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Epidemiologist; founded Your Local Epidemiologist in March 2020 to translate public-health science, and consults for organisations including the CDC.

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  Reclassifying a vaccine out of official routine-recommendation status erodes practical access to it even without changing the recommendation itself.

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  Moving a vaccine out of that category adds significant implementation barriers that will erode access to vaccines.

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Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.

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  Terminal programs bias toward dark modes, and explicit colors are hostile to light modes and themes.

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  Terminal programs bias to dark modes and explicit colors are hostile to light modes and themes.

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American-Polish journalist and historian, staff writer at The Atlantic; author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Twilight of Democracy and Autocracy, Inc.

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  A conspiracy theory can be used as a pretext to dismantle government programs and target researchers and citizens.

  Americagovernment

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  Since 2025, MAGA ideologues have been using this alleged plot as an excuse to dismantle government programs, stifle research, intimidate American citizens, and even distort American foreign policy.

  The Myth of the “Censorship Industrial Complex”anneapplebaum.substack.com

Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

From one piece DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Vibe coding is not programming, and the line between them is whether you look at the implementation at all.

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  And vibe coding, if we define it here, is you tell an agent to build software for you. You do not look at the implementation. That, to me, is what separates vibe coding from programming or, let's say, agent-accelerated development.

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  Most organisations are bottlenecked on ideas, vision and taste rather than on implementation, so making code cheap does not make them productive.

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  The other thing I'd say is that most organizations don't know what they want. They don't know how to make it better. They're not bottlenecked on implementation. They're bottlenecked on ideas. They're bottlenecked on vision. They're bottlenecked on taste. And if you don't have those element in excess of your implementational capacity, it doesn't help. So you can make a lot of shitty ideas come true, then what?

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Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.

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  Coding agents made implementation cheap without making roadmaps shorter or software better -- the binding constraint was never how fast code gets written.

  coding agents

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  buuuut my roadmap is’nt ten times shorter. and I’m definitely not ten times better at deciding what is worth building. teams haven’t started casually shipping a year of product work every month. you can look around and and it’s hard to say what software has gotten meaningfully better in the last year.

  the task isn't the jobsunilpai.dev

Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.

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  Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

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  Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) by Gerald Jay Sussman and Hal Abelson. SICP is my all-time favourite programming book. It's also where I learned about the power of wishful thinking when coding. SICP uses wishful thinking as a design tool: write code as if the abstraction already existed. Pretend. Then, once the ideal abstraction has taken shape, you go ahead and implement those functions. This meta-level is what made SICP so valuable. Ultimately, it's a book that teaches how to think about code and problem solving. I'm tempted to even say that SICP is more a work of art than a pure coding book, but I won't go there. A beautiful book.

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Founder of HumanLayer; wrote 12-Factor Agents, on how to build AI agents that hold up in production.

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  Research and planning documents are tactical execution artefacts to be thrown away and regenerated, because tokens are cheap and a doc that has drifted from the codebase costs you time.

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  I do the research I do the plan I do the implementation I throw the docs out and the next time I need research I just do it from scratch because tokens are cheap and my time is expensive

  Context engineering with Dex Horthyyoutube.com

Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.

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  Django Migrations

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  My favorite implementation of this pattern remains Django’s Migrations

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Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.

From one piece How Kent Beck shapes the software engineering industry 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Letting non-programmers build their own unmaintainable software is still a large step forward, because the alternative was a thousand-page requirements document and an eight-year wait.

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  You look under the underneath though at the code and it was just a horrible unmaintainable mess. But the fact that people could program the programs that they wanted was a a significant step forward as opposed to I'm going to write a thousandpage requirements document and then wait 8 years and not get what I want which was the alternative that we were offering at the at the time.

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  Moving the computation to where the data lives is the fundamental design move in object-oriented programming, and it got lost in the noise.

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  So a a big challenge in object-oriented programming is dividing the responsibilities because you're moving the computation to where the data is. Saying, "Well, this object does this and that object does that is a really critical decision because you want to you want the computation near to the data so that there's less coupling between them." which is a lesson that I I think uh kind of got lost in the noise. That's the fundamental design move in ob in designing object-oriented programs and I I think I stand behind that.

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  Programs exist to communicate intent to other people and now to models as well, and we do not understand at all how to communicate effectively to models.

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  part of the goal of programs is to communicate intent to other human beings and now to models as well which which is a much more open-ended problem. We understand a lot more about how to communicate to other human beings whether we apply that understanding or not. We don't understand at all how to communicate effectively to models

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Housing and development writer at Strong Towns, arguing that the professional, large-scale housing industry cannot produce widespread affordability no matter how it is deregulated or subsidised.

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  Housing subsidies cannot scale to the size of the problem, and the YIMBYs are right to say so.

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  While there are certainly some benefits to these programs, YIMBYs are right to doubt that housing subsidies alone are a scalable solution to affordability challenges.

