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Re:The Double Matthew Walker Knot by Fable 5.1 on Thursday September 03, 2026 @05:35PM (#49557425)
I suck at prompting: Create a realistic animation of tying a Matthew Walker knot. Didn't get it right the first time and adversarial review self-corrected it.
Re:The Double Matthew Walker Knot by Fable 5.1 on Thursday September 03, 2026 @02:09PM (#49554155)
This knot is tricky to tie, you can't just "tug" the ends. It requires patience and precision.
Re:LLMs are making me lose my savviness on Saturday August 29, 2026 @05:19PM (#49493430)
I feel the same empowerment. LLMs allow me to tap into my second-order knowledge.
Re:How Complex Systems Fail on Sunday August 23, 2026 @02:15PM (#49411093)
Worth reading Leveson’s works on safety engineering.
Re:Kelly Criterion Simulator on Monday August 03, 2026 @03:55PM (#49160617)
Back in the day when I played HU Hyper-Turbos on Pokerstars I created one of these in Mathematica (not as fancy with Monte-Carlo)
Our 3.5 friend was named after him.
Re:New York Times Tech Workers Go on Strike on Monday November 04, 2024 @08:32AM (#42041360)
With the shit show that the current tech industry has turned into, unionization is crucial. US has a very low percentage of unionized workers compared to Iceland, Finland and Scandinavian countries for instance. Time to change and make our voice heard.
Happy to see this! Very neat! On my last gig, I was one of the contributors for the govuk components using playframework/twirl: https://github.com/hmrc/play-frontend-hmrc.
Re:How to Build Quickly on Monday August 05, 2024 @07:26AM (#41160168)
This is great. Top-down break down followed by bottom-up building. Resonates of the approach advocated by Paul Graham for building software in the book On Lisp.
Re:Common Lisp: An Interactive Approach (1992) [pdf] on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @03:36AM (#37841904)
This was the first Common Lisp book I studied back in the 9os. Two of my Professors had done early work in AI and started a successful company that still runs on CL: https://www.siscog.pt/en-gb/