David Bieber

I wrote a little decorator function called hoist.

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I don’t do a lot of social media, and so over the holidays when I became active on several online discussion platforms simultaneously, I was a bit overwhelmed.

In yesterday’s snippet I introduced the idea of democratic delegation-optional voting.

In this snippet I propose a novel voting system, which I call “Democratic Delegation-optional Voting”.

Omar Riswan has an excellent project called TabFS that takes your browser tabs and exposes them to you as a filesystem.

Now that I’ve linked to the snippets section from my main website, will it be harder to write snippets?

I have implemented a minimal working version of mobile distraction detection, complete with a simple intervention for when I visit distracting websites on my phone.

You’ll notice I have no blog posts from 2020, but this is not because I stopped writing.

I’m inching my way toward writing a distraction detector that will allow Bieber Bot to notice when I’m distracted on my phone and stage an intervention.

A social network’s design influences the conversations that people will have on it.

Dan Abolafia asked me some thought provoking questions about Solomonoff Induction and intelligence.

turn a collection of photos into a slide show set it to music add gentle transitions, like a slow pan of the camera fade the music in and out to change songs given a file of time stamp ranges, clip to just those parts of the file given a file of timestamp…

In this snippet I share datalog queries for Roam Research.

At the start of 2020 I resolved to communicate publicly 100 times.

There are many ways to do spaced repetition in Roam Research.

I use Google Chrome on my Mac laptop and on my iPhone, and I’m logged in to my Google account in both places with syncing turned on.

This snippet details a thought experiment I’ve been encouraging people to do for years.

I thought today I would attempt a proper treatment of my latest automatic “ snippet” publishing system.

I’ve set up a GitHub action to enable even faster automatic publishing of snippets from Roam.

Python provides some convenient functions for manipulating strings: strip, lstrip, and rstrip.

Hey folks, I have a workflow for automatically publishing “ snippets” to my website from Roam.

Roam Research is an excellent note taking tool.

I’ve now written several snippets about my analyzing my browsing history programmatically.

Write $y_i = \text{softmax}(\textbf{x})_i = \frac{e^{x_i}}{\sum e^{x_d}}$.

Dodam asked me what ideas I thought were most essential.

About 107 billion people have ever lived.

Supervisord has been the single best quality-of-life improvement for software development for me in 2020.

Check out this “demo video” I made!

With this snippet I’m testing out a new snippet publishing system: publishing snippets directly from Roam Research.

I’ve been using spaced repetition for 2-3 weeks now.

I’ve been writing a lot these days inside of Roam Research.

Tomorrow I’m giving a talk to Women Who Code on Python Fire.

My goal for this year was to get good at communicating publicly.

Some of the snippets I did not publish were about my plans for biking in the morning.

This is my first snippet published using my snippet queue idea.

What is the barrier to publication?

The goal of Snippets is to minimize the barrier to writing as much as possible.

I’ve seen people monitor their CPU temperature and today my laptop was running hot, so I wanted to do so myself.

These days I have six “infinite distractions” — things I do mindlessly that are roughly limitless in content.

Why do I want to be able to post snippets from my phone?

I’d like to be able to post snippets from my phone.

Bieber Bot is a highly motivated robot that assists me with my financials, tweets on my behalf, and keeps me productive when my brain feels otherwise.

We built an Escape Room!

Python Fire is a Python library for automatically creating command line interfaces (CLIs) from absolutely any Python object.

Tech Day is an educational program run by Googlers for high school students interested in technology and computer science.

The at-scheduler is a simple command line scheduler.

The shh shell is a simple shell you can use while you drift off to sleep.

Scrabble Bot loves Scrabble and social media!

Princeton ACM is the Princeton University student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery.