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I expect a lot of the social anxiety can be mitigated by arranging things so that students get a chance to know the examiners and build a rapport with them ahead of time. (E.g., if…

Thing is, we don’t have strong reason to believe the AI companies are just reinvesting profits. There’s a lot of credible analysis saying inference COGS also exceeds the prices the…

Essence of Decision is a great book that explores this idea. It looks at different models for understanding how organizations make decisions, and arrives at broadly the same conclu…

The thing that really made the Enganced Games à debacle isn’t that the participants failed to beat top clean athletes. It’s that they failed to beat their own performance from when…

That said growing vocabulary is widely regarded as one of the most important steps towards being able to interact with the language in a more authentic way. My concern is that AI-g…

I think what we are seeing with all these AI detection tools is a whole lot of shooting the messenger. Technology made the problem of lazy students impossible to ignore, but the so…

To go with the gym analogy, thus far it would seem that using AI to help study seems to be working out about as well as the Enhanced Games did. Before we get ahead of ourselves and…

I’ve seen a similar thing with globalization. Macro scale, it’s great. Much number go up. Zoom in, though, and it also impoverished my hometown and many others like it. A whole gen…

Yup. But that also gets to the “they’re both right” angle. Zig’s convention may not be how the Bun developers wanted to work, but it’s a good choice for the kinds of projects Zig i…

Considering it’s already been ported to at least 5 different platforms, I can’t imagine one more would be impossible.

That one’s interesting to me because it speaks to both sides of the debate. Yes, safe Rust is good for catching those kinds of errors at compile time. But also, it should theoretic…

Pretty sure all we’re waiting on is someone to put in the effort to port KOReader to the platform.

I think lot of Americans overestimate how much China needs them. (Understandable, I suppose, since the UK made a similar mistake vis-a-vis the EU about 10 years back.) From a Chine…

(Speaking as a lapsed participant in a zen community. Opinions are my own, so others may disagree.) The challenge for these “Zen and my job” types of work is that much of Zen pract…

It is. The next post in the blog expands on the idea in concrete terms. The author doesn’t explicitly say so, but based on the shape of it I would assume all we have right now are …

“Now”? This is nothing new. For about 30 years now Microsoft has been constantly repeating various flavors of this “make it so a thing can automatically and silently run programs a…

Yes. Just this evening I had to help my mom. She was convinced a web form she needed to fill out was broken. The problem was a required input control was so heavily styled that it …

I think that’s the response the “it’s never a real problem until suddenly it is” observation was trying to head off. There’s always someone who doesn’t want to take the advice of a…

That is the nominal motive, but I think that the real motive is that it makes it easier for average developers to pile on more complexity. Back in the day we just accepted technica…

I’ve mainly handled it by pushing my team to be extremely conservative about what dependencies we take, especially if they pull in scads and scads of transitive dependencies. This …

Think of it like a rainforest ecosystem. Very complex and tangled, even fragile. But it’s the tangled fragile complexity that makes it interesting.

I would argue that, over the time scales at which Von Neumann probes would hypothetically spread, “report home” may be a useless or even wasteful requirement. Even if somebody were…

Of course not. That isn’t what the article was trying to say. The thesis was, “I would like to suggest that the hardest part is the one that gets a single sentence: ‘mines local ma…

It possibly goes a little further, though, since we’re talking about multi-step agentic loops here. So in addition to next token prediction there are of iterations of collecting in…

I don’t really like much about C++ anymore, but I still enjoy reading C++ articles and listening to C++ podcasts, and I would consider it beautiful. Oftentimes the things I dislike…