nemesis17

19 karma · joined August 14, 2015

nemesis17··on The Double Matthew Walker Knot by Fable 5.1

I suck at prompting: Create a realistic animation of tying a Matthew Walker knot. Didn't get it right the first time and adversarial review self-corrected it.

nemesis17··on The Double Matthew Walker Knot by Fable 5.1

This knot is tricky to tie, you can't just "tug" the ends. It requires patience and precision.

nemesis17··on LLMs are making me lose my savviness

I feel the same empowerment. LLMs allow me to tap into my second-order knowledge.

nemesis17··on Kelly Criterion Simulator

Back in the day when I played HU Hyper-Turbos on Pokerstars I created one of these in Mathematica (not as fancy with Monte-Carlo)

nemesis17··on Claude Shannon: Mathematician, engineer, genius and juggler (2017)

Our 3.5 friend was named after him.

nemesis17··on New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike

With the shit show that the current tech industry has turned into, unionization is crucial. US has a very low percentage of unionized workers compared to Iceland, Finland and Scandinavian countries for instance. Time to change and make our voice heard.

nemesis17··on Show HN: Gov.uk Vue, a Vue Component Library for the Gov.uk Design System

Happy to see this! Very neat! On my last gig, I was one of the contributors for the govuk components using playframework/twirl: https://github.com/hmrc/play-frontend-hmrc.

nemesis17··on How to build quickly

This is great. Top-down break down followed by bottom-up building. Resonates of the approach advocated by Paul Graham for building software in the book On Lisp.

nemesis17··on Common Lisp: An Interactive Approach (1992)

This was the first Common Lisp book I studied back in the 90s. Two of my Professors had done early work in AI and started a successful company that still runs on CL: https://www.siscog.pt/en-gb/