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Most software engineering best practices are coping mechanisms for human cognitive limits. What happens to them when those limits move?

We ask questions faster than answers can be created. What fills the gap, and how are the new information institutions different from the ones they’re replacing?

Can we reframe the law as a provable language?

A tool I made to make it easier for me to debug hairy systems problems

There's a fundamental asymmetry in the denoising process for rectified flow models

Using shooting method and MPC to enable high-quality trajectory continuation across different prompts in rectified flow models

Tradeoffs have shaped human civilization. Every law, every institution, every economic rule is a compromise between structure and flexibility, order and adaptation. But can we free ourselves from some of the most fundamental tradeoffs?

How can we preserve nuance without making knowledge inaccessible?

Should we be borrowing fashion concepts from hot countries as temperatures here grow y2y?

The real gap is in imagination not intelligence

How do we differentiate a good conspiracy from a revolutionary scientific idea?

The distributed system world is up for a paradigm shift

A collection of short stories around various frustrations

Advertising is outdated and we need a better way to decouple people from being consumers

Information should be decoupled from its presentation

A collection of poems around various frustrations

If pro athletes need coaching, so does everyone else

A brief recollection of my bike marathon experience

When the usage of a product exceeds its utility, the gap in expectations can be suffocating

One and a half year's solutions to Google Hashcode solutions

A previous startup on building data marketplaces for PII data with a privacy preserving layer on top