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- But in modern financial markets, you can get an economic ...
- the program is an abstract symbol manipulator, which can be ...
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accessibility
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- It's easy to look at pregnancy (for example) as something ...
adaptation
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- Folk interfaces are when users reappropriate existing software to solve ...
agriculture
- A few months ago, I was at an event that ...
- Consumers want perfection, but farmers want commodity,” he said. This ...
- The process [of regenerative ag] is expensive, since farmers who ...
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- So people are going to be even more blindsided when ...
- The discovery of scaling laws has typically preceded a boomtime ...
- Use a small model to generate a 'draft' output, then ...
- lol c’mon, if this wasn’t from an A.I., this would ...
- But I’ve also noticed a creeping desire among A.I. evangelists ...
- AI, with its perceived threat to automate a vast array ...
- The dark irony here is that corporatized communication is what ...
- Of course, OpenAI does offer a “social” feature, but the ...
- If you don’t know the difference between something like DALL-E ...
- We can summarize the difference between the micro- and macroeconomic ...
- And yes, there’ll be plenty of cases where “raw ChatGPT” ...
- • Maybe they’re just creating massive amounts of “digital representations ...
- The **lab mice problem** **Today's 'subhuman' AIs are safe.**What about ...
- The **King Lear problem** The AI is **(actually) well-behaved when ...
- The **Lance Armstrong problem** Did we get the AI to ...
- Modern generative models are generic data transformation engines, able to ...
- There’s a third impact of AI harder to spot and ...
- Essentially, the use of AI *as a technology* has less ...
- using AI to design products is more powerful than using ...
- I’m actually using GPT3 in a production system. The mistake ...
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- All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong. Most buildings ...
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- Today, nearly 150 years later, burglary and architecture still go ...
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- Jingu is famous for its tradition of periodic reconstruction, known ...
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- One of the consequences of demateralisation is that things that ...
- What we call history is, in practice, what we can ...
- History is an edit war. Truth, factual and moral, hangs ...
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- Census figures show there are 40,000 more Latinos in Chicago ...
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- I’m personally convinced that these companies are selling products that ...
- although as with all plastic recycling, “downcycling” is the more ...
- At Maggie Daley Park, one of the project’s defining challenges ...
- This sort of knowledge is what Dan Wang calls process ...
- Jingu is famous for its tradition of periodic reconstruction, known ...
- The four elements of credible neutrality are: (1) Don’t write ...
- But just as the gig economy mode of work brought ...
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- Or to be more specific, urbanist Kevin Lynch’s city maps ...
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- Recollection is such a small, basic part of thinking! There ...
- A tool is something that takes an existing workflow, and ...
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- Why is that a hard message to communicate through marketing, ...
- A few months ago, I was at an event that ...
- Consumers want perfection, but farmers want commodity,” he said. This ...
- The process [of regenerative ag] is expensive, since farmers who ...
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- I talked to strangers, and listened to them, and felt ...
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- A life that is cosmopolitan, which is to say, a ...
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- Alice Waters had this incredibly boss move at Chez Panisse ...
- Luxury always boils down to time: someone is paying a ...
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- Like climate change, COVID is settling into its status as ...
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- the Coanda effect - the tendency of a fluid jet ...
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- And regulations are written in blood, so we’ll only get ...
- TDD/FP/Agile zealots are probably zealots because adopting TDD/FP/Agile/Whatever made them ...
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- THE MEANING OF A COMMUNICATION IS THE BEHAVIOUR THAT RESULTS. ...
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- the crypto industry in 2022 rediscovered the 2008 financial crisis. ...
- He is making multi-year, illiquid, unhedgeable speculative investments in brand-new ...
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- The cotton gin, a canonical example of automation, perversely *increased ...
- In most places, the olive harvest is mechanized, but that’s ...
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- what the chemical industry calls “verbund.” This is a setup ...
- mere-exposure effect: doing something many times makes us believe we ...
- The promotion of brainstorming as a starting point is all ...
- Many students and academic writers think like the early ship ...
