Manuel Pecina

Counting Seasons
I find myself counting seasons after finding my age of reality. The real sense that I’ve lived and that there’s less time, not more. I now reflect on what I have done and where I'm going with what is left. Magical eperiences as I traverse this wilderness, are my realities.

I have been intrigued by my paternal ancestry that I have traced and found my Great Grandfather. Born in 1888 in Corsicana, Texas, 52 years after the Alamo.
So, 1. Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski is my current book. 2. Better Than Sex: Hunter S. Thompson.

What a sad joke, he ejected his ammo clip = ). Amateur!

Fox trotting through a herd of Bison

This little fox tends to hang out with the Bison herd. He lets them stir up the mice for him, easier hunting.

Looking back. How long have the Pecina’s been in Texas? I have traced my lineage to 1888 in Corsicana, Texas (53 years after the Alamo).

The Battle of the Alamo (February 23 – March 6, 1836) About one hundred Texians, wanting to defy Mexican law and maintain the institution of chattel slavery.

t8 Follow @imjustt8 isn't it crazy that republicans can link tylenol to autism but not guns to mass shootings

I created a website as a retrospective of my past life. My intention was to look back to see and generate new ideas for my future. Bluesky has become my medium to gaining insight for my future.

After 8-9 years of managing a fatal life threatening illness, I want to live my life as I did a decade ago. I'm living with a subconscious desire to walk at the edge of the cliff in high winds. I am grappling with a deep, subconscious pull towards risky behavior.

You wanted peace, but summoned Persephone in the Spring.

Underneath my outside face
There’s a face none can see
A little less smiley
A Little less sure
But a whole lot more like me.

If you are curious, here are a few exercises from the textbook - aimacode.github.io/aima-exercis...

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 4th US ed. Table of Contents for the US Edition (or see the Global Edition)     Preface (pdf); Contents with subsections I Artificial Intelligence     1 Introduction ... 1     2 Intelligent Agents ... 36 II Problem-solving     3 Solving Problems by Searching ... 63     4 Search in Complex Environments ... 110     5 Adversarial Search and Games ... 146     6 Constraint Satisfaction Problems ... 180 III Knowledge, reasoning, and planning     7 Logical Agents ... 208     8 First-Order Logic ... 251     9 Inference in First-Order Logic ... 280     10 Knowledge Representation ... 314     11 Automated Planning ... 344 IV Uncertain knowledge and reasoning     12 Quantifying Uncertainty ... 385     13 Probabilistic Reasoning ... 412     14 Probabilistic Reasoning over Time ... 461     15 Probabilistic Programming ... 500     16 Making Simple Decisions ... 528     17 Making Complex Decisions ... 562     18 Multiagent Decision Making ... 599 V Machine Learning     19 Learning from Examples ... 651     20 Learning Probabilistic Models ... 721     21 Deep Learning ... 750     22 Reinforcement Learning ... 789 VI Communicating, perceiving, and acting     23 Natural Language Processing ... 823     24 Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing ... 856     25 Computer Vision ... 881     26 Robotics ... 925 VII Conclusions     27 Philosophy, Ethics, and Safety of AI ... 981     28 The Future of AI ... 1012     Appendix A: Mathematical Background ... 1023     Appendix B: Notes on Languages and Algorithms ... 1030     Bibliography ... 1033 (pdf and LaTeX .bib file and bib data)     Index ... 1069 (pdf)     Exercises (website)     Figures (pdf)     Code (website); Pseudocode (pdf)     Covers: US, Global

AI is a technological marvel, but the origins of AI date back to a workshop concept presented at Dartmouth College in 1956.

June 2025, while cleaning. In an attempt to downsize, I ran into an old AI academic textbook, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 2nd US edition.
aima.cs.berkeley.edu

After 9 years in survival mode, I am happy to feel my life is coming together.

April 25 through 29, 2025, I tested my recent pulmonary system at 7200 feet at Taos Pueblo.

Sunday, June 8, 2025.
9.7 miles in 1 hour 7 minutes. The humidity was excruciating, but I managed to do it!

The world will ask who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you. Carl Jung

The world that constantly bombards us with expectations, opinions, and societal norms can make it challenging to stay true to ourselves.

We owe it to ourselves to live a life that’s ours.

Who did this? 😂

❤️

YouTube video by Mindvalley Breaking Past The Taboos Of Sex And Intimacy | Psalm Isadora

Many of us are starving for a deeper and more real connection, I know that I am.

Psalm Isadora explains why having healthier beliefs about sex can help us connect more intimately with both ourselves and the people around us.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=w61Y...

My mind is going somewhere, but I don't know where. I’ve had a night’s sleep, and I have a plan. It was when I decided I couldn’t stop thinking.

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.

Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.

Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

Also if you feel strongly about Eric Adams, you should call your city councilmember to express that and ask for their position.

You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.

Trump has canceled Biden's ethics rules. Critics call it the opposite of 'drain the swamp' Donald Trump took office eight years ago pledging to “drain the swamp” of the dominance of Washington influence peddlers.

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees.

Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law

Time to do things that make him react to you.
apnews.com/article/trum...

Love & Death

"Find what you love and let it kill you.". Bukowski

A philosophy of passion and living life to the fullest, even if it means facing hardship. Is it impossible at my age?

I am moving toward my ultimate goal: a long-term relationship in which we can learn from each other.

@teresalynnkocsis.bsky.social

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

This is true. @bsky.app is the app of the people.

We may not all agree. We may not even all like each other. But we can engage and disagree and agree with our hate

That makes the platform the future of social media

Last night I attended the Save Our Services rally in New York City. Listen to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) fighting for people & federal workers:

“Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.”

@aoc.bsky.social

Trump Just Set Women’s Sports Back Decades By removing Title IX protections from NIL rules, the president is sending a clear message to colleges: Men deserve all of the money and publicity.

Undermining Title IX, again.

Scrapping rules that ensured fair NIL pay for athletes across gender lines sends a clear message: revenue matters more than equality. Women’s sports deserve more than crumbs—let’s fight for equity, not erase it.

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.

Democracy requires your courage.