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There are plenty of tutorials in the world for your first computer program, usually involving Hello World. But why are there not any for the last program you ll ever write? This is the first tutorial for that, split into different scenarios: Case 1: You re paying Anthropic. Congrats; now you just dictate to Claude. Case 2: Continue reading "Your Last Computer Program"
2666 is a novel which has a nucleus of evil. This is not an easy review to write, and it will not be an easy one to read. It ostensibly starts with a group of lustful critics in their luxurious ivory towers seeking the mysterious author of the books which they study, traveling to Santa Continue reading "2666"
Been looking at more interview problems and such, and was thinking about this problem for too long. Suppose you have a car with no gas on a circular road. Given two lists of integers corresponding to costs $\{c_i \}_{i=1}^n$ and gasoline $\{g_i \}_{i=1}^n$ with the $i$th index corresponding to the amount of gasoline, and it Continue reading "The Gas Problem"
My Wordle result on Christmas Day this year looked like this: ⬛⬛🟩🟩⬛ ⬛⬛🟩🟩⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 It almost looked like what I wanted, which was a Christmas tree with a star, like this: ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 This got me thinking a little bit. For one, is such a pattern possible? It probably is given Continue reading "Christmas Wordle"
I came back from Mexico City the past week after spending a short three nights there. Early in the morning of my departure, I was boarding the van I requested from the hotel for the airport when asked by a woman if her family can ride with me, claiming that the hotel never completed their Continue reading "The Purgatory of Travel"
I didn t like this book. Scratch that, I didn t like most of the book. The novel is about a family of cursed Dominicans who immigrated to New Jersey; specifically about Oscar de Leon and his family. Oscar, unfortunately, is a stereotypical nerd who actively annoys me with the language used: everything is centered around comics Continue reading "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"
A bit late, but two quick book updates. 1. On a trip to Colorado, I listened to The Vegetarian by Han Kang. It was short, pithy, oddly sexual and intensely absurd. Told in three parts with each part being from a different perspective, it delves into societal patriarchal societal pressures, family dynamics and mental health Continue reading "Kafka sadness"
This book is definitely unique. It starts off much like nonfiction, drawing the reader in by painting a dark line from the Zyklon B gas used in concentration camps to a pigment celebrated for its vibrancy. All that Labatut says in this chapter is true, and reads much like something by Bill Bryson: an easy Continue reading "When We Cease to Understand the World by Labatut"
Continuing my trek through the NYTimes Best Books of the 21st Century list, I intended to buy a second-hand copy of The Corrections by Franzen but ended up with Freedom instead. From what I gathered, it seems the two are quite similar, with The Corrections being more satirical while Freedom seems more like a soap Continue reading "Freedom by Franzen"
Bob s Burgers has been the ambient track to my life for awhile now. It provides a comforting background noise from which I can choose to tune in to or out of at ease due to the irrelevant (but good humored) nature. Day to day, I would pull up Hulu, and just resume however, this is Continue reading "The Bob s Burgers addiction on Garmin"