The true self: preface
Moravec’s Paradox says that, in AI, the easy things are hard and the hard things are relatively easy. That is, it’s pretty straightforward……
Moravec’s Paradox says that, in AI, the easy things are hard and the hard things are relatively easy. That is, it’s pretty straightforward……
Yesterday I spent about two hours building the tool I said I would build to help me write more. It doesn’t do everything I wanted it to do……
It can be really tricky to tell the difference between “I want to do a thing” and “I ought to do a thing”. For example: I want to learn a……
I want to write something every day. I’ve tried this a couple of times before and haven’t been able to keep up with it for more than a few……
DRY says not to write the same code twice. I think a better rule of thumb is to not write code three times.…
I’ve been writing a lot of Ruby lately, and also a lot of Scala. One thing that’s struck me is the difficulty of confidently removing code……
Last week a co-worker described a design to me which just felt wrong. It wasn’t a bad solution for any reason I could point to, it just had……
What is the topography of the mind? How can I express and encode a thought or group of thoughts in such a way that somebody else (or me at……