Unix Commands I learned in Lab 5

Two very important Unix commands that I learned in doing Lab 5 are the ls-a and ls-l commands. These are very usefull becaue they list all of the dot files and also gives you information on the permissions of the files. I think that ls is also a DOS counterpart. Another important command that I learned is the man command because it gives you a manual of all of the different Unix commands. The final two commands that are useful in Unix are the mkdir command, which allows you to make a directory, and also the rmdir command which empties your directory.

Modeling the World Response

I think that it is interesting to read about how we can look at a symbol and manipulate it, so that it relates to reality. We then take what we know about one symbol and connect it to others, and find the relationship between them. It was also interesting to read about how to build models for basically any object. For example, what we did in class with the tree branch. In doing models you can interpret and understand certain things that you may not have understood before.

Comments on the Nature of Information notes

After reading through the notes that were posted about the Nature of Information, I think that the most interesting thing for me is how information is used in society today. I also find it interesting how things are interpreted differently based on your individual knowledge.

For example, artists manipulate many common signs or pieces of information naming them something else in their drawings. I think that they are trying to portray that it doesn't matter what you call the object, the only thing that matters is how it functions and what information it provides to its user.

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The Library of Babel

This article was really confusing for me. I didn't quite understand what the author was talking about. I think that the Library is the world itself, and all of the books are each individual person. I believe this to be true because he says, "In the vast Library there are no two identical books," and in the world there are no two people who are exactly identical. I could be completely wrong, but that is the main thing that I took away from this article.

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My First Post

This is my first post for my I101 blog page. I'm excited to see what this class will offer me throughout this semester.