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I'm a Philosophy student, and I keep a blog where I post essays on Philosophy and Computer Science- as well as the fun that results in their intersection.

https://shen.hong.io/

Lately, I've been playing around with the NixOS operating system, and I wrote a guide on Building a Philosophy Workstation with NixOS. In it, I document the process of setting up a computer for the use and practice of Philosophy:

https://shen.hong.io/nixos-for-philosophy-installing-firefox...

Although I wrote the guide with Philosophy students in mind, it has a surprising amount of overlap with software development and programming-- which will make it useful for Computer Science students as well.

For an example of a more straightforward work on philosophy, I wrote a dialogue on the metaphysics of being, using an analogy with chess and cryptography:

https://shen.hong.io/dialogue-on-the-questions-of-being/



Really nice site. It (and this thread in general) is motivating me to start writing again.

I used LaTeX a lot in college, and I use a similar program now called Lilypond which is the same idea but for sheet music.


Thank you! I'm glad that my work was useful to you. I'm familiar with Lilypond, I've used it in the past to typeset musical notation, which I later exported for use in LaTeX as well.




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