{"id":2057,"date":"2017-01-02T13:52:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T21:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2017-01-02T13:52:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T21:52:20","slug":"2016-year-in-reverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2017\/01\/2016-year-in-reverse\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Year in Reverse"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Previously<\/a>, previously<\/a>, previously<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

So, 2016 was an interesting year for me. (It was an interesting year for a lot of people.) I moved to Berkeley, landed 19 commits in the Rust compiler<\/a>, and had my trust in the sanity of the people around me re-shattered into a thousand thousand bloody fragments. (The pain of this last is exactly what I deserve for allowing the trust to re-form after the last time.)<\/p>\n

In 2016, this blog saw 77<\/em> posts and 65<\/em> comments. Among these\u2014<\/p>\n

It turns out that not everypony can be like Applejack<\/a>. I have money<\/a>. I went to a Star Trek<\/em> convention<\/a>. Bros<\/a> will be bros<\/a>. I took a break from blogging<\/a> following a moment of liberating clarity<\/a>. I went to RustConf<\/a> and San Francisco Comic-Con<\/a>. Some have<\/a> concerns<\/a>. You miss your beloved exactly because you can't model them well enough to know what it would be like if they were here<\/a>. Destined best-friends-"forever" are still subject to the moral law<\/a>. The map is usually<\/em> not the territory<\/a>. Living well truly is the best revenge<\/a>. It turns out that thinking sanely about politics has a surprising number of parallels with writing a chess engine for fun<\/a> (although the former activity is far less common). I'm kind of an asshole<\/a>. There exist some less-common reasons to detest American football<\/a>. If you wait too long to write something, you might lose your chance<\/a>. Trade-offs and competitive forces continue to shape our lives even if we would prefer they somehow didn't<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What can readers of An Algorithmic Lucidity<\/em> look forward to in 2017?<\/p>\n

Well, it's looking to be a really exciting year for me, both intellectually and<\/em> biochemically, for reasons that I can't talk about because I'm trying to minimize the sum of number of friends lost and bricks thrown through my window. (Only two so far!)<\/p>\n

So, I don't know; maybe this'll become a math blog or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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