1. Dementia is often classified according to the most likely underlying pathology. In older people with frailty, this can be misleading. Most will have a combination of several neurodegenerative processes and vascular lesions affecting their brain function. The commonest diagnoses are Alzheimer’s disease (a form of neurodegeneration) and vascular dementia. [ ] People with dementia can [ ]
I try to make a post like this one every year. I read 100 books in 2025, and 40.167 pages. 44 books were non-fiction and 56 books were fiction: The average page count of books I finished during the year was ~400 pages (401,7 if we assume no overlap across years, but there was a [ ]
i. Programming covers an enormous range of activities with different problem domains, team sizes, management structures, project lifespans, deployment sizes, deployment frequencies, hardware, performance requirements, consequences for failure etc. We should expect it to be incredibly rare that any given practice is appropriate across all those contexts, let alone that we could discover general…
i. As a reliable compass for orientating yourself in life nothing is more useful than to accustom yourself to regarding this world as a place of atonement, a sort of penal colony. When you have done this you will order your expectations of life according to the nature of things and no longer regard the [ ]
3+ hours in good company:
Worth watching. Casey sums up around the 1:05-1:06 mark, and again around 1:15-1:16. In short, you cannot/should not be using micro-benchmarks for language comparisons. From the 1:05-06 summary: So, again, just to bring this back to the original point, why are we looking at all this stuff? Well, again, if you were going to be [ ]
I try to make a post like this one every year. I read 91 books in 2024, and 30.233 pages. 25 books were non-fiction and 66 books were fiction. The average page count of books I finished during the year was 332 pages. The page count achieved corresponds to an average daily page count of [ ]
I was considering while having a look at some quotes linked to this book which I d taken note of in the past whether to just some include some quotes from this book into a quotes post and leave it at that something I actually realized while writing this post that I d already done in [ ]
i. There may be occasions when it is best to behave irrationally, but whether there are should be decided rationally. (Irving John Good) ii. If a religion is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Gödel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion [ ]
i. Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible, serving us without drawing attention to itself. Bad design, on the other hand, screams out its inadequacies, making itself very noticeable. (Don Norman, The Design of Everyday [ ]