#LowLevelProgramming

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"The Rust Programming Language" (often referred to as "The Rust Book") is the official guide to Rust, a systems programming language known for its performance, safety, and concurrency features. Written by Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols, this book is designed to help both beginners and experienced programmers master Rust. Below is a step-by-step breakdown of the outcomes you can expect after reading this book, presented in a user-friendly manner:

[shravya96]

Nine Rules for Running Rust on Embedded Systems

Porting your Rust project to a no_std environment allows you to target microcontrollers and deeply embedded systems, creating highly efficient software for constrained environments. For example, I used the upcoming version of range-set-blaze to create an LED animation sequencer and compositor that runs on a Raspberry Pi Pico:

Aside: These articles are based on a three-hour workshop that I presented at RustConf24 in Montreal. Thanks to the participants of that workshop. A special thanks, also, to the volunteers from the Seattle Rust Meetup who helped test this material. These articles replace an article I wrote last year with updated information.

As with the first and second articles in this series, before we look at the rules one by one, let’s define our terms.Native: Your home OS (Linux, Windows, macOS) Standard library (std): Provides Rust’s core functionality — Vec, String, file input/output, networking, time. WASM: WebAssembly (WASM) is a binary instruction format that runs in most browsers (and beyond). WASI: WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) allows outside-the-browser WASM to access file I/O, networking (not yet), and time handling. no_std: Instructs a Rust program not to use the full standard library, making it suitable for small, embedded devices or highly resource-constrained environments. alloc: Provides heap memory allocation capabilities (Vec, String, etc.) in no_std environments, essential for dynamically managing memory.

Based on my experience with range-set-blaze, a data structure project, here are the decisions I recommend, described one at a time. To avoid wishy-washiness, I’ll express them as rules.

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The importance of C programming in today's technology landscape

Have you ever wondered how computer programs are made? Or perhaps you've heard of the "C" programming language. Today, numerous businesses still utilize C programming, which has been around for more than 50 years. This blog post will cover the importance of C programming in the current technological environment as well as the essential knowledge required to get started.

How does C programming work?

In the 1970s, Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs developed the general-purpose, high-level programming language known as C. It is employed to produce software applications for a range of computer platforms, including desktop, server, and embedded systems. Because the C programming language is procedural, problems are solved step-by-step.

C programming is essential because it serves as the basis for many other programming languages, including Python, Java, and C++. You can pick up other languages with ease if you know how to program in C. Additionally, C programming is utilized in a wide range of products and fields, including operating systems, embedded systems, game development, machine learning, and web development.

For system-level programming, C is the best language since it is quick, effective, and powerful. Additionally, because it is a low-level language, programmers can precisely control how the hardware of the computer is used. Learning C can also help you obtain your dream career because many job postings in the technology sector want programming experience.

Applications of C Programming: 

C programming is used in a wide range of applications, such as:

Operating systems : 

The C programming language is used to develop operating systems, which are the fundamental component of all computer systems.

Embedded systems : 

Embedded systems can be found in a wide range of items, including automobiles, medical devices, and consumer electronics, amongst others. C is the typical programming language used for these systems, which make use of microcontrollers.

Video games : 

Video games are typically developed with the C programming language since the smooth running of these programs is dependent on code that is both quick and efficient.

Artificial intelligence (AI) : 

C programming is used in the domains of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. This allows these fields to design algorithms that are able to learn from data. In web development : In web development, the C programming language is used to write the code that is both rapid and effective. This code is required for web applications.

Coding in C Requires the Following Skills:

The following abilities are necessary to understand and use C programming:

Knowledge of algorithms and data structures: C programming calls for knowledge of how to solve problems using algorithms and data structures.

Knowing how to manage memory is essential for C programming in order to prevent errors and improve performance.

C programming involves knowledge of how the hardware of a computer operates and the ability to develop code that interacts with it. This is known as low-level programming.

Possessing the skills necessary to work with pointers and arrays is essential if you want to succeed with C programming.

Expertise in finding and repairing code faults is necessary when programming in C.

Conclusion:

Learning how to program in C is necessary for anyone who has even a passing interest in the information technology field. It serves as the basis for a great number of computer languages and is implemented in a wide range of different applications. A knowledge of algorithms and data structures, memory management, low-level programming, pointers and arrays, as well as the ability to debug, are all prerequisites for learning C programming. For anyone interested in learning C programming, there is a wealth of material available both online and in print. Because C programming is a skill that is in great demand, learning it can make it possible to apply for a wide variety of jobs in the field of information technology. If you are interested in programming and would like to learn a language that is both powerful and versatile, you should begin learning C programming as soon as possible.

