08/24 - 08/30

Capitalists Or Cronyists. If you’re looking for some well-reasoned words on why you think the US is bungling things on a massive scale but are pro-capitalism and you can’t understand why it’s not working in the US, you might find this piece insightful.
Is WFH affecting the S&P;? I recommend this article if you’re curious about the affect that WFH has on the stock market

United States Corona Corps.
GPT-3, Bloviator: OpenAI’s language generator has no idea what it’s talking about. If you’re super over GPT-3 FUD and want to read an empirical study about GPT-3 that isn’t just full of bombastic takes, this is a good read. Despite the title, it’s not really a hit piece on GPT-3 – but it does lay out some specific edge cases where GPT-3 fails.
between fked and a hard place. This article interviews a bunch of higher education workers across the country to paint a worrying picture of higher education’s response to COVID-19 in the US. Solid doomscrolling content.
The Friendship that made Google Huge. The story of Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat at Google. The least gloomy thing I’ve read in the last 5 months.
Insane Story about the Kidnapping of Sultan bin Turki II.
Shadows. Chilling piece on the state of political discourse in the US.
Just quit your job at Facebook already.

Formal methods intro. I recommend this for anybody who wants to learn more about Formal Verification but is intimidated by some of the methodologies and jargon (i.e. me).
But does it help you ship?. Fun read on the actual cost of adding automations.
Parser Combinators. Technical deep dive on writing a parse combinator in Rust from scratch. I recommend it to anyone who’s into parsers, programming language, Rust, or any combination of the three.
Reachability Modulo Theories and A Solver for Reachability Modulo Theories.
Empirical Investigation into Programming Language Syntax. A cool read that attempts to answer the question of “which parts programming language syntax is good and which ones are bad?”
Why Efficiency is Dangerous and Slowing Down Makes Life Better. Click bait title aside, this post makes a compelling case for being cautious about aiming for efficiency at all costs.

Don’t Ask to Ask, Just Ask. This piece speaks to my soul: it’s a quick read on a best practice for async communication. Reminds me of nohello.com.
Questions. Patrick Collison writes some great posts on the big questions he’s chewing on. Inspirational stuff.
Hack Your Career by Troy Hunt. As an aspiring independent consultant this is a great watch.
Building a Digital Garden. This post inspired me to set up automated processes to share my learning publicly in a consolidated location.

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