Wishful Coding

Imagine you are the maintainer of an open source FPGA toolchain such as Apicula and you want to make sure your code works.

It seems that people on my part of Twitter, in particular the rationalists, are very into Newcomb’s problem, probably because their guru wrote about it, so they all believe you should pick one box.

I have recently become a dad, which is sometimes amazing, and sometimes suffering, such as when the baby is in a fussy mood and refusing to sleep.

Last month I subscribed to Claude Pro, but was dismayed to learn it doesn’t give you API access to use it in VS Code or Home Assistant or whatever.

So quantization is kinda bad lossy compression right?

I got a litlte bit nerd sniped by the following video and decided to implement game of life in clojure.core.logic, because any logic program can be evaluated forwards and backwards.

This is a theoretical counterpart to an experimental collaboration between KnowArt and Proper Printing to see if a diagonal guillotine blade cuts better than a horizontal one.

My dad likes to argue with flat earthers on Facebook, so I decided to steel man a consistent flat earth theory.

I’m making a clay tablet library with media from around the 20th century, to preserve our culture for the ages and answer the question: What do we want the distant future to know about us?

I built my own electro-mechanical music instrument by combining ideas from some of the coolest instruments I know of: A theremin is an electronic instrument that you play by moving your hands in the air.