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Strategic Review: June 2017

Every month or so I do a review of how my life is going. I’m posting these here now

Positives:

Gonna see lahwran and other lovely people soon

Had some fantastic movie-and-cuddles nights

Wisdom teeth taken care of

Reading about modern operating systems

Negatives:

Panic attacks, irregular sleep

Quit job because people I trusted there left and because of general stress.

Had to deal with probable infection in dental surgery site

Frequently got sniped into spending a lot of time writing facebook comments which I then didn't post.

What’s on my Hot Loop:

The Plan

Track hours usage, message for help when stuck

Time exposed to machine learning state-of-the-art

Time doing shared focus

Use checklist when shutting down:

Are partners okay without me for next bit / what specific care needed

Are there any critical time-critical problems that need solving

Stand up

Take pills/have snack/drink water

Take shower

Get dressed

Eat food

Plan for a social call

Hours Spread

10hr sleep: 7.5 night + nap

14 hr left

2hr meta/anki

1hr partner care

3hr knowledge seeking

7hrs self-care focus

1hr unallocated

Stick to the basics of reasoning

Do the most important thing first

Build Feedback Loops / play in the dirt

Trust your instincts

Level Grinding

Speak out loud along with misc. tech conference talks subtitles

ShaderToy

Write an IRC bot in Haskell

Use triggers for positive thinking

Learn low-level and hardware programming

Plan approach to job search

Cultivate loving-kindness mindset

Reach out to another person, remind them they can reach out to me

Write a CBT chatbot

Endorsed Heuristics

Git: Master and Develop branches should be kept constantly shippable

Include "Like this comment to express skepticism or disagreement" with facebook posts

Check my comments are at least two of (true, necessary, kind)

Offer sympathy and support when friends are in the grip of distorted thoughts

Black-box monitering alerts preserve good signal-to-noise ratio

The goal of a postmortem is to expose faults and apply engineering to fix these faults, rather than to avoid or minimize them

Taste the supplements you take

Seriously limit the amount of on-call and manual work time by a Site Reliability Engineering team members to ~50%.

Ask for feedback with "what did you notice that might be worth looking at together" (h/t Malcolm Ocean)

How to engage cooperation when talking with people

80% confidence intervals = 10-90% = 1:4 bet

Start off any rationalist meetup with a game of object-boggle

CFAR mailing list norms

Tips to engage cooperation from How to Listen.. parenting book

Government should default to inaction

Loving-Kindness meditation

Look out for self-aggression when working on self-improvement, it’s counter-productive.

Python naming best practices

Test-driven coding

little bit of Haskell type theory

subset of 20 rules of formulating knowledge

Miscellaneous bias literature

The procrastination equation

Self-denial is unhelpful

Personal rules for alcohol use

Effect sizes

PCK seeking

Iterated Critique

Push-Pull-Action Critique

Speak simply, slowly

Write down my steps as I solve important or complex but infrequent tasks

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

Minutiae to absorb

Haskell list operators, ghci use

Concrete things to offer people instead of prayers and sympathy

C types and operators (from Modern C)

8086 pointer types

& to run in background in shell

notes from Modern Operating Systems 4th edition

format string syntax

Automoderation of group conversations

Misc scraps

notes from Modern Operating Systems 4th edition

Prediction on Dragon Army Barracks

Modern C index summary

Learn You a Haskell index summary

What I want when I write a book

Stanford intro to human behavioral biology series on youtube

Dath Ilan

Better phrasings for checking in with how friends are doing (h/t argumate

"Like this comment to express skepticism or disagreement."

