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Basic Hub-and-Spoke Network in Azure

The Hub-and-Spoke network topology seems to be the recommended architecture for building out at cloud environment in Azure.

There are many articles from Microsoft that detail the basics of a Hub-and-Spoke network, =

From what it seems, each hub-and-spoke network should reside in a single Azure region. To add multiple regions to our cloud environment, peering should be done between the hub virtual networks

Why Everyone Should Learn Shell

Shell script

  • The scripting languages are funky
  • The tool is always available
  • Learning Shell will be the course in operating systems you never had
    • Sockets
    • Cron jobs
    • file systems
    • Networking

When majoring in Computer Science at my alma mater, our CS 4410/5410: Operating Systems course was a requirement.

Along with that, I took the practicum course, CS 4411/5411: Practicum in Operating Systems, which lets you implement sections of an operating system in C.

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Lessons from my first Shell script

One day, my manager proposed to me a task that involved backing up a folder located on server that hosts the backend our that were used to template out Word documents that can be automatically generated. As multiple types of employees (both technical and non-technical) will be editing these JSP files at anytime, we wanted a way to schedule a backup of the folder. Thus, my task was to generate a script that could sync this folder to a local instance of a git repository, and then commit these changes to its remote repo.

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Graduation

Computer Science #

David Thuman

David Thuman - solo

CS group photo

Applied and Engineering Physics #

David Thuman with Professor Fennie - 1

Father, mother, and sister

David Thuman with Professor Fennie - 2

AEP group photo

AEP group photo with border

Updating Congress

The process of data transfer between humans is an education optimization and learning problem.

Words (auditory), pictures (visual), or both

How long do speeches need to be? Is there a drop off of concept retainment for longer speeches?

It is actually good that States have some political freedom and divergence from the federal government. They can act each as independent experiments of policies and laws. Imagine a three dimensional space. Let’s take a vector in this space to represent the type (form, style, shape) of government (policies, branches, administrative function) that the federal government follows. At the tip of this vector stems multiple delta vectors that represent the change in the type of government that each of the States are following. Of course the true State vector is the addition of the federal vector and delta state vector.

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The First-Principles Design to Your Society

Existentialism #

General Framework

Religion or Philosophy or Nothing?

From physics to Existentialism

Why Existentialism

Sea of endless purposes, but you can pick one

With your picked purpose, a clear path can be made

To move around intellectually one must first pick a general framework to work within. A framework is needed to give your thoughts motivation and relativity compared with others.

Why Humans Collect #

The objective biology of it

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A Mathematical Representation

Why Math #

A true understanding of any system (a system can really represent anything: the United States’ economy, the hydrogen atom in quantum mechanics, a sports game, etc.) must be scientific. When investigating anything, a question of “why” can be asked at any level of the system. If we keep asking why, we will inevitably reach the discipline of physics, where the language is mathematics. To understand is to quantify, and if things are too heuristic or qualitative, we must create a mapping or model to understand.

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My Goal

My goal in life is to increase human happiness.

This is a quite broad and general goal, something that everyone should be able to get behind.

However, I must admit that the objective reason for this being anyone’s goal is beyond me.

Objective right and wrong, good or bad, moral or immoral comes from ones basic personal beliefs. The only objective fact we have in life is that there is no objective; no true purpose, no true good, no true reason why we are here. These basic personal beliefs that the form of organized religion, philosophy, or maybe a biological point-of-view. One’s choice in personal belief stems from their environmental influences: parent’s belief, community of their adolescence, or their best friends.

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Excess Value in Capitalism

An objects should be based on its raw material inputs and time and energy to create. Capitalism inflates the price of certain things based on location, as it is a limited value, and the supple of that thing.

Crime and Punishment

In a society there will always be people that break the rules. We will leave the discussion of the nature of these rules for later, and focus on how to treat and process the ‘rule breakers’. Lets first start with the trivial solution.

The trivial solution would be that of zero, doing nothing. If the thought of doing nothing to a person who breaks a particular rule seems reasonable, then the rule itself is probably at fault for the illogical solution. Lets take an easy example, murder. Pondered elsewhere in this website, the goal of building a society includes actively promoting the well-being of your citizens. The killing of one of your citizens, therefore, goes in direct opposition of this goal and should prompt the creation of a rule. Now if someone murders another, going in direct opposition of the goal of the society, the ‘rule break’ process should trigger. If this process is the trivial solution, i.e. no process, this person may murder again. This solution is not the society actively promoting the well-being of their citizens and should be concluded to be incorrect. If we look to another example of theft, a similar conclusion should be made; this theft is most likely decreasing the well-being of the person at the other end of the theft and is then a concern of the society at large (But it is increasing the well-being of the person who is stealing! Discussion of this point inquiries into the timeline of crime and average well-being as well as why people creak rules in the first place. I will hopefully discuss this later.)

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