- An idea kept private is as good as one you ...
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- the role of the human in terms of AI is ...
- the GPT-3 language model that undergirds ChatGPT; ChatGPT applies a ...
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- if you are talking about “numerous black swans” then you ...
- In the glory days, [Olympus enthusiasts] dressed up this insight ...
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- Stereo width is a big part of the *Glowed Up* ...
- Sidechain compression listens to a second track to decide when ...
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- As far as I can tell, cognitive bandwidth and network ...
- the [Law of stretched systems]: > Every system is stretched ...
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- Essentially, the use of AI *as a technology* has less ...
- using AI to design products is more powerful than using ...
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- Ultimately, I decided not to, and developed the idea that ...
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- To achieve that braking safety, the subway’s signal architecture works ...
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- the program is an abstract symbol manipulator, which can be ...
- to the extent that we view ourselves as mechanisms, we ...
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- My point today is that, if we wish to count ...
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- and soall Apple products broke almostinstantly and uhall the tools ...
- our philosophy is that to make fastsoftware you need slow ...
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- Scavenge-friendly electronics are parts that are no longer manufactured, but ...
- **Designing for Disassembly** ensures that all elements of a product ...
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- Utilizing computational resources as finite and precious, to be utilised ...
- The abundance of digital storage and processing power has caused ...
- A post-collapse society that has eventually lost all of its ...
- Collapse informatics prioritizes community needs and aims to contribute to ...
- **Designing for Descent** ensures that a system is resilient to ...
- Asking for the most suitable programming language for permacomputing is ...
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- A]s a religion, social justice works. It works not merely ...
- What is the alternative to naïve cynicism? An active response ...
- But the [hyperobject] that is climate change requires the very ...
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- Erasure Coding is a ubiquitous technique in storage and physical ...
- Let's think about that cache again: when that one node ...
- Erasure coding is the idea that we can take a ...
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- Skeptics of solar feasibility pantomime a kind of technical realism, ...
- We live on a sun-drenched blue marble hanging in space, ...
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- pruning for sparsity – turns out [some LLMs work just as ...
- distillation – a technique by which larger, more capable models ...
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- Many people began to routinely expense Substacks, just like people ...
- The single biggest thing Substack accomplished was *legitimizing* a Schelling ...
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- From the perspective of non-mega-platform companies, I think this is ...
- While today there’s a wide distance between GDPR, CCPA, HITRUST, ...
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- But, paradoxically, crypto is much *more* reliant on trust than ...
- It was like a fantastical version of their old jobs, ...
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- • Maybe they’re just creating massive amounts of “digital representations ...
- The **lab mice problem** **Today's 'subhuman' AIs are safe.**What about ...
- The **King Lear problem** The AI is **(actually) well-behaved when ...
- The **Lance Armstrong problem** Did we get the AI to ...
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- Asking for help with shame says: You have the power ...
- And when you’re afraid of someone’s judgment, you can’t connect ...
- “Asking for help with shame says: You have the power ...
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- Not only in VR, but generally in software, we’ll see ...
- Laurel suggests that we see the computer screen as a ...
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- Next we bring in creative divergence. How? **Geists!** Geists will ...
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- **Ephemeral** tools are about the conversation. Slack is one. Zoom ...
- The room is architected for discussions and decisions, not just ...
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- As I’ve written in past reviews, “permission” seems to be ...
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beliefs
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cameras
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chatgpt
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checklists
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climate-change
clown-town
cocktails
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collective-labor
commons
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communication
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- A conversation can happen between yourself and yourself, across time, ...
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commute
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- [Many years ago I got obsessed with habit-breaking days.] We ...
competition
compilers
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compliance
composability
conflict
consumption
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- The best things in life are free. The second best ...
controllability
- Here are three levels of mapping, arranged in decreasing effectiveness ...
- insights from the seven stages of action lead us to ...
cooking
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- This guy Eric invited us over for dinner one time. ...
- There is no need to cut croutons into perfect little ...
- Before using dried fruit I rehydrate it in a bowl ...
