I vaguely remembered French government was doing something like that, but never look closer, today I came across catala, and I love this so much:
scope QualifiedEmployeeDiscount :
definition qualified_employee_discount
under condition is_property consequence
equals
if employee_discount >=
customer_price * gross_profit_percentage
then customer_price * gross_profit_percentage
else employee_discount
Makes me remember being 20-something and wishing everything was code.
Wonderful, more than a century old book Monograms & Ciphers (by Albert Angus Turbayne) has some cool examples of monograms (doh):
As I was searching for monograms I came across few websites selling monograms to you and several of them has just ideas from this book and J.O Kane’s Decorative monograms.
There is vast library of field manuals from various government agencies. US Antarctic program is fascinating. I have strong feeling that if you want to start doing something new, checking for some field manual can save a lot of time building expertise.
And tangental related to this, I like tech books with “war stories” eg Release It ( you can read it for free with San Francisco public library account, that has access to oreilly.com)
A friend wrote a piece about starcraft and AI, and it really resonated with a lot of people. I was thinking about search in claude today and asked it to build a skill to use mdsearch and you can ask it how and when it is going to use it and claude just told me,… Read more: Ruminating on ai
https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering Another Marvel. Author shared he worked half a year on the post and related code. this is such a long time, but also time flies when you are having fun. You reading it and constantly asking questions , why 2×3 matrix, why not 8×8, ah what was that gpu optimization, how much more you… Read more: things from internet
https://maurycyz.com/misc/raw_photo/ – I like articles like this so much. Pretty much any sphere of human activity today is deep, and if you start unrolling all the intelligence that is put there , you appreciate this miracle that today world is. This is a great tiny example of how cameras that are in every phone now… Read more: Things from internet
Some terms make total sense when this is what you are starting thinking from, and you can’t get to them when you started somewhere else. Seems it is not only my problem but LLMs too. Supabase have AI assistant that you can ask something. I needed to combine all the migrations into one and was… Read more: combine all supabase migrations into one
While exploring difference in addressable colors in sRGB vs p3 I noticed weird behavior when using gradient with LSH color palette. If you are using gradient with lsh, colors are properly stretched for the linear gradient, eg This is middle piece of the image above. If you are using oklsh with new color space, You… Read more: P3 color space and gradient render bug in safari.
