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got frustrated with the bloat and the tui shenanigans of other coding agents so i made my own. releasing into the world so i can install for work and get made fun of

I had AI write a short review and give a rating to a wide range of songs, with some funny results lol

This blog post is very important reading ;)

Makes sense that creating anywhere near parity to current tech is out of reach for most people, that's unfortunate but was worth a shot I guess haha

Thanks for the link to tinytapeout! It looks great to actualize once I have a more concrete idea of a chip design

Simulations are the way to go for now I guess, the most interesting part of this exploration is trying to just create strange ISAs I suppose, so it will be nice to iterate faster in the software plane before going to physical

That's a great one, especially for code ideas

Thanks for mentioning the "demoscene" community! Had totally forgot that word and group but that's exactly up my alley

Ah, I meant full serif, no monospace. So the letters are using the serif spacing. You're right in that the kerning/spacing is what makes the difference here, I find words in serif much easier to read than their monospace counterparts when coding.

Thanks, that's really helpful! I'll be investigating/reading the code base when writing my own, nice to be able to see some design decisions before starting on my own.

I've been trying to improve my writing, so feedback on the clarity and style of my writing would be awesome, thank you!

Thanks, I'll check those out

> https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Materials-Management-Ste...

Thank you I'll check that out in addition to the Simchi book

> If you're highly technical and would like to learn how to abstract and solve some of the hardest problems in supply chain management, I would actually look into the field of Operations Research. It is basically mathematical modeling and optimization of real world operational and logistics problems.

I recently took the SIAM Math Modeling Works Challenge [1] and actually found that quite enjoyable, so Operations Research sounds great.

[1] = https://m3challenge.siam.org/

> In order for the pattern to appear, there have to be independent actors with cascading delays in the aquisition of information about the future, and a mismatch in the ability to stop production (decelerate) and start production (accelerate).

That makes sense, that's a cool connection between this bullwhip effect and the traffic wave.

> The cars closest to it stop extremely fast but then accelerate slower than they decelerated.

Aaah, so if I understand correctly, since it takes more time for them to get back up to their previous speed, each group of cars receives information to stay stopped for longer than they do to start moving again, and thus the traveling wave effect grows between each group of cars. I'm assuming however, this is the case for each group of cars acting as one unit, and there is no all seeing central coordination of all the car groups on the highway.

> The supply chain parallel problem emphasizes the importance of inventory. Running super lean on inventory can mean lower costs and higher throughput, but it exacerbates the bullwhip effect substantially.

I guess if you don't have that buffer for absorbing shock the bullwhip effect is stronger? I haven't read about what the lean production model is, so I'm probably just talking out my ass here, I'll keep this in mind when I'm reading that Womack 'Lean Thinking' book then.

Wow there are lot of these, I wonder how to sift between all of them.

This one [1] looks interesting just as a story

[1] = https://store.hbr.org/product/do-you-really-think-we-are-so-...

I like that the Wikipedia article has the history included before going into links to more specific topics.

This'll help give me one of those broader level overviews, thanks.

> If you’re interested in a good entry point, undergraduate business business programs often call that first class “Production and Operations Management” or a close variant.

I'll try that search term

> You’ll be able to get some terms to search for there, find a textbook and I’d bet anything that if you started plugging chapter titles into YouTube, you could find lectures.

I'll take a look at the syllabus for that Atahabascau course.

Thanks for that Rutgers SCM MOOC, I'll try it out along with the MITx one.

I'll also look up the syllabi for those programs, good idea.

Wow this looks fascinating, the U.S. Army is probably one of the biggest organizations with very direct consequences for failure in these logistics aspects.

Every once in a while I see HN users post these types of military publications, and a lot of them seem useful. How do you find these in the first place?

I suppose whether or not these books apply depends a lot on where my life takes me. But you are right about the concrete practice, just like with learning a new programming language, the only way to internalize it is to do a project with it that preferably has a real pressure and deadline, i.e. a job.

I'll have to see if I can try and apply the concepts no matter what industry I'm in.

Hmmm a textbook more on the in-depth side, I'll try this after I read some of that more survey/overview stuff, thanks

Wow that's great, the reviews from Kevin Kelly, David Allen, and Ali Safavi really sealed the deal, I'll read this thank you!

Oooh, looks like there's a lot more complex math in this area than I'd initially thought (although I imagine the math that is there is more of the stuff that is used in CS?).

Thank you for the link to that micromasters program, that looks like a great course to try first for SCM, I'll check out other courses that are marked as related on the MOOC page as well

Thank you for the 3-part breakdown, that helped me make more sense out of the rest of the thread materials having those definitions!

Yeah I think you are right on the strategy of doing an 'overview'/surveyish book and then diving deep