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This is an awesome thread. I agree - the catalyst is joy, in a broad sense of the word. One is lucky to find joy in something that can take you deep.

To be honest I also just read about it. However everytime I pass through Heathrow I think someone really took the idea to heart.

Aside for the algorithms and how well they work, there is a psychological aspect to how people perceive "wait" times. It turns out just waiting is very annoying. But having people …

A version of this idea was mentioned in one of the Three Body Problem books. There, the bombs were pre-positioned along a path and detonated sequentially like dominos, with a vehic…

Sure. But I think they can do it more exhaustively than humanly possible.

I don’t think we have spent enough time on the creativity axis. When we solve problems we usually follow a heuristically guided energy efficient path. We just prune a lot of possib…

Be sure to visit the basement museum to see the upside-down string + tiny sandbag weights model that was used to simulate the structure. Pure genius.

Learning to code = understanding a problem, breaking it down into small, manageable pieces, putting all the pieces back together. Debugging. Iterating towards better metrics, etc. …

This will cause an extra round trip to the LLM. Which means more $ spent.

I met Om once in SF over a meal. I could tell he was a kind soul. RIP.

The comment about memcached being ephemeral is orthogonal to whether people will use it as if it persistent. If the cache appears to get hit 99.9% of the time and is always there, …

We are witnessing the birth of the term "pre-times" you often see in dystopian sci-fi.

It’s interesting that you have to be an A to tell the rest apart. And good luck if you have a lot Bs that believe they are As.

Claude: configure my Emacs such that … has worked pretty well for me lately.

This is part of the plot in Murakamui's Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.

I believe 1:1 is fundamentally different than ever 1:2 ratio. So, even if you can have 3 person classrooms, I don't think it would be the same as 1:1 time. As soon as you are worki…

This is even a more interesting idea! I guess similar to the teacher assistant system in higher education. One version of this could be students a year ahead teaching the previous …

If you had the budget for two teachers, I’d utilize them as one teaching in the traditional way, and the other spending 1:1 times with each student (20 students in a class → 1-1:30…

Separately, I love the word “bloke”. I wish it would take off here in the US.

You are correct. I apologize. I seemed to have read the next pragma’s depreciation notice! Aside from this - SQLite has tons of cool features, like the session extension.

For one it seems to be deprecated.

What do you think is missing? I'm a big SQL fan and the idea of direct SQL to X seems appealing at least on the surface.

Most of the software we interact with is at the end of the day some db tables, queries to read/write, and some ui to read/write. There have been so many times I wished I could just…

What’s interesting here is that with AI, all our interfaces should evolve away from previous generation rigid forms / buttons / tables etc. towards something more fluid / dynamic /…

I did the EBC trek last year and at ~4400 meters, we heard about a local Nepalese woman dying from complications of AMS in the local clinic. There might be fishy things going on wi…