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Have to confess reading this, and the linked page that claims to demonstrate the language but does no such thing, gave me a real "person struggling with mental

Have to confess reading this, and the linked page that claims to demonstrate the language but does no such thing, gave me a real "person struggling with mental illness" kind of vibe. Slight overtones of TempleOS type of thinking, a certain, uh, _grandiosity_. No surprise then that a large section of the blog is devoted to bipolar disorder.

beefnugs 2y ago
nah, there is just a difference between engineers and teachers. It is why underfunding teachers so harshly has resulted in entire countries of dumbasses. Engineers have trouble communicating the complex things in their heads. That being said the videos are actually a great example of whats happening here: hiding a world of complexity behind "single words". You need incredible esoteric arcane knowledge of "magic single words" in a sea of anything and everything, but once you know everything, you can simplify complexity into a stream of the proper words The best I can surmise is that this system/language is about human readable data and processing in the same file. To him all the little weird characters in programming are dumb. To many other people "magic word" knowledge is dumb. For this system to truly shine would require a complete runtime like Pharo where you can inspect where code is coming from, what its doing, documentation, placeholders and mocks all over the place etc
- breck 2y ago
  > there is just a difference between engineers and teachers. > Engineers have trouble communicating the complex things in their heads. Yes!!! And my first versions (like this), are always shit. Eventually with a few git pushes I figure out how to teach to others what I can visualize in my head.
breck 2y ago
It's accurate to say I used to struggle with wild energy swings. It turned out to be caused by wild blood glucose swings and lack of ketones. A year ago I switched to a ketogenic diet and do finger prick ketone tests to ensure my ketone levels are high (aka, that my "liver is on"). Absolute life changer, and I have these people to thank: https://www.metabolicmind.org https://www.metabolicmind.org and https://www.youtube.com/@ketobipolar/videos https://www.youtube.com/@ketobipolar/videos I would highly recommend anyone who has experienced any similar issues to check those out. P.S. I have a microbiology background and this isn't just anecdotal data, but there's a very strong biological model of what's going on. Check out these researchers for more: Dr. Chris Palmer at Harvard: https://www.chrispalmermd.com/ https://www.chrispalmermd.com/ Dr. Shebani Sethi at Stanford: https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/shebani-sethi https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/shebani-sethi Dr. Iain Campbell at University of Edinburgh https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-iain-campbell https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-iain-campbell

beefnugs 2y ago

nah, there is just a difference between engineers and teachers. It is why underfunding teachers so harshly has resulted in entire countries of dumbasses. Engineers have trouble communicating the complex things in their heads. That being said the videos are actually a great example of whats happening here: hiding a world of complexity behind "single words". You need incredible esoteric arcane knowledge of "magic single words" in a sea of anything and everything, but once you know everything, you can simplify complexity into a stream of the proper words The best I can surmise is that this system/language is about human readable data and processing in the same file. To him all the little weird characters in programming are dumb. To many other people "magic word" knowledge is dumb. For this system to truly shine would require a complete runtime like Pharo where you can inspect where code is coming from, what its doing, documentation, placeholders and mocks all over the place etc

breck 2y ago
> there is just a difference between engineers and teachers. > Engineers have trouble communicating the complex things in their heads. Yes!!! And my first versions (like this), are always shit. Eventually with a few git pushes I figure out how to teach to others what I can visualize in my head.

breck 2y ago

It's accurate to say I used to struggle with wild energy swings. It turned out to be caused by wild blood glucose swings and lack of ketones. A year ago I switched to a ketogenic diet and do finger prick ketone tests to ensure my ketone levels are high (aka, that my "liver is on"). Absolute life changer, and I have these people to thank: https://www.metabolicmind.org https://www.metabolicmind.org and https://www.youtube.com/@ketobipolar/videos https://www.youtube.com/@ketobipolar/videos I would highly recommend anyone who has experienced any similar issues to check those out. P.S. I have a microbiology background and this isn't just anecdotal data, but there's a very strong biological model of what's going on. Check out these researchers for more: Dr. Chris Palmer at Harvard: https://www.chrispalmermd.com/ https://www.chrispalmermd.com/ Dr. Shebani Sethi at Stanford: https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/shebani-sethi https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/shebani-sethi Dr. Iain Campbell at University of Edinburgh https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-iain-campbell https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-iain-campbell