Emergence Saved Our Tofu
I think I know what emergence means now: concretely, not as a stand-in for things we don't understand.
Manav Rathi
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em-dashes
I've decided to double down on em-dashes
The important questions
The people against AI are asking the wrong questions
Immortal now
We're all immortal now, whether we want to or not
An introduction to vector spaces without a single equation
Vector Spaces for Machine Learning
Voices
I will now listen to only new music.
Now playing
Copy Paste
Nature doesn't think, it does
Focus
Make a list of all the things you want to do. Let go of the rest, do the first.
Python, Electron and Bangalore
Solution shapes for problem jigsaws
Cause and Effect
Are not as distinct as you think
Anywhere But Here
Nowhere left to go
Reverse Turing Tests
LLMs want to know
Beginner's mind
It has been only one day since I first used Claude Code, and I'm convinced that software engineering as I knew it is dead.
A program is a living thing
A program is a living thing, but where does it live?
A Rust shaped hole
Without writing a single line of Rust, why I feel it might be right
Infinity is not a big number
Thinking of -1/12, and TREE(3)
Evolution is blind, like stockfish
In particular, evolution is blind to pain.
Hyperion
A book review
All the light we cannot see
Roses, unnamed
Humans and wildebeest
An epiphany across decades
Name
A poem
Nostalgia for the present
And other quotes from gome
Three poems
Feeling good today / Live for a while / Existence
Everything is possible in software, but!
Nothing is easy
Your people might not exist
A poem
Objects in motion remain in motion
Rocks, humans and processes / I find that calming
Levels of truth
I have learnt only one thing in life that I'm sure of so far: That I'm always wrong.
What is a bug anyway?
A bug is something that was working earlier but now isn't. Everything else is a feature.
Shiva
God does not play dice, Einstein, he is dice.
the flower that blooms late in my yard
A Chinese poem by Li Bai, imperfectly translated and adapted.
Free lunches
Exist.
Visualizing chess
Imagining a chess board showing piece / pawn influence.
Can you hear me?
The loving algorithm that was meant to serve us all
Entropy counts
(and why the second law is obvious)
Mind
Is my mind in this world, or is the world in my mind?