Just got a used copy of this. If you are looking for summer camp math art activities this is the real deal - how to, aesthetics and rigorous mathematics including calculus, complex numbers and group theory.
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If LLMs become the "best way to produce software", we will need open alternatives or alternatives made in the Global South. I just saw a post where someone spend 5 USD on a problem. 5 USD is a lot of money in the Global South.
If it’s a nothing burger: Are we headed for a global recession if the bubble pops? All that investment came out of somewhere! The world’s largest economy is not in a recession because of 5 companies??
I need a drink. Rant over 😊
I get that everyone thinks they lived through a major shift/transition … but boy is this one insane.
If AI hypers are right: the gap between haves and have-nots grows exponentially (assuming capitalism stays as is and does not evolve)
If AI doomers are right: LMICs are now just resource farms
Absolutely! It’s crazy because you could argue that running your own open alternative is more expensive (in the short/mid term at least) than the $5.
A bigger issue is if we lose problem solvers to LLMs, and develop a dependency, global south is F’d when the VC money stops and $5 is actually $300
Excited to share our latest paper on computational mechanisms of self-enhancement with links to mental health. We used hierarchical Bayesian drift diffusion modeling to decompose choices on a social comparison task and relate them internalizing symptoms.
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Made it through about 25% and had to come back and say this is freakin awesome! Congrats and Great work!
Now … back to it!
After 15+ years of teaching, architecting & delivering CSS for global organisations & startups, I’ve collated that experience into an extensive course which will take your CSS skills beyond the next level.
Complete CSS has taken nearly a year to produce and it’s officially live 🎉
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I’m struggling to get reliable street level env air quality data - Working on health+env models with clinics serving unhoused populations and recently learned that they are often kicked out of their neighborhoods and only return for clinic days … not sure where to start … help?
#data #climate
This is why I'm appreciating ai;dr as a sibling to the usual tl;dr.
Nice!
Well, we shipped it!
@preactjs.com is joining the party with an official @tanstack.com Query adapter 🎉
Huge shoutout to @thvdnta.bsky.social, who drove this effort 🙌
Welcome, @preactjs.com 👋
I leave with 7 books, come back with 14 …
Oh yeah this was a great talk!
TigerStyle.dev
A new, visual home for TigerStyle -- the software engineering methodology developed by TigerBeetle to produce safer, faster software in less time.
"Do the hard thing today to make tomorrow easy."
"If you want to be remembered, be remarkable."
[doing things I’m bad at]
“ugh, I suck at everything”
[doing things I’m good at]
“this doesn’t count because it’s easy for me”
Ouch, yeah… sounds about right 🙃
2006: Less is more, don’t repeat yourself
2016: Beautiful code prevents technical debt
2026: trillions of lines of generated spaghetti code that generate other spaghetti code will save us
Ha! Yes!
It’s not hyperbolic to say AI is a multiplier. A multiplier multiplies. I’m seeing more people just getting better are “meta-work” and large volumes of mediocre work.
If you don’t know where you are going you will just go further in random directions. The real problems don’t go away.
When using LLMs, it's very important to give clear instructions. Spec-driven development is the future.
For example, a clear prompt to add two numbers could look like:
ADD a TO b
ON SIZE ERROR
DISPLAY "Error"
This specifies the overflow as well.
A toilet that has — and I can't believe I'm writing this — latte art (classic leaf) in it
vibe coding
hey guys, just to confirm this is my fundraiser. i didn't want to ask for help, but i do need it.
my cancer is back. i am going through a lobectomy next week, the same surgery Walter White undergoes. i can't express how grateful i am. thank you so much everyone.
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life is wild right now!
@todoist.com , can we get description for projects? This could be a game changer! Often projects need a short description (or a long one), and we have to put it in a doc elsewhere… and have to juggle tools.
I wouldn’t need google docs for project spec documents, my team can just live in Todoist!
Writing is thinking
Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.
I'm convinced understanding Geometric #Algebra requires unlearning almost *everything* from years of Linear Algebra exposure.
My brain is actively rejecting GA - especially in applications.
This transition in thinking frameworks is worse that when I gave up Frequentism for the church of #bayes.
It feels like eating but not getting satiated, and feeling more empty.
But it’s a great business because it’s much harder to work without it after using it - skill loss is 100x easier than skill gain. Feels like for the first time ever neural plasticity is a handicap
