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Feeling less sleepy nowadays. It was all those late nights and my going off coffee binges that probably led to the lethargic mind I had last week. Not to mention needy relations and family members in trouble and needing help. I was lying in bed half asleep for hours a day and buzzing from my room to the fridge every now and then, to stay sane.

After a good run and today's walk, my body feels regulated and healthy again. Exercise is so important when you're being blamed by evil witches like the Liew 6.

Redrawing my book cover was a big boost. I had no ideas for as long as the book was written and no money to hire an artist / designer who might charge $100 for it. I've seen many books with substandard covers that look generic and childish, a bit garishly Photoshopped. And I knew I wanted something better, just that I were a poor judge of my own style and I could never render a complex life-like scene myself or choose the right font(s) so I started dotting pixels in by hand and the result is pretty interesting -maybe somebody will browse its summary now.

Also, FastCN is fast becoming a reality the more I work, think of it -my concept is doable and useful for literacy in China. And the whole thing is free and open source. Don't really want to say GPL as that is protection that the software WILL always be 'FREE' and free is defined differently than normal. Just say you can do whatever you like with it, would be more useful and uncomplicated, IMHO.

The Simple Inclusive License by Yap : "Silly" -it says -free- in all senses of the word for anyone to do -whatever- (anything at all) they like with it. No warranties or guarantees implied as... nobody wants to check -free- stuff to death even if they paid me.

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FastCN is getting debugged. It's fast but not accurate and error prone. But I'm confident it's going in the right direction. All the indices were adjusted. Many are out of whack from not thinking well anymore. Fortunately it isn’t that complex for a fudger to figure out. Some minutes to kill before workout time. Could have a look at the code, I guess.

Time for my workout then iPad a bit before bed. I got the indices corrected and there is some logical output at long last. Now I have to concentrate on being clever with the 3x3 matrices to get more specific results. Lag is minimal.

Going on a long walk…

I’m stuck at home till 1pm since Dad wants to buy us lunch and it may rain at noon while the laundry’s out. Earlier, I took a prune laxative as I was backed up yesterday. Was effective. Coding is going slow due to prevention but the applet is so simple, it should get done by tonight. Was thinking of reducing the stroke dictionary to just the standout ones. The rest can be entered by the user, typing a longer string. The key here is memory improvement, not finding characters quickly, for which I wrote chiCN some years ago.

Will probably ride to the downtown mall then walk to the previous station to get some exercise in. Need breakfast badly. Had a slice of bread with Caesar dressing. Nose pimple popped, no longer sore / inflamed. Noticed I don’t need as much food lately. Pushing 50, I am cutting down eats and coffee too.

Think I may be getting Mom’s gastritis. Stomach’s churning a little despite the sandwich I just ate.

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Back from over an hour out to the flea market and walked some way back in the sun. Not too hot as there were plenty of clouds. I saw the satellite image of the cyclone that passed over north Malaysia, peninsular and it was huge. No wonder it rained virtually non-stop the past 2-3 days and today it's tail of clouds is left behind. Ditto the volcano erruption in Ethiopia which blew dust all over the Middle East and into India.

 

Wore my Garmin out. Nobody noticed it or me mostly, Dressed in earth tones. Bought Mom a small present as she was feeling underappreciated. Butt hole got stretched by evil kid geniuses and I was worried I smelt but I didn't. Came home and dabbed -it was clean.

 

Feeling a bit more energetic after the exercise and parts of me had a chance to heal tho the witchy Liews tried to follow me all the way there and back. Must do this again next week.  

All heaven…

3a - - 1 ䷀

 “Creative Action. Sublime success. Persistence in

the firm and correct is advantageous” —dr w k chu 

TABLE OF YEARS 20XX : (,/‘) We are Balanced.

Today, it’s the half moon, a balance of sorts between yin and yang. It is also 3a in the ABY which is the above excerpt.

It is also heaven upon heaven. 3 unbroken lines repeated. And once again, we head into uncharted waters when intrigue happens. That will be tomorrow and go on for 4 days. 6th or 7th December may be better for ventures and romances.

Tomorrow, a long walk in the sun is planned provided the digestion works well. May take a laxative tomorrow morning -dried salt prune chopped and several glasses of water.

