João Eira

I love Claude but its tendency to always write in lists is infuriating. Have to append "write in paragraphs, not lists" in every conversation I have with it.

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frontend programmers 🤝 mathematicians

demonstration by counter example

Execute Program Learn it. Code it. Remember it.

If you want to look at the future of education take a look at what Execute Program (www.executeprogram.com/courses) and Math Academy (mathacademy.com) are doing. That's what we need more of, for everything under the sun.

My newest hot take right now is that AI isn't going to revolutionize education, let alone change it, for the same reason that > 100 year old science has not had even a smidgen of impact on it

Don't worry, don't worry, already have a 7.5k word draft going about