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2026/08/10 02:16 Go is a terrible CP language Last time I did competitive programming was a while ago, I used to do that in C++. I have an important call soon which will probably include coding, and I'm getting prepared. Usually I would do that in Lisp, because I feel most proficient at. Sadly Lisp is not very readable by people who are not experienced with it, that's why I have to pick a language…
Boyer–Moore majority vote Played with Boyer–Moore majority vote algorithm today. It's interestingly smart algorithm. I hope I can be smart enough someday to come up with such solutions to problems. #algorithms.
Francesca Albanese and Francesco Albani I keep confusing Francesco Albani and Francesca Albanese lately.
Dutch national flag problem TIL about Dutch national flag problem which was a problem proposed by Dij
looking at things Sometimes I deeply wonder if anyone, at any point of my life, has looked at me, the same way I look at things.
Deliverance of Saint Peter by Raphael Liberation of Saint Peter, Raphael is just an amazing artwork. I can't stop looking at it. # Art
2026/08/01 16:28 Understanding Medea by Anselm Feuerbach Yesterday I spent some time looking at Medea, Anselm Feuerbach . I know some about the general Mythology of Medea killing Jason's kids, but at this version of the painting, the kids look fine and there's someone crying next to them, and a broken boat; I asked in r/classicart . Some people provided plausible answers; The painting imagines…
Pupils of Jacques-Louis David Very impressive number of Pupils: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pupils_of_Jacques-Louis_David # Art # Jacques-Louis David
airpods I didn't know that there's that big amount of engineering inside my AirPods case . #Apple
2026/07/30 00:12 Note on Gin size [2026-08-06 Thu 20:12] Author responded: I appreciate your willingness to do your homework here but you're a bit off in the comparison. I'm deliberately excluding the shared runtime and network stack, etc from both. If you go a little farther down the page you'll see like-for-like comparisons with, for example, gorilla/mux, echo, and chi. After all, mostly what…
Anselm's Plato I have been looking for hours at Plato's Symposium, Anselm Feuerbach . The amount of details, the quality of the art, just unimaginable. # Art
fyp-oriented I coined a new word today: fyp-oriented thinking
2026/07/28 19:18 Not all things matter Nothing (or, most of things, is more proper), really matters: Carry thy thoughts then to the objects themselves, and consider how short-lived they are and worthless, and that they may be in the possession of a filthy wretch or a whore or a robber. Then turn to the morals of those who live with thee, and it is hardly possible to endure even the most agreeable…
microplastics I was reading this report. It sounds interesting, maybe I have overestimated plastic all that time. Who knows, maybe metal producers are sponsoring this anti plastic propaganda after all.
Max Stirner My translation for SEP 's entry of Max Stirner was published today . # Philosophy
README, not README, not I really like the idea. I might consider using it seriously in any upcoming LLM-generated repositories. # LLM
2026/07/26 13:23 blusky and ActivityPub I have been working lately on self-hosting my own mastodon instance (it's up already, follow me on @root@lr0.org). I was wondering why not so many social media sites implement AP, knowing it will definitely increase engagement and make generally everything more accessible (apparently many of the dead social media projects that GNU implemented back in the day…
Anselm Feuerbach is cool too Just like Tommaso Minardi , Anselm Feuerbach 's art makes me think he was the primo uomo of his time too.
AI politician Politician reads AI prompt during assembly . I was considering doing an LLM check in some recent White House posts. This made me rather much more interested in doing that. # LLM # Politics
2026/07/21 21:46 TalkOrigins is now vibe coded TalkOrigins was one of my favorite websites as a kid. It was a very content focused website that I loved to visit and search a lot. I was checking on it today (last time I did was maybe in 2018?). And looks like they did a sloppy AI-ish redesign to the frontend. Such sad thing to say an archaic place like that go away. I hope at least they didn't…
2026/07/15 20:08 Open AI now encrypts sub-agent prompts Regression: encrypted MultiAgentV2 messages remove readable task audit trail · Issue #28058 · openai/codex . Apparently OpenAI started making subagent prompts encrypted instead of plaintext, I don't see how this directly benefit users, but I can see it can protect their proprietary reasoning and system prompts. I have not looked much into the…
two ways of constructing a [software] design 'There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies' Tony Hoare. But this is not only about software design is it?
2026/07/10 21:31 The 1089 Trick An interesting trick: The 1089 Trick . I don't think I fully understand how it works though, I will go back to it later and document my understanding here. DONE The 1089 Trick    @check CLOCK: [2026-07-28 Tue 00:51]–[2026-07-28 Tue 01:07] => 0:16 CLOCK: [2026-07-17 Fri 23:39]–[2026-07-18 Sat 01:21] => 1:42 Oh the proof is simpler than I thought:…
2026/07/08 01:18 plausible denial I translated recently a Noam Chomsky short interview about the Theory of Conspiracy ( video ). He says that there definitely conspiracies, which I agree with. Today, I learnt about an interesting text that can serves an example of that, it's an official text from the US. government, although it sounds like it's something out of the notorious Protocols of the…
Lon von Klenze world I want to live inside the world of Leo von Klenze art. # artist
2026/07/04 20:49 Check this huge slop Check this huge slop. I don't think that LLMs have changed a lot of things radically, in fact they might not be changing anything at all, internally, what they change is the scale of everything 1 , i.e. the constrains that determine wither an idea is 'good' enough to be a working prototype. Back in the day, if you were dumb enough to think you can build…
Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests . This is highly interesting and explains a lot about why Anthropic wouldn't open source the client. Also see: Claude Code now allows Anthropic to remotely inject system prompts and LLM Steganography . # Steganography # LLM # Programming
2026/06/27 03:17 There's no one answer for life I love the east coast and the west I need familiar, and I need fresh I need the city and the crowds, I need the wild sacred grounds, I need the nightclubs and the raves Then retreat back to my caves # Music # There's No One Answer for Life
Tommaso Minardi is cool Tommaso Minardi self-portrait is so nice, he looks like the person he thinks he is. # artist
2026/06/26 17:08 Death of Virginia I spent some time today looking at how Camuccini happens to like painting dramatic death events. I came across the death story of Virginia, it's a heartbreaking one, of how the father thought he can not bear seeing her without her virtues. It reminded me of my old comment about 23:07 Andromache in Frederic Leighton , when she was in captive, facing how life goes…