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A famous maxim written by English historian Lord Acton in an 1887 letter to explain that total, unchecked authority destroys a person's moral sense.

January 6, 2024 If there’s one value Jason and I put above all else in business, it's independence.

When a measure becomes a target, it stops being a good measure.

The Two Ways the World Judges You Most careers seem completely different from one another.

goodreads, wiki, amazon openarchive, authors: Peter Thiel, Blake Masters pdf links: https://morfene.com/021.pdf Zero to One summary Peter Thiel’s advice on startups (archived) Short Description "Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future"…

goodreads, wiki, amazon openarchive, gutenberg authors: Harold Davenport pdf links: pdf_1, pdf_2, pdf_3 https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/d2d93a83-ce0d-4728-a833-a5badb65ee2f Timeline of Number Theory Endorsed by Algebraic Numbers essay of Barry Mazur

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Baris' notes Floating-point vs Fixed-point representation Floating point representation parameters base: 10 (decimal), 2 (binary) p: precision (how many digits in the number part) e_max: maximum exponent possible e_min: minimum exponent possible Represent…

Blogs that I follow.

Learning User Retention: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants Retention is the silent center of every growth model — the rate at which users come back on their own, not the rate at which you can buy them — and it sits on two pillars: the behavioral science…

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In Defense of Whataboutism Jun 19, 2026 Whataboutism is not a fallacy.

Career advices from various people Steve Jobs – Don't be a career "Don’t be a career.

AI Summary The Hamming Algorithm for Greatness Based on Richard Hamming’s "You and Your Research" (1986).

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?

goodreads, wiki, amazon openarchive, gutenberg authors: Chris Hanson Gerald Jay Sussman Gerald Jay Sussman pdf links: Short Description Dabeaz mentioned in Write a Compiler (archived) course on Dec 5, 2025 Goodreads Description Strategies for building lar…

Build your own: compiler How I Learn Compilers Dabeaz (David Beazley) Write a Compiler Course Notebook debugger Writing a Linux Debugger Blog Series - Sy Brand Building A Debugger (book) by Sy Brand HN - Demystifying Debuggers (rfleury.com) (archived) game

TIL - VS Code Extension Bisect When VS Code starts acting weird — slow startup, freezing, crashes, or broken features — it's often an extension causing the problem.

clone a fresh copy from github \( git clone --mirror <url> detecting the large file ❯ dust --ignore-directory .venv/ --ignore-directory data/ 8.0K ┌── README.md │█ │ 0% 8.0K ├── REFACTORING.md

yabai #macos #til #productivity TL;DR Homebrew removed the plist from the yabai formula. brew services start yabai no longer works — #plist, #service not found.

Rails 8 Created with rails new my_app → root folder my_app/ Primary directories app/, config/, db/, bin/, lib/, script/, storage/, test/, vendor/ Rails 8 re-introduced script/ for general-purpose tasks and build scripts.

Variables Both Ruby and Python prefer snake_case for variable names, reflecting clarity and natural readability.

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Git is a content-addressable, immutable, distributed database optimized for tracking filesystem snapshots.

tl;dr Constraints are your friend.

When going through the code, I saw an unexpected change, and wonder who made it and with which commit.

ref At its core, most of AI is about search: navigating vast parameter spaces to minimize a loss function.

2020 Jul 20 See all posts Exploring Fully Homomorphic Encryption Baris: He has a tweet too https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1787107645544943646 https://github.com/vbuterin/research/blob/master/tensor_fhe/homomorphic_encryption.py Special thanks to Karl…

ref From https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4345249/are-there-any-diagrams-or-tables-of-relationships-like-with-groups-to-magmas-bu Open: Pasted image 20250731210319.png from https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Volume II: Patterns of Plausible Inference This volume attempts to formulate certain patterns of plausible reasoning.

Examples Linear Algebra Problem Book (book) by Halmos Problems for Mathematicians, Young and Old (book) by Paul R.

A good book can be measured by how much the author had fun writing it.

A trap as an indie hacker is working too much on the initial idea.

Notebook You can read an overview of this Numerical Linear Algebra course in this blog post.

goodreads, wiki, amazon openarchive, gutenberg authors: Richard Courant Ian Stewart Herbert Robbins pdf links: pdf_1, pdf_2 "A lucid representation of the fundamental concepts and methods of the whole field of mathematics."

Books Abstract Algebra (book) by Herstein (introductory) Abstract Algebra (book) by Dummit and Foote (through) Visual Group Theory (book) (fun) Articles Group Theory and The Rubiks Cube ‘Groups’ Underpin Modern Math.

Endorsed by Terrence Tao, this blog is on his blog page - https://terrytao.wordpress.com/ January 2005 (I wrote this talk for a high school.

Watch great coders coding George Hotz Jonathan Blow Read well-written codebases Read best books (again and again) Refactoring (by Martin Fowler) SICP (by Sussman and Abelson) The Art of Unix Programming (by Eric Raymond) The Mythical Man Month (by Brooks)…

Adam Nickel for Quanta Magazine Mathematics started with numbers — clear, concrete, intuitive.

Baris: first saw in https://x.com/paulg/status/1951279732273639672 December 2014 If the world were static, we could have monotonically increasing confidence in our beliefs.

Aristotle's Rhetoric: Steps and Core Concepts I.

Venn diagrams to choose good math books/articles Venn diagram of great mathematicians Venn diagram of great math explainers Read books from those who are at the intersection of above two venn diagrams Halmos, Courant, Davenport, Hilbert, Those books that I

Hayden Course - Edit Like An Artist (archived) first heard about at a learnathon in Network School

goodreads, wiki, amazon openarchive, gutenberg authors: Greg Egan pdf links: https://philosophy.williams.edu/files/Egan-Learning-to-Be-Me.pdf https://www.treca.org/papersCollection/uploaded-files/filedownload.ashx/axiomaticgregegan.pdf Short Description "…

Content with notes ContentWithNotes Every item on the menu at Taco Bell is just a different configuration of roughly eight ingredients.

Principles of Software Engineering, Part 1 Tuesday, April 2, 2013 This is the first in a series of posts on the principles of software engineering.

TLDR: In this blogpost, we're going to train a neural network that is fully encrypted during training (trained on unencrypted data).