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“our stupid little lives”. Stupid and little in relation to _what_? You cannot ascribe lives as stupid or little unless you’ve got a smart and a grand. So: what is the smart and gr…

For me, it’s the following sentence that gives the meaning to that one. The countryside is literally so beautiful that the beauty cannot (be) beheld [sic]. That is, the sunlight hi…

There’s a very real dichotomy at play here. Position 0: humans depend upon AI. Position 1: AIs depend upon humans. At first blush, it seems achingly obvious that position 1 is true…

Once I began the “start from zero” routine at work, I could not stop. It meant I had to know what to do to get back to my ideal dev env every morning. It meant I had the choice to …

I have always cringed at the senior-junior distinction, especially because it is mostly espoused by those calling themselves senior, and that felt unnecessarily imperious. Any seni…

Not normally, no. Can you point to a divergence of the bitterness in the subsequent text? What I find to be the normal pattern (by intuition) is that the condensed leading text bel…

Isn’t “Writing is a Technology that Restructures Human Thought” another way of saying that “feedback has an effect”? If so, this seems to be a trivial (still worthy) assertion. For…

The inability to tell if a model is improving is, I think, a tell that the model has improved up to your level of programmatic (analytic, computational) capacity. A lot of the info…

Well, if it works on step one, then why not step two? Where would different folks draw the line? My grandparents might continue on a while, whereas I would not. But if it also “wor…

Yes.

Useful - thank you. I will contact them.

epicfurious.com is blocked by my service provider. It’s a small, local, fiber company called mornington. They do not say why in the returned html. I do not approve of such blockage…

I _think_ what you’ve said is “go shallow, not deep”. That is, don’t let the walk you make inside the latent space a long one. Twenty-five short and peppered steps, from de novo, i…

Order of operations: Make it work. Make it right. Make it fast.[0] [0]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

I think you and 7e are both right. Being able to iterate some N orders of magnitude quicker is a big deal. This doesn’t eliminate design and UX. Rather, it merges it with high iter…

Compusion.

Just finished a reading. (Ordered after seeing this post.) It’s not my normal cup of tea. I will never forget it.

Hey Yohan, That is an absolutely lovely resource. Thanks for sharing! Concise, useful, references like this are great “core drills”[0] into the ever-expanding deluge of human knowl…

To go from scratch to calculus, there is Mathematics for the Million by Lancelot Hogben. I did not see it on gutenberg. But it is on archive.org. https://archive.org/details/Hogben…

NKosmatos pointed out in another reply that this post was about software rot, and not data rot. From the Wikipedia article he linked for software rot: “[software rot] is not a phys…