- because nuts like all fatty ingredients will absorb odors. ...
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- Buy them in small quantities and replenish them often instead ...
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- Don't store in plastic containers, because the plastic can absorb ...
- Build layers into your dish, like you're making nachos. Hide ...
- All roots have edible greens, so catch them early when ...
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- Alice Waters had this incredibly boss move at Chez Panisse ...
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covid-19
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- The pandemic highlighted our intimate relationship with biology. Urban tech ...
crime
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cryptocurrency
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curiosity
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- **Approach conflict with curiosity.** One of my foundational beliefs is ...
- The room is architected for discussions and decisions, not just ...
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data
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- So, does the creation and destruction of information have any ...
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decisions
deduplication
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defaults
demographics
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design
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- Beyond Fitness: Life and a Better World ...
- Form, Context, and Fit ...
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distribution
domain
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economics
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education
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elections
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end-user-programming
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engineering
entertainment
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environment
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epidemiology
epistemology
estimation
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ethics
evangelism
event-loop
exercise
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exploration
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fauna
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favorite
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feedback
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- Nick Rowe memorably described [finance as magic]. The analogy I ...
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funding
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- I call this “unlocking the commons,” and it’s the same ...
- you can pay me money, and I will continue writing. ...
- I’ve been mainly “hiring” members for permission. Not in a ...
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geists
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goals
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- As described in Rumelt’s [Good Strategy, Bad Strategy], a strategy ...
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- GraphQL is purposefully transport/protocol agnostic. Nothing is stopping us from ...
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- Compiled queries are a very exciting area of GraphQL that ...
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- The generation of a cache key is always important, but ...
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habits
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- [Many years ago I got obsessed with habit-breaking days.] We ...
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hacking
happiness
health
history
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- History is an edit war. Truth, factual and moral, hangs ...
horizontal-scaling
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- Erasure Coding is a ubiquitous technique in storage and physical ...
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hot-sauce
hunting
identity
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incentives
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incident-management
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information
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interfaces
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- Pareidolia — our tendency to see “faces” in everything from ...
- Programmable notes are note-taking systems that allow you to write ...
- This scavenging in the SaaS landscape is how people express ...
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- The room is architected for discussions and decisions, not just ...
- as users becomes accustomed to agents and NPCs, we’ll see ...
- Laurel suggests that we see the computer screen as a ...
- the computer interface has *always* been a multiplayer environment for ...
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- The 1st Law of Behavior Change is to make it ...
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- Everything has an interface. A platform has an API. A ...
- The value of a product is the number of problems ...
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- The trade-off, though, is that a uniform interface degrades efficiency, ...
- We can often categorize APIs in three broad categories: Private ...
- Context Maps where contexts have clear roles and their relationships ...
jekyll
journalism
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- I think what has happened is there was a massive ...
- The main issue here is that, at least when it ...
judgement
knowledge
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language
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- if you are talking about “numerous black swans” then you ...
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leadership
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- What I’ve found most successful is to identify a few ...
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liveness
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- For large-scale software *systems*, Van Roy believes we need to ...
machines
maps
markdown
marketplaces
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- Why is that a hard message to communicate through marketing, ...
materials
math
- Let’s demonstrate the method with an example. Consider computing the ...
- Imagine we want to compute the square root of a ...
- Imagine we want to compute the square root of a ...
- As we think about it this way, we realize that ...
max-pain
- To expand the term beyond its original scope, Max Pain ...
- [Max Pain] is an urban legend-slash-theory from the options market, ...
meaning
- In [The Umami Theory of Value], we discussed how, in ...
- The **Lance Armstrong problem** Did we get the AI to ...
medicine
- An immediate hypothesis was that Omicron may have developed in ...
- Working in the hospital teaches you that there are only ...
meetings
- the real sign of malorganization is when people spend more ...
- two basic kinds of meetings:process-oriented meeting, knowledge is shared and ...
- Anyone who spends about a half day per week as ...
- The most effective communication within an organization is between peers ...
memberships
memory
- Top-tier athletes are fanatically disciplined about improving their foundational skills—skills ...
