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sometimes I leave tabs open for entirely emotional reasons.
Why have these been open for weeks? What does it say that I couldn't get rid of them?
flancian was asking after my admittedly hare-brained scheme to organize my notes by the [astrological houses](#astrological houses). the impetus is entirely this:
The thing that's really beautiful about astrology, about Tarot, about palm-reading: they have crystallized a way of looking at the world. Divide up all your concerns in life into weighted categories, please. How will you do it? What is the [Huffman encoding](#huffman coding) of your life?1 If it were me, an embarrassing thing to admit is that I could probably devote one whole twelfth to The Explaining of Systems, as with whiteboarded box and line graphs, or awkwardly non-linear emails. In a sense, divination is a way of reminding me to not weight these concerns too heavily: family, travel, partnership, romance, money, friends... each of these has its slice of the medieval sky. Intellectual concerns, work success, they have lines on the palm, stars and houses-but their part of the distribution is limited. The transient metrics that can define my day at work are nowhere to be found: Latency is not given a Tarot card, nor CPU utilization a planet in the sky.
Anybody else feel like johnny decimal would require way too much... idk, commitment? I guess now I have the bash skills to rearrange things if necessary.
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I'll also here note that it is one of the great sorrows of my time as a CS student that [information theory](#information theory) was given such short shrift. ↩︎