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Andrej Karpathy has been hacking on micro-gpt. Someone in the comments ported it to Haskell so I thought, "why not ASM." And once I had that thought, I thought, "why not on the SNE…

There are a lot of us bald programmers..

Svelte is great, htmx is great. I don't think the right way to think about it is that one of them is _the_ future of F/E development. One might be getting more attention at the mom…

We don't know from saccades that consciousness can't be continuous. We just know that the physical impressions on our retina do not map 1 to 1 to our visual conscious experience. T…

Agreed, it was a blast to watch people tackle it. In addition to what you mentioned, I'd include Barb's Lunar Magic streams. They were super chill and it was some of my favorite co…

Barb (creator of Grand Poo World 3) is my favorite level designer and surely one of the best... But I would say peak Mario might have been the 2022 GDQ Super Mario World romhack ra…

+1 for game programming. I always wanted to learn ASM, it wasn't until discovering Super Mario World ROM hacking that it became fun and exciting enough to really dig into.

I find hobby coding to be more fun and rewarding when I do it with other junior developers. I used to teach coding and I've kept up with and continue to mentor some former students…

Ayahuasca ceremonies are among the most profound, cherished experiences of my life. I prepare for months before partaking in them to make sure my emotional, physical, and spiritual…

Yeah fair enough, I agree, I could have worded that differently. They couldn't use any of the looping they'd come to learn up to that point.

I agree with the overall sentiment. I taught for awhile and was happy with the approach I came up with. Students start out with the basics of learning how to loop through a list to…

Cracking the Cryptic quickly became my favorite pandemic past time. So much so that I've started making variant Sudokus - it's relaxing, creative, meditative, and I find it quite f…

It's nice to see accessibility discussed right away in the introduction lectures.

This resonated with me as well. I taught university philosophy courses and programming courses at a bootcamp. Trying to explain stuff like this to oneself or to others was for me t…

How would "intelligent" fungi have any bearing on the stoned ape theory? The former seems neither necessary nor sufficient for the latter.

I removed caffeine from my diet and replaced it with exercise and one or two quick logic puzzles in the morning. Once in awhile I meditate but I haven't found consistency with this…

https://metzger.media/games/wordle-archive/?levels=select lags behind a day, and you can do all the previous days' wordles

Andy Clark's Surfing Uncertainty[1] is a nice monograph of the topic 1: https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/a...

I watched the prequel first, Army of Thieves, which was actually pretty good. I watched Army of Dead for just the one lock picking character, hoping he had a bigger role, and was s…

Hadn't heard of this book, I'll have to check it out. It vaguely reminds of something Dostoevsky's Underground Man might have said when he was railing against the utopian rationali…

And before they cry that gender was mentioned in the title: that's just a phrase, and no one would have said anything if it said "one-man" company.

is there any reason to think starlink is even a possibility? i dont know much about all this but browsing reddit a few weeks ago that seemed like the meme possibility, in the same …

Where does data storage fit in? So far it seems like a request/response cycle as a service, but without storage it seems limited in use cases. Or is the idea to send data from napk…

Fourthing. And also his Godelian Puzzle Book, much fun!