Misses and learnings

Berkeley, Monday, September 28, 2026 7:29 pm

Here some free flow thoughs. Although, I am in a mix boundary between free flow, usage of resources, the confort, quality and health of having water at the tap, but also stream health.

This is not really a warm up session.

And I do a lot of noise while typing.

The table might feel like an earthquake with the noise of big foot kicking debris rocks downstream.

So, this is just a stream of stupid thoughts, and not the best usage of time?

But why am I doing this, and complianing instead of focusing on the other tasks that I have to do?

And see! I just left this platform to check something I had to check in an email. It is a particular email.

I will do it regardless.

The earthquake, the table shaking, the sounds of typing on the laptop keep going on the desk. But it is not a fully continue table. Those are two tables joint north to south, with the extension west to east. I am sitting on the north side, a seat away from the window which looks west.

Directions are so helpful. But some people might figure out where they are by a reference point.

Ok. Here an award part to drop in here. I was biking uphill. Oh loved the times when I came to campus early or at peak hours. Peak hours are common hours when folks have classes or leave them. It might be annoying or fun to cycle through the crowds. Everyone, who is present, and might be not fully involved into ai, or video games, or tv, or youtube, or some kind of streaming, although not necessarily the best factor or a true indicator factor, but I think those things including social media can reduce folks’ awareness on the road or where the persons or somehow reduce her/his senses.

It might not be true. It might be that just lack of exposure to an enviroment is likely what decreases some skills. i.e. if not doing field work often, it would take a time until readjust. Or if social skills, or event skills have been gained or losed, it might take a time to bein confortable on a place. Awareness is the key thing though in everything.

What else? Oh so I was biking uphill. But default when there is human traffic I more or less figure out how to bike through the crowds. Rarely, or almost never, I by pass, unless really needed. So it takes some attention.

This evening I took a right side on a steep part of a path. Two girls were walking downhill on that side of the path.

Common driving thigs in many parts of the world, except influenced by England and in England, I believe although I have not been there. One drives on the right side of the path. One friend told to her friend to make a bit of space to the bike. Those things normally flow naturally. When I passed. One said bitch. So, I am not sure if that is how they talk and refer to themselves, or was beyond their conversation.

Oh man. Reading what ai communicates after a asking for a task can be so stupid. That is why that might not be the main purpose of that tool. One can really tell when a human being is telling storing making the stories clear on your brain. i.e. John McPhee.

This will be the most ultimate rough very rough and might be public embarrassing writing because the I am writing now as I do on a notebook. Aware where this place it, but not being careful about spell checker or grammar.

All those things are off. What can you expect, if one is thinking seriously how the brain work. Do you really think thayt I should stop the stream of conciousness of a though by a waiving red underline which is screeming for attention to correct a word.

Oh this would be too bad for somehow who reads. Because would need to recompose all those word fragments first to then see if the reader gets deeper into understanding the text. I would fully understand if a person rather gives up. And say this is trash writing. It might be true. Zero drafts are mean that way. But there is a bit of satisfaction of placing the raw thoughts on a permament place.

Oh I deleted seven earlier post from 2018 to 2019 without reading them, but after checking quickly a name, who I do respect. But there is that question of archiving things. Ok. They are drafts though.

Life goes with error and everything. Not with deleting things, isn’t that right?

Oh the prose?

How is that learned though?

Perfect. Ok.

What about the models.

The mathemathical models are interesting, and testing some ideas to cowork with Claude or any other ai current tool. I meant to cowork on a specific tasks. It is also time consuming. One stays there granting permissions for this or that. Training the model what to do, what not to do. Understanding the steps. And so on.

But analogies are for a different times. Or for now?

I was thinking about the functionality of building a model of an edification before building itself. There are different ways to narrate it. And of course several folks have different skills. The best modeler might not be the best communicator, but tht combo is good. The best modeler can describe the model in detail, and fully understand its limitation. Understand the experiences, the smell of the flowers, the feeling of the earth, the sound of the river, the mechanical issues associated to closing a sediment purging gate in a river, the full dynamics. The modeler might understand about types of rocks from a volcano, and much more. It might be startegic now as well to not give everysingle detail. The modeler knows what to simplify and what to write to make still a picture of what is on the field, or to take a decision. The modeler knows that the model, and the writing have plenty of uncertainity. The model knowns that the best true today, and the best honest work, might not stand as a fully truth days after. Because many times as usual life is beyond us. We do our best in a best way.

What is certain then?

More learnings to write from McPhee on other day. But the context of citrus tress and orchands around the area of La Crecenta, Pasadena, Glendora, Pomona, and might be more. I have not been there. But it seems I know a bit of their landscape history, orchards, and debris flows. Regarding the common orchards. I was just reflecting about Orange County. Man, I recall a conversation years ago from an Architect, I think born in San Diego, regarding how good are the oranges in South California.