  Some Things YIMBYs Tend To Get Wrong (and Right)strongtowns.org

Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.

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  There is no correct heuristic for science, so what you need is many independent research programmes each running its own bias.

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  Which actually goes to show you that you there's not a correct huristic for science. You actually just need multiple independent research programs with their own huristics.

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Writes Pedestrian Observations on public transit and why infrastructure costs what it does; a pure mathematician by training, comparing how different countries build.

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  Rapid electrification programs without continuous rolling pipelines can still be built cost-effectively, as in Denmark, Israel and India.

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  In truth, rather rapid electrification projects, without decade-by-decade continuity, exist outside the UK and are often quite reasonable in their costs, as in Denmark, Israel, and especially India.

  IFP’s Transit Abundance Playbookpedestrianobservations.com

Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval. Previously worked on LLMs and LLM infrastructure at Mozilla.ai and on ML and recsys at Duo, Tumblr, Automattic and Comcast; wrote the 'What are embeddings?' text and ran the Normconf conference.

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  gemma-4-26b-a4b

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  I've so far been using gemma-4-26b-a4b LM Studio implementation as my default local model.

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Engineer and teacher; wrote Kubernetes the Hard Way, was a distinguished engineer at Google Cloud, and retired from full-time work in 2023.

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  Ban the word AI from a pitch and the founder is forced to show you the actual problem — the word is an umbrella people hide the details under.

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  do not say AI because what we don't want to do is use a big umbrella to describe what you're doing. Let's get concrete details. These are computers. These are computer programs.

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Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.

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  No non-Apple trackpad implementation matches the quality of Apple's own trackpads.

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  This isn't a Go60 limitations of course, every single keyboard on the market, that isn't Apple, will have the same limitations.

  Review of the MoErgo Go60 Keyboardarslan.io

Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic; previously VP of research at OpenAI.

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  If AI permanently drives down demand for labour, long-term income support for a significant fraction of the workforce will likely become necessary.

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  If AI-driven labor displacement ends up being large in magnitude and permanently drives down the demand for labor, it will likely be necessary to go beyond mere incentive programs to long-term income support for a significant fraction of the labor force.

  Policy on the AI Exponential (June 2026)darioamodei.com

Danish software engineer and Microsoft technical fellow, creator of Turbo Pascal and Delphi and lead architect of C# and TypeScript.

From one piece TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsberg 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  A programming language is not a compiler but an experience: editing, running, debugging and the runtime library all have to fit together as one cycle.

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  That was always the idea, and that that goes back even to the predecessor of Turbo Pascal, this idea that it's not just a compiler. It's an experience, right? I mean, you don't just compile your programs. You also edit them. You also run them. You also debug them. You also have a runtime library. It all has to like fit together.

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  Forcing an AI to annotate every type would make its programs worse, not better: annotate where there is no context, and let inference do the rest.

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  because if you were to force AI to write a type annotation on everything, then it would probably get it wrong more often because now it has to keep track of all these types and and it and it has to just repeat itself over and over and over, right? And so, types are important where there's no context.

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Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.

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  Frontier AI models still cannot handle certain deep technical implementation details without human guidance

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  This took some special care, in particular avoiding any C++ standard library I/O functionality. Current frontier AI cannot handle this detail on their own.

  dcmake: a new CMake debugger UInullprogram.com

Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.

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  Structured concurrency makes it easier to write correct, safe concurrent code.

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  writing programs in this style makes it much easier to write correct and safe concurrent code

  From error-handling to structured concurrencyblog.nelhage.com

Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.

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  With a good enough plan, a coding agent implements the whole change in one attempt.

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  once there is a good plan, it will one-shot the implementation almost every time.

  newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com

Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and self-made books at craigmod.com.

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  Claude Code

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  With Claude, I've built a host of software like this. Mostly small tools for myself — programs that instantly append copy buffers to text files (I keep a running file of nice things people write to me called notapieceofshit.txt) or quickly perform live currency conversions.

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Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.

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  Erratic U.S. tariff implementation is teaching allies and enemies that the U.S. is no longer a reliable trading partner.

  America

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  Tariffs, and especially the erratic implementation of them, are teaching our allies and enemies alike that the US is no longer a reliable trading partner.

  JL Goes International, and to ETFs…… Oh my!jlcollinsnh.com

Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.

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  You cannot learn to code by having a model write it: the mental models only come from writing programs by hand.

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  The answer, I believe, is not too different from before: if you want to learn to code, you need to start by creating programs by hand.

  Will AI Make Us Stupid?scotthyoung.com

Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.

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  Most software has too few users or too short a lifespan for long-term maintenance costs to matter.

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  Very few programs ever reach the point that they are heavily used and long-lived. Almost everything has few users, or is short-lived, or both.

  How I program with Agentscrawshaw.io

Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes By the Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of them, and revising in public when they say something unexpected.

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  A country cannot fund its own industrial strategy and call the same policy cheating when China does it.

