About
Hello and welcome, my name is Ryan and my philosophy is known as autodidacticism. I have been a hobbyist programmer since the turn of the millennium. In the past, I successfully taught myself how to program in C/C++, grew advanced with Perl, but ultimately my formal language of choice became Python, and as a result, the predominant paradigm you’ll see me implement in this blog is of the imperative rather than declarative variety.
I like to explore many different types of programming, and I love learning new things constantly. My autodidacticism spans multiple fields with varying levels of expertise and so my direction is as a polymath.
Greetings in Esperanto
Saluton kaj bonvenon, mi vidas, ke vi trovis mian blogon. Mi nomiĝas Rajano, kaj mi ŝatas programi komputilojn, ludi pianon kaj lerni lingvojn. Mi ankaŭ lernas paroli Esperanton flue, sed mi estas nur komencanto nuntempe. Mia filozofio estas konata kiel aŭtodidaktismo.
My Profession Of Faith
I also run a christian blog at sevenshepherd.github.io and a custom programmed and automated Twitter based Christian ministry at @SevenShepherd that has been running successfully since 2016 from a custom built raspberry pi single-board computer.
Recommended Books
| Programming | |
| Julien Danjou | Serious Python (2018) “Black-Belt Advice on Deployment, Scalability, Testing, and More” |
| Al Sweigart | Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python (2020) “Best Practices for Writing Clean Code” |
| Ronald T. Kneusel | Practical Deep Learning (2021) A Python-Based Introduction |
| Python Documentation | Standard Library, Language Reference, HOWTOs |
| Physics & Chemistry | |
| Richard Phillips Feynman May 11, 1918 to February 15, 1988 |
Six Easy Pieces & Six Not-So-Easy Pieces “Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher, Einstein’s Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time.” |
| Dr. Michio Kaku January 24, 1947 |
Hyperspace, Parallel Worlds, The God Equation, Physics of the Impossible “Parallel Universes, Time Warps, the 10th Dimension, Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel” |
| Nivaldo J. Tro | Principles of Chemistry - A Molecular Approach |
| Financial | |
| Clason, Kiyosaki, & Sun Tzu | The Richest Man in Babylon, Rich Dad Poor Dad, The Art of War, Toshimoku’s Trading Tips & Tricks |
| Philosophy | |
| Metaphysics, Epistemology, & Virtue Ethics | Plato’s Phaedo, René Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy, Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching by Gia-Fu Feng, Emperor Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations (Hays, 2012) |
| Recreational | |
| Dr. Raymond M. Smullyan May 25, 1919 |
What Is the Name of This Book?, To Mock a Mockingbird, The Lady or the Tiger?, A Beginner’s Guide to Mathematical Logic, A Beginner’s Further Guide to Mathematical Logic |
| Bobby Fischer, Nick de Firmian & Paul Van der Sterren | Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess (Childhood), Modern Chess Openings (2008), Fundamental Chess Openings (2009) |
| Tim Owen & Judith Meyer | Complete Esperanto “Learn to read, write, speak and understand Esperanto (Teach Yourself)” |
| Esperanto Links | Dictionary, table words, phrases, names, vikipedio, lernu, duolingo |
Recommended Artists
Inspirational Quotes
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” — Aristotle, Metaphysics
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” — Theodore Roosevelt, “Citizenship in a Republic”, a speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, France (23 April 1910)
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — R. Buckminster Fuller, Beyond Civilization: Humanity’s Next Great Adventure (1999), p. 137
“Don’t fight forces, use them.” — R. Buckminster Fuller, In Shelter (May 1932)
“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” — Charles R. Swindoll
“It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.” — Epictetus, Book II, ch. 17. of Discourses
“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” — Isaac Asimov Ph.D. Chemistry, Professor of Biochemistry, “Science Past, Science Future” (1975) p. 208
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” — Oscar Wilde, A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.” — Charles Addams
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