CIFAR-10 stuff 1,2,3

How to change tabwidth in Vim

Things I wish I knew in C

Distortions listed in Ozy's DBT sequence

Outline of a talk I want to give on reinforcement learning in the workplace

Wide Residual Networks paper

People's names I can never remember

New Introductions

Anki's algorithm

Kinds of things computer registers

timebox of Jun 16

lullabies

types of mean

arithmetic

geometric

harmonic

generalized

two perspectives: 80/20 vs. thoroughput

some changes

made 'The Plan'

made a basic day schedule

changed the people in my loving-kindness focus

removed Attention counts and various level-grinding distractions

watched Simple Made Easy

added to endorsed heuristics

[uwteam]

18 kwietnia

1) 500 pytań (i odpowiedzi) na temat algorytmów i struktur danych, które mogą pojawić się na rozmowie o pracę https://techiedelight.quora.com/500-Data-structures-and-algorithms-interview-questions-and-their-solutions?share=1 2) "Wielki Zderzacz Bitcoinów" - generuje tysiące trylionów hashy na sekundę i usiłuje włamać się do prywatnych portfeli https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-large-bitcoin-collider-is-generating-trillions-of-keys-and-breaking-into-wallets 3) Przygotowujesz się do Olimpiady Informatycznej lub konkursu w programowaniu? Oto książka dla Ciebie https://cses.fi/book.html INFO: omówienie złożoności obliczeniowej, teorii grafów, teorii gier i wszystkiego, czego mogą wymagać na OI. Książka w PDF (290 stron) 4) oulipo.social - sieć społecznościowa w stylu twittera, w której przede wszystkim... nie wolno używać litery 'e'. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/its-like-tweeting-but-you-cant-use-the-letter-e INFO: nie chodzi o to, aby pisać słowa 'bz pwnych litr', ale o to, aby zacząć myśleć i świadomie budować zdania, szukając zamienników dla zabronionych słów. Ma to między innymi, podnieść poziom wypowiedzi. 5) Uber w sprytny sposób śledzi kierowców konkurencyjnych sieci (Lyft) https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/12/hell-o-uber/ INFO: ich aplikacja podszywa się pod kierowcę Lyfta i spoofując swoją lokalizację, analizuje położenie samochodów konkurencji, ich ceny itp. 6) Podszywanie się pod znane domeny z użyciem znaków unicode (phishing) https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/04/chrome-firefox-unicode-phishing/ INFO: atak działa pod Firefoxem i Chrome i jest skrajnie trudny do wykrycia przez użytkownika 7) Złudzenia optyczne wprowadzające w błąd... systemy rozpoznawania obrazu http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/12/15271874/ai-adversarial-images-fooling-attacks-artificial-intelligence 8) mini.css - kolejny, miniaturowy (7kb) framework CSS https://chalarangelo.github.io/mini.css/index.html INFO: framework ma wbudowane sporo modułów (nawigacja, grid, obsługa tabel, karty, zakładki itp.) 9) DungeonFS - filesystem oparty na FUSE, który sam w sobie jest tekstową grą w stylu RPG. https://github.com/ChrisRx/dungeonfs INFO: trudno to opisać, ale gdy zobaczysz gameplay, z pewnością zrozumiesz o co chodzi 10) Kontrola kursora użytkownika na stronie WWW - ciekawy eksperyment z użyciem CSS i JS http://javier.xyz/control-user-cursor/ INFO: sztuczka polega na ukryciu prawdziwego kursora i płynnym wyświetlaniu podmienionego, podążającego tam, gdzie chciał autor 11) Jak bezboleśnie wejść w świat programowania niskopoziomowego? (Assembler/C) https://github.com/gurugio/lowlevelprogramming-university *** Inne źródła *** 1) Najpopularniejsze projekty z GitHuba z podziałem na państwa https://medium.freecodecamp.com/the-most-popular-open-source-projects-on-github-in-each-country-f31812959e91 2) 10 repozytoriów GitHuba, najczęściej wspominanych przez developerów https://medium.freecodecamp.com/the-10-github-repos-people-mention-the-most-in-freecodecamps-main-chat-room-189750600fa4

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Low Level Programming University: curated material on low level programming

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gurugio/lowlevelprogramming-university - 8086 and C learning resources

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Apr 13, 2017

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[incoherentham]

Strategic Review Apr 2017

Every month or so I do a review of how my life is going. I’m posting these here now

Positives:

Check ins with bosses. I am a valued employee..

Some bits of reproducibly happy mood achieved

Visited partner in Cali

Negatives:

Got sick

Anxiety about making progress on work project

Mood whiplash

Almost never went through my anki decks

What’s on my Hot Loop:

Stick to the basics of reasoning

Do the most important thing first

Feedback Loops / Go play outside

Trust your instincts

Take close notes on medication use

Habits

When I’m feeling vague at work, go exercise or rest in the sun

When I’m interested in my mental processes, record PCK data in code on paper or in stride as I go along.

When I have an insight, record it in Anki or stride.

