From b03a002bce552485b47d3bb89b5ccd7a0e9b4e26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Duncan Wilkie Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2023 07:44:09 -0500 Subject: Forgot to sync this a bunch of times. --- dnw/static-pages.scm | 31 ++++++++++++++++--------------- dnw/theme.scm | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) (limited to 'dnw') diff --git a/dnw/static-pages.scm b/dnw/static-pages.scm index 578e009..bc49b10 100644 --- a/dnw/static-pages.scm +++ b/dnw/static-pages.scm @@ -20,12 +20,15 @@ influences-page)) ;; TODO: tags-template +;; TODO: convert static pages to ox-haunt; maintaining manually the SHTML is a pain. ;; building index-page (define about `(section (@ (id "about")) (div (p "My name is Duncan. I live below the Mason-Dixon.") - (p "I write down thoughts I think are interesting here.")))) + (p "I write down thoughts I think are interesting here; the content is mirrored to " ,(hyperlink "http://dnw.i2p" "I2P") " and " + ,(hyperlink "gemini://functorial.xyz" "Gemini") + " . I couldn't make heads or tails of Tor onion services; email me if you know how to marry a torrc with an nginx.conf.")))) (define (recents site posts) `(section (@ (id "recent")) @@ -60,22 +63,21 @@ "with dual degrees in math and physics, and have at various times been employed as a dishwasher, maintainence guy, tutor, " "data science intern, embedded developer, and research scientist. I am currently unemployed.") (p "Had I my druthers, I would like to be able to make a career out of decentralized science, " - "doing physics research and teaching not dependent on the state or the university system and their insidious pollution" - "of the discipline. " + "doing physics research and teaching not dependent on the state or the university system. " "In the interim, I'm in no way above contributing to society more directly. Hire me; I'll learn anything. I have a " - ,(hyperlink "/assets/cv.pdf" "terrible CV") " you can read.") + ,(hyperlink "/assets/cv.pdf" "CV") ".") (h1 "Academic Interests") (h2 "Physical Science") (p "I've planned on studying physics since I was 5. I enjoy studing almost anything that's natural and dead, " "and all my other interests are largely subsidiary to this. " "I like the areas where physics intersects with math, particularly when it does so in mathematically-exciting ways. " - "I also " (emph "loved") " my classes about emergent phenomena: thermodynamic, statistical, and condensed-matter physics. " + "I also " (em "loved") " my classes about emergent phenomena: thermodynamic, statistical, and condensed-matter physics. " "I spent the latter half of my time working under Jeff Chancellor's Space Radiation Transport and Applied Nuclear Physics " "(SpaRTAN physics) research group, doing embedded design of radiation detectors and writing improvements for transport code.") (h2 "Mathematics") (p "I view math primarily as a tool for physical science and philosophy in general. " "Accordingly, I want to get to the frontier of the discipline as fast as possible: I probably will need to make new tools. " - "The only domain that seems not to have borne much practical fruit, except as a " (emph "target") " for developing " + "The only domain that seems not to have borne much practical fruit, except as a " (em "target") " for developing " "\"real\" tools, is number theory. " "However, I particularly like topology/geometry and algebra, and would prefer if analysis and discrete math borrowed " "as many of its tools and methods as possible.") @@ -102,18 +104,17 @@ (h2 "Praxeology") (p "There simply is not enough time in a person's life for autarkic, first-principles generation of every part of every thing " "one's primary interests depend on. " - "It is critically important to understand and verify those steps, but it is necessary to outsource their production. " - "In order to understand the principles under which this outsourcing occurs, why it's even possible at all, " - "and how it need not be vicious, one must study the category of action. " - "Austrian economics, and more generally praxeology, does so correctly. " + "Nevertheless, understanding those parts is important, even critical. " + "A general understanding of human action, particularly of catallactic action, is understanding of this outsourcing itself. " + "Austrian economics helps one act in the world—explicating the function of social institutions as no other approach. " "The critical error of conventional economics, as with many social- and life-science disciplines, " "is thoughtless application of the methods of physical science, without careful consideration of whether the philosophical " - "conditions the correctness of those methods depend are present. " + "conditions on which the correctness of those methods depend are present. " "These fail spectacularly in analysis of action: the wants and desires of humans are not immutable, comparable quantities. " "However, Austrian economists tend to thoughtlessly reject methodological precision due to superficial association " "with these historical fallacies. " "A mathematical, in the truest sense, grounding for the reasoning of Mises, Rothbard, and Hoppe " - "is a longstanding pet project of mine. ") + "is a longstanding pet project of mine.") (h2 "Foundations: Philosophy and Theology") (p "All of this again rests on some foundational definitions and propositions about the nature of reality, truth, reason, mind, " "beauty, and morality. " @@ -121,8 +122,8 @@ "I am metaphysically an ardent platonist, and believe that analysis of the problem of perception in a platonist context " "contains parts identifiable with mathematics and science. " "This analysis, however, carries little further: I am attracted to methodological anarchy, which holds " - "that there is no essential distinction between practice, philosophy, teaching, and history of science (and mathematics)." - "Anything and everything there is fair game—and many scientific revolutions are the result of such foundational assaults.") + "that there is no essential distinction between practice, philosophy, teaching, and history of science (and mathematics). " + "Anything and everything there is fair game—and many scientific revolutions are the spoils of such foundational assaults.") (p "That the philosophical tradition which created the modern world emerged almost exclusively out of Abrahamic religion, " "and that its sustaining manifestation is almost exclusively owed to Protestant Christians, carries tremedous weight with me." " I see no essential difference between these theological premises and philosophy, save methodology—" @@ -166,7 +167,7 @@ (define influences `((h1 "Influences") - (p "Anything and everything I can think of that's affected how I think. ") + (p "Any and every third-party I can think of that's affected how I think. ") (h2 "Blogs") (h2 "Books and Monographs") (h2 "Scholarly Articles") diff --git a/dnw/theme.scm b/dnw/theme.scm index 69688bc..fd17cb0 100644 --- a/dnw/theme.scm +++ b/dnw/theme.scm @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ (define nav-bar-tabs '(("Me" "/pages/me.html") ("Friends" "/pages/friends.html") ("Influences" "/pages/influences.html") - ("Projects" "/posts/tag/Project.html"))) + ("Projects" "https://git.functorial.xyz/dnw"))) (define dnw-title "Through the Heart of Every Man") @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ ", a static site generator written in " ,(hyperlink "https://gnu.org/software/guile" "Guile Scheme") ". The source code is available " - ,(hyperlink "https://github.com/Antigravityd/functorial.xyz" "here") + ,(hyperlink "https://git.functorial.xyz/dnw/functorial.xyz" "here") "."))) (define* (base-template site body #:key title) -- cgit v1.2.3