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But remember, there's no such thing as a 10x engineer! /s

You may appreciate this poignant sci-fi short story/video that references and expands on the story of Alex: https://vimeo.com/195588827

This seems similar to Zig ( https://ziglang.org/#Compile-time-reflection-and-compile-tim... )

Sounds cool. If you haven't already, you might want to check out the Fractal Bits iOS app. It doesn't let you manually adjust parameters, only randomly generate sounds, but it make…

I think this is a much better introduction than TLA, thanks.

A while back I found out that the popular Serverless framework/library tracks and reports back usage ( https://serverless.com/framework/docs/providers/aws/cli-refe... ). This simil…

Nice! Have you seen this similar project? If not sure if there are any ideas to be borrowed, but it sounds like it achieved excellent accuracy: https://github.com/AlbertoSabater/su…

This reminds me of some parts of Pieter Hintjens' book Social Architecture. He advocates that open source projects practice "optimistic merging" where essentially any patch that is…

I certainly don't think that the market selects good ideas or is sufficient to promote long-term advances. Per the bit of my comment that you quoted, I'm saying that the reason tha…

I think this attitude of "we solved these problems decades ago!" is rather naive and sometimes arrogant. I think it's a fantastic talk, and that Bret Victor and Alan Kay are genius…

I'm not sure this is a constructive comment, but I just wanted to say that you are completely correct, everyone else is crazy, and I am baffled at how much confusion there seems to…

"intelligence requires semantics and semantics is exactly what computers, by definition, lack" This sort of assertion is experimentally untestable, not rigorously derivable from an…

Yes.. after I wrote my comment I was feeling a bit bad for sounding like I was just trashing the API. In a world where JS is slow and there is no worker thread machinery, yet you n…

That's unfortunate. I don't have a machine running Edge to test it on. It uses less than 20% of the CPU in Chrome on my 2012 Macbook Air. It's possible that it's a problem with my …

> is Web Audio a mess mostly because it's an attempt to expose the features of the twenty-odd different OS audio backends That is a good guess, but no. The main features of the Web…

It's been under development for a very long time in Chromium: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=469639 I think there were some false starts where previous specs…

Thanks! After a certain point it felt like a dead end to me, so I dropped it in favor of exploring something more along the lines of a JS-based Max/MSP. But it is surprising how mu…

The ability to build primitive synths in a few lines of code (w/o library dependencies) is fine and well, but should not have been a priority for becoming a web standard. What's de…

I've spent quite a lot of time working with the Web Audio API, and I strongly agree with the author. I got pretty deep into building a modular synthesis environment using it ( http…

Bresenham's algorithm is also the best way to compute Euclidean Rhythms (rhythms where N hits are maximally-evenly distributed among M possible steps).

Did you read the whole article? I don't think it was implying anything negative about tech workers or making value judgements. I am frustrated by some of the same things you are, b…

The example code inline in the article just illustrates the basic idea of Evolution Strategies (ES), not their new work in applying ES. The behavior of agents is determined by a "p…

Evolution Strategies is not an example of Genetic Programming, and that book by Langdon doesn't cover anything directly relevant to the linked article.

This definitely seems to set a new bar in terms of simplicity for integrating with a backend, which is nice, but this bit is concerning: "jindo will replay every jindo event that h…

Success has many fathers; failure is an orphan.