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— Kunal
I read Traveling Practice today, and it was both extremely relaxing and terrible at the same time. A genuine pleasure to read with turns of phrase that I'll remember for a long time.
The principle is much the same. What matters most of all is the earnest vow one makes--the quite resolve to begin. What is the vow we have set, what brought it into being, and what daily deeds flow from it?
...and added mojo to my language comparison table -- slightly disappointed at the startup overhead from loading in too many libraries for v1.
Writing the same code for queue simulation in Mojo to get a sense for the language; I can sense so many languages: Python, Rust, Zig, D -- of the ones I've worked with.
I used my free Fable credits to get a vibe coded implementation of a mojo-mode for emacs; uploaded here.
Trying out Mojo -- I'd always decided I'd wait till it was open sourced before giving the language a shot, and given the new banners on the website on the imminent open sourcing finally giving in.
The language looks pretty nice, and I appreciate that comptime is the same language -- I've been enjoying hacking in sic, now I'll try and write the same code in Mojo to explore speed and experience.
Reading "The Innovation Algorithm" by Altshuller:
Suppose that the most "terrible" thing happens: it becomes possible to completely automate the process of solving inventive problems. Immediately, new problems will spring forth -- problems on much higher innovative levels. The world is endless, the universe inexhaustible, and the human brain will never be threatened with unemployment.
Having Claude pick up habits from a half-finished project and maintain the same style and decisions has been extremely satisfying; better than anything I've achieved by prompting it to use my style.
The fine line I need to walk now is letting it add too much complexity or making the core incomprehensible.
Used my free Fable credits to quickly reach a first, complete version of sic (including Cuda generation support). And then I've been hacking with it to build a very small queue simulator by hand, and tremendously enjoying myself.
I still have half my credits to go, and I look forward to building out a REPL with them.
From Frank Miller's memoir, I admire the conviction:
Confidence that my ideas are worth pursuing, word by word, picture by picture, book by book, for as long as it takes, or that, worthy or not, right or wrong, I have to pursue them.
Taking another stab at learning Queueing Theory, particularly as applied to inference. The thing that always gets me is how unintuitive / surprising the results tend to be.
From Influx, a surprisingly prescient book. And this post is perhaps an unwitting reminder to not create the torment nexus.
It was immensely unfulfilling reprimanding AIs. They always had a built-in you’re-the-one-who-created-me excuse.
Experimenting with a more personal microblogging setup; Twitter & Threads are great at distribution but posting there can be distracting, and it's often hard to look up old posts I wanted to. Starting with the simplest possible thing I can make, and refining as I go.