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Physics Perhaps it's just my love for Greg Egan's sci-fi writing, but I'm emotionally drawn to superdeterminism. Gerard ’t Hooft's cellular automaton ideas are great, but despite his Nobel Prize they never received much attention. I was heartened to see Sabine Hossenfelder and Tim Palmer, who have a significant following, join his ranks recently. Stephen Wolfram's recent…
Modelling for homesteaders I like to experiment in the kitchen. I am not a naturally talented cook, so sometimes ingredients, processes, and timings I imagined to be a good idea actually aren't. As self-respecting millenials, we naturally responded to the pandemic by whipping up some sourdough starter. There are many bread recipes on the internet. Each one is an approximation of The Perfect…
Economics Ethics Neuroscience & AI Tech and design Entrepreneurship Physics Programming Category theory for programmers https://github.com/hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf/ A wonderfully straightforward intro to category theory
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This post stands in as a tutorial for prometheus.ex . The gold standard in Elixir app monitoring has long been Exometer with StatsD, which, let me tell you right now, is an awful nightmare to set up. A bunch of crusty forks and hacks depending on super-specific versions of one another – I tried, failed, and gave up. Fortuitously, Ilya Khaprov just a few days ago published a bunch of Elixir…
This idea was born before we all had smartphones and swipey keyboards and the like: how can we arrange the 26 letters of the alphabet on a cellphone keyboard to make T9-like predictive typing as efficient as possible? In other words, which assignment of 26 letters to eight keys (0 and 1 are non-letter keys) minimizes the number of textonyms – such as, with the standard layout, home, gone, and…