- As long as people think that government (as an ideal ...
- State introduces an abstract notion of time in programs. In ...
- **Accretive** tools build over time. Developer tools tend to work ...
- One of the challenges with JIT compilers is that they ...
- Human memory is squishy, and that's great. You retain facts ...
- Recollection is such a small, basic part of thinking! There ...
- He has wondered lately if that’s all living really is—one ...
- People are made of stories. Our memories are not the ...
metrics
- Just like regular investment funds can either be actively managed ...
- We have built many projects, and we believe the most ...
- > A cost center is a function that is operated ...
- If you run a mutual fund, a high mark is ...
- My point today is that, if we wish to count ...
- The classification scheme used here is possibly the clearest one ...
- I’m personally convinced that these companies are selling products that ...
- the system grows for a while (increasing λ), or we ...
- We can then define the Utilization of the server (calling ...
money
- If everyone is competing for the same things, and money ...
- [Max Pain] is an urban legend-slash-theory from the options market, ...
- Starting in the summer of 2020 and peaking in late ...
- The best things in life are free. The second best ...
- The report said that for every $1 of new global ...
- Life (and intersectionality) are complex, but money is, relatively speaking, ...
- Many people believe that cash, the paper printed by the ...
- The world is mostly shaped by wealth, more so than ...
- Even in a normal year, early money is many times ...
- If you run a mutual fund, a high mark is ...
- Ask a science professor what she worries about. It won’t ...
- Although the ownership of a particular stone might change, the ...
- Luxury always boils down to time: someone is paying a ...
motivation
- When you start a creative project but don’t finish, the ...
- Motivation factors include challenging work, recognition, responsibility, and personal growth ...
- i thought, or hoped, that not caring would protect me, ...
- understand that the path is neither short nor easy. That ...
napkin-math-numbers
- Hashing, crypto-safe (64 bytes) 500 ns 200 MiB/s ...
- Random Memory R/W (64 bytes) 50 ns 1 GiB/s ...
- Let’s demonstrate the method with an example. Consider computing the ...
- Imagine we want to compute the square root of a ...
networks
noise
notation
- A tool is something that takes an existing workflow, and ...
- To summarise those desirable qualities, a good notation is: Composable ...
- Or to be more specific, urbanist Kevin Lynch’s city maps ...
note-taking
- Many students and academic writers think like the early ship ...
- Top-tier athletes are fanatically disciplined about improving their foundational skills—skills ...
- **Gardens** - This is the wiki layer Michael references above ...
- I make a practice of regularly checking in about whether ...
- Programmable notes are note-taking systems that allow you to write ...
- **Accretive** tools build over time. Developer tools tend to work ...
- Next we bring in creative divergence. How? **Geists!** Geists will ...
- Human memory is squishy, and that's great. You retain facts ...
- A conversation can happen between yourself and yourself, across time, ...
- To summarise those desirable qualities, a good notation is: Composable ...
observability
- insights from the seven stages of action lead us to ...
- Principles of Good Systems ⬢
- It’s often very useful to provide inline performance information in ...
open-source
- If free software gifts are communism and open source is ...
- Here's the thing about gifts: the sender chooses them, not ...
- This story archetype is the Hero's Journey that inspires all ...
- Incentives are well aligned with the success of the open-source ...
- Concretely, I exclusively offer ongoing retainer agreements, without hourly billing ...
- Virtually all maintainers are either volunteers or full-time employees of ...
- At minimum, open source projects hosted on GitHub can be ...
- Developers don’t contribute to open source for lack of technical ...
- Before there was a de facto platform for hosting code, ...
openai
- But I’ve also noticed a creeping desire among A.I. evangelists ...
- Of course, OpenAI does offer a “social” feature, but the ...
- If you don’t know the difference between something like DALL-E ...
optimization
- Selecting the hen who lays the most eggs doesn't necessarily ...
- what the chemical industry calls “verbund.” This is a setup ...
- In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has ...
- **Optimize for the {whole, business unit, team}**. Pick *one* of ...
