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A Gym Gridworld Environment for the Treacherous Turn

Michaël Trazzi28 Jul 2018 21:27 UTC

74 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

(github.com)

Becoming a Staff Engineer

Gordon Seidoh Worley3 Apr 2022 2:30 UTC

64 points

33 comments6 min readLW link

Software Engineering: Getting Hired and Promoted

Gordon Seidoh Worley4 Apr 2022 22:31 UTC

38 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

An Apprentice Experiment in Python Programming, Part 2

konstell and gilch

29 Jul 2021 7:39 UTC

30 points

18 comments10 min readLW link

Additional space complexity isn’t always a useful metric

Brendan Long4 Jan 2023 21:53 UTC

4 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

(www.brendanlong.com)

Bad names make you open the box

Adam Zerner9 Jun 2021 3:19 UTC

91 points

51 comments10 min readLW link 1 review

You Don’t Always Need Indexes

jefftk25 May 2023 14:20 UTC

22 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

In my culture: the responsibilities of open source maintainers

philh13 Apr 2020 13:40 UTC

43 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

An Apprentice Experiment in Python Programming, Part 3

gilch and konstell

16 Aug 2021 4:42 UTC

14 points

10 comments22 min readLW link

When Programmers Don’t Understand Code, Don’t Blame The User

Adam Zerner18 Aug 2021 19:59 UTC

61 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

“Throwing Exceptions” Is A Strange Programming Pattern

Thoth Hermes21 Aug 2023 18:50 UTC

−2 points

13 comments6 min readLW link

(thothhermes.substack.com)

The Darwin Game

lsusr9 Oct 2020 10:19 UTC

91 points

131 comments3 min readLW link

Philosophy in the Darkest Timeline: Basics of the Evolution of Meaning

Zack_M_Davis7 Jun 2020 7:52 UTC

131 points

16 comments14 min readLW link

Toy model of the AI control problem: animated version

Stuart_Armstrong10 Oct 2017 11:06 UTC

23 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Don’t feel bad about not knowing basic things

Adam Zerner24 May 2021 1:49 UTC

89 points

33 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] How will OpenAI + GitHub’s Copilot affect programming?

smountjoy29 Jun 2021 16:42 UTC

55 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

Colonization models: a programming tutorial (Part 1/2)

snarles16 May 2011 23:33 UTC

42 points

6 comments15 min readLW link

PSA: Learn to code

John_Maxwell25 May 2012 18:50 UTC

48 points

77 comments3 min readLW link

Place-Based Programming—Part 1 - Places

lsusr14 Apr 2021 22:18 UTC

29 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

Place-Based Programming—Part 2 - Functions

lsusr16 Apr 2021 0:25 UTC

14 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Two Designs

SatvikBeri22 Apr 2021 16:32 UTC

31 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Naming and pointer thickness

Adam Zerner28 Apr 2021 6:35 UTC

22 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Taking the outside view on code quality

Adam Zerner7 May 2021 4:16 UTC

11 points

17 comments2 min readLW link

An Apprentice Experiment in Python Programming

konstell and gilch

4 Jul 2021 3:29 UTC

67 points

4 comments9 min readLW link

I Want XMP But I Know Why I Can’t Have It

jefftk19 Jan 2024 15:30 UTC

23 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Clipboard Filtering

jefftk14 Apr 2024 20:50 UTC

25 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Julia Tasks 101

SatvikBeri27 May 2024 11:32 UTC

1 point

0 comments4 min readLW link

An Apprentice Experiment in Python Programming, Part 4

gilch and konstell

31 Aug 2021 7:56 UTC

14 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

Fermi Estimating How Long an Algorithm Takes

SatvikBeri10 Aug 2024 1:34 UTC

1 point

0 comments2 min readLW link

Evaluating Opus

jefftk8 Aug 2020 16:40 UTC

20 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Watching Myself Program

matto29 Nov 2021 13:44 UTC

56 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Browser Engines

jefftk3 Dec 2021 19:30 UTC

24 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Competitive programming with AlphaCode

Algon2 Feb 2022 16:49 UTC

58 points

36 comments15 min readLW link

(deepmind.com)

WebBundles and URL Randomization

jefftk26 Aug 2020 17:50 UTC

10 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Non-programmers intro to AI for programmers

Dustin5 Apr 2022 18:12 UTC

6 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Review: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

L Rudolf L11 Apr 2022 20:27 UTC

17 points

9 comments10 min readLW link

(www.strataoftheworld.com)