When someone interrupts me, hold up my finger and say “Just a minute”

When I have something important to say, make it short and say it slow

How to preface a 101 talk

Loving Kindness meditation

Misc learning

How to engage cooperation when talking with kids

Lightweight Architecture Decision Records

Interaction Types (suspended)

core transformation technique (kaj sotala, based on book)

Elixir tidbits

Habit building thoughts

Skills

actually do code reviews

101 speech opening

Misc thought scraps

taking testerone

make a rationalist monastery

the most important thing with children is not to keep them alive, but to keep them able to grow

graphing calculator

Advanced Renderman book notes

reading ml papers with @lahwran

ways to share information well with people in different stages of self-efficacy

Clusters of circumstances that correlate with 'everything is possible' mindset

"Replay" by Ken Grimwood book suggestion

built-in reasoning objects (book "Cognitive Pluralism")

gpu programming basics

ought to make some kind of cbt chatbot

trick to convert km to miles using fibonnaci sequence

Hufflepuff unconference: TAPs for dealing with obstacles, notes abt people I talked to, goals

cynical views on people

response to "Assume overnight some miracle happens and solved the issue - how would you tell, what would be the first sign that it had happened?" prompt

performance trick in react native

productive reality-checking

css grid

puns

want to learn low-level programming

writing rubrics

work meeting notes

Toon Alfrink's focusing alternatives: What would make this situation go away, and 'stack trace' blurting out any concept unrelated to the ones before.

rationalist diaspora articles

WE WILL BE THE AI

guilty reminder to read 80k hours career guide

LSD interactions with menstruation (see gwern for more info?)

SlateStarCodex determines that you should eat bland food if you're fat

"explicit “feedback” as in “I have some feedback for you” is broken", Malcolm Ocean

desires vs. cesires, sideways-view.com

SlateStartCodex seeing like a state is what's wrong with Rationality

Endorsed heuristics

Loving-Kindness meditation

Look out for self-aggression when working on self-improvement, it’s counter-productive.

Python naming best practices

Test-driven coding

little bit of Haskell type theory

subset of 20 rules of formulating knowledge

Miscellaneous bias literature

The procrastination equation

Self-denial is unhelpful

Personal rules for alcohol use

Effect sizes

PCK seeking

Iterated Critique

Push-Pull-Action Critique

Write down my steps as I solve important or complex but infrequent tasks

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

some changes

cleaned out my 'polaris' cards

removed things to remind people of

forget about Nonviolent Communication

[incoherentham]

Strategic Review: July 2017

Every month or so I do a review of how my life is going. I’m posting these here now

Positives:

Got a new whiteboard

Lovely tea kettle introduced to the kitchen, I have silicon spatulas now and misc. good food to good.

[redacted] moved out, we have a nook and more kitchen space again

Had a positive fight with partner!

Got my work travel expenses reimbursed

Been reading machine learning papers, and am starting to comprehend the code I look at.

Made adjustments to my hip bag like a pro fixer-er of stuff

Negatives:

Lost my gold fidget spinner

Boxes boxes everywhere

Keep dropping social engagements

Anxiety feedback loops between partner and I. We've improved, but not solved this problem.

I really really want to set up a merchant stand but don't see how to

Fucking deleted last review by accident

What’s on my Hot Loop:

No soft edges. Demand personal space first.

Track hours usage

Daily

Testosterone

Meditate <-> Breakfast

Evening Tea

Stick to the basics of reasoning

Do the most important thing first

Build Feedback Loops / play in the dirt

Trust your instincts

Clothes decimation

Sample new clothes from piles every Sunday, save what I actively like. (Autosave socks and underwear, because judging those is hard.)

Detailed Inventory

earplug necklace

eye mask

toothbrush, razor

suitcase

weighted scarf

glasses

wallet

supplements

phone, microusb chargers, portable charger

laptop, mac charger

makeup bag, backpack, hip bag

fidget spinners

laptop

clothes

current

suspended

Level Grinding

Assertiveness CoZE

Annotate code

Keep up with ML news

TensorFlow

ML papers list

Sort probationary clothes

Send refund cash to bank

[redacted] docs

Inbox zero: feedly x3, gmail, alumni forum

Study cuda programming

Listen to Stanford human behavioral biology lecture series on youtube

Learn low-level and hardware programming

Speak out loud along with misc. tech conference talks subtitles

Cultivate loving-kindness mindset

Write a CBT chatbot

Endorsed Heuristics

The goal of a postmortem is to expose faults and apply engineering to fix these faults, rather than to avoid or minimize them

Carry a dry erase whiteboard for notes

Use wet wipes periodically

Most critical piece of meditation is rewarding yourself when you notice distraction and return

Taste the supplements you take

80% confidence intervals = 10-90% = 1:4 bet

Government should default to inaction

Use "what situations would make this go away?" to consider confusing impulses

Loving-Kindness meditation

Look out for self-aggression when working on self-improvement, it’s counter-productive.

