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I've just been doing various little projects lately. Recently, I was reading the Crafting Interpreters book and I thought maybe it's a good idea to try and see what the 5.3 Codex m…

A few years ago, I read a book called "Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures". It was the first book I've ever read that follows a very enjoyable format -- a series of conversa…

Simply, as a meta note / rational argument's sake -> Let's assume X (Smith) makes statement S (X -> S). A few hundreds of years later, Y (Graeber) makes statement S' that refutes S…

I'd totally agree with you had Graeber not been an influential anthropologist (wherein one academically studies human activity, culture, trade, economics, social structures, instit…

> Graeber misinterprets the history and ideas of mainstream economics Can you provide a well researched body of literature that counters Graeber’s thesis as opposed to just stating…

Lots, but these 3 points stand out for me: * that there are too many things to build and too little time, so don't code for the sake of coding, but solve problems and touch more li…

It's a skill that can be learned like every other skill. You can take the "in 21 days" route or the MOOC / University course route, or constantly read business articles, Steve Jobs…

The beauty about street food in Bangkok is the people. I visited Bangkok recently [1], and absolutely loved the place. Most of the street vendors were warm, welcoming and showed ge…

A very real, slightly non-obvious problem is the size of the Indian population itself. There are so many people here that, competition is a stronger emotion than community. To an e…

Yup, I wrote a C++ implementation of the entire thing during my compiler class. https://github.com/jargnar/graph-coloring Fun times!