Emacs Recentering With Context

jefftk14 Apr 2022 1:20 UTC

17 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Mosh

jefftk7 Apr 2020 17:40 UTC

17 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

A reason behind bad systems, and moral implications of seeing this reason

Edward Pascal9 May 2022 3:16 UTC

4 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Framing Practicum: Dynamic Programming

aysajan18 May 2022 18:16 UTC

10 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

Code Quality and Rule Consequentialism

Adam Zerner13 Jun 2022 3:12 UTC

17 points

13 comments6 min readLW link

Assorted thoughts about abstraction

Adam Zerner5 Jul 2022 6:40 UTC

16 points

9 comments7 min readLW link

User research as a barometer of software design

Adam Zerner8 Jul 2022 6:02 UTC

31 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

Announcing Squiggle: Early Access

ozziegooen3 Aug 2022 19:48 UTC

51 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

What is estimational programming? Squiggle in context

Quinn12 Aug 2022 18:39 UTC

14 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

Built-In Bundling For Faster Loading

jefftk30 Aug 2022 19:20 UTC

15 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Exporting Hangouts History

jefftk2 Sep 2022 15:00 UTC

20 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Prototyping in C

jefftk4 Sep 2022 17:50 UTC

19 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Most sensible abstraction & feature set for a systems language?

Jasen Qin17 Sep 2022 19:49 UTC

0 points

5 comments10 min readLW link

Moving Away From The GPL

jefftk6 Aug 2021 11:50 UTC

22 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] When is pair-programming superior to regular programming?

ChristianKl8 Oct 2019 11:48 UTC

31 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Developer experience for the motivation

Adam Zerner16 Nov 2022 7:12 UTC

49 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

How do I start a programming career in the West?

Lao Mein25 Nov 2022 6:37 UTC

38 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Losing Metaphors: Zip and Paste

jefftk29 Nov 2023 20:31 UTC

26 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Pong from pixels without reading “Pong from Pixels”

Ian McKenzie29 Aug 2020 17:26 UTC

17 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

The need for speed in web frameworks?

Adam Zerner3 Jan 2023 0:06 UTC

19 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

References & Resources for LessWrong

XiXiDu10 Oct 2010 14:54 UTC

167 points

104 comments20 min readLW link

Multiple Deploy-Key Repos

jefftk3 Nov 2022 15:10 UTC

15 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Three configurable prettyprinters

philh10 Aug 2023 23:10 UTC

9 points

0 comments22 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

Message Length

Zack_M_Davis20 Oct 2020 5:52 UTC

134 points

25 comments12 min readLW link

Computer Science and Programming: Links and Resources

XiXiDu29 May 2012 13:17 UTC

42 points

43 comments14 min readLW link

[Question] What are good resources for learning functional programming?

Matt Goldenberg4 Jul 2019 1:22 UTC

22 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

On the Nature of Programming Languages

Martin Sustrik22 Apr 2019 10:50 UTC

20 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

(250bpm.com)

Alan Kay—Programming and Scaling

namespace12 Oct 2017 14:46 UTC

6 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

Why learning programming is a great idea even if you’d never want to code for a living

Morendil28 Sep 2010 16:51 UTC

16 points

29 comments2 min readLW link

Haskenthetical

philh19 May 2020 22:00 UTC

18 points

9 comments14 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

Yes to Feature Requests, No to Entitlement

jefftk11 Nov 2020 3:50 UTC

18 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

The Darwin Game—Rounds 1 to 2

lsusr11 Nov 2020 1:53 UTC

48 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

Inline Plotting in iTerm2

jefftk14 Sep 2023 20:30 UTC

13 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

The Effect pattern: Transparent updates in Elm

philh20 Oct 2019 20:00 UTC

8 points

0 comments18 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

Asking for help as an O(1) lookup

Adam Zerner17 Sep 2023 0:25 UTC

19 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

Simple Terminal Colors

jefftk10 Oct 2023 0:40 UTC

11 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Bucket Brigade Updates

jefftk14 Feb 2021 3:30 UTC

10 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

A reckless introduction to Hindley-Milner type inference

philh5 May 2019 14:00 UTC

17 points

4 comments20 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

Moving Data Around is Slow

SatvikBeri22 Mar 2021 2:36 UTC

35 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

Implicitly Typed C

jefftk11 Dec 2023 16:10 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

A whirlwind tour of Ethereum finance

cata2 Mar 2021 9:36 UTC

233 points

52 comments11 min readLW link

Hand-writing MathML

jefftk23 Sep 2023 11:20 UTC

16 points

40 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Book Club: Software Design for Flexibility

stuhlmueller18 Mar 2021 15:42 UTC

43 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

The Bullwhip Effect

aysajan13 Jul 2021 20:40 UTC

19 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

OpenAI Codex: First Impressions

specbug13 Aug 2021 16:52 UTC

49 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

(sixeleven.in)

Utilitarianism Expressed in Julia

Erich_Grunewald15 Aug 2021 11:31 UTC

12 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

(www.erichgrunewald.com)

