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Learning from Video Games(the-nerve-blog.ghost.io)
1 points by mprast 1y ago|0 comments
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Values in the wild: Discovering values in real-world language model interactions(anthropic.com)
3 points by mprast 1y ago|1 comments
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Cryptocurrency "market caps" and notional value(blog.mollywhite.net)
4 points by mprast 1y ago|0 comments
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by mprast 1y ago
yeah unless you have very specific requirements I think the baseline here is not building/designing it yourself but setting up an off-the-shelf commercial or OSS solution, which I doubt would take two weeks...
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by mprast 1y ago
that would admittedly be more impressive
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by mprast 1y ago
personally I don't have as much trouble wrapping my brain around the Omega combinator as I do around the Y combinator, so I just try to remember that the Y combinator is an omega combinator with an extra f injected at the site of repli
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Baking the Y Combinator from Scratch(the-nerve-blog.ghost.io)
125 points by mprast 1y ago|22 comments
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How I Won the Lottery (XOXO Festival 2014) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by mprast 1y ago|0 comments
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by mprast 2y ago
thanks for reading! yeah I think system- and platform- are great terms too. It's kind of a weird distinction because my gut feeling is that platform-level package managers kind of grew out of system-level package managers...but I don&#
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A crash course in package managers(the-nerve-blog.ghost.io)
2 points by mprast 2y ago|2 comments
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A crash course in package management, Node, and Yarn v2(the-nerve-blog.ghost.io)
2 points by mprast 2y ago|0 comments
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A brief meditation on formal systems and lying goblins(the-nerve-blog.ghost.io)
64 points by mprast 2y ago|29 comments
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by mprast 2y ago
"Objects are extremely good at what they're good at. Blind devotion to functional is dumb." sure, but I think the status quo is to way overuse objects. my preferred style is to bias heavily towards value objects, and to never
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by mprast 2y ago
my partner was in love with them; every time we talk about UI design, she mentions Simple. RIP
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by mprast 2y ago
I do appreciate the little coda at the end - nice that the author was self-aware enough to realize where the cruft was and cut it (and courteous to the reader!)
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Nerve – A Universal API Client(get-nerve.com)
1 points by mprast 2y ago|0 comments
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by mprast 2y ago
fantastic "None of them would admit this, but I think there’s an industry instinct that misery gets results. I think this is mistaken. Misery is a shitty proxy metric for results" +1000
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Gut microbiome strain-sharing within isolated village social networks(nature.com)
3 points by mprast 2y ago|0 comments
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by mprast 2y ago
bees will push balls around just for the hell of it - they trained the bees to push the balls and then took the rewards away and gave them unlimited pollen and sucrose and the bees kept going back to the balls. they just wanted to mess arou
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Things I Wish Somebody Told Me Before I Founded My SaaS(stackingthebricks.com)
4 points by mprast 2y ago|0 comments
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by mprast 2y ago
yeah agreed. I don't think Cory Doctorow is right about everything but I think he was dead on with enshittification
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by mprast 2y ago
I was on tiktok in 2019/2020 and for a brief period it was just ordinary users messing around and posting whatever they felt like. No tiktok shop, very few ads or thinkpieces, nobody was trying to build an audience. A lot weirder and
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Nerve – A query planner/engine that sits on top of APIs(get-nerve.com)
2 points by mprast 2y ago|0 comments
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Model Networks(and Other Architectures for Preventing Semantic "Nightmare" Bugs)(blog.get-nerve.com)
2 points by mprast 2y ago|0 comments
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Model Networks(and Other Architectures for Preventing Semantic "Nightmare" Bugs)(blog.get-nerve.com)
2 points by mprast 2y ago|0 comments
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by mprast 3y ago
Hey, thanks for your feedback. You're right; this is basically what the Semantic Web was trying to do. In earlier attempts to explain the idea I had mentioned Web 3.0 (that is to say, the 'original' Web 3.0), but wasn't
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by mprast 3y ago
hey, thanks for your feedback! If you're up to discussing further, would be interested to hear more about what you like/dislike about the idea and what potential you see, if any (you can just email me at mprast@get-nerve.com). Eit
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We've been thinking about software integration wrong for the past 50 years(nerve-signals.pika.page)
40 points by mprast 3y ago|38 comments
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by mprast 3y ago
PS: Clicking on the link will let you play around with Nerve, but first it will show you an article that provides a little more context around how Nerve is designed and why it's designed that way. If you just want the technical stuff,
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by mprast 3y ago
TLDR: Nerve is a tool that helps developers write and maintain integrations. It does the same thing as a Unified API, but in a different way. Unified API companies are great but they take a lot of manual effort, which can make it hard for t

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