Liza Shulyayeva

It feels like just yesterday I got my first job in game dev back in Australia, but it’s been about 14 years!

I’ve tried quite a few blogging platforms over the years: Wordpress, Squarespace, even Ghost at some point, I think.

I thought my first series of novellas would revolve around the same world, but otherwise stand alone from each other.

After a year of short stories, I released my first novella recently and it’s been doing pretty well.

A few years ago I deleted my Facebook account, and now I feel like it’s time for the next step: Twitter; but nothing as drastic as deletion just yet.

My book has been getting more and more reviews and ratings on Amazon and Goodreads.

Intro Method 1 (Mocks) Method 2 (httptest) Intro Both testing methods described here can be found in this repository.

I was fully set on getting a ThinkPad T14 AMD, but seeing no hint of the Gen 2 AMD version in sight and learning that the P14s is basically the same thing, I decided to go for that instead.

Humidifiers and I have a several-year-long history, in which I’ve considered countless humidifiers and tried…a couple.

It is finally starting to feel like spring is here, even though we are having bouts of snow and it is still very cold.

At the end of last year I decided to use my vacation budget for something I would consider a luxury, and an unneccesary luxury at best: I got a robot litterbox.

I have found myself procrastinating a lot in my free time.

The vast majority of my long term private savings are in low cost index funds.

It has been such a long year.

These are my hastily taken and edited notes on the first ALIFE 2020 conference keynote, presented by Mike Levin.

Below are some rough notes from a tutorial session called Soft alife with SPLAT and Ulam by David Ackley.

I am sitting in my apartment in Täby, which is an area north of Stockholm in Sweden.

What follows are my hasty notes from a lecture and workshop-type session I went to at Stockholms University, delivered by IBM.

In 2019 I did more travelling than I ever had in one year.

Since I started another repository for the SnailLife Genome Lab, I knew I’d want to test it against a running SnailLife server.

For the Go rewrite of SnailLife I decided to focus on tools early.

I care quite a bit about self-optimization and longevity and this enthusiasm has developed more and more over the years (although I’m very much an interested amateur here, not an expert by any definition of the word).

Wow, talk about a belated post.

I looked into a pretty fun bug a few days ago.

In the last post I talked a bit about how I might approach expressing genes in SnailLife Go, and how this worked in the PHP prototype of the simulation.

In the original PHP prototype of SnailLife there exists a very rudimentary genetics system.

I think enough of the SnailLife Go infrastructure is ready now for me to start digging into the snail itself.

A couple of days ago I noticed some unreliable output when stepping through the SnailLife server.

<– PART ONE Overview ORM Intentionaliser aggregationObserver aggregationReifier aggregationModifier The new type Qualifier Recompiling and restarting Visualizing the results Conclusion Overview In Part 1 we talked about the general setup of the world/grid…

Intro ORM Intentionaliser Questions Self-modifying simulation in Go?

Answering questions or helping other people seems to be a good way for me to learn more about a language.

When I want to do some rough timing comparisons or get a quick idea of what part of Thing X is taking so long I sometimes just time a few functions.

When you’re helping coordinate a workflow switch between half a dozen different studios, making sure all tools support new workflow, and shipping at the same time:

My worm bin is about a month old now, which is still very early by worm bin standards.

Let’s talk about Perforce.

Similarly, the ratio of “code churn” to “lines of code” in mature and non-trivial software is also at least 10:1.

Random UAC permissions for C# applications notes: Ask for elevated permissions via app.manifest - see <requestedExecutionLevel level="highestAvailable"/> or requireAdministrator - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6ad1fshk.aspx Can’t change elevati…

Do we really need to know about Randy’s young-age staple remover obsession?

I mentioned on Twitter earlier today that very often when I get really stuck on something and finally decide to ask for help on a forum, the answer suddenly hits me as I finish writing my post.

During my five week vacation I made myself finally sit down and read a book that’s been recommended to me repeatedly: Why We Sleep by Matthew P.

Today is our last day in Glastonbury.

I’ve wanted to see the Tor in person for a long time, ever since reading a fantasy book set in Glastonbury in high school.

What follows is a set of notes I took during two of the IJCAI Goal Reasoning workshop talks, about rebel agents.

Below is another set of IJCAI session notes.

For the past couple of days I’ve been at IJCAI - the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

I should know better than to use a latest tag in a Docker image.

This post will have some general impressions of Input Club K-Type and matt3o’s new keycap profile (MT3), with the /dev/tty color scheme.

I’ve started working on client tests, which have been getting very neglected compared to the server.

Every SnailLife model struct has a repository struct to go with it.