Python naming best practices

subset of 20 rules of formulating knowledge

PCK seeking

Write down my steps as I solve important or complex but infrequent tasks

Speak simply, slowly

Self-denial is unhelpful

Personal rules for alcohol use:

no more than 3 drinks in 2 hours

have a glass of water every other drink

no drinking when I am already upset

Know the source of a trivia fact for context and a way to verify

Narrow down what type of errors a classifier makes by looking at the confusion matrix

Enforcing optimism is cruel to people in objectively bad situations.

Quantify consequences: how often, how long, how intense.

Freezing or spacing out responses to stress often don't get recognized as stress at all

Buy experiences rather than objects

Scientific theories tend to be not so much wrong as incomplete

Communication

Self anti-silencing policy: Share "I disagree but don't expect to the thoughts to be welcomed, so I am not doing so."

Add "Like this comment to express skepticism or disagreement" to FB posts

Check my comments are at least two of (true, necessary, kind)

Instead of offering sympathy, offer money, effort, or time spent coordinating sympathetic people's money and effort.

Offer sympathy and support when friends are in the grip of distorted thoughts, not "reality checks"

Tips to engage cooperation from How to Listen.. parenting book

Ask for feedback with "what did you notice that might be worth looking at together" (h/t Malcolm Ocean)

Start off any rationalist meetup with a game of object-boggle

CFAR mailing list norms

Replace "Middle Class" with "Working Class" in conversation

Establish the shape of an idea to someone before teaching them

Iterated Critique

Push-Pull-Action Critique

Replace "sorry for taking time" with "thank you for giving me your time"

Replace "do not shout" with "talk in a quieter voice"

Replace "refuse" with "said would not" or "did not"

If you aren't describing events, you're probably evaluating them.

Dev

Master and Develop branches should be kept constantly shippable

Black-box monitering alerts preserve good signal-to-noise ratio

R tidbits

Seriously limit the amount of on-call and manual work time by a Site Reliability Engineering team members to ~50%.

little bit of Haskell type theory

Try turning it off and back on again

Prefer to prepend vs. append to lists

Python naming best practices

Check the base case in recursive types/functions

Check closed boundaries and midpoints in intervals

Make a function template for complex data definitions

A function returning a Boolean needs at least a true and false test case

Define your data type when directly manipulating similar values

Stub functions so you can test code with unfinished/broken dependencies

Syntax errors accumulate quickly, compile-check often

Write a failing test so you don't forget to finish a stubbed function

You need to write a docstring

Biases to notice

People want to benefit from dishonesty but also consider themselves good people (video)

Regression to the mean

Choice-supportive bias

Scope insensitivity

Gambler's fallacy

The procrastination equation

Anki

Memorize individual derivation steps to always follow the fastest path while solving a problem

Don't memorize whole books or articles unless you're about to have an important exam

I must have a specific reasong for wanting to make this anki card

Redudant information in the question of a card will slow down your learning process

When an experienced user starts forgetting cards, it's likely from similar cards with different answers.

Don't try to memorize unordered sets of more than 5 members

Flashcard questions should be short

Minutiae to absorb

1 thousand to 1 million order of magnitude difference = 15 mins vs 12 days

1 million or 1 billion order of magnitude difference = 12 days or 30 years

Cache associativity

MESI protocol

derivative rules

bash shortcuts

reader-writer locks

what is a store buffer

recognizing chump bets in the jane street protocol

Misc scraps

notes from Modern Operating Systems 4th edition

proposed rationalist life timeline

weekly timeboxing summaries

stuff Jake says

mathemetically modeling the usefulness of holding onto stuff

ml papers notes

location of Onward house

ADEPT explanations

formatted nvim text wrapping

relationship meta <3

daily timeboxes

prefix sums, reduction trees

sci-hub.cc lets you get ahold papers, apparently

notes from [redacted] docs

android app for getting around the mobile hotspot limitations

shipnames for rl couples

postmodern jukebox does modern songs in vintage style

Applied Information Economics (h/t Ian Moss)

math concept cheatsheets

how to transfer files between local computers with netcat

Activity cards I'd like to make

why is calibration so hard to practice?

