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I just opened youtube to waste a few minutes, as one does when their coding agents are hard at work, and a video caught my eye: "Buenos Aires accent in the 1990's".

For the past couple of months I've been participating in private history lessons organized by a historian with almost two decades of teaching experience.

Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 I agree with the sentiment that this probably unnecessary at the current level of capabilities, and if this was motived by animosity from the administration towards Anthrop…

Man, what a week, eh?

The Adolescence of Technology Lots of good stuff, what’s more interesting to me is the beginning, where Dario roughly says, if I’m reading this right, that he’s not that worried about AI power seeking because you have to hammer these things a lot in post…

I use Anki to learn, and for the last few years I've successfully built a habit of doing my daily cards.

Recently I got myself a new Macbook which is a lot more capable than my previous daily driver - an M2 Mac mini.

Related links: Reddit thread, HN thread A few thoughts: I fully understand the schadenfreude on the part of the SWE community.

Link to MR post: MR Jack and Tyler are both of the opinion that AI will cause lower economic growth than the 20%-30% estimates of those who are "feeling the agi" because real world bottlenecks in the world of atoms, which still makes up the majority of the

I can feel my usage of Google search taking a nosedive already.

[Link] Voronoi diagrams with SciPy I was a bit confused by SciPy's documentation for its Voronoi class and wondering how I could easily draw the "infinite" regions from the output.

A neat approach for sortable versioned filenames tl;dr Add a letter to indicate number of digits: a0, a1 to a9, b10 to b99, c100 to c999, etc.

Computer Science Nominative Determinism - Edsger Dijkstra \(\text{Edsger } D^*_{ijk} \) Ok, that was awful, I know, I know.

Reposting an anecdote I originally posted on Hacker News regarding my trip to Pompeii: We were walking around the city (the archeological park, that is) and I wanted to see one of those roman public bathrooms.

I was disappointed to learn that Flix has feature X instead of my favorite feature Y.

Pão Francês Smoked salmon Mayonnaise Sliced green olives Yellow mustard Open the bread roll, add mayo to both insides, then salmon, sliced olives on top and a generous topping of mustard.

One of the books on my reading list is Bryant and O'Hallaron's Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective.

Generating this code sounds like it should be quicker.

Fun story: I came to Python through data analysis - so I wasn't a "python/programming expert" - and for an unreasonably long time used exclusively csv, parquet (thanks to pandas) and later JSON to persist data from my projects (local projects, of course.

Stripe Press recently released a new edition of Poor Charlie's Almanack, exactly a week after Munger sadly passed away.

As I write this post, the board of directors of OpenAI is under extreme pressure to reinstate Sam Altman as CEO and giving him complete control of the company while they're at it.

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Note: there's no hidden knowledge contained in this post, it's just a reflection on how reading someone's reaction to an analogous situation changed my outlook Like everyone who works in an information job, I have been worried these last few months about…

A few weeks ago I was looking for a function that would squeeze variables with large magnitude, but behaved like the identity function close to zero.

Carousel of Progress is one of the most famous attractions in Disney World.