Ethan Herdrick

Repo: github.com/herdrick/chaos…

In the code you can add sliders for live control over numbers. I think the project's slogan is "no constants". Always replace a constant with a slider.

I made a scriptable Chaos Game environment. Before this it hadn't occurred to me that attractors have parameters that can be played with to get endless variations on the classic shapes.

It is absurd that Palo Alto School district just voted to remove honors biology for all students & already removed honors English. They call it de-laning. I call it an assault on excellence. I took many honors classes at Council Rock High in PA.

Every software engineer I know is wondering how the next LLMs will impact our work. I'm sure about one thing: if they're slow, they're employees, and we become managers. If they're fast, they're tools, and we're still ICs.

You make sandwiches like an IC, but you manage a breakfast team. (And if you are a manager, maybe you should consider the things you manage to be employees, even if they aren't human, or even sophisticated.)

Last year on @RickRubin's podcast, @pmarca said some AI experts think within 5 years a single person will create software by marshaling thousands of AI programmers - telling them to make functionality, integrate, test, etc. So now the engineer is like a manager. 👇

@michael_nielsen You'd think it'd be impossible to write a book that is a socratic dialogue with its readers, but it has been done — the wonderful "The Little Schemer" by Dan Friedman and Matthias Felleisen.

What are the most unusually ambitious books ever written? Interested along any axis of ambition, but especially unusual axes

I made an app with @dyang: apps.apple.com/us/app/support…

@paulg ... which is amazing. The official productivity numbers for the overall economy over that period show linear growth.

@paulg Looks like constant exponential decay for the whole curve, with a little squinting. Which means exponential growth for employee productivity(!). The function .125*(1.038^t) works out right, i.e. starting at $125k profit per employee increasing at about 3.8% per year.

Interesting that revenue per employee rose consistently till 2010 and then flattened out. What stopped in 2010?

@Chris_arnade Looks like canola. google.com/search?q=ripe+…

What’s this?

Fitting to begin my literal walk across England in a Liverpools McDonald’s filled with the sleeping rough

@Jason @Azure @googlecloud @awscloud @googlecloud, because of BigQuery. It's great. I also much prefer GCP's IAM but I've heard others say the opposite.

Founders: who out there using @Azure or @googlecloud, over @awscloud? Explain why you picked your platform (doing some market research)