{"id":238,"date":"2016-03-06T15:12:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T23:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burnhamup.com\/blog\/?p=238"},"modified":"2016-03-06T15:12:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T23:12:49","slug":"general-conference-study-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burnhamup.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/general-conference-study-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"General Conference Study Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the ways I like to study the gospel is through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lds.org\/general-conference?lang=eng\">General Conference<\/a>. The talks are often based on the scriptures, but the focus is usually on applying the gospel in our day-to-day lives. Because the greatest value lies in studying the most recent words of the prophets and apostles, I had been reading a talk a day from the latest conference. I didn&#8217;t enjoy reading the talks in the same order over and over, and I wanted a way to incorporate older talks in a way that didn&#8217;t overshadow the newer ones.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote a compute program that will give me a list of talks to study. I broke the six months between conferences into three distinct period. During each period, I want to study each talk from the latest conference once and fill in the rest of the days with older talks. Since my database goes back to 1970 and I still prefer newer talks, I used a weighted random number generator where the each conference is twice as likely to be selected as the one before it. I then shuffle these lists and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/burnhamup\/ldsconf\/blob\/master\/example.md\">print out a plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I figured other people might find such a program useful, so I <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/burnhamup\/ldsconf\">released the code\u00a0on GitHub<\/a> with an open source license. But I also recognized that plenty of people would want to have such a plan through a website. So I hooked the program up to webserver and created a website at <a href=\"http:\/\/conference.burnhamup.com\">http:\/\/conference.burnhamup.com<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/burnhamup\/ldsconf-gae\">source on GitHub<\/a>). The website still needs some design work; I&#8217;m not sure what I want it to look like yet. I&#8217;m hoping to pretty it up in time for the April General Conference and hope that some people find it useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the ways I like to study the gospel is through General Conference. The talks are often based on the scriptures, but the focus is usually on applying the gospel in our day-to-day lives. Because the greatest value lies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/burnhamup.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/general-conference-study-plan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burnhamup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burnhamup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burnhamup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burnhamup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burnhamup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/burnhamup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/burnhamup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burnhamup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burnhamup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burnhamup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}