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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

Bad names make you open the box

Adam Zerner9 Jun 2021 3:19 UTC
90 points
51 comments10 min readLW link1 review

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)

Soft­ware Eng­ineer­ing: Get­ting Hired and Promoted

Gordon Seidoh Worley4 Apr 2022 22:31 UTC
35 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

An Ap­pren­tice Ex­per­i­ment in Python Pro­gram­ming, Part 2

29 Jul 2021 7:39 UTC
30 points
18 comments10 min readLW link

PSA: Learn to code

John_Maxwell25 May 2012 18:50 UTC
48 points
77 comments3 min readLW link

An Ap­pren­tice Ex­per­i­ment in Python Pro­gram­ming, Part 3

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
60 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

Don’t feel bad about not know­ing ba­sic things

Adam Zerner24 May 2021 1:49 UTC
88 points
33 comments4 min readLW link

The Dar­win Game

lsusr9 Oct 2020 10:19 UTC
91 points
131 comments3 min readLW link

In my cul­ture: the re­spon­si­bil­ities of open source maintainers

philh13 Apr 2020 13:40 UTC
41 points
3 comments8 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

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

Zack_M_Davis7 Jun 2020 7:52 UTC
126 points
16 comments14 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

You Don’t Always Need Indexes

jefftk25 May 2023 14:20 UTC
22 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

“Throw­ing Ex­cep­tions” Is A Strange Pro­gram­ming Pattern

Thoth Hermes21 Aug 2023 18:50 UTC
−2 points
13 comments6 min readLW link
(thothhermes.substack.com)

Toy model of the AI con­trol prob­lem: an­i­mated version

Stuart_Armstrong10 Oct 2017 11:06 UTC
23 points
8 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

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

4 Jul 2021 3:29 UTC
67 points
4 comments9 min readLW link

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)

We­bBun­dles and URL Randomization

jefftk26 Aug 2020 17:50 UTC
10 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

An Ap­pren­tice Ex­per­i­ment in Python Pro­gram­ming, Part 4

31 Aug 2021 7:56 UTC
14 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

The Effect pat­tern: Trans­par­ent up­dates in Elm

philh20 Oct 2019 20:00 UTC
8 points
0 comments18 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

Watch­ing My­self Program

matto29 Nov 2021 13:44 UTC
55 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Browser Engines

jefftk3 Dec 2021 19:30 UTC
23 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)

Pong from pix­els with­out read­ing “Pong from Pix­els”

Ian McKenzie29 Aug 2020 17:26 UTC
17 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

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
16 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)

A reck­less in­tro­duc­tion to Hindley-Milner type inference

philh5 May 2019 14:00 UTC
17 points
4 comments20 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

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
9 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
−1 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)

Mes­sage Length

Zack_M_Davis20 Oct 2020 5:52 UTC
134 points
25 comments12 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

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)

Three con­figurable prettyprinters

philh10 Aug 2023 23:10 UTC
9 points
0 comments22 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

The need for speed in web frame­works?

Adam Zerner3 Jan 2023 0:06 UTC
19 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

Mul­ti­ple De­ploy-Key Repos

jefftk3 Nov 2022 15:10 UTC
15 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Mosh

jefftk7 Apr 2020 17:40 UTC
17 points
10 comments2 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

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

Los­ing Me­taphors: Zip and Paste

jefftk29 Nov 2023 20:31 UTC
25 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Refer­ences & Re­sources for LessWrong

XiXiDu10 Oct 2010 14:54 UTC
162 points
104 comments20 min readLW link

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)

Ask­ing for help as an O(1) lookup

Adam Zerner17 Sep 2023 0:25 UTC
19 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

On the Na­ture of Pro­gram­ming Languages

Martin Sustrik22 Apr 2019 10:50 UTC
19 points
13 comments4 min readLW link
(250bpm.com)

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)

Alan Kay—Pro­gram­ming and Scaling

namespace12 Oct 2017 14:46 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

Mov­ing Data Around is Slow

SatvikBeri22 Mar 2021 2:36 UTC
35 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Eval­u­at­ing Opus

jefftk8 Aug 2020 16:40 UTC
20 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Place-Based Pro­gram­ming—Part 1 - Places

lsusr14 Apr 2021 22:18 UTC
29 points
18 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)

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

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 link1 review
(adam.scherlis.com)

True Sto­ries of Al­gorith­mic Improvement

johnswentworth29 Oct 2021 20:57 UTC
91 points
7 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)

Spaghetti Towers

eukaryote22 Dec 2018 5:29 UTC
186 points
28 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Im­port­ing a Python File by Name

jefftk25 Jan 2024 16:00 UTC
12 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Im­ple­ment­ing De­ci­sion Theory

justinpombrio7 Nov 2023 17:55 UTC
21 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
110 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
101 points
48 comments20 min readLW link

Se­cu­rity Mind­set and Or­di­nary Paranoia

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Nov 2017 17:53 UTC
115 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
87 points
20 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
51 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
81 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
58 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

Reflec­tions on Premium Poker Tools: Part 1 - My journey

Adam Zerner9 Oct 2019 0:42 UTC
46 points
12 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
75 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
35 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
34 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

g-w111 Jul 2023 21:17 UTC
39 points
7 comments2 min readLW link
(g-w1.github.io)

Im­plic­itly Typed C

jefftk11 Dec 2023 16:10 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.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
33 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
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