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Monthly recap (November 2022)
Major updates * Moving on from Sigma (more on this later) * Trip to Kauai * Tara’s birthday Minor updates * Meeting various people, some after many years * Bunch of birthday p…
A little destroyer
Found a “Star Wars Origami” book from many years ago. Pasted within the book was a half-finished piece, that turned out to be a squashed “star destroyer”. So, I completed it :-)…
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A not-so-long-ago article on SBF by Sequoia: web.archive.org/web/20221... > "After my interview with SBF, I was convinced: I was talking to a future trillionaire. Whatever mojo he worked on t…
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Looking at Gemini and other “web bloat” fixes: youtu.be/I2Q35uFCq...…
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On over-hyped claims and throwing around the word "wormhole" scottaaronson.blog…
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Vaguely disturbing: www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/0...…
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Interesting historical tidbit: early Lisp had several “similar” languages that died out: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/sri/Raphael_A_Brief_Survey_of_Languages_for_Symbolic_and_Algebraic_Manipulation_Se…
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“The forty year programmer” youtu.be/UPkJGU7It...…
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A reasonable overview of Urbit…
Another look at (old) Distributed Systems
Remember watching this talk by Michael Bernstein many years ago, and some good things are worth revisiting, so I re-watched it today. It’s backed by some reading material too. Part 1 These days I’m…
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It's one thing to find evidence of an impact on Mars. It's another thing to find water and ice on Mars. It's a whole other thing to find evidence of a mega-tsunami on Mars. gizmodo.com/m…