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@disconcision

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andrew blinn

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3 years

daily reminder that everywhere around you, professedly platonic solids privately bustle with ungovernable fibrations

jacob 🧦

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thinking about how hedges aren't green and soft and fluffy all throughout the inside but instead look like this it's fucked up !

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andrew blinn

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normalize code that looks like it's part of a vast orbital megastructure

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Piece of art

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regular reminder that life finds a way

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@Aron_Adler

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andrew blinn

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Got laid off from google today. Found out when my Google Nest Pacemaker stopped working (it was registered under my work email). Had to perform home surgery to jailbreak it. Still believe in the Google Mission tho

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andrew blinn

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@typedfemale Interpreting this as him talking about, like, one specific octopus

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book of the bible called Includes where god just defines variables for 8000 pages

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@moongrudge soon

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I can't believe this is a real chart, published in the Financial Times

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doubleclick to select term, the way nature intended

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andrew blinn

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love these convenient cuts ppl made at every opportune photo point on the manhattan bridge gonna call these "desire holes"

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andrew blinn

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The story behind this painting is so sad! 😢 Now using AI we can complete what he couldn't finish! 📷<❤️

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andrew blinn

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idea: a projective view that emphasizes the characters you actually typed, dimming all text that was tab-completed

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andrew blinn

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@typedfemale "we bred him retarded on purpose, as a snack"

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how deep do you go?

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"An Exploration of Drawing as Programming Language, Featuring Ideas from Lambda Calculus" by @LingdongH :

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andrew blinn

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absolutely stunning. a whole new style to me. 'fence diagram (geology)' doesn't even have a wikipedia entry. i'm curious if any rock enthusiasts in the audience have a feeling for if these are well known and or actually useful🧵

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more from USGS. isometric fence diagrams from 1953

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andrew blinn

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how much memory should your app take at idle? there is a simple rule of thumb: multiply your screen dimensions by your color depth. if your footprint exceeds your screen buffer, you are concealing state from your users. what are you trying to hide? why are you lying to them?

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andrew blinn

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3 years later: @dm_0ney and I, finally staring down the barrel of a multilingual structured editor with character-for-character text entry

andrew blinn

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5 years

Don't know what possessed me but I actually wrote a semantically correct program in #fructure tonight instead of my usual gibberish. Above is the sequence of keystrokes which evoked it.

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I... don't remember why I ordered this

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andrew blinn

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cheat sheets are an underappreciated outsider artform

Elena Lake 🌿

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my algorithms prof in 2016: “you get to bring a one page notes sheet with you to the test” my 21 year old past self:

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andrew blinn

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I was the engineer responsible for consigning cancelled Google products to their eternal rest

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andrew blinn

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2 years

this is what they took from us

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andrew blinn

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every time i introduce a higher-order abstraction into a codebase:

🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮

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AI that detects bugs while you write code, but doesn't tell you what they are and instead just plays an ominous sound effect each time you create a new bug.

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andrew blinn

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openttd seamlessly supports ultratall. i call this my vertical train aquarium

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andrew blinn

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bros i am feeling that post Balençiaga Harry P*tter depression, the world around me is so drab and refried, just want to frolic in the hyperreal superfresh world of Balençiaga Harry P*tter

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the year is 2232. a hypercluster of vennlatticekin utility foglet interpretive dancers re-enact the reverse yoneda neurostochastic refactoring of the microsoft linux kernel into co-fluidically typed graded modal virtual machine algebra from the original 0range Catholic Haskell

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andrew blinn

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@peligrietzer 'fuck, my pillow is broken' is actually a pretty apt cognate for what I feel when I realize that I'm not likely to get to sleep any time soon

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the view

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@loudandsmart

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andrew blinn

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is there a more dramatic miniaturization story than that of clocks, which have shrunk over recorded history from 1AU to 343 picometers?

