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Founder & CTO at Haven Headache & Migraine. Making stuff and helping people is my jam. startups, humor, software, empathy, food, elixir, learning, whatever.
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Apparently the way computers think about numbers and the way humans think about numbers are dramatically different. This was interesting to me and touches on the Venn diagram of normal human math, deep academia math and computer science: chadnauseam.com/coding/rando...

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I spent some time this morning writing up a technical retro. blameless style of course. some thoughts: - this is only my second in the past year. Phoenix/liveview is awesome. - it was not DNS - I prob should not be writing defect retros on a Saturday morning.

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Things are super busy. more so than ever. And I posit that our tech stack based on #ElixirLang is a massive competitive advantage.

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"...rapid unscheduled disassembly." 🤣 www.spacex.com/launches/mis...

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There are four hard problems in Computer Science: - Naming - Caching - Off by one errors

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In case anyone is curious, Hula Girl 100% Kona coffee is the the best Kona coffee I’ve come across. Amazing aromatics. Farmer’s Choice takes second place.

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I love the idea of scrubs. It’s like the entire medical industry collectively decided pajamas are the best work uniform. Pure genius.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

"It’s become abundantly clear over the course of 2024 that writing good automated evals for LLM-powered systems is the skill that’s most needed to build useful applications on top of these models."

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Bad AI: spam and SEO slop Good AI: "She was reading entire lines of a text that had been utterly inaccessible for 2,000 years." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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" I have belatedly realized our profession is far more willing to announce successful accomplishments (such as having a paper accepted, or a result proved) than unsuccessful ones (such as a paper rejected, or a proof attempt not working)..." mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1137211...

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

Well this is nerdy but awesome: www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/... Great catchup on DB landscape in general for all you architects out there as well as a a very cogent meta-analysis of the open source licensing issues going on in the DB ecosystem.

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My son usually walks or bikes to school but on the rare occasions I have to pick him up, he’s at that stage of life where I must park at least a half a block away from school to avoid accidentally interacting with any of his peers or teachers. The original social distancing!

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

every now and then the orange site (hacker news) has some real non-technical gems. This line hit hard: "Most days, my real battle is doing good versus doing nothing." www.npr.org/2005/08/08/4...

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Blows my mind that humanity used to live in what you and I would consider a legit fantasy universe: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-...

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

Love this. These two options might seem like different things but in the vast majority of situations, I think they are the same and it’s a clever reframing.

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Basic Startup advice 1/3 Most often when I am giving super early startup advice, it's really two points:

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You ever do that thing where you eat something too hot and burn the roof of your mouth and you suffer for days and it’s the worst feeling ever? Yeah, I never do that and in completely unrelated news, I hereby declare that I will only eat cold foods from now on.

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