The halting problem is overstated

Yair Halberstadt16 Aug 2021 5:26 UTC

15 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

Rocket science and big money—a cautionary tale of math gone wrong

Morendil24 Apr 2013 15:11 UTC

26 points

10 comments5 min readLW link

Uncompetitive programming with GPT-3

Bezzi6 Feb 2022 10:19 UTC

7 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

scipy.optimize.curve_fit Is Awesome

niplav7 May 2022 10:57 UTC

20 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

New Frontiers in Mojibake

Adam Scherlis26 Nov 2022 2:37 UTC

60 points

7 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

(adam.scherlis.com)

True Stories of Algorithmic Improvement

johnswentworth29 Oct 2021 20:57 UTC

92 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

English is a Terrible Programming Language—And other reasons AI won’t displace programmers

dawsoneliasen6 Feb 2023 22:12 UTC

26 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

(orbistertius.substack.com)

The Controls are Lying: A Note on the Memetic Hazards of Video Games [Link]

Nic_Smith19 Dec 2011 5:25 UTC

32 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Importing a Python File by Name

jefftk25 Jan 2024 16:00 UTC

12 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

graphpatch: a Python Library for Activation Patching

Occam's Laser5 Jun 2024 15:08 UTC

13 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Implementing Decision Theory

justinpombrio7 Nov 2023 17:55 UTC

22 points

12 comments3 min readLW link

A free to enter, 240 character, open-source iterated prisoner’s dilemma tournament

Isaac King9 Nov 2023 8:24 UTC

64 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

(manifold.markets)

[Question] Why is lesswrong blocking wget and curl (scrape)?

Nicolas Lacombe8 Nov 2023 19:42 UTC

21 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

High-School Algebra for Data Structures

johnswentworth17 Jun 2020 18:09 UTC

21 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Process Substitution Without Shell?

jefftk29 Nov 2023 3:20 UTC

19 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Uber Self-Driving Crash

jefftk7 Nov 2019 15:00 UTC

109 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Understanding is translation

cousin_it28 May 2018 13:56 UTC

92 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

Security Mindset and the Logistic Success Curve

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Nov 2017 15:58 UTC

104 points

49 comments20 min readLW link

Security Mindset and Ordinary Paranoia

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Nov 2017 17:53 UTC

133 points

25 comments29 min readLW link

Systemizing and Hacking

SatvikBeri23 Mar 2018 18:01 UTC

40 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

The Epsilon Fallacy

johnswentworth17 Mar 2018 0:08 UTC

88 points

21 comments7 min readLW link

(medium.com)

LW Open Source – Getting Started [warning: not up-to-date]

Raemon6 May 2018 23:28 UTC

35 points

32 comments4 min readLW link

Current AI Safety Roles for Software Engineers

ozziegooen9 Nov 2018 20:57 UTC

70 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

Zoom In: An Introduction to Circuits

evhub10 Mar 2020 19:36 UTC

85 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

(distill.pub)

The Darwin Results

Zvi25 Nov 2017 13:30 UTC

52 points

10 comments5 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Simplified Poker

Zvi4 Jun 2018 15:50 UTC

34 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

You Are Being Underpaid

RobertM15 Apr 2018 6:28 UTC

29 points

16 comments8 min readLW link

Tessellating Hills: a toy model for demons in imperfect search

DaemonicSigil20 Feb 2020 0:12 UTC

97 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

GraphQL tutorial for LessWrong and Effective Altruism Forum

riceissa8 Dec 2018 19:51 UTC

82 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

The Darwin Game

Zvi15 Nov 2017 23:20 UTC

37 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Hacking on LessWrong Just Got Easier

atucker4 Sep 2011 6:59 UTC

87 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

Programmers Should Plan For Lower Pay

jefftk29 Dec 2019 3:20 UTC

76 points

72 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Declarative Mathematics

johnswentworth21 Mar 2019 19:05 UTC

59 points

10 comments3 min readLW link

Reflections on Premium Poker Tools: Part 1 - My journey

Adam Zerner9 Oct 2019 0:42 UTC

57 points

14 comments38 min readLW link

The Black Team—A Parable of Group Effectiveness

JGWeissman22 Apr 2011 2:37 UTC

59 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

How to get good at programming

Ulisse Mini5 May 2023 1:14 UTC

39 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Diseased disciplines: the strange case of the inverted chart