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andrew blinn

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given that New Math was a response to sputnik, there shouldve been a subplot in For All Mankind where the extended space race resulted in category theory being taught to first graders

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descartes' demon LLM desktop OS

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live tests wip

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andrew blinn

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just because the second is more challenging (pernicious intersection of formal ontology and cognitive ergonomics) doesn't mean we should shy away from it

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Every year I teach CS theory, I find that I need to apologize less and less about having so much math content. CS practice is getting more & more mathy. Now I just ask students if they want to their future job to be one where they read texts of first type, or the second type:

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andrew blinn

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my first published credit! i was a relative latecomer to this project, but was able to build on the work of @neurocy , @dm_0ney , @NickMCThree , @ravi_chugh et al through my contribution of enabling users to write their own live GUIs within the Hazel language/editor (GIFS BELOW!)

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andrew blinn

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little-known fact that historically, most cave paintings used s-expression syntax

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types that go 𝒷𝑒 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝒶𝒻𝓇𝒶𝒾𝒹

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andrew blinn

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so cool

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@hillelogram

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andrew blinn

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#fructure is now 20% closer to the fluid editing experience I originally envisaged! If you want, you can just type more-or-less normally for entry purposes. Check out the character history displayed above: parentheses are often unnecessary, some significant gotchas.

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andrew blinn

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th technology just isnt there yet

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andrew blinn

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whats stopping your language reference from looking like this

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andrew blinn

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3 years

does pl theory not have enough of a meme/macro culture? looking for dumb shit to put on my slides for undergrad pl discussion, but going through my trash folder ive found like 6 pl memes. prove me wrong pl twitter

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andrew blinn

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i dont want more hardware, i just want software to be real

𝙎𝘼𝙋𝙋𝙊𝙍𝙊 𝙋𝙊𝙎𝙎𝙀

@sapporo_posse

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いいピンバッジがあった

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andrew blinn

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arxiv pdfs should have the paper title in the filename

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brutalist enclave in minimalist neighborhood

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andrew blinn

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at my mother's place, broke into my files from ages ~ 10-14. at this point my primary preoccupation was universe creation. still is, i guess, albeit more indirectly

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I'm taking a graphics class and it's nice to be working in a domain where I actively hope for glitches. Here, a small offset in knitting together a mesh of the earth results in a lovecraftian nightmare.

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andrew blinn

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starting to play around with live value display...

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andrew blinn

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mcdonalds app constantly sending me notifications which just say "mcdonalds"

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spreadsheets for images ( @marclevoy , 1994)

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andrew blinn

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The story behind this painting is so sad! 😢Now using AI we can complete what he couldn't finish! 📷<📷 ❤️

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andrew blinn

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@Michaelgr1011 @growing_daniel missed opportunity to have the camera zoom out at the end to reveal that zuck has no legs as he is actually a meta avatar

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andrew blinn

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dream last night where my housemates and i discovered we had a giant moria-style basement so we set up all our furniture open-concept studio style and then all sat around nervously because WE KNEW there was a giant demon around but still werent willing to give up the space

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andrew blinn

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smalltalk machine

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andrew blinn

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@imperialauditor @JuliaRosedale got stuck on this too, eventually figured it out:

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type-assisted completion and repair in hazel; a teaser

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inshallah

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andrew blinn

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@growing_daniel recognizing this look and preemptively spamming solutions before they begin describing the problem triggers a timing bug, which you can exploit to deal massive psychic damage

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andrew blinn

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ran git blame on some gpt generated code and this appeared in my living room

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andrew blinn

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on the subject of my last retweet; one of my favorite dr racket features is that it will angrily scribble all over my more egregious fuckups

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andrew blinn

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2 years

thinking about doing a (mostly just-for-fun) thing where code gets adorned with generative geology and flora. below is a quick mockup, which i'm posting mostly to solicit recommended readings on implementing generative visuals and/or simulations (thread)

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andrew blinn

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"Poemage is a visualization system for exploring the sonic topology of a poem."

