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I've been to one EA meetup and it wasn't my thing but this seems nothing like the discussions I had. It's where I found out about GiveDirectly. The biggest issue for me was the AGI…

This is markedly better than the USPTO website, FWIW.

> but if it gets past the patent officer that debate happens via lawsuit Or an Inter Partes Review!

Are you after learning or an accredited degree?

IP at the margin?

Safari is my default browser and it seems to be working just fine!

It’s a memorable quote from the movie Kindergarten Cop.

So a stringly typed JSON-based DSL without a linter or LSP?

> They even wrote a book about how they went about it (not that it speaks to the quality of the API) Wilkinson’s Grammar of Graphics inspired ggplot. The textbook doesn’t even ment…

Do you mind sharing which ones?

Tangentially, > "Add up all US spending on candidates, PACs, lobbying, think tanks, and advocacy organizations – liberal and conservative combined – and we’re still $2 billion shor…

What about measuring management productivity?

Article Title: Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/01/22/ed-tech-i...

So we're getting Rickrolled?

I agree. What is missing from the discussion about DSLs are the importance of tooling such as linters, LSPs, etc, to give the LLMs further context. For example, charts/plots are of…

https://williamcotton.github.io/datafarm-studio/ https://williamcotton.github.io/algraf https://williamcotton.github.io/pdl https://github.com/williamcotton/algraf https://github.c…

Why? Trial and error is a pretty important component of creativity.

I’ve had good luck with this approach: https://github.com/williamcotton/algraf/tree/main/docs There’s also some tests in place to make sure some things from the master spec are up …

Funny enough, I just published this blog post yesterday: The Discoverable Evidence of AI-Assisted Software Porting https://williamcotton.com/articles/the-discoverable-evidence...

The plotting aspect of this seems very similar to: https://opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04-20_ggsql_alpha_rele...

A big part of the motivation was that something like this... $ which ggplot ggplot () { if [[ "$1" == "-f" ]] then shift rush run --library tidyverse "$(cat "$1")" - else rush run …