be so mean to me for no reason, but in college he started to see me as "cool" so then he tried sucking up to me, and basically copying anything I did. I know this stupid guy from volleyball, and half of the reason I hate him is because he would be such a fucking dick in volleyball. Actually, I haven't played volleyball since last year, and while most of it was just losing motivation and interest, I won't lie that he made it unbearable to play because he was in my friend group. He was not great at the sport, but always wanted to give me advice, and would do it in the most annoying way possible. He would even give advice to people (way) better than him! I talking about people who won championships.
Lastly, for someone who always talked big he would NEVER live up to it. For example, he would want to play front row so he'd ask to switch, I'd say yes, but then he wouldn't switch back. And he was swing straight into the net, because even though I feel bad for saying this, he is 5'3 with no hops. Of course short people can still play front row, I'm not much taller than him. But he doesn't exactly have a good vertical jump. He had a big ego problem, he was not capable of playing for fun: get mad, give you dirty looks, but mainly stay completely silent with a big fat frown on his face. But tying it back to instagram: This guy was chronically on instagram! I think he had to have had 5 hours on the app DAILY! Anytime you saw an instagram reel he'd probably have already liked it. He'd repost a fuck ton of stuff, and post on his stories oh god his stories were so bad. "We won the tourney and our entire team slept at 5 and was hungover lmaooo" <-- Something he actually posted. I could go on and on but maybe I'll save it for next time.
I guess I have been watching more youtube, but I always liked doing that anyways. Overall still a net positive. With less things to do on my phone there is less reason to use it. I am playing more games recently, completely addicted to Smash Ultimate. I've actually been playing more and more since around october of last year. With my friends we would go and play on his switch. I don't have a switch, so I use an Emulator on my computer and connect my roommates ps4 controller to play. Cost me 0 dollars to play, fuck u nintendo. Playing through the new Planarcadia on hsr is nice too, and playing puella magi madoka magica on my psp..
Some other things I think I wanted to journal about is AI. So today in class during a engineering lab class, the lab was stupidly made. It was a matlab lab, they told us about how AI is a useful tool, and basically told us to use google gemini, copy and paste the code we were provided and ask AI "what does this code do"? and then made us write a short paragraph about what the AI told us the code did, then they warned us and said "don't use AI to generate your code and stuff use it as a good tool" and that if you use AI make sure to put it in the appendix.
Ok sure whatever, but then they just threw us into the second part of the lab which was basically more time wasting: Explain what this code does, then do the code. I thought it was stupid because why did they even make me waste my time using AI and writing the first part of that lab. I actually spent more time writing explanations than actually working on the code, than coding itself. I didn't even need to use the AI, since I know matlab code pretty well. But even if I didn't why not just throw us into the second part of the lab, and then just teach us... what the code did? Plus, it's mainly retards who rely on AI so much, they're gonna use AI to code, they’re gonna fail and not get far at all, just like how they’re gonna fail in life. I hate those who use AI for everything because you already know just from how they use it they are so incompetent, lazy, and uninspired.
But with AI I have different views about it too. I get annoyed when people are just vehemently anti-AI and they get all their information from tiktok. For example, my university announced it was building an AI research center. Keyword, research, because it's not a data center. But all the comments on LinkedIn, instagram, and reddit was just brainless college students saying "oh great water and energy prices going up, wow you guys so evil, evil capitalism". And the funny thing is, if they just using their eyes and read, they would've been able to see it was a research center dedicated to learning about the "ethics, morals, and safety of using AI." So it was literally stuff they probably would've agreed with anyways. But who am I to expect American university students to be able to read.
Additionally I was browsing the neocities reddit one day when I've been seeing some conversation about AI. One was someone who used AI images on their site, got called out for it, then deleted their site (AI images are incredibly gross, but this person got kind of witchhunted but whatever it's not my business) what did pique my interest though was a post about someone asking whether it's ok to use AI to learn HTML. It turns out they were someone who was very inexperienced in anything computer related. Many comments were of the mild side, saying don't generate your entire page using AI because that's cringe, and I agree with that. But some people said you shouldn't use AI at all and never. My input is that AI is ok to use if you are confused and want to ask "What does this line of code do?" But never use it to create images, or create your entire website. I think all people who want to learn HTML can start with W3schools and the other resources there are in the world. But AI is awful at creating but it is good at answering questions.
Anyhow, I'm gonna write a part 2 of this later
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