Sometimes the smartest thing is to acknowledge that you are definitely not smart enough.

I’ve been learning Python so I can work on LLMs without a customer interface (an LLM of one’s own, if you will). When I get it and it works, I love it. But when I have to return to maths I swore I’d never need (and so ignored), I hate it.

Fighting through my maths barrier is humbling. My brain almost doesn’t see numbers. It’s hard to explain that, but I’ve always thought of it like a censor block pixelating naughty bits. My brain detects numbers and goes beeeeeeeeeeeeep.

So, learning a programming language made for devs who don’t struggle to work out if (70*4) > (7³)…a challenge. I’m fighting, I keep fighting, but it feels so weird to think this slowly. I’m wading through honey out here.

Yesterday I managed to write a script for a magic eight ball. That involves defining a bunch of answers and then getting the script to select one at random each time a question is defined. It wasn’t easy for me but it was certainly quicker to grasp without having to do bloody multiplication.

This is probably going to make all the difference when I’m old. As people all around me are leaking brains out of their ears from ChatGPT-overuse, I’m wrestling mine into submission. With maths 😭