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Haha. I still use Vim for coding and for the rare occasions where I need to edit text that needs to be in a plain txt file.

I used to use a .txt file like this for over 10 years that I edited with Vim and could also edit on my phone using Dropbox. And then I used the Mac Notes app and realized the searc…

Regardless of what it says on paper, you two are not co-founders.

If your Honda Civic had a problem, would you take it to a physics professor who teaches thermodynamics or your local shop that has fixed thousands of cars with the exact same issue…

I am grateful that exceptionally capable people exist in the world. I find them incredibly motivating because their successes keep elevating the lower bound of collective human pot…

Love the post. Just FYI, your post is not mobile-friendly. When scrolling down on iPhone it’s impossible not to accidentally shift the viewport away from the left margin making the…

Knowing how to be alone and being social is not a rigid dichotomy. I think it’s clear what Tarkovsky means: that there is immense value in self-discovery. I’ve heard similar sentim…

I love Standard ML. As an undergrad, I wrote a compiler in it (through Zhong Shao's course at Yale), and it remains the most fun I've had using a programming language, let alone a …

I bit my nails unconsciously for 15 years. Constantly bleeding and got to the point where my thumbnails were gone and I thought they wouldn’t ever grow back. I got braces for my te…

The authors claim in the appendix that "linear models were estimated due to failure of the maximum likelihood algorithm to converge for logistic models."