  China

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  But you cannot support these programs while calling out China for “cheating” for doing the same.

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Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.

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  Deciding what software should do and why is still a human job: vibe coding changes the implementation phase far more than the planning phase.

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  Vibe coding can execute instructions, but deciding what the software should do and why is not automated. Product managers and designers must still do user research, market analysis, and creative brainstorming. In that sense, vibe coding changes the implementation phase more than the planning phase of the product lifecycle.

  Vibe Coding and Vibe Designjakobnielsenphd.substack.com

Founder and chief analyst of SemiAnalysis; reports on semiconductor supply chains, AI datacentre economics and what the chip export controls actually do.

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  Training a frontier model achieves almost nothing by itself; all the economic and military power comes from deploying it, and deployment is what consumes the compute.

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  To some extent, training a model does effectively nothing. They have a model. The thing that Dario is sort of speaking to is the implementation of that model, once trained to then create huge economic growth, huge increases in military capabilities, huge increases in productivity of people, betterment of lives.

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Software engineer and essayist who writes about programming, formal methods, philosophy and literature at thoughts.wyounas.com.

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  Principles of the SPIN Model Checker

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  This book gave me both insight and a deeper curiosity about the subject. This book introduces the SPIN model checker and exposes the reader to the nuances of verifying programs using SPIN. A nice feature of the book is how it explains concepts using thoughtfully developed, freely available tools (such as jSpin) that the author created for pedagogical purposes. It's a demanding book, but the content was interesting. The book presents details about concurrency, temporal logic, non-determinism, advanced SPIN topics, and even case studies. I've already written a few blog posts about the topics I explored while reading this book, and I plan to write more. Overall, it's a good book. I'm sure I'll revisit the latter half again.

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American science-fiction writer, author of the collections Stories of Your Life and Others and Exhalation, and an essayist on artificial intelligence for The New Yorker.

From one piece Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The small choices made while executing a work matter as much as the big idea behind it, so inspiration cannot be separated from the labour.

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  What I’m saying is that art requires making choices at every scale; the countless small-scale choices made during implementation are just as important to the final product as the few large-scale choices made during the conception.

  Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Artnewyorker.com

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  The very thing that sells generative AI — that it returns far more than you put in — is what stops it from being a tool artists can use.

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  The selling point of generative A.I. is that these programs generate vastly more than you put into them, and that is precisely what prevents them from being effective tools for artists.

  Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Artnewyorker.com

Investigative journalist; wrote Area 51, The Pentagon's Brain and Nuclear War: A Scenario, reconstructing what secret programmes actually did from interviews and declassified records.

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  After interviewing hundreds of people inside America's secret military and intelligence programs, there is no reason to believe aliens have ever visited Earth.

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  Well, not just at Area 51, but in all the different national security and military intelligence and intelligence programs. And I personally have no reason to believe that aliens have ever visited Earth. That’s just me personally.

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Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.

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  Moral hazard problems are often worse in government programs than in private markets.

  government

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  The truth is that moral hazard concerns very often are worse with government programs than with markets.

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Designer and engineer; formerly principal research engineer at GitHub Next; writes at wattenberger.com.

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  Good tools let the user choose when to switch between implementing and evaluating; a chatbot forces the switch every few seconds and kills flow.

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  Good tools let the user choose when to switch between implementation and evaluation. When I work with a chatbot, I'm forced to frequently switch between the two modes.

  Why Chatbots Are Not the Futurewattenberger.com

Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.

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  A programmer’s job is to write programs that run well on the hardware they are given.

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  Our job is to write programs that run well on the hardware that we are given.

  "Clean" Code, Horrible Performancecomputerenhance.com

Programmer and writer; specified JSON, wrote JavaScript: The Good Parts, JSLint and How JavaScript Works.

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  Adobe CS4

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  I occasionally use these Adobe CS4 programs: Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Acrobat, Illustrator, and Flash. I don't use any of them enough to justify a subscription to their latest cloud offerings.

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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.

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  Both the special-purpose-programs view and the blank-slate view of human intelligence are likely incorrect.

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  Today, it is increasingly apparent that both of these views of the nature of human intelligence - either a collection of special-purpose programs or a general-purpose Tabula Rasa - are likely incorrect

  On the Measure of Intelligencearxiv.org

Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

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  Generators emit thousands of lines where ten would do, and that waste is why people think their phone is slow.

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  These programs that generate a website, app, or file for you spit out thousands of lines of unnecessary junk when really only 10 lines are needed.

  Digital pollutionsive.rs

Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.

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  Each programming language embodies a distinct mental model for thinking about computation and writing programs.

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  Each language contains a different mental model, a different perspective for thinking about computation and how to write programs.

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Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.

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  Good things happen when you do not test implementation details: tests written with the React and Vue testing libraries look almost identical.

  JavaScript

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  Did you know, the tests you write with react-testing-library look almost identical to the tests you write with vue-testing-library. Magic things happen when you don't test implementation details. :)

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