Joshua Cole

There’s a genre of internet atheist who thinks “regret your sins” is the dumbest possible advice a religion could give.

“Can God make a rock so heavy He can’t lift it?”

A quintessence of intelligence is that winners are first.

At Mieza we compute equilibrium strategies for imperfect-information games.

Frontier Search for N-Pointer Problems Many common n‑pointer problems are actually frontier search problems in disguise.

Game graphs branch with each action and then branch again with the next, growing combinatorially – a growth rate which outpaces even exponential growth.

The problem of evil has a hidden assumption: that a limited observer and an omniscient evaluator must reach the same judgment about what constitutes good action.

When you are trying to do something hard – become the best in the world at something, start a company, master an unfamiliar domain – your own current inadequacy dominates your prediction of the future.

Good note-taking systems have the same architecture as good databases: a write-ahead log for fast capture, a processing step that builds a graph structure, and a query layer that retrieves what you need.

For some technical debt is just a list of shouldn’t and best practice a list of should.