 

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As per the I-Ching, I designed a new cover for my Christian eBook. Yea, "creative action" and "persistance" won the day. I have a unique cover unlike any others. Looks something like this:

I'm not sure how I chanced upon the design but I did it all myself, including drawing all the letters in the title pixel by pixel. Originally, I wanted 2 characters on the cover -the master and the seeker but it turned out to be Peter with his sword. Then I used an oilify filter in the GIMP over and over until the edges turned curved thus more natural-looking. Quite proud of this one. Almost pro grade.

Black Friday is tomorrow...

We'll be hitting the mall -which one we haven't decided yet. I have plans to get Dad something nice. Maybe a light nylon weatherproof jacket. The ones that look puffy and are a bit below waist. Could use a hood too.

Mom got her Sloggi undies and I got my Garmin smart watch. Will go online and scout out the prices now. Brush at 11:30pm and sleep by midnight.

Found a good jacket from Columbia for circa 160RM. It just might do. Dad’s growing old and tired of being rained on.

Worked out at half past midnight. Feeling better. Somehow not sleepy. Will write on X now.

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We were at Mutiara. I got Dad his jacket for 79RM at Decathlon. Came with a hood. Also got my government aid money, 150RM. I have 250RM to spend on myself this coming December, maintaining 500RM in savings and 500RM in my wallet.

The jacket is thin and light, soft but water repellant. Saves getting wet in the increasingly wild weather this end of year.

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Managed to get cleaned well. Showered. Rewrote FastCN’s matcher to be more to spec and maybe a little bit faster. Now I have to draw 38 (sub)strokes, 3x3, index them, and decide where whitespace must be.

Made dinner for the folks. Just vegetable soup and canned kurma with bread. Mom brought out leftover chicken on the bone in ginger sauce. It was a quick and easy meal. My grand aunt called about her cholesterol. We’re all growing old. Sometimes it’s our fears and lack of hope that cause our troubles. It is easy to life-change with some help from a holistic practitioner.

FastCN progresses…

I found the energy to resume coding my Chinese spelling tutor app. Last night, I began to look at bitmap fonts and this afternoon, I rendered each char as a .png. Now I need to render strokes in pure B&W. with no anti-aliasing. Then tonight, will finish the compare algorithm started yesterday morning. It’s a very simple one, and I’m quite proud of it.

More later…

We’re near wrap up on the Python applet. I will be doing array comparison which is fastest but I also need to care for whitespace around the match of 1s. Otherwise it would be inaccurate lots. Half past 3pm. Fought off cancer threats made by Moslem insurgents fired up by the Liew witches. They are close to losing the battle for their lives, and control over the world thru sin.

Still wearing my Garmin exclusively since I got it last week. I have still been watching watch videos on YouTube, tho. How the other half lives and how the less affluent WISes (like me) live.

 

Am working hard on FastCN. Got all the bitmap arrays written to file, which is over 100MB long. Searching thru 100MB of data for a series of patterns is gonna take a while tho. It may take maybe 5 seconds for a char to be found from the stroke patterns entered.

There are waterworks going on outside our road. Seems to be peaceful. Am laying low as it seems my neighbors are plotting against me, using the workers who are rougher. Thus do the Liew witches maintain their clean hands, and screw the underclasses. It is so blatant for everyone to see.

Thinking the way to generate calligraphed characters is to compress then expand them, with a slight perspective bulge towards the left. Will try to do this in ImageMagick now, before drawing all those 38 strokes which is boring. Almost 9pm.

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Failed to generate Chinese calligraphy. Scrap that idea for now. The applet is now operational tho rough round the edges. I tried to enter all the strokes as 3x3 matrices. Not sure if that will give an adequate match in all cases.

Mom’s undies are arriving, today or tomorrow. Hope they’re comfy. 10RM, once 60RM.

Quite a bit of tweaking to do before its ready to release as beta.

 

Back from a brief run. Feeling less lethargic, more alert. FastCN is running and producing results. But they're most off a bit. This is one of my smallest apps: just 100 lines of code plus a 100 line dictionary in vertical. As expected a full search thru 140MB of data does take a bit of time. Almost 6 seconds to match ONE char.

Mom’s parcel from Singapore is arriving today. Maybe 2-3pm. Taking a break after a stressful few minutes when I suspected my BT keyboard got hijacked. Had to restart and set up everything again. Wonder how this could have happened on Linux? Thought it had malfunctioned. Recovering from this shock will take an hour or so (I am living with stroke).

