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On Learning Chess as an Adult – From 650 to 1750 in Two Years
I caught the chess bug as a college student, twenty-one years old, and it’s become my favorite way to unwind since then, as I’m now working at VisioStack and starting a master’s i…
Jacob Brazeal
Let’s learn how asyncio works in Python by comparing it to Promises in Javascript. To be clear, this is for my own benefit: I learned about Promises long before I knew any theory about coroutines, like any self-respecting frontend engineer in the 2010’s. The lightbulb moment for me was this code snippet: const sleep =…
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Using GPT-3 to pathfind in random graphs
I wondered how GPT-3 might do on the following problem: given a partially-connected graph, find a path between two nodes, or determine that no path exists. I wrote some code to automate generating …
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On not noticing rather too many things
Last year I was on a date, and, being somewhat new to San Francisco, proposed a walk directly through the Tenderloin. After we arrived, my date was somewhat disturbed: “What happened?” I said. “Di…
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6 months of working at a hypergrowth startup
I joined Scale AI late last summer. It’s been a crazy experience — Scale is growing incredibly fast right now, hitting a valuation of over $7 billion last year and recently signing a $250 mil…