I have put a full thought on that. And it is so stupid, or might so rare or so different a picture I would have had of Orange County might be from high school years. I do still love the music though, such as The Offspring. And might be more. And I am sure that the place is great. But the image is so different from what is sell in the media industry or it might be like that. I meant like American Pie film style. A good film, which I liked at its time. I do enjoy the song as well, with the same name, completely not connected to the film, and older than it, and more likely from the deep south music. I am blank in the singer. Might was McClain. That is the part of giving heads ups to any reader. Here it my be a source to purge thoughts that are on my brain. There are more things there, before I focus into another activity. I know it can be time consuming. I interrupted myself from another thought. But this information comes only from my memory. It would be extremely rarely that I stop check grammar, spelling, and particular facts. Unless that I think those facts are worth to review it. That is not my academic practice. Of course, before teaching or writing I craft it more carefully, check the information about teaching or to publish. Rarely that would be a zero draft. It might take a stream of conciousness at times. It would be bad that it is a monologue.

As in a conversation. But it has happened. The part of the monologue in conversation, and the parts of the facts as well. I try to correct those. There are levels of facts though.

Rarely something beats experience, however. But there are levels of things in life, that we believe even without evidence.

No one is a fool. Unless want to be. But more than fool, a person might be a coward. Or being afraid of something.

Ok. So, the sort of high school picture, and might be films of the time of Orange County, it might be true. Who knows? I have not been invited yet to that place, which at times a way of how I learn or visited places, or if a project is happening or more reasons. Many times starts with an invitation or opportunity though. Rarely is tourism, or just tourism for me, but it might happen. I also interested to learn more about the ranchos in California. There, it might be the Irvine related rancho? I do not know. I am recalling things from the great Joan Didion and her book, which title was something like From Where I am from?

So, I have a picture now at least further east from Orange County about the orchads and citrus trees. But a picture painted on the brain from well described and detailed non-fiction writing. I, likely, won’t paint myself that picture. I can only describe those words. I can describe much better all the Ecuadorian landscapes, and some Californian landspes I have been at.

But that opens the question about oranges from that county and might consuming those? I have not paid attention or consume that many lately, although I got some not so long ago, and it use to be one of my favorite fruits. The orange. Also the toranja, or pomegrade? What is the right name? Man, this might be embarriasing to be out there, just streaming thoughts.

It defenitely open questions about place and fruit type. The idea of the oranges, orchads, and some houses with huertos is a great idealistic conception, which somehow is actually reality in northern california for at least two friends, and one family friends house. 1.2 of those from description, though. At least on the specifics of the orchards.

Many things grow so well in Berkeley, and I assume nearby. It might be becuase of the sun availability, the fog, rain, and moisture.

Good thing to keep in mind of the essential daily sun exposure.

Ok. I learned a bit about Belmont. I would said it is a short name for Bello Monte? I do not anything about the place yet. I understand that it is in San Mateo county, not too far from San Carlos.

I would need to learn about the presence and source of clay in some areas.

Belmont is not far or it is at the San Andreas Fault. The part I learned is east of the San Andreas fault.

I learned a bit about the, oh this name will be completely wrong spelled, again this might not be a source of learning, if you are a reader. Although, you might get something, but then please correct the facts. Or correct the text and then might be read it slowly, if you might want to understand it. Happy to take questions in the comments? Ha. OK. Stainlious river. I think was the name of a native Californian? I do not have that name in my mind yet. I have driven through Modesto and Madera though. I think the river runs paralell to the Toulome river which provides water to San Francisco, and to other four counties in the Bay Area? I am just doing an exercise of cleaning some thoughs, or impregnating them in memory.

Oh. I learned a bit more about A. Memory worked there. Also, I met the whole family. One of them had a better memory than me on recalling me. I said that woman remember better faces than man. I read that once. But I am not sure. So, I asked as well to fact check.

Reusner, Haas, and Hearst names were mentioned. I do not know Haas story. Something to look up. I do know Hearst. And some how my brain mixed both of them in recent times. So the topic clarification was good.

A missing on the spot that my brain couldn’t call later on the day in another good interaction, though, I believe. It was the Haste street name. Even if I am now recalling it well. I do not that much so frquently around that street, although, I am frquent enough to remember the name. My brain my have added much more street names on the commuting, or have been ivested on training ai in some modeling capacities and working with the transfer based language models, or at least testing what i can do, what are the boundaries, how I do optimize those results and write. So, that might be downside of ai. One stream the conciouness, process the thoughts. Write a trashy lenghty first draft. Same might applies for models as well. But in writing I am talking about might self. I will get to a model clarification soon. One improves the same writing. Keeps polishing. there are lessons learned in that process where the text shrinks and might be more coherent, consistent, and hopefully clear and correct. One might or might not check all the facts with an additional tool. But better stay away from those tools until might be a refining process.

In models, it might be the same thing? One thinks, creates, code the foundations. But can contribute with ai to implement additional things, or learn how to pass a limitation.