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20 Nov

“Task Failed Successfully”

“Task failed successfully.” It’s a fake* prompt, which inspired a meme, which inspired a widespread descriptive term. It’s a joke, and an absurd joke, but like many absurd jokes it exists and persists because it reflects something real. The mimetic...
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23 Mar

Burning Diffuse from Both Ends

Part one of an unknown length series If you stumbled onto this article and expect to learn something of AI in a traditional fashion, you might spend your time better elsewhere (even if that’s another article on this blog). Usually...
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15 Aug

“Scrappy Path”

In the world of software, you often hear about the “happy path” of a product. A “happy path” is the optimal use case, the ideal journey a user takes to accomplish a goal in a piece of software, from...
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26 Sep

Developers Need Better Onboarding — Make Learning a Guarantee

Initial setup: Most systems need setup. Don’t even discuss work before this gets completed. Make sure the new dev is where they need to be. Stressing out about getting work done while struggling to get your system working is a...
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25 Jul

3 Tips & Tricks for Slim (Ruby)

For those coming to the Slim template engine from other tools, or from nothing at all in this area, getting acquainted with Slim can prove daunting — it did for me! Fortunately, it’s the kind of syntactic methodology that...
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24 Jun

To Learn a New Programming Language, Start Over

Programmers take pride in their ability to learn new skills easily, relying on long-ingrained concepts and abstracted methodologies to pick up a new way of working with minimum difficulty. Switching smoothly between tools, languages, or environments is certainly an ability...
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14 Mar

Learn R! — Resources

Whether you’re a budding data scientist, a student of programming, or a researcher delving into analytics, R is a language which — while unusual compared to the standard regimen of programming languages — has its own unique flair and...
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