- The trickiest part of speeding up a program is not ...
- Disproportionately impactful engineering teams are distinguished by effectively shipping the ...
- > A cost center is a function that is operated ...
- The **Lance Armstrong problem** Did we get the AI to ...
- This is an example of the ‘capability overhang’ phenomenon I’ve ...
- Every year, the company adds even more steps to the ...
- In most places, the olive harvest is mechanized, but that’s ...
parenting
- Nothing is unimportant to a little child. He might cry ...
- Self-worth, the unexpected corollary of having positive archetypes in your ...
pathology
patronage
perception
- Stochastic resonance is the phenomenon in which random noise can ...
- The Gestalists showed that there was no obvious relationship between ...
performance
- as devices get extremely fast, interrupt-driven work is no longer ...
- In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has ...
- The discovery of scaling laws has typically preceded a boomtime ...
- Use a small model to generate a 'draft' output, then ...
- The trickiest part of speeding up a program is not ...
- The abundance of digital storage and processing power has caused ...
- In conditions of uncertainty, you might be tempted to use ...
- our philosophy is that to make fastsoftware you need slow ...
- Buy them in small quantities and replenish them often instead ...
- the system grows for a while (increasing λ), or we ...
- As we think about it this way, we realize that ...
photography
platforms
- To expand the term beyond its original scope, Max Pain ...
- This is enshittification: surpluses are first directed to users; then, ...
- Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to ...
- The fundamental problem is that there’s a fundamental disagreement inside ...
- The dark irony here is that corporatized communication is what ...
- Of course, OpenAI does offer a “social” feature, but the ...
- Analyses have [found] that 12 people—coined the “disinformation dozen”—are responsible ...
- TikTok’s entire strategy is to turn viral content in public ...
- From the perspective of non-mega-platform companies, I think this is ...
- But just as the gig economy mode of work brought ...
platfroms
police
politics
- Separating out the well and worthy workers from the sick ...
- Authoritarianism is about *taking things from me.* Communism, in its ...
- lol c’mon, if this wasn’t from an A.I., this would ...
- When someone (or some entity such as business) enjoys a ...
- We feel rather than know (and many of us refuse ...
- In October of last year, YouTube creator and fandom expert ...
practice
- But the [hyperobject] that is climate change requires the very ...
- it’s not always about what happens during the workout. It’s ...
probability
- In conditions of uncertainty, you might be tempted to use ...
- if you are talking about “numerous black swans” then you ...
product
- [Noriaki Kano], a Japanese researcher and consultant, published a paper ...
- In order to uncover our customer’s perceptions towards our product’s ...
- The takeaway here is that any analysis we do at ...
- Kano classifies features into four categories, depending on how customers ...
- [Noriaki Kano], a Japanese researcher and consultant, published a paper ...
- **Designing for Disassembly** ensures that all elements of a product ...
- One of the consequences of demateralisation is that things that ...
- I’m personally convinced that these companies are selling products that ...
professional
psychology
- mere-exposure effect: doing something many times makes us believe we ...
- As I’ve written in past reviews, “permission” seems to be ...
queues
- as devices get extremely fast, interrupt-driven work is no longer ...
- We have built many projects, and we believe the most ...
- • λ: arrival rate. This measures how fast new items ...
- The **Queuing Rule of Thumb (QROT)** is a mathematical formula, ...
- As we think about it this way, we realize that ...
- We can then define the Utilization of the server (calling ...
recommendations
recreational-drugs
recycling
- although as with all plastic recycling, “downcycling” is the more ...
- Jingu is famous for its tradition of periodic reconstruction, known ...
reliability
- Erasure Coding is a ubiquitous technique in storage and physical ...
- Let's think about that cache again: when that one node ...
- Erasure coding is the idea that we can take a ...
religion
- lol c’mon, if this wasn’t from an A.I., this would ...
- A]s a religion, social justice works. It works not merely ...
- My laboratory is like a church because it is where ...
renewable-energy
republican-party
research
- I make a practice of regularly checking in about whether ...
