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I'm surprised one of the big tech companies hasn't bought out Sublime Text and open sourced it to win developer mindshare.
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I couldn't find a great version of Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think" (1945) so I made the one below, as HTML, TXT, and PDF. Great read. 8 pages. Highly recommend. Link below.
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"The abacus, with its beads string on parallel wires, led the Arabs to positional numeration and the concept of zero many centuries before the rest of the world; and it was a useful tool - so useful that it still exists." I never made the connection as to how the abacus led to the invention of positional notation.
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"This is the worst AI will ever be", they said. New Alexa:
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Microverses =========== We live above 7 microverses that we cannot see no matter how hard we squint. Each microverse is ten times larger than the one above. Each is its own land with unique creatures, phenomena and rules. We rely on scopes, and experiments, and symbols to map the territory. How many concepts to describe each world? 1,000? 10,000? More? I gave these microverses names: Hairfield, Bloodland, Mitotown, Viralworld, Proteinplace, Moleculeville, Atomboro. And that just gets us to the atomic level. But there are many more lands beyond that we cannot see. It may be closer to the beginning than the end.
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Imagine you had a .txt file for every book you've ever read on your local machine. You absolutely should have this. You should be angry that the law has made this impractical. Get angry. Demand your rights to improve and share information.
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Remember the Pringles ad "Once you pop, you can't stop"? Pistachios are nature's Pringles.
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A lot of work to do but here's the plan:
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My contrarian take on all big software companies: 1) Unethical "IP" laws possibilize monopoly profits. 2) Monopoly profits possibilize talent monopolies. 3) Talent monopolies possibilize leading products. 4) Leading products possibilize reputation laundering.
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Feature idea: "who won Warpcast today?" @dwr.eth @v (maybe this has already been tried/proposed)
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Software programs put includes on top. Academic papers put includes on bottom. Which way do you think is better?
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The size of everything, by Olaf Frohn. Have you ever seen a single page of paper that references more knowledge than this?
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People are dismissing vibe coding, but I think within 9 months 99% of all worthless software will be vibe coded.
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5 second tip for improving your git workflows:
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A pretty paper by https://x.com/LabOrigami
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I've seen a lot of people saying, about LLMs, "these are the worst they're ever going to be." But that only applies to open source models. Closed source products plateau and often regress. Microsoft Windows, for example.
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