Sealed Abstract

AI hype is 80% real Increasingly, our profession—as programmers—is splitting.

The problem Suppose you have a heightmap.

There was water on my floor.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

The rationalists have a thought prophecy to warn us about the dangers of strong AI: It would innovate better and better techniques to maximize the number of paperclips.

Being abstract is something profoundly different from being vague … The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise. - E.W.

Recently, I needed a robust way to calculate the curvature for a cubic bezier curve.

Demo In this post, I discuss the rectangle intersector used for the following demo, which typically exceeds 4 gigaintersections per second: This is the fastest result I'm aware of, possibly because I can't find any benchmarks of this kind, or much discuss…

In “The Four Quadrants of Conformism” Paul Graham is concerned about a decline in free inquiry: I'm biased, I admit, but it seems to me that aggressively conventional-minded people are responsible for a disproportionate amount of the trouble in the world,…

I have recently noticed a growing problem in hacker culture, and I’m getting more concerned.