Conspiracy theory: Banks and airlines discovered LLMs years ago and this explains their captchas.

"How did you spend your time off of work?" If you're lucky enough to have a chunk of time when you don't need a job, you want to make it count. Come learn how three Recuse Center alums chose to spend their time off. How to Make Your Time Off Count: luma.com/zfhxstgy

Someone really should write this and then never change it.

"Choosing learning over autopilot" A thoughtful, a concrete approach to coding rigorously with LLMs by an RC alum now at Netflix: anniecherkaev.com/choosing-lea...

unicode braille characters are 2x4 rectangles of dots where you can arbitrarily set any of the dots. That's 8x the pixels you normally get in the terminal! anyway here's a proof of concept terminal SVG renderer using unicode braille:

Wrote about being halfway through the recurse center, beyblades, and bad musical instruments: www.henryfellerhoff.com/blog/halfway...

Heh, sounds delightful. I had a very fun moment at Recurse Center where I was showing code to someone to discuss. He leaned in to look closer, “Is that Inconsolata?” and I said “Yeah, wow, good eye” and he said “I made it.”

What companies (in any domain) have done the following? Around for decades Profitable and growing Privately held, run by founders Expanded into new areas while maintaining a core mission Maintained positive, good brand Punch above their weight

Tech hiring in 2021: Awesome, this candidate is an 8/10. Let's hire! Tech hiring now: Unfortunately, this candidate is a 9/10. We'll pass.

Nice handle @recurse.com

@recurse.com's local host last night was awesome. Great talks, wonderful company. Frederic Kettelhoit's Komucha lang (github.com/fkettelhoit/...) was particularly inspirational. Love me a lang with an effect system.

you're telling me a duck typed this code?

New Yorkers hate dogs 🚫🐕 (we have the data) It's pairing jam day at RC and Chris, Brittney, Wilson, and Tajairi made a 311 noise complaint heat map of NYC.

🌱 Interested in coming to RC? Have any burning questions? Join us to learn more about what attending is like! You'll get to ask questions and hear directly from faculty and current Recursers about their experiences. We’re hosting an info session on Tues, Oct 21 at 5:15 ET. ⬇️

A fellow Recurser, Ivan Savov, just finished a book on Stats and has a post on it with some freebies: minireference.com/blog/noBSsta... #stats #recurseCenter #RC #math

🟢 This month we held Breakpoint: An Evening of Projects and Demos! 10 Recursers and alums demo'ed their work, including games, camera-based apps that read your feelings and scramble your face, a NY shadow-henge finder, a Chinese idiom finder, a fractal painter, custom programming language, & more!

📝 Interested in applying to RC? Join us to learn & ask questions about what attending is like: spending 6 or 12 weeks sharpening your programming skills and following what excites you in a collaborative community! We’re hosting an info session Mon, Oct 6th from 12:30-1pm ET RSVP: luma.com/mn3kjnkj

🦠Watch Peter Whidden's first public talk on Mote: an interactive ecosystem simulation! Mote uses a custom GPU-based physics engine to model hundreds of thousands of organisms, leading to fascinating emergent phenomena: a sandbox that is part game, part research. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hju0...

Thinking about applying to a Recurse Center (RC) batch? If you want to spend 6 or 12 weeks building what excites you (compilers! games! languages! research! machine learning! art!) within a community of thoughtful, curious peers, come join our info session this Thursday! lu.ma/86a0fqdn

This is a thoughtful post that echoes conversations I've had IRL with colleagues and friends. Also: "You should use AI-powered tools to complement or increase your agency, not replace it." ^ This is where I've landed for my own work so far.. Should help me do & think *more* deeply, not less.

We spent two months talking with RC alums and thinking deeply about how LLMs are changing programming and learning. Here’s what we learned, and how we're currently thinking about AI at RC: t.co/ddFj486ch8

This is one of my favorite projects anyone has ever done at RC.

Join us on August 13 for Localhost! 🦠 Peter Whidden will present Mote, an interactive ecosystem simulation with hundreds of thousands of organisms. His custom GPU physics engine models many simple behaviors at a massive scale, producing fascinating emergent phenomena. RSVP below ⬇️

⭐️ We're hiring a Career Facilitator! This is a full-time, onsite role in Brooklyn with meaningful work, good benefits, great colleagues, clear goals, and a healthy culture. Please share with kind, extroverted, and curious colleagues who have a background and interest in recruiting! bit.ly/4nku9ZI

On the bright side, at least Brexit is no longer the stupidest and most pointless act of economic self-harm of the century

10 years ago today. Time to do it again? (Just kidding.) www.recurse.com/blog/77-hack...

the qr show went well, thank you to alllll of the artists! volunteers! audience! @recursecenter.bsky.social for hosting! attached: handmade qr toasting matrix, qr toast, @omar.website visualizing qr’s without a phone, and our qr photo guestbook til next time! (send pics/vids if you have)

We're hiring an Office & Operations Assistant! It's a full-time, onsite role in Brooklyn with good benefits, great colleagues, and positive impact. Please retweet and share with anyone you think might be a fit! recurse.notion.site/Office-Opera...

Did you have an "Internet Desk" in your home growing up? I did and I remember it fondly. I tried to remake it with some modern technology. rulethepla.net/the-internet...

Aside from the interesting new friends, S-tier programmer memes, and new work opportunities, why would someone want to spend 6–12 weeks at the @recursecenter.bsky.social ? Because it’s one of the most potent environments for growing both your taste and agency as a programmer!

One Million Applause for One Million Checkboxes 👏✅👏✅👏 Check out @itseieio.bsky.social's brilliant talk on games, connecting strangers, and how some very smart teens subverted his code and touched his heart ❤️‍🔥 youtu.be/j2elKdupD6c

Million Pixel Dash // 13.2 seconds 🏃‍♂️⬜️⬜️🟨🟨🟩🟩🟦🟦💨 Inspired by the “million of something” #genuary prompt and the creative coding session at the Recurse Center, I built this silly little scrolling game: give it a try and see if you can beat my time millionpixeldash.com

First Localhost of 2025? Check ✅ Come by RC on January 28th for Localhost! See the space, meet Recursers, and hear @itseieio.bsky.social speak on his viral project One Million Checkboxes and his other attempts to make internet strangers play nice 🤝 RSVP here: lu.ma/re1bot0d

I'm headed back to the the Recurse Center! recurse is like a writers retreat for programming. Last time I entered mostly making boring normal online games and left doing things like embedding Flappy Bird inside MacOS finder. It's totally free. consider applying (and come hang out w/ me)!

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🚀 Dive into the future of machine learning at our AI Safety Workshop! 🧠💻 🔍 Analyze a malicious AI agent OR take on mechanistic interpretability The event is free, with food provided 🍱 Registration is required and space is limited. Register below! 👇