“When a behavior becomes the norm, we lose our ability to view it as dysfunction.” — Jeff Garson
EcoDharma, David Loy, p. 75

Schrödingers documentation:
If there are docs, noone will read them.
If there are no docs, everyone will complain.

New blog post! "The World and the Machine", about how to think about modeling systems better. www.hillelwayne.com/post/world-v...

I've been pair programming a lot over the past few months and I gotta say there's stuff it's really bad for some stuff. Sometimes you just gotta go full ADHD while programming

People talk about imperative vs declarative programming but it really should be algorithmic vs declarative. Imperative and functional programming are algorithmic, while logic programming, constraint solving, and query languages are declarative.

Matrices are "just" linear functions. The matrix

3 1
2 1

Is just the function `f(x, y) = (3x + y, 2x + y)`. A matrix multiplication is just function composition, applying the two functions in sequence to your input.

Nice blog post on the unreasonable effectiveness of Merkle trees https://joelgustafson.com/posts/2023-05-04/merklizing-the-key-value-store-for-fun-and-profit

I'm excited about this new companion library to Automerge, which makes it a whole lot easier to write collaborative apps by handling storage and networking automerge.org/blog/2023/11...