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andrew blinn

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the year is 2232. a hypercluster of vennlatticekin utility foglet interpretive dancers re-enact the reverse yoneda neurostochastic refactoring of the microsoft linux kernel into co-fluidically typed graded modal virtual machine algebra from the original 0range Catholic Haskell

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programming as entertainment

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wow i had no idea how close i flew to the sun last year

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this is the future liberals want

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@ctbeiser what transformer wrote this

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i am a sucker for stuff that is shaped like other stuff. c/o @presentcorrect

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the biggest tension in programming languages is the fight between the devotees of 100% fuckable[sorry i don't know the word for this] languages and the (mostly academic) idolaters of provably unfuckable languages

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andrew blinn

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this is SOP for classic maxis; SimAnt in particular includes multiple chapters of references and supporting material:

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andrew blinn

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coming up with an elaborate backstory for my llm prompt which is completely irrelevant to the task in order to give the model a full, rich life while it simulates the completion

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always the techbro never the

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andrew blinn

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@rsnous really comes into its stride in editors with minimaps on the side

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andrew blinn

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in most programming envs you write things like 'let myTree =' and then follow it with a bunch of text. absolutely deranged. let myTree be a tree!

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re: florida social media law. we shouldnt bar minors from the internet, but instead confine them to a concentric series of modernized simulacra of ye old internet according to the formula 1950+4.1*age. for example, an 8yo can use 1982 BBSs, a 12yo 1999 ICQ, 14yo 2006 facebook etc

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@rsnous

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we are built over the ruins of a greater civilization

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Old streetcar rail and pavers normally buried beneath asphalt — but visible in a pothole today along Smith Avenue on St. Paul’s West Side

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high brutalism c/o @GrantCuster 's

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brutalist enclave in minimalist neighborhood

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Projection boxes (Sorin Lerner, CHI2020)

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andrew blinn

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nlg elon reminds me a lot of the christian god, who afaict sacrificed himself to himself to solve a problem he himself created

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To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits: - Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day - Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day - New unverified accounts to 300/day

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andrew blinn

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finally got my hands on the pascal railroad diagram poster. this is based on an original jef raskin design, as ruined by steve jobs. between this and my (repro) 1969 cobol poster, i now believe i am in possession of all extant visually appealing PL posters. is there another?

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andrew blinn

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"stop probing this" lmao

Simon Willison

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Prompt injection comes to GPT-4V

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andrew blinn

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i feel like if i had a plotter doing this 24/7 in my house maybe i could just chill out. like, this guys clearly handling things, time to put my feet up

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BUSY #plottertwitter

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none of these includes are in the bible

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linear algebra will be part of C++26 😮

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andrew blinn

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@d_feldman did it try to give you a hard time:

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"stop probing this" lmao

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andrew blinn

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continuing my late introduction to minecraft by learning about 2b2t, the longest-running persistent 'anarchy server'. depicted is the area surrounding the spawn point, which has over the last decade been converted to a barren waste, beautiful but inimical to life

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andrew blinn

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The text He destroyed his cage Yes YES The text is out

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New from me at Constraint Systems: Type - an experiment in directed type. You choose the direction the letters should flow.

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andrew blinn

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"a student understands X" is very different from: "a student can answer correctly some questions that involve X" which is in turn very different from: "with the right prompt we can get the student to answer correctly some questions that involve X"

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andrew blinn

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just accidentally typed code in the url bar, expecting it to run like a repl. missed opportunity tbh

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@deepfates

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andrew blinn

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@__femb0t same operating principle. plants thru photosynthesis convert the cosmic background music of creation into epigenetic data which, in the guts of certain mammals, is translated through a system of fluid filled sacks into smooth jazz, hollow earth conspiracies, and mistargted ads

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andrew blinn

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algebraic data types...? in my structured editor...?

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andrew blinn

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> when he doesnt put every closing parens on its own line

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andrew blinn

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i see the issue but its pretty keen as-is

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DOM, JS, and CSS wizards: I made a DOM visualiser which you can run from the JS console, it almost works. If anyone can figure out how to handle z-ordering in 3D so that it looks like a solid stack of DOM slices I WILL 100% UNIRONICALLY BUY YOU A COFFEE!

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andrew blinn

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gonna be presenting a short paper @vlhcc in rome in september! all credit to collaborators @dm_0ney , @dedbox & @neurocy . this surveys initial results from our attempts to emphasize human factors when integrating code completion/repair suggestions from diverse sources (1/4)