As we move about the world, we develop a sense of the experience of moving in the world. There is a faculty of the mind we might call reason. Reason is not the same as rationality, we’ll get to rationality in a minute. It would be better to say that reason is observance of connections between things.

I’ve been reading and thinking a lot about Quality lately. Thanks to finally delving into Robert Pirsig’s Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. A novel with such a now-kitschy title, one that spawned countless other Zen & …. books.

SO I am attempting to do GPU passthru from my windows 11 laptop. Currently, invoking a –gpus all or whatever, doesn’t work. You get an error about no nvidia devices. This is weird, as I’m trying to use an AMD device.

Ideas are more easily critiqued when concretized from the realm of the mind, into plain reality. In short, to condense the formless into form is the only way to be sure about its shape, and consequently, how to chisel & polish.

As a followup, I have finally gotten shared_memory working with python’s multiprocessing module.

There are a handful of patterns about the mind that can be viewed through the shape of a calibration process.