some changes

add dry erase whiteboard carrying

refine going through clothes/posessions plan, changed current clothes in hotloop

chance tasc task

add ml papers

removed day plan

got more specific in my "endorsed" stuff here

add Annotate code, tenserflow learning to tasks

remove Learning C stuff

[incoherentham]

Strategic Review: Late June 2017

Every month or so I do a review of how my life is going. I’m posting these here now

Positives:

Gonna see lahwran and other lovely people soon

Had some fantastic movie-and-cuddles nights

Wisdom teeth taken care of

Reading about modern operating systems

Negatives:

Panic attacks, irregular sleep

Quit job because people I trusted there left and because of general stress.

Had to deal with probable infection in dental surgery site

Frequently got sniped into spending a lot of time writing facebook comments which I then didn't post.

What’s on my Hot Loop:

The Plan

Track hours usage, message for help when stuck

Time exposed to machine learning state-of-the-art

Time doing shared focus

Use checklist when shutting down:

Are partners okay without me for next bit / what specific care needed

Are there any critical time-critical problems that need solving

Stand up

Take pills/have snack/drink water

Take shower

Get dressed

Eat food

Plan for a social call

Hours Spread

10hr sleep: 7.5 night + nap

14 hr left

2hr meta/anki

1hr partner care

3hr knowledge seeking

7hrs self-care focus

1hr unallocated

Stick to the basics of reasoning

Do the most important thing first

Build Feedback Loops / play in the dirt

Trust your instincts

Level Grinding

Speak out loud along with misc. tech conference talks subtitles

ShaderToy

Write an IRC bot in Haskell

Use triggers for positive thinking

Learn low-level and hardware programming

Plan approach to job search

Cultivate loving-kindness mindset

Reach out to another person, remind them they can reach out to me

Write a CBT chatbot

Endorsed Heuristics

Git: Master and Develop branches should be kept constantly shippable

Include "Like this comment to express skepticism or disagreement" with facebook posts

Check my comments are at least two of (true, necessary, kind)

Offer sympathy and support when friends are in the grip of distorted thoughts

Black-box monitering alerts preserve good signal-to-noise ratio

The goal of a postmortem is to expose faults and apply engineering to fix these faults, rather than to avoid or minimize them

Taste the supplements you take

Seriously limit the amount of on-call and manual work time by a Site Reliability Engineering team members to ~50%.

Ask for feedback with "what did you notice that might be worth looking at together" (h/t Malcolm Ocean)

How to engage cooperation when talking with people

80% confidence intervals = 10-90% = 1:4 bet

Start off any rationalist meetup with a game of object-boggle

CFAR mailing list norms

Tips to engage cooperation from How to Listen.. parenting book

Government should default to inaction

Loving-Kindness meditation

Look out for self-aggression when working on self-improvement, it’s counter-productive.

Python naming best practices

Test-driven coding

little bit of Haskell type theory

subset of 20 rules of formulating knowledge

Miscellaneous bias literature

The procrastination equation

Self-denial is unhelpful

Personal rules for alcohol use

Effect sizes

PCK seeking

Iterated Critique

Push-Pull-Action Critique

Speak simply, slowly

Write down my steps as I solve important or complex but infrequent tasks

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

Minutiae to absorb

Haskell list operators, ghci use

Concrete things to offer people instead of prayers and sympathy

C types and operators (from Modern C)

8086 pointer types

& to run in background in shell

notes from Modern Operating Systems 4th edition

format string syntax

Automoderation of group conversations

Misc scraps

notes from Modern Operating Systems 4th edition

Prediction on Dragon Army Barracks

Modern C index summary

Learn You a Haskell index summary

What I want when I write a book

Stanford intro to human behavioral biology series on youtube

Dath Ilan

Better phrasings for checking in with how friends are doing (h/t argumate

"Like this comment to express skepticism or disagreement."

