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Why effort scales superlinearly with the perceived quality of creative work
When I make something good, I often spend most of my time making thousands of high-precision edits on an artifact that I thought should have been finished hours ago.
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Air-dried vs. Kiln-dried Wood
Are they different to saw, chisel and plane? Does it matter?
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Shallow water is dangerous too
Content warning: risk to children Julia and I know drowning is the biggest risk to US kids 1-4, and we try to take this seriously. But yesterday our 4yo came very close to drowning in a fountain. (She's fine now.) This week we were on vacation with my extended family: nine kids, eight parents, and ten…
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Covers as a way of learning music and code
When you're just getting started with music, you have so many skills to learn. You have to be able to play your instrument and express yourself through it. You need to know the style you're playing, and its idioms and conventions. You may want to record your music, and need all the skills that come along with it.
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Why friction is necessary for growth
Why I think comfort leads to stagnation and overcoming friction leads to growth.
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You know more Finnish than you think
Linguistics illuminates the linguistically obscure – or so I’ve always thought. It’s a common theme of my online output that a little bit of historical linguistics goes a long way, maki…
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The Candid Naivety of Geeks
The candid naivety of geeks par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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Inside the box: Everything I did with an Arduino starter kit
Diving into Elegoo Arduino Uno R3 Starter Kit, the most complete Arduino kit
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Four years of sight reading practice
I’ve been doing relatively frequent sight reading practice using an iPad app for four years. Here’s how I’ve automated some of the steps and what I’ve learned from the experience.
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Metabolic and cellular differences between sedentary and active individuals
We're discussing a paper that demands attention...
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The ROI of Exercise
The math on why exercise is a good deal.
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Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again
Posts and writings by Julian Schrittwieser
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I made a small LED panel
I bought a really small 8x8 LED panel a while ago because I have a problem. I just can’t resist a nice WS2812 LED panel, much like I can’t resist an e-ink display. These days I manage to stay sober, but once in a while I’ll see a nice cheap LED panel and fall off the wagon. It has now been thirteen minutes that I have…
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What happens to your online accounts when you die?
A few months ago, I heard of a work acquaintance's death via his company's social media. Shocking and abrupt - I had just met up with him (let’s call him George) for the first time. We joked over beers in a cozy little alleyway cafe, me and a coworker and George. It made me queasy to see George’s s
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What could have been
Even if we manage to snap out of the AI bubble, we are never going to get these years back. I can only be left to wonder what could have been.
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The Sudoku Affair
Software design is a deliberate process, and requires deliberate effort.
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Dating: A mysterious constellation of facts
Are speed dating and network effects contradictory?
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Why are so many pedestrians killed by cars in the US?
It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.
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I wish people were more public
On sharing more of yourself.
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Find Your 2%Ers (2023)
then do life with them.
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You Are in a Box
your data is trapped inside the box that is your program. you can only see what the program author exposes.
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How to draw construction equipment for kids
What makes "Road Builders," written by B.G. Hennessy and illustrated by Simms Taback, so charming
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Why We Think
Special thanks to John Schulman for a lot of super valuable feedback and direct edits on this post. Test time compute (Graves et al. 2016, Ling, et al. 2017, Cobbe et al. 2021) and Chain-of-thought (CoT) (Wei et al. 2022, Nye et al. 2021), have led to significant improvements in model performance, while raising many…