- Bill Thurston [writes]: > Mathematics is a process of staring ...
rfc
- MAY This word, or the adjective 'OPTIONAL', mean that an ...
- MUST This word, or the terms 'REQUIRED' or 'SHALL', mean ...
- Bigger projects often use a formal “request for comments” (RFC) ...
risk
- In conditions of uncertainty, you might be tempted to use ...
- if you are talking about “numerous black swans” then you ...
robots
- But fifty years of progress in miniaturization and software changed ...
- as users becomes accustomed to agents and NPCs, we’ll see ...
- Not only in VR, but generally in software, we’ll see ...
- Next we bring in creative divergence. How? **Geists!** Geists will ...
routine
safety
- the Toyota Production System. Among its many key principles is ...
- insights from the seven stages of action lead us to ...
- Principles of Good Systems ⬢
- For large-scale software *systems*, Van Roy believes we need to ...
salt
scaling
- as devices get extremely fast, interrupt-driven work is no longer ...
- Principles of Good Systems ⬢
- In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has ...
- The discovery of scaling laws has typically preceded a boomtime ...
- Use a small model to generate a 'draft' output, then ...
science
- That whole summer in Colorado was a data-gathering bust, but ...
- I wanted to be studying plant growth, but science for ...
- People are like plants: they grow toward the light. I ...
- My laboratory is like a church because it is where ...
- Science has taught me that everything is more complicated than ...
search
- Remember that we started with 115 TB of content that ...
- The next problem we have is how to build this ...
seasoning
- Never buy preground or precracked pepper, ever! You want the ...
- Those little shakers on the table are of no help ...
- Sonali had told us about Annaprashana, which is a Hindu ...
security
services
side-effects
- in practice the answer is that some companies create negative ...
- this is the first important non-intuitive thing about KYC and ...
- Selecting the hen who lays the most eggs doesn't necessarily ...
- No exploration without contamination ...
- There is no need to cut croutons into perfect little ...
- because nuts like all fatty ingredients will absorb odors. ...
- Cheese is a living thing that needs to breathe. Waxed ...
- Don't store in plastic containers, because the plastic can absorb ...
social-networks
- Imperfect social media tools gave anyone the ability to publish ...
- This is enshittification: surpluses are first directed to users; then, ...
- The seemingly earnest popularity of these videos, especially among younger ...
- Party food before social media was not prepared with photographic ...
- Rewild your attention” — that’s a wonderful way of putting ...
software
- The bottom line is this; in modern multicore, multi-CPU devices, ...
- Hashing, crypto-safe (64 bytes) 500 ns 200 MiB/s ...
- Random Memory R/W (64 bytes) 50 ns 1 GiB/s ...
- Programmable notes are note-taking systems that allow you to write ...
- This scavenging in the SaaS landscape is how people express ...
- Folk interfaces are when users reappropriate existing software to solve ...
- Remember that we started with 115 TB of content that ...
- The next problem we have is how to build this ...
- [End-user programming is] a vision for empowered computing pursued by ...
- We have built many projects, and we believe the most ...
- Tags are primarily used for both *querying* , or discovering ...
- For large-scale software *systems*, Van Roy believes we need to ...
- More generally, Van Roy sees a layered language design with ...
- State introduces an abstract notion of time in programs. In ...
- The trickiest part of speeding up a program is not ...
- The term was “Web 2.0” was first coined in 1999 ...
- > A cost center is a function that is operated ...
- If a `swear` ever fails, **the function is deleted from ...
- One of the challenges with JIT compilers is that they ...
- Laurel suggests that we see the computer screen as a ...
- the computer interface has *always* been a multiplayer environment for ...
- And yes, there’ll be plenty of cases where “raw ChatGPT” ...
- and soall Apple products broke almostinstantly and uhall the tools ...
- our philosophy is that to make fastsoftware you need slow ...
- the programmer's task is not just to write down a ...
- the program is an abstract symbol manipulator, which can be ...
- to the extent that we view ourselves as mechanisms, we ...