Morendil7 Feb 2012 9:45 UTC

62 points

150 comments4 min readLW link

Selling Nonapples

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Nov 2008 20:10 UTC

76 points

78 comments7 min readLW link

Github Repo and Issue Tracker

Raemon19 Apr 2018 18:25 UTC

17 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Applied Rationality MUD

rlp1030 Jun 2018 3:14 UTC

37 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Trace README

johnswentworth11 Mar 2020 21:08 UTC

37 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

Worse Than Random

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Nov 2008 19:01 UTC

46 points

102 comments12 min readLW link

Turning the Technical Crank

Error5 Apr 2016 5:36 UTC

74 points

134 comments6 min readLW link

Fun With DAGs

johnswentworth13 May 2018 19:35 UTC

15 points

21 comments6 min readLW link

LW Open Source – Overview of the Codebase

Raemon16 May 2018 23:50 UTC

20 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

Causal diagrams and software engineering

Morendil7 Mar 2012 18:23 UTC

53 points

29 comments5 min readLW link

The Shabbos goy

PhilGoetz26 Mar 2010 16:16 UTC

47 points

92 comments2 min readLW link

Crypto quant trading: Intro

Alexei17 Apr 2019 20:52 UTC

62 points

17 comments5 min readLW link

Crypto quant trading: Naive Bayes

Alexei7 May 2019 19:29 UTC

33 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

Effect of Numpy

jefftk10 Aug 2020 1:00 UTC

9 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

The Cybersecurity Dilemma in a Nutshell

Gentzel12 Dec 2019 3:20 UTC

35 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)

A proof of Löb’s theorem in Haskell

cousin_it19 Sep 2014 13:01 UTC

52 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Update on Structured Concurrency

Martin Sustrik19 Oct 2018 11:10 UTC

35 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

(250bpm.com)

[Funny] Even Clippy can be blamed on the use of non-Bayesian methods

lukeprog2 Oct 2011 7:40 UTC

41 points

46 comments1 min readLW link

NES-game playing AI [video link and AI-boxing-related comment]

Dr_Manhattan12 Apr 2013 13:11 UTC

42 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

How to escape from your sandbox and from your hardware host

PhilGoetz31 Jul 2015 17:26 UTC

43 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

Why it feels like everything is a trade-off

Sunny from QAD18 Jul 2019 1:33 UTC

35 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

When programs have to work—lessons from NASA

NancyLebovitz31 Jul 2011 15:22 UTC

37 points

50 comments3 min readLW link

Programming AGI is impossible

Áron Ecsenyi30 May 2023 23:05 UTC

1 point

0 comments4 min readLW link

Coding Rationally—Test Driven Development

DSimon1 Oct 2010 15:20 UTC

33 points

84 comments7 min readLW link

Programming the LW Study Hall

ShannonFriedman15 Mar 2013 18:28 UTC

37 points

56 comments2 min readLW link

Hacking Less Wrong made easy: Vagrant edition

Morendil30 Jan 2012 18:51 UTC

44 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

The Simple Solow Model of Software Engineering

johnswentworth8 Apr 2019 23:06 UTC

25 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Use-cases for computations, other than running them?

johnswentworth19 Jan 2020 20:52 UTC

30 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Interested in learning Linux? Need hosting? Free shells!

JohnWittle9 Sep 2012 5:35 UTC

41 points

37 comments1 min readLW link

The Web Browser is Not Your Client (But You Don’t Need To Know That)

Error22 Apr 2016 0:12 UTC

44 points

47 comments7 min readLW link

Tool ideology

PhilGoetz9 Sep 2011 22:37 UTC

36 points

66 comments2 min readLW link

Unikernels: No Longer an Academic Exercise

Martin Sustrik23 Oct 2018 11:40 UTC

27 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(250bpm.com)

Why it’s necessary to shoot yourself in the foot

Jacob G-W11 Jul 2023 21:17 UTC

39 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

(g-w1.github.io)

Spaghetti Towers

eukaryote22 Dec 2018 5:29 UTC

209 points

36 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Algorithmic Progress in Six Domains

lukeprog3 Aug 2013 2:29 UTC

38 points

32 comments1 min readLW link

Announcing the 2014 program equilibrium iterated PD tournament

tetronian231 Jul 2014 12:24 UTC

38 points

63 comments1 min readLW link

Advice On Getting A Software Job

alyssavance9 Jul 2012 18:52 UTC

34 points

41 comments4 min readLW link

Exploring Botworld

So8res30 Apr 2014 22:29 UTC

34 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

On the Fence? Major in CS

talisman7 May 2009 4:26 UTC

20 points

54 comments2 min readLW link

The Darwin Game—Rounds 0 to 10

lsusr24 Oct 2020 2:17 UTC

107 points

34 comments4 min readLW link

Welcome to the Haskell Jungle

adamShimi18 Mar 2020 18:58 UTC

16 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Looking for books about software engineering as a field

mingyuan3 Feb 2020 21:49 UTC

14 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Automated Nomic Game 2

jefftk5 Feb 2019 22:11 UTC

19 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Sleeping Julia: Empirical support for thirder argument in the Sleeping Beauty Problem

Alex V3 Nov 2020 0:21 UTC

4 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

So you want to be a wizard

NaiveTortoise15 Feb 2019 15:43 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(jvns.ca)

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