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by jsomers 5mo ago
Yeah, and it's really worth checking out https://dynamicland.org/ , because Bret Victor is actually doing this -- slash pointing the way to what such a world could look like. It just seems like now might be a good time
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The paper computer(jsomers.net)
291 points by jsomers 5mo ago|89 comments
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Can you reverse engineer our neural network?(blog.janestreet.com)
317 points by jsomers 7mo ago|204 comments
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A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft (2023)(newyorker.com)
2 points by jsomers 7mo ago|0 comments
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I design with Claude more than Figma now(blog.janestreet.com)
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A coder considers the waning days of the craft (2023)(newyorker.com)
2 points by jsomers 8mo ago|0 comments
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by jsomers 10mo ago
This was posted when it came out here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45802029 . It generated a lot of comments -- more heat than light, possibly -- and I wonder if instead of just taking the title as a jumping-off poi
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The Case That A.I. Is Thinking(newyorker.com)
5 points by jsomers 10mo ago|5 comments
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The McPhee method for writing deeply reported nonfiction(jsomers.net)
199 points by jsomers 1y ago|53 comments
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Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck
82 points by jsomers 1y ago|34 comments
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An experiment that turned back biological time(nehalslearnings.substack.com)
31 points by jsomers 1y ago|2 comments
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Vivarium: The keeper of a lab's animals stumbles onto a secret [fiction](jsomers.net)
71 points by jsomers 1y ago|17 comments
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I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any doc's keystrokes (2014)(features.jsomers.net)
1 points by jsomers 2y ago|1 comments
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A Revolution in How Robots Learn(newyorker.com)
82 points by jsomers 2y ago|21 comments
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The Coming Software Apocalypse (2017)(theatlantic.com)
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The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of E. coli chemotaxis(jsomers.net)
511 points by jsomers 2y ago|213 comments
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More people should write (2012)(jsomers.net)
160 points by jsomers 3y ago|84 comments
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A coder considers the waning days of the craft(newyorker.com)
778 points by jsomers 3y ago|1086 comments
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A poet’s guide to product management – Jane Street podcast(signalsandthreads.com)
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Alaska Airlines planes bump runway while taking off due to software bug(adn.com)
3 points by jsomers 4y ago|1 comments
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“Expect tests” make test-writing feel like a REPL session(blog.janestreet.com)
138 points by jsomers 4y ago|92 comments
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An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)(robinsloan.com)
186 points by jsomers 4y ago|51 comments
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A Journey to the Center of Our Cells(newyorker.com)
2 points by jsomers 5y ago|0 comments
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Snow Science Against the Avalanche (2020)(newyorker.com)
18 points by jsomers 5y ago|12 comments
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by jsomers 5y ago
Hi, author here. This article was many years in the making. It's ostensibly a story about reading minds but really it's about the unreasonable power of high-dimensional vector spaces. That made it pretty tough to write: how do you
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The quest to build a general-purpose thought decoder(newyorker.com)
95 points by jsomers 5y ago|35 comments
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Should we cool it with the historical present?(jsomers.net)
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Should we cool it with the historical present?(jsomers.net)
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The Pastry A.I. That Learned to Fight Cancer(newyorker.com)
92 points by jsomers 5y ago|19 comments
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The Plague Year(newyorker.com)
135 points by jsomers 6y ago|129 comments

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