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Did the invention of the steam engine and all other heavy machines make us physically weaker? I guess so. People working on (literal) heavy stuff don't need the strength they used …

I spent 15 minutes looking at the diagram in the article and tried to figure out how I can conclude whether it's a bubble. I couldn't conclude it. It's just a diagram that shows th…

> Back to the dashboard experiment: after you applied the Bonferroni correction you got... nothing. I guess you got something: Users are not sensitive to these changes, or that any…

I agree. Hamburger menus aren't any better than menu bars. It seems like an example where design has more importance than function. My alternative to the menu bar would be a search…

Yes, this was also a concern when I started this approach. However, restricted time can also be a yard stick for accomplishing something in a short amount of time. But there are, o…

For some reason I tend to forget about task management apps. So whenever I got back to them, it was depressing to see all the unfinished tasks that I haven't touched. My solution i…

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I wouldn't say that I was a very chaotic person but after moving several times it felt like it takes longer to find some special tool than buy it new. So I created a little program…

I don't think one would put only the specification in Git. LLMs are not a reliable compiler. Actual code is still the important part of a business. However, how this code is develo…

You implicitly assume that a good's price should be based on the amount of effort that was put in. My impression is rather that the price of goods is based on how much people appre…

Lately, I've been thinking that LLMs will lift programming anyways to another level: the level of specification in natural language and some formal descriptions mixed in. LLMs will…

I guess the standard answer would be a foundation. In some countries, there are minimum capital requirements for foundations but I don't think it's the case for the US. So some tho…

The Programmer's Brain by Felienne Hermans

Humanity has bootstrapped itself out of a lot of BS over the centuries. There's a mechanism for discarding bad ideas. For example: Badly-designed boats just don't return. Ill-desig…

An implementation of the game engine in the model itself is theoretically the most accurate solution for predicting the next frame. I'm wondering when people will apply this to oth…

A compiler from SQL to type-checked C++ to speed-up an ML pipeline.

For technical writing, journalism, etc., one can follow the simple rule no adjectives . For prose, replace all common adjectives by more specific or descriptive one, or even remove…

I came across this blog as well because I got interested in writing a compiler that converts SQL into source code of a type-checked language. Are there any blog series about the de…

One reason I can think of is the amount of capital required. So basically when Microsoft or Apple started out, you didn't need a lot of capital to build a minimum viable product. T…

To be correct, he maybe didn't coin the term. At least I didn't find it on quick search in his book Cybernetics. Seems like the term ultrastable actually comes from Ashby [1]. [1] …

I'd like to point out that Norbert Wiener was the first to discover the concept of antifragility (under a different term though). It's also worth checking out more of his works as …

There's JavaScript The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford. I've read the book and watched a similar series on YouTube.

As a computer scientist who got in touch with quite some theoretical computer science, I find Wolfram's approach appealing. I suppose this approach resonates quite well in CS depar…