- My point today is that, if we wish to count ...
- Before there was a de facto platform for hosting code, ...
- A tool is something that takes an existing workflow, and ...
- The four elements of credible neutrality are: (1) Don’t write ...
- We can often categorize APIs in three broad categories: Private ...
- Context Maps where contexts have clear roles and their relationships ...
- Another way this is noted is that Factories are “pure ...
- The Factory should create new objects, while the Repository should ...
- For immutable Value Objects it means that all attributes are ...
- Choose one Entity to be the root of each Aggregate, ...
- An Aggregate is a group of associated objects which are ...
solar
spaceflight
specialization
sponsorship
- I call this “unlocking the commons,” and it’s the same ...
- you can pay me money, and I will continue writing. ...
- I’ve been mainly “hiring” members for permission. Not in a ...
- As I’ve written in past reviews, “permission” seems to be ...
sports
stimulus
stochastic-management
strategy
- Strategy can only be employed top-down, so it’s not a ...
- To ensure your strategy is operating at the right altitude, ...
- **Are you confident the strategy will create leverage?** Strategies require ...
- **Are you willing and able to enforce the strategy?** If ...
- **Are you either confident in your diagnosis or do you ...
- In *Staff Engineer*, I argued that writing an engineering strategies ...
- A strategy is composed of three parts: 1. **Diagnosis:** a ...
stream-processing
supplementals-10287441
supplementals-10287445
- At minimum, open source projects hosted on GitHub can be ...
- Developers don’t contribute to open source for lack of technical ...
- Bigger projects often use a formal “request for comments” (RFC) ...
- Before there was a de facto platform for hosting code, ...
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- What I’ve found most successful is to identify a few ...
- I can’t stress enough that these fixes are slow. This ...
- The expected time to complete a new task approaches infinity ...
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- The Gestalists showed that there was no obvious relationship between ...
- It confirmed Biederman’s sense that “most advances in science come ...
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- “We like the idea that there’s always someone responsible for ...
- People are made of stories. Our memories are not the ...
- “Coincidence and intention are two sides of a tapestry, my ...
supplementals-10287585
- That whole summer in Colorado was a data-gathering bust, but ...
- There are a hundred species or so known as “resurrection ...
- A chilly autumn brings on the same hardening as a ...
- Ask a science professor what she worries about. It won’t ...
- Being paid to wonder seems like a heavy responsibility at ...
- When you are in the forest, for every tree that ...
- Every species on Earth—past or present, from the single-celled microbe ...
- I wanted to be studying plant growth, but science for ...
- People are like plants: they grow toward the light. I ...
- My laboratory is like a church because it is where ...
- Science has taught me that everything is more complicated than ...
- He taught me that there is no shame in breaking ...
- Working in the hospital teaches you that there are only ...
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- In a 2003 memoir called Where the Money Is: True ...
- Today, nearly 150 years later, burglary and architecture still go ...
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supplementals-23306724
supplementals-24551309
- A COMPLEX SYSTEM THAT WORKS IS INVARIABLY FOUND TO HAVE ...
- ANERGY-STATE. Any state or condition of the Universe, or of ...
surveillance
survivalism
- to meet a future full of catastrophe, we need to ...
- It’s not like survival, resilience, perseverance and strength in the ...
- Scavenge-friendly electronics are parts that are no longer manufactured, but ...
- Utilizing what has survived the collapse of industrial production or ...
- A post-collapse society that has eventually lost all of its ...
- Collapse informatics prioritizes community needs and aims to contribute to ...
- **Designing for Descent** ensures that a system is resilient to ...
systems
- Principles of Good Systems ⬢
- A COMPLEX SYSTEM THAT WORKS IS INVARIABLY FOUND TO HAVE ...
- ANERGY-STATE. Any state or condition of the Universe, or of ...
- A pattern as a form/context pair and a generic set ...
- centers and generative process ...
- Christopher Alexander: A Primer
- In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has ...
- Programmable notes are note-taking systems that allow you to write ...
- leaders work *on* the system, not *in* the system ...
