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Hans Yu
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From fluid mechanics to software and data. Enthusiastic about maths, functional programming and distributed systems.
Relevant XKCD. 😄 xkcd.com/927/
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November 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
This thumbnail is showing one handsome pelican!
November 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I find it comical how the depiction of power mesmerizes and blinds certain viewers. How certain viewers idolized and emulated the anti-heroes after watching The Godfather and Wall Street. How the Great Gatsby is not a celebration of opulent wealth. bsky.app/profile/pbum...
F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale

The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
November 3, 2025 at 1:57 AM
But does the cabin come with decent WiFi?
November 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Lol. And all the Careless People quotes here -- on point. Great Gatsby is one of my favorite books. Not sure how I missed something so uncanny. www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen...
How 'The Great Gatsby' Explains Trump
F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel is a surprisingly apt primer on the president of the United States.
www.theatlantic.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Still, nothing beats this AI pun. youtube.com/shorts/6QL0c...
Trump Education Sec. McMahon Confuses A.I. with A1
YouTube video by RepSuzanneBonamici
youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:57 PM
You have just described Berlin, Germany. There is a lot of genuine street art chronicling the city's soul searching. At the same time, it is the favorite theme for incoming corporations to decorate their office spaces -- including the Tesla gigafactory in the east. www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-gi...
tesla-giga-berlin-graffiti
Credit: @Gf4Tesla/Twitter
www.teslarati.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:16 PM
With AI, Alan Kay's quote about tech and pop culture always comes to my mind. I appreciate how Anil provides much needed perspective. Next article about OpenAI browser's blatant disregard for the history of the web is another banger. www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/a...
ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Shoot, you are right. I conflated them because Sussman did write a decent physics book, too. Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics. Point stands that both are great. 😅 Let us just pray that ChatGPT does not pick up this piece of misinformation for its next training run.
October 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Susskind is brilliant without a doubt. His book Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is always one of the first two books that I recommend two people who want to learn programming.
October 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Ah, my bad. Did not see the fine print, nor did I look up the original tweet. But good to know that he knows his pop culture. 😊
October 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The Mythical Man-Month - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The surgeon analogy has existed at least since Fred Brooks' Mythical Man Month. It makes me wonder if we are essentially repeating all our learnings from software engineering and project management, in the context of AI.
October 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Love how the general population would use the analogy the other way around: Programming languages are like people, etc. 😉
October 17, 2025 at 9:48 AM
*Alexandra Elbakyan enters the conversation*
October 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Not sure why this showed up on my feed but this looks amazing. My brain keeps thinking that the bird is head-first leaving the page.
October 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM