hugetim's comments

On: Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong (2014)

[hugetim]

Curious how folks think this measures up: https://www.answer.ai/posts/2024-06-23-claudette-src.html

[alexisread → hugetim]

I built this sort of notebook before, the issue I have with notebooks though is version control, debugging, testing, and general integration eg. with deployment processes.

In a large org, if you're missing any of them it's a showstopper, so lowest common denominator applies ie. basic comments.

Ideally, the language would allow for scoped markdown+ comments, and be able to build a document from linking params and functions, into a narrative (Obv. this requires you do your project overviews in the correct location, but that's a small issue).

I suspect LLMs will be able to help document code shortly.

[hugetim → alexisread]

The package Jeremy Howard uses for Claudette, nbdev, actually does address the notebook pain points of version control, testing, integration, and deployment: https://nbdev.fast.ai/ (Debugging is already a strong point of developing within a notebook.) But it's admittedly used mostly for solo projects or small teams and may not be ready for large orgs.

On: Math from Three to Seven

[hugetim]

A nice source of middle- and high-school aged problems: https://www.usamts.org/

One of the joys of high school was discussing these with a friend (after submission---but one could forego the contest and just do the circle thing with them for fun).

On: Math from Three to Seven

[hugetim]

For me it was this curriculum, which should be better-known: https://www.elementsofmathematics.com/

One place it is offered in-person is the St. Louis area where I grew up: https://megsss.org/about-us/

On: FastHTML – Modern web applications in pure Python

[hugetim]

He's already written a bit here, starting in the second paragraph under "Why": https://about.fastht.ml/components

On: New Aztec Codices Discovered: The Codices of San Andrés Tetepilco

[hugetim]

But is it reasonable to consider charlie worse than alice?

[mmustapic → hugetim]

If you feel closer to Charlie, yes

On: Causality for Machine Learning (2020)

[hugetim]

Clarify your thinking about what it means to ask "why" here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/questions/#PraAppExpCon

On: Larry Lessig's theory: our society is governed by four forces (2011)

[hugetim]

I'd love to see them implement a good liquid democracy system that would offer a better "middle ground between 'take every vote' and 'let Blackrock decide'."

On: Larry Lessig's theory: our society is governed by four forces (2011)

[hugetim]

I'm guessing you're not very familiar with Lessig's work: https://perma.cc/5XQ8-MBWA?type=image

Or maybe you just have a different theory of change? His seems to be that our best shot is to use whatever levers remain available in our nominal democracy to reduce the political power accruing to extreme wealth. What's yours?