But I think I know what’s wrong with FastCN now: bad string offsetting.

Am tackling the offset issue now. May need to loo again later but it’s not urgent.

 

All's good. Now I can concentrate on coding. I never saw such a torrent of search results -there is still something wrong with the applet.

 

Past 9pm and the results are usually 30k characters. Something is wrong with the stroke arrays. Will fix this tomorrow morning or later tonight. I'm not sure. But the matching is pretty fast. About 3 seconds per character. And this is on a 10-year-old computer.

 

Almost 11pm. It's a bit late for debugging. Took my meds and will brush and turn in by midnight.

 

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Made good headway on the app. Drawing the strokes now. about 70% left to go but we're getting there. Took a laxative this morning, early, as I was constipated since yesterday. Selecting / excerpting the strokes is proving tricky.

Rainy morning / feeling less sleepy...

There is flooding here in Malaysia as the rain seemingly hasn't stopped for the past 24 hours or more, depending where in the country you are.

I think sleeping at 3am was what gave me tiredness during the day. Last night I slept earlier and this morning am feeling fresh. Going over old thoughts, chidings, injustices. Sometimes unabated gloom carries feelings of darker days (the deluge?) and witchy forces of Liew et al come to capitalize.

Nevertheless, I hope for a break in the weather and the visit the upscale mall later in the morning. Now just past 9am.

Almost 11am and it's stopped raining. Checking with Dad on the day's plans. May be going to the mall for lunch.

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I was watching a video on Calvinism vs. Arminianism. Basically, it concerns salvation by grace, by spirit, by supernatural power -not by works at all -versus- salvation as all of the before, but with the fallibility of the human heart involved. This was then taken a step further as 'proof' that God is fallible and so is Jesus. Finally, it blames us for God's fallibility. Obviously Calvinism leads people who are good to be more good and bad to be bad forever. Obviously Arminianism leads people who are anything in between to do or die trying. And we must strike a balance because of the Bell curve. Do not tell me, we (including myself) should ever give up preaching to the world, to the sinners? Do not tell the elect to stop fighting the good fight -it is in the bag? Do not tell sinners they will go to hell as it is predestined? Nay, we are all part of the world "God so loved" and we must go on doing what we believe. For God so loved the world -that He sent His son Jesus that we might all STOP the nonsense? Not really, that we should all stop sinning? Nor that, but that we should bustle about the new teachings and profit or lose as our hearts are made or were learnt, yea even to unlearn and profit more -to be wise as the sun and moon shine. He loves us all -and has given us HOPE.

This must be my longest paragraph ever! 

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I am coding blindly or generally, allowing the img compare algorithm to just work or fail. I do hope it will be efficient tho.

Coding now past midnight. Worked out briefly and am feeling okay. Liew witches using kids to spear our heads. We fought fire with fire and the witches are wounded with stroke. 

Time is not a variable in physics…

https://ckyap.substack.com/p/a-look-at-time?r=3lktmw

Time is not a vector or one side of a plane i.e. space-time. Time is a self-measured, self-contained property of the system measuring decay-growth. The fact that we have speed is a given. We are measuring a set of positions in space against fixed time. In acceleration, we are increasing the distance between positions linearly, or quadratically. Imagine, hyper acceleration. In the case of hyper acceleration, we see time for what it is: a constant we check against, not at all microseconds ticking by. It ticks because it’s a clock, not because time is moving. How can ‘time’ itself move? A system may move but not a property, an abstract created property. We cannot move time but only move ourselves and our machines by distances against it.

There is also the question of matter, anti matter, dark matter. The universe has space, and space is held open by matter of a sort. Space has ‘air’. Actually, space cannot exist without mass. Mass is what forced things apart into systems. Systems that gradually decay. That contain time. Like an exploding star seeds new stars, a giant mass of hydrogen and helium pushed apart space. Then because of time it contained, within its previous system, its machine, a new solar system began to form according to the property, the abstract quantity which is constant time.

The fact that time is a reason for life and planets, and stars, is to say there was and is a translation between dimensions. Time is 2 dimensions intersecting. The intersecting of dimensions is power, the various forces. So far every explanation for force points to an intersect of systems present with those unseen. And they are unseen because of the quantity, time, a granularity visible at the tearing point of space and the systems it holds within itself.

Just a hypothesis.

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