complexity has a habit of only increasing over time, and thus must be fought each step of the way with occasional hard resets
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Solving Complex Architecture Problems Through Iterative Thinking
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Just finished thinking hard about an architecture problem for a few hours. Notebook is full of incomprehensible scratches that even I can barely read, but writing it out was indispensable to make mental progress. Vision is now clear!
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OpenAI Announces Sora: AI Model Generating Minute-Long Videos
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Announcing Sora — our model which creates minute-long videos from a text prompt: https://t.co/SZ3OxPnxwz pic.twitter.com/0kzXTqK9bG
— Greg Brockman (@gdb) 15 février 2024Announcing Sora — our model which creates minute-long videos from a text prompt: https://
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Focus and Distraction: Cognitive Performance in AI Era
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that feeling when distractions melt away and focus emerges
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Well-Designed Config Systems Critical for Collaborative Software
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easy to undervalue the impact of a well thought-out and expressive config system for any long-lived collaborative software project
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Programming Productivity: Balancing Planning with Discovery
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one trick to programming productivity is figure out half of the structure of your program by thinking hard, and then discover the other half from the process of trying to actually write the code for what you've been picturing
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ML Abstraction Design: Balancing Current Practice and Future Innovation
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ML abstraction design is hard in part because progress is made by people breaking through the existing abstractions. So must write code that facilitates the way things are done today while also making it easy to try out new ideas of how things could be done tomorrow.
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Finding Hidden Optimization Opportunities in Complex Systems
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so much fun to pore over the details of a working system to find ideas for optimizations no one has noticed