- Tags are primarily used for both *querying* , or discovering ...
- The room is architected for discussions and decisions, not just ...
- In October of last year, YouTube creator and fandom expert ...
- the [Law of stretched systems]: > Every system is stretched ...
- What I’ve found most successful is to identify a few ...
- I can’t stress enough that these fixes are slow. This ...
- The expected time to complete a new task approaches infinity ...
- Whenever you want to change your behavior, you can simply ...
- Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems ...
- In a 2003 memoir called Where the Money Is: True ...
- THE MEANING OF A COMMUNICATION IS THE BEHAVIOUR THAT RESULTS. ...
taxes
taxonomy
teams
theme
tolerance
tools
- Screenshotting as one of the essential underrated tools of the ...
- exactly the same thing goes for spaced repetition right you ...
- **Accretive** tools build over time. Developer tools tend to work ...
- **Ephemeral** tools are about the conversation. Slack is one. Zoom ...
- The room is architected for discussions and decisions, not just ...
- to the extent that we view ourselves as mechanisms, we ...
- There’s a third impact of AI harder to spot and ...
- A tool is something that takes an existing workflow, and ...
- The value of a product is the number of problems ...
training
- Top-tier athletes are fanatically disciplined about improving their foundational skills—skills ...
- [Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills much more ...
types
- Another way this is noted is that Factories are “pure ...
- The Factory should create new objects, while the Repository should ...
- For immutable Value Objects it means that all attributes are ...
- Choose one Entity to be the root of each Aggregate, ...
- An Aggregate is a group of associated objects which are ...
urban-planning
- *brown lands* , a semi-obsolete urban planning term that encompasses ...
- An edge city is a dense, auto-oriented job center arising ...
- In a 2003 memoir called Where the Money Is: True ...
- Today, nearly 150 years later, burglary and architecture still go ...
validation
vendors
war
work
- *What we are trying to do influences what becomes salient ...
- A challenge with big projects is that what you're working ...
- solo creative work is about a combination of maintaining a ...
- If something is rotten in an org, the root cause ...
- I make a practice of regularly checking in about whether ...
- Bill Thurston [writes]: > Mathematics is a process of staring ...
- When you start a creative project but don’t finish, the ...
- Motivation factors include challenging work, recognition, responsibility, and personal growth ...
- i thought, or hoped, that not caring would protect me, ...
- Give considered thought to what is “worth our attention in ...
- Around here [I often quote] the most important thing I learned ...
- Another lesson is that, when junior investment bankers work all ...
- something called [the Hermeneutic circle], which [Ryan Kitchens] described as ...
- Being paid to wonder seems like a heavy responsibility at ...
- Recollection is such a small, basic part of thinking! There ...
- My laboratory is like a church because it is where ...
- He taught me that there is no shame in breaking ...
- It’s not a surprise when a scientist is surprised. That’s ...
- Volunteering to do emotional labor—even when you don’t feel like ...
- If your organization wanted to replace you with someone far ...
writing
- *To write about something hard to explain, write a detailed ...
- The promotion of brainstorming as a starting point is all ...
- An idea kept private is as good as one you ...
- Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, ...
- The unit of blogging isn’t pageviews, it’s conversations. Don’t worry ...
- MAY This word, or the adjective 'OPTIONAL', mean that an ...
- MUST This word, or the terms 'REQUIRED' or 'SHALL', mean ...
- Top-tier athletes are fanatically disciplined about improving their foundational skills—skills ...
- In *Staff Engineer*, I argued that writing an engineering strategies ...
- **Campfires** - mostly blogging for me, though I know some ...
- the questions my favourite writing professor would ask. • Do ...
- Interlace is “the device of interweaving of a number of ...
- When you start a creative project but don’t finish, the ...
- updates establish a persistent drip of information from you to ...
- you can significant improve the quality of internal communcations within ...
- **Accretive** tools build over time. Developer tools tend to work ...
- **Ephemeral** tools are about the conversation. Slack is one. Zoom ...
- Writing is nature’s way of letting you know how sloppy ...