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Things I'm trying to create iteration assemblages for with varying degrees of success: Telescopy Astrophotography 3d printing Soldering Working with arduino+breadboard Breakfast burrito making
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Here's one that's got weirdly complex: simply reading a book. Fiction on Kindle is easiest. Just kindle by the bedside, with charger. Read a bit every night. Non-fiction that I want to live tweet? Add the phone to the loop. Paper books? Just awful. Photos of pages 🤬
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I should call iteration assemblages "object circuits" or even better "widget circuits" since that would apply to digital as well. Widget circuits!
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Widget circuit engineering is an object-level (widget level?) meta-cognition skill in its own right, and really hard to acquire. It might be the "learning to learn" skill.
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Failure to appreciate the complexity of it is I think what leads people to gadget-happy shopping spree. The hope is that by just building a completist collection of everything associated with a skill, the learning loop will magically take off. It doesn't.
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Aka Homer Simpson barbecue pit syndrome. Many of my learning projects are in this condition. All the parts are there. Just not in the right arrangement, and possibly irreversibly screwed up.
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I'm pretty proud of myself for pulling together what for me is a pretty massive widget circuit for astrophotography: 1. Telescope 2. Camera adapter 3. SLR (advanced use) 4. Phone adapter Ran aground when trying to add stacking software to the loop: Macs have crappy options
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To level up, I have to either find software that works properly on Mac, or learn painful manual stacking on photoshop, or somehow run a Windows thing in an emulator. That defeated me. I'll get to it eventually.
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Only one I tried is Lynkeos and that seems to have broken due to lack of maintenance. At least it didn't work on my image set. There's a couple of paid apps I'm considering trying next. Here's the list of options I'm looking at
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