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{{REDACTED}} Meta: It’s late as I’m writing this and there’s a lot of personal stuff interspersed throughout my journal, so I’ve decided to redact it all.

I am tired! I have not been posting for the last week, as I had procrastinated on many assignments and the end of the semester had been coming up. I had my math exam on Monday, and I believe I performed well. I have a history exam tomorrow, and I stayed up late tonight to study. I have had a problem with excessive amounts of X and {{REDACTED FOR CAREERIST REASONS}} and whatnot for the past few days. I read an article on lesswrong today about procrastination that I thought was interesting. I’ll leave the details to the article, but the takeaways are that the easiest actions I can take to reduce procrastination are to reduce the delay between doing the good action and getting a reward, increase the expectation of getting a good result from the good action, and increase the value of the good result. I feel as though there are nuances to accomplishing that, but I am tired, so I will end this entry here. {{REDACTED FOR CAREERIST REASONS}}. I also met with [[person_simon_bergeron]]. Tomorrow I wish also to work out. Finally, I wish to enable LaTeX embedding into my website. ...

I’m sort of screwed when it comes to school right now. I procrastinated on my photography and french CCAs, both of which were due a few days ago and both of which I am not yet finished. I must finish those soon. Today in the morning I learned about Haskell, rewrote my math test (I think I did better than last time), then in computer science I goofed off and played games with my friends instead of doing work, and then in French I worked on my french CCA (I think? I can’t really remember). When I came home {{REDACTED FOR CAREERIST REASONS}}, asked Claude to teach me how to solve a time-dependent schrodinger equation for a time-independent schrodinger equation, did that for a bit, {{REDACTED FOR CAREERIST REASONS}}, then did french history CCA stuff, and now this. Overall like 3/10 day. ...

Today was an okay day. I finished my ICS3U CCA, did some of my photography CCA, and did some math review. Tomorrow I have a math rewrite for exponentials. I feel like I’m sort of being crushed by work because I had a french and photography CCA both due yesterday that I did not do, so I’m sort of screwed, there are three days left before exams “start” (my first exam is next monday though) so I must work. {{REDACTED FOR LEGAL REASONS}}. {{REDACTED FOR CAREERIST REASONS}}. I also read some of good sleep, good learning, good life by Piotr Wozniak. I only read the summary and the part about the clock and the hourglass but basically: ...

L’égalité est-elle nécessairement juste ? (Translated to English) Is equality necessarily just? Taken from this nice list of 1996-2025 Philo Bac prompts To begin, we will consider equality to be that two identical inputs receive two identical outputs. Now, whether this equality is just, depends heavily on your definition of just: does justice mean that punishment is allocated mostly in proportion to the damage done, or that punishment is allocated mostly according to the actions taken. In the latter case, equality necessitates justice, but in the former case it does not. Let us consider two people driving down the road in heavy rain, making them unable to see clearly what is in front of them. Suppose that a farmer’s cow wanders on to the road in front of the first car, and is struck, and killed. In the latter definition, the just judgement would be to not punish the driver, as given the same information as the second driver they made the same judgement. This, however, leads to an issue when we consider the farmer’s perspective. Surely for the farmer, it matters little whether the driver did or did not intend to kill their cow, the core issue is that they had a cow and that cow is now dead as a result of the actions that the driver took. So, from the farmer’s perspective, this is not just. This is the core conflict: ...

{{REDACTED FOR CAREERIST REASONS}} I did a little bit of work on my ICS3U culminating interpreter and on my IEEE qCCL poster, but not a whole lot. I wrote my MCR3U sequences and series test today. I was tired because yesterday I slept at 23.00 PDT, and had to wake up at 04.00 PDT for school, it’s technically 21.29 PDT right now but I probably won’t get up until 06.00 - 07.00 PDT tomorrow, so I’m good. Crunch time. This weekend I have to do: ...

I didn’t do a lot for most of the day, then in an hour I did a lot. Tomorrow I must work more.

I slept in today, spent a while in the bathtub, missed the bus, my dad drove me to school and I missed announcements. I took some photos for my photography CCA in the rain, got really wet, finished most of last night’s math homework, went to math class, then went to computer science, goofed off and did no work, went to French, goofed off some more, came home, {{REDACTED FOR LEGAL REASONS}}, {{REDACTED FOR LEGAL REASONS}}, {{REDACTED FOR LEGAL REASONS}}, {{REDACTED FOR LEGAL REASONS}}, {{REDACTED FOR LEGAL REASONS}} then wrote my philo bac response, and then this. I didn’t work out today or work on my poster. Priorities for tomorrow in order: ...

Chercher à être heureux, est-ce une quête égoïste ? (Translated to English) Is searching for happiness a self-centred quest? Taken from the happiness section of the 1996-2025 Philo Bac Prompts The self-centeredness of happiness depends on its specific form. Namely, there are two main types of happiness: pleasure and fulfilment. Pleasure is happiness in its most primitive form, while fulfilment is a more abstract, less direct form of happiness, less common in creatures outside of humans. Things that cause pleasure vary little from person to person and are much more clear and consistent in their causality, while fulfilment is dependent mainly on the innards of one’s own mind. One does not imply the other: a rich man can feel unfulfilled with his life despite being able to fill every material desire, while on the other hand a poor man can be at peace. They are not mutually exclusive, but they tend to be inversely correlated, as too much pleasure can make one unmotivated to seek fulfilment. These definitions may lead one to believe that fulfilment is the more self-centred mode of happiness since it’s less dependent on the state of the outside world than pleasure, however often pleasure is zero-sum in nature. If I eat this piece of cake, you cannot also eat this piece of cake. In addition, fulfilment is very often dependent on helping others, while pleasure, being much more scalable, can also be automated with much greater effectiveness while cutting out others. Thus, we can say that lasting happiness requires others, while temporary happiness does not. Leading us to rephrase the above as: ...

Hello guys! I worked out today (Upper B) for the first time since last week, had two meetings, and then goofed off for pretty much the rest of the night. Today I also started my computer science culminating assignmetn. Here’s Claude’s summary of my night from my browser history (all times in EDT): ~19:30–19:45 — Podcast / Reddit wind-down Started on Reddit reading about indie podcasts — CGP Grey’s “State of the Workflow,” the Unmade Podcast, Hello Internet, Cortex, 99% Invisible. Poked at 8090’s Software Factory / {{REDACTED FOR LEGAL REASONS}}, briefly and checked your 8090 Google Calendar (week of June 8). Looked up Jeff Dujon (Unmade host). ~19:45–20:10 — Admin & paperwork ...