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Wyatt Carss
Personal blog · wcarss.ca · on HN as wcarssprogrammingwriting
Wyatt Carss's personal blog at wcarss.ca covers programming and writing. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The one comment is a bare link to a text version of Feynman's 'You and Your Research', his 1985 essay on research and group decision-making at Los Alamos, hosted in this blog's reading section.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /reading/you_and_your_research/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-09-19
What Hacker News says?
Text version: https://wcarss.ca/reading/you_and_your_research/
Comment linking /reading/you_and_your_research/
on “Feynman on group decision-making at Los Alamos (1985)”Submitted You probably don’t need REST as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI made a crappy little web tool[1] that lets me paste a timestamp into it, and will show me that time in my current timezone by default (I think that's just hardcoded haha), or in another one that I select. I mostly use it when reasoning about logs -- for some reason my mind has never gotten used to mapping UTC time to my time. It also has a selector for the source timezone, but that doesn't work, for reasons I've f…
Comment linking /tz
on “Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?”Submitted Analyzing the response to "Please don't learn to code" as a story · 3 points
HN discussion+1, one of many transcripts of a version of this talk: https://wcarss.ca/reading/you_and_your_research
Comment linking /reading/you_and_your_research
on “John Carmack: Career Advice”Submitted How I (easily) motivated myself as a story · 2 points
HN discussionVery cool! I hesitate to self-link, but this is too related -- I have long had a similar but way smaller, less featureful (just a time-clock), and shoddily written design on my homepage: https://wcarss.ca
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on “Concentrichron: A clock and calendar made of concentric rings”Weird timing! Just this afternoon I finished cleaning up a transcript of an Oral History interview with Licklider from 1988: http://wcarss.ca/refs/aspray-licklider-interview.html
Comment linking /refs/aspray-licklider-interview.html
on “J.C.R. Licklider on the History of Personal Workstations (1986) [video]”I've never done any applied statistics that I know of, so I'm not sure! For a 2D map the loose layout of the algorithm is this: construct a 2D array of blank tiles. Choose a tile at random from the set of most-constrained tiles (this is currently all of them as they are all equally unconstrained) and give it a value according to some distribution. Constrain its neighbors' potential values and update whatever system…
Comment linking /jabiru/
on “DeBroglie – Generate tile-based maps using wave function collapse”Very cool! I started making a very unpolished game based on a similar sort of map design a few months ago for ludum dare -- caution that there are sounds on this link and no volume control: https://wcarss.ca/maze_of_sacrifice/
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on “Show HN: Solve and generate mazes with JavaScript on HTML Canvas”piggybacking your comment (and fine work!) to point to my own re-hosting of this transcript that makes minor formatting improvements to the original, primarily for scanning width: https://wcarss.ca/reading/you_and_your_research/
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on “You and Your Research (1986)”cool! Yours is rather mesmerizing to stare into :) In a somewhat similar vein, I actually just finished a weekend generative art project[1] inspired by the recent HN post on minsky circles[2]. 1 - https://wcarss.ca/circles/ 2 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28368626
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on “My phone case, the hidden state of an RNN”