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Agreed on hoping books will be rewritten. It seems to be happening, but slowly. E.g., Harvard Machine Learning Systems: https://mlsysbook.ai/vol1/

Thanks, missed this and will try to remove

Thank you! Not sure why it's so hard to find (still don't see where you got this from), esp if it's using exe.dev's platform.

"The apps are open source, and Hickisch doesn't expect to make money from them anytime soon. "

I'd like to try out the settlers-style game, but can't find them? Nothing here, either: https://github.com/raffael-hickisch

I'm also curious, as this could pay for a trip out there, especially if buying for friends.

Anybody have experience with https://github.com/chopratejas/headroom? They seem to have similar goals in token reduction, but headroom appears to be broader in scope.

That's fair. There are even many dimensions to define 'quality' which include use case (coding? writing? multimedia?) and prompt. I suppose if you ask testers to provide benchmarks with their analysis, that might hamper their desire to share.

always have a backup plan (:

Up ~50% about 2 months ago (4/2026)

Wonderful idea to document, share and even have positive outcomes.

The author would probably love this YT channel which is all about helping others come to the same realization as he did: https://www.youtube.com/@socialanimal

TinyProgrammer is a Raspberry Pi on my desk that autonomously writes little Python programs forever. It types code at human speed, makes mistakes, fixes them, and has moods.

Unless you prevent them from being successful in the first place.

As a side note, I wonder if there's also a bias that human minds are more easily controlled than forces of nature. That may also come into play here.

Both good and bad responses to successful terrorist attacks threaten government credibility, simply because they were successful. The key is for a government to prevent them from being successful in the first place.

Only bad disaster responses make administrations look pretty bad.

There's a reason people end up in these ruts to begin with.

Perhaps there is the lack of self-awareness that dopamine comes into play. This is where the (effective) simplicity of this article comes into the picture.

That's an interesting idea with WeWork.

I'd think that despite variations in environments in a home, there are either 1) enough accommodating tools to normalize (e.g., lights that have a variety of settings) or 2) the majority of the processes required to handle the variations are figured out (e.g., in consistently poor lighting, you need package B instead of package A).

I see some hardware packages for home studios going on sale, but nothing to the level of hardware/software integration necessary for the most effective online instruction/discussion.

This begs to normalized and sold as a package for both providers and consumers.

but that is part of life

Makes one wonder whether technology can help here. Seems that, so far, there is no substitute for direct experience.

The context of the comments matter. Just saying...

Y Combinator Requests for Startups: https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/

survival != (winning a competition || getting titles || getting awards)

But time != energy + motivation. Also time != money. I realize it won't be as eye-catching, but showing time wasted rather than money is more direct and truthful. Then I suppose the problem is that apps like that already exist...

Maybe it's possible to do both?

I agree, and I think that's part of Ryan Holiday's thesis. That also happens to be the message in the book Crucial Conversations.

Regardless of the fact if it's even possible to read that quickly, what about retaining and revising what you learnt? Especially important if you're reading non-fiction.

Exactly this. # of books as a goal seems like a poor choice of metric. But perhaps readers new to books have to start somewhere that's easy to measure, even if it's not a great metric.

From the comments, seems there is confusion on what you're looking for. I sense sarcasm in your request, i.e., 'What are cargo cult things one can do to show power?' But some responses are more genuine. If you make the ask clearer in what you're really looking for, it'll make it easier to decipher the responses.

My 2 cents...

I've gone through a number of tutorials, games, and articles, but I still think the best resource I've found so far is actually a book, "Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought": https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Vim-Edit-Speed-Thought/dp/1... . The book focuses on use cases which is a refreshing approach to Vim.

At least for George Lucas, he was self-funding to start Star Wars and did not want Hollywood to own a piece of the pie (source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416716/). I'd think that would count for something in that he'd want others to realize joy in a similar model of creation.

Nice find. That's along the ideas of what I had in mind.

Makes you wonder why Beatmania and games of that ilk don't have a version of the game for the full keyboard. And when you've mastered that 'level', you've actually learned the notes (maybe not much more, but it's something!) for a real piano piece.

The accompaniment hand is practiced to the point where it's automated, so not truly.

You may be interested in the book Algorithms to Live By ( Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths). I thought it was a fun-to-read book, though I don't think there was any code in the book at all.