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Notes on Managing ADHD
Strategies and tactics for staying productive.
Fernando Borretti
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Effective Spaced Repetition
“To flash conviction on the mind.”
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Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system
Announcing my latest open-source project.
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Unbundling Tools for Thought
Disparate thoughts on personal information management after traversing the hype cycle.
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No Man Is an Island
AI makes intellectual contribution superfluous.
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Why Lisp Syntax Works
On uniform vs. specific syntax.
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Composable SQL
Better SQL through typed, composable query fragments.
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You can choose tools that make you happy
Stop falsifying your motivations.
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Lessons from Writing a Compiler
Collected tips from building the Austral compiler.
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We won't "just hang out"
On human connection after the Singularity.
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Coarse is better
Make AI weird again.
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Shells are two things
Command languages and scripting languages are and should be different things.
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Austral: A systems language with linear types and capabilities
Introducing a new programming language.
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Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729
A short review and troubleshooting guide.
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Astronomical Calculations for Hard SF in Common Lisp
Hard SF worldbuilding with the HYG database, Dijkstra's algorithm, and Lisp.
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Julia
An aphasic space station monitors an anomalous object, while keeping the last two humans alive.
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NixOS for the Impatient
Using NixOS for a more tractable computing setup.
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Letting Claude play text adventures
Experiments in cognitive architecture.
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I wish people were more public
On sharing more of yourself.
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Human Bottlenecks
Why AI won't augment human capabilities much.
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And yet It Understands
In high-dimensional vector spaces, numerical optimization is omnipotent.
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Signed integers are asymmetrical
An edge case in integer safety.
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Why checked exceptions failed
Programming language features are never orthogonal.
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Implementing SM-2 in Rust
An implemenation of the SuperMemo-2 algorithm.
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Language Pragmatics Engineering
On best practices and gradient descent.