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Program Synthesis by Simulated Annealing With Thompson Sampling

In which we take the inverse of a compiler

notes

another piece of bitrot started affecting my 20 year old python-based text editor. hopefully i can figure out a work around.

it's been so awful seeing all my old python projects slowly die over the years.

i still use python for some things but avoid any third-party dependencies or modules that i can't just copy into the project.

I think it'd be really fun to revisit the old mac sherlock app and have it use a big list of site search engines
a consequence of using an email client as a twitter client is you have an unread counter for tweets
what do you think the first big mastodon worm is going to do? what's its payload going to be?
why aren't there more devices that have phone UIs by running a wifi access point and serving a web app to your phone instaed of having an app you have to install from the app store?
companies like google hire all the engineers they do because they're afraid they'll make things that disrupt their business. the layoffs show that they think that's no longer a threat. this is your opportunity to prove them wrong
severance is basically non-dilutive seed funding. I'm super excited to see what everyone uses it to build
labor isn't a factor of production at faang, basically all their labor is NRE, so if you try to apply marxist analysis you're going to get it wrong