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The paper computer

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Can you reverse engineer our neural network?

blog.janestreet.com·317 pts·jsomers·
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A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft (2023)

newyorker.com·2 pts·jsomers·
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I design with Claude more than Figma now

blog.janestreet.com·1 pts·jsomers·
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A coder considers the waning days of the craft (2023)

newyorker.com·2 pts·jsomers·
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The Case That A.I. Is Thinking

newyorker.com·5 pts·jsomers·
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The McPhee method for writing deeply reported nonfiction

jsomers.net·199 pts·jsomers·
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Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck

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An experiment that turned back biological time

nehalslearnings.substack.com·31 pts·jsomers·
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Vivarium: The keeper of a lab's animals stumbles onto a secret [fiction]

jsomers.net·71 pts·jsomers·
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I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any doc's keystrokes (2014)

features.jsomers.net·1 pts·jsomers·
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A Revolution in How Robots Learn

newyorker.com·82 pts·jsomers·
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The Coming Software Apocalypse (2017)

theatlantic.com·3 pts·jsomers·
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The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of E. coli chemotaxis

jsomers.net·511 pts·jsomers·
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More people should write (2012)

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A coder considers the waning days of the craft

newyorker.com·778 pts·jsomers·
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A poet’s guide to product management – Jane Street podcast

signalsandthreads.com·4 pts·jsomers·
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Alaska Airlines planes bump runway while taking off due to software bug

adn.com·3 pts·jsomers·
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“Expect tests” make test-writing feel like a REPL session

blog.janestreet.com·138 pts·jsomers·
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An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)

robinsloan.com·186 pts·jsomers·
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A Journey to the Center of Our Cells

newyorker.com·2 pts·jsomers·
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Snow Science Against the Avalanche (2020)

newyorker.com·18 pts·jsomers·
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The quest to build a general-purpose thought decoder

newyorker.com·95 pts·jsomers·
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Should we cool it with the historical present?

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Should we cool it with the historical present?

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The Pastry A.I. That Learned to Fight Cancer

newyorker.com·92 pts·jsomers·
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The Plague Year

newyorker.com·135 pts·jsomers·
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A Great Prize, a Long-Suffering Inventor and the First Accurate Clock (1956)

google.com·28 pts·jsomers·
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Crowdsourcing dynamic illustrations for a new astronomy book

observablehq.com·43 pts·jsomers·
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I should have loved biology

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