While I was eating dinner, Claude updated a ~7 year out-of-date project of mine to the latest OxCaml + Jane Street libraries. github.com/TyOverby/imp...

Get this cow a prongler, stat!

Every time that a pilot tells me the wind speed and direction at the destination airport, I assume that he’s looking for input on how to land the plane

Learning a lot about myself during this sabbatical

How your email finds me

Flight time: 6d 2h 😭

Back in the day, no one needed an app for this, everyone just knew to steal from the duty free.

My workout schedule is currently limited by the number of times that I can listen to Dynasties and Dystopia before it gets boring

This must be what it feels like to be a baby boomer and have all media tailored to your generations sense of humor

When you first learn about svg filters, you think “wow, this is incredible! I can do anything” but you are wrong because you forgot about Safari

In 2014 while I was an intern on the Dart Language team, Google hired Erik Meijer as a consultant to work on the async / await compiler. Erik is an world class expert in this domain, but was unfamiliar Dart, so they... (continued in blog post)

This mirrors my views on open borders: Other countries: eh, maybe good, I don’t really know USA: unambiguous win, anything less is unamerican

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Client side perdition

Liked playing video games. Wanted to make video games, but the tools all sucked, so I switched to improving those until they were good enough that I could go back to making games. It has been 15 years

Time to finally figure out what all this “AI” stuff is about!

I prefer the fantasy world version:

I’ve been a big fan of the sunk cost fallacy for a long time, and at this point it feels like it’s too late to change my mind

Today is a good day to virtue signal

Anyone know of a good resource for learning modern gpu programming (graphics and/or general purpose)? Books, video series, tutorials, etc…

Claude code isn’t actually connected to an llm on the backend, it’s really routing problems to all the people doing Anthropic take-home interviews.

"psychological safety was the number one factor differentiating their best teams" "When people are afraid to speak up, errors fester"

OxCaml: safe control over program behavior gavinleroy.com/oxcaml-tutor...

Yesterday, after spending ~5 hours watching youtube shorts against my will, I finally deleted youtube off my phone. Turns out nebula.tv has ~90% of the videos that I want to watch, and 0% of the content that will trick my monkey brain into wasting an entire weekend.

My favorite cafe in NYC changed all their lightbulbs from ~3,000K to ~6,000K. Why would they do this to me?!

Dunno what’s wrong with y’all, I’m comprehending these manmade horrors just fine

Very interesting post on how the non-profit Feeding America implemented an auction system with its own currency which massively improved allocation of food to food banks. www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-market...

I lost it at the influencer blahaj

In Claude’s defense, I usually am absolutely right

Some responses to my favorite small-model question:

That is a photo of Jonathan Blow, so A

Happy 4th of July to all trauma surgeons!

Rich coming from Slim “it hadn’t actually occurred to me that one could just play baseball” Lim

Just me but I wouldn’t want to live my life in such a way where a single hungry deer could kill my whole family

Day 4 of the Oregon Programming Languages Summer School. Morale is running low. 20h of lectures and we haven't seen a programming language yet. Many fear that we won't find one before the rations run out. If we don't make it back, tell my cat I love her

I watched this video years ago and I got extremely convinced by it (demo at 1min) youtu.be/vOvQCPLkPt4?...

the reason I dislike DLSS and similar technologies are because I have a dream of computers being extremely low latency and this stuff feels like just more distractions and complications along the way

Maybe another way to phrase this question would be something like: "Learning C is a reasonably good way to understand the computational capabilities and best practices for programming an old CPU. What what a language look like to do the same for modern CPUs or GPUs?"

People often say things like "C is only a low-level programming if you're compiling for a PDP-11", so what would a low-level programming language look like for modern CPU? What would a low-level programming language look like for GPUs?

Something I predict will happen soon is using LLMs to port large test suites from one language / framework to another. Imagine starting a graphics or networking project and having hundreds of thousands of test cases already implemented!

Reconsidering my decision to attend OPLSS…

I'm pleased to announce OxCaml! OxCaml is Jane Street's branch of OCaml. We've given it a new name and a snazzy logo, and done a bunch of work to make it easy for people to try.

Come work with me!

You could/should start a conspiracy theory about this

If you're interested in editors and developer tools, consider applying to Jane Street! It might be an especially good fit if you're an excited vim or vscode user who would love working on making those experiences better for a den of functional programmers.