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asplake

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About asplake

Author, Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation (2025) agendashift.com/books/wholehearted

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    You can @decorate a for-loop? I wish there were easier ways to play with syntax in Python, but there we are.

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    My take (several years old now) https://www.agendashift.com/done

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    > It’s one of the ways you can tell the true lover of the emdash from an LLM Quite apart from this tiresome and unreliable LLM detector, it’s also a way tell an American from a Bri…

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    Michel Barnier (EU's Brexit negotiator and later PM of France) suggests otherwise. Exclusive: Former chief Brexit negotiator says staying out of euro and Schengen area would be ‘pe…

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    Via (with a rather more ironic headline) Paul Krugman: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/donald-trump-champion-of-...

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    Via the BBC: Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c621z28z138o

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    Reminds me of Ackoff’s Idealised Design [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_planning#Idealized...

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    Not a core tenet [note 1] at all - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessationism_versus_continuati... [note 1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/tenant-vs-tenet-diff...

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    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48415217

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    > For years, people have tried hard to get websites to build accessibility affordances. Now developers are willingly building them for AI.

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    “Kettle lead” is definitely good here too. It is, after all, more than just a plug.

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    Is transposition a common enough operation that it might be better to avoid it by having versions of the operations/functions that take matrices that do the necessary transposition…

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    And now you have 84,689 problems