CIFAR-10 stuff 1,2,3

How to change tabwidth in Vim

Things I wish I knew in C

Distortions listed in Ozy's DBT sequence

Outline of a talk I want to give on reinforcement learning in the workplace

Wide Residual Networks paper

People's names I can never remember

New Introductions

Anki's algorithm

Kinds of things computer registers

timebox of Jun 16

lullabies

types of mean

arithmetic

geometric

harmonic

generalized

two perspectives: 80/20 vs. thoroughput

some changes

made 'The Plan'

made a basic day schedule

changed the people in my loving-kindness focus

removed Attention counts and various level-grinding distractions

watched Simple Made Easy

added to endorsed heuristics

[incoherentham]

Strategic Review: May 2017

Every month or so I do a review of how my life is going. I’m posting these here now

Positives:

Hufflepuff Unconference

Wearing earplugs when I need to (public transit, group conversations)

Slowly converging on an idea of the fashion style I want

Meds seem to work

Food delivery is the bomb

I feel okay spending money on things I want in order to improve my life

Habitified a good method for creating traction on hard problems.

Negatives:

Arguments about Hufflepuff Virtue and the General Worth of People

Having a hard time translating my thoughts from niche jargons into English.

Miss my partner

DRAGON ARMY BARRACKS is everything I’ve ever dreamed of trying in a rationalist house and I’m out here in Utah with a stable job and sh*t.

What’s on my Hot Loop:

Stick to the basics of reasoning

Do the most important thing first

Build Feedback Loops / play in the dirt

Trust your instincts

Level Grinding

Read "Site Reliability Engineering"

Speak out loud along with misc. tech conference talks subtitles

Find ways to apply my signature strengths

Learn Kotlin programming language

Learn low-level and hardware programming

Plan approach to job search

Cultivate loving-kindness mindset

Reach out to another person, remind them they can reach out to me

Write a debugging chatbot

Practice giving 101 speech opening

Build Feedback Loops

Use triggers for positive thinking

Use work resources to solve problems at work

Speak simply, slowly

Look for the Most Important thing

Seek Debugging PCK (Pedagogical Content Knowledge)

Notice noticing detail vs. shutting down in social situations

Notice opportunities vs. exhaustion when in danger of helplessness spirals

Minutiae to absorb

Elixir for loops

Internet slang

"What situation would make this go away?" prompt (h/t Toon Alfrink)

Stack trace prompt: blurting out any concept unrelated to the ones before. (h/t Toon Alfrink)

Habit building thoughts

8086 architecture & registers

CFAR mailing list norms

How to respond to a friends' delusions

The role of CFAR's 'boggle, honor self, give material a chance' in building feedback loops

"Assume overnight some miracle happens and solved the issue - how would you tell, what would be the first sign that it had happened?" to make goals clearer, notice progress

Automoderation of group conversations

desires vs. cesires

dev tools & libraries I want to know about

binary numbers

my hook, line, and sinker phrases

Site Reliability Engineering

Misc scraps

recommendations by random developer blogs

set notation

stuff my partner is up to

tech talk ideas / intros

Algorithms to Live By: task scheduling and laplace's law

aborted facebook comments

economist names

ruby bloom's self-assessment questions

contemplating types of motivation

random dev tools & libraries mentioned to me

prediction-related sites: aforeseeablefuture.com, hypermind

think about sleep in 90min. cycles instead of hours

cool hackathon projects I want to check up on

people I meet at meetups

tips on meditation design

notes from Modern Operating Systems 4th edition

tidbits about coworkers

how to set up a facebook messenger bot, irc bot

what is going on with omega-3 and omega-6

idea to taste pill contents to leverage body's chemical-intake feedback

"Site Reliability Engineering" notes

Endorsed heuristics

Seriously limit the amount of on-call and manual work time by a Site Reliability Engineering team members to ~50%.

Ask "what did you notice that might be worth looking at together" instead of for feedback (h/t Malcolm Ocean)

How to engage cooperation when talking with people

80% confidence intervals = 10-90% = 1:4 bet

Government should default to inaction

Loving-Kindness meditation

Look out for self-aggression when working on self-improvement, it’s counter-productive.

Python naming best practices

Test-driven coding

little bit of Haskell type theory

subset of 20 rules of formulating knowledge

Miscellaneous bias literature

The procrastination equation

Self-denial is unhelpful

Personal rules for alcohol use

Effect sizes

PCK seeking

Iterated Critique

Push-Pull-Action Critique

Write down my steps as I solve important or complex but infrequent tasks

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

some changes

changed 'habits' section to 'effort'

added feedback loops as major focus areas

removed interaction types

added 80% confidence intervals = 10-90% = 1:4 bet