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  1. 07.05.2025
    Peacefully Persistent Machines
    Days pass by in blinks.

  2. 29.04.2025
    Lawyers As Homo-Programmers
    Human languages as code.

  3. 24.04.2025
    But For The Whispers Of Nim
    I find Nim beautiful... but so too Python and Go.

  4. 17.04.2025
    The Dozen's Prevalence
    The number '12' often recurs when making sets/lists of principles.

  5. 18.02.2025
    True Craftsmen Sense The Absent Edge
    A master feels what lacks, before he even knows why.

  6. 17.02.2025
    Shakespearean Apples Are Not To Be
    Old literature used "apple" broadly, not specifically.

  7. 07.01.2025
    Mac Studio M1 Max Meets Qwen-32B
    2.5 year-old machine runs the LLM well, save for context size limits.

  8. 06.01.2025
    Recursive Reflective Questioning With LLMs
    Philosophical first principles, with LLMs.

  9. 01.01.2025
    2025 - The Perfectly-Squared Year
    Perfect squares mirror life's key transitions.

Shards

Recently read/learned.


15.12.2024
Artful Rule-Bending
The best writers bend rules, intently, once he knows them.

29.11.2023
Of Witchers By Trade
Being witnesses of truth.

18.10.2022
The Airplane Test of Fluency
Linguistic fluency and focus in flight.

03.07.2022
The Unpreparedness Apology
Author's classy disclaimer on imperfect work.

20.06.2022
Cultists of Science
Keep not to discovered untruths - cast them into fire.

18.06.2022
Strangling Deeds
Deeds live on, akin to children.

15.06.2022
Prepackaged Thought Cassettes
Think. If you don't, someone will, for you.

11.06.2022
Salted Correspondences
Let stones lie as they were.

11.06.2022
Vampiric Pathology
Supernatural dissections and dissectees.

Drills & Exercises

Recently practised/analysed.


02.05.2025
Nim / Exercise - Make a `logvars(a, b, c)` macro
Log several variables at once.

02.05.2025
Nim / Exercise - Make a double(x) macro
Take an identifier and generate code that doubles its value in-place.

02.05.2025
Nim / Exercise - Make an `info(expr)` macro
Get familiar witjh `quote do`.

27.06.2021
Eloquent Javascript / Chapter 2, Exercise 03
Chessboard - in which I review ternary operators.

12.02.2021
46 Simple Python Exercises/#10
Find common list members.

11.02.2021
46 Simple Python Exercises/#02
Find the largest of three.

11.02.2021
46 Simple Python Exercises/#01
Largest number selector.

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