Nathan🌸
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Nathan🌸
@shimmermathlabs.com
Indie software developer • math lover • ML builder • 48 • NB they/them
Currently working on ML tutorials.
i love that for inductive proofs if you are more ambitious and try to prove something bigger you hand yourself better tools through the induction portal
November 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
how would you recommend getting started doing a project with atproto?
November 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
what is the new era?
November 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
the uncertainty principle is more related to the fundamental nature of things being waves. the one you're talking about is the observer effect, which is different.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncerta...
Uncertainty principle - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
that sucks
honestly it sounds like a dysfunctional hiring process which probably hides even deeper organizational dysfunction
November 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
international thanksgiving is the tradition in my house. it started with "international students try to cook traditional thanksgiving food and get it hilariously wrong" and has evolved to "let's make grape leaves and pumpkin bread pudding"
November 27, 2025 at 10:28 PM
reading that diagram is like a tutorial on skip lists in itself
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
i'm accepting programming license applications for my MAKE PROGRAMMING GREAT AGAIN regulation. please fill out your preferred programming languages. if you need endorsements for creating your own languages there is a small extra fee and practical test that needs to be scheduled separately
November 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
it's a rite of passage
next up is printing a segmented dragon "to see if the printer works"
November 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
this reminds me of that C++ compiler that produces executables that do nothing. technically standards compliant for like 99.9% of inputs because of undefined behavior (including in benchmarks and test suites etc.)
November 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
yeah it's eye-opening to be on the other side of things
November 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
when i was teaching at UCSC they gave us a handful of override codes that we could use for anyone. if you have an argument about why it makes sense for you to take the class you are already above 90% of requests that are basically "i need this credit bro".
November 26, 2025 at 5:41 AM
just ask the ai how to do it, then prompt another one to update the code to best practices, then put it into an automated workflow, then convert into into a centering div SaaS, raise some seed funds, jeez it's not that hard
November 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
this is the way

one extra thing is keeping notes of failures. in the (1) part you become an expert in how the code can fail. you can use that hard-won knowledge to help write tests for (2).
November 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
my 9yo has to explain this to other kids at school. and they get it. it's not that hard.
November 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
reverse impostor syndrome
November 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
9/10, not seeing a matching tiny little wired speaker with scratchy volume knob 😉
November 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
hey, my local library has a physical copy (!). going to check it out
November 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
i learned later that he used the program for 20 years until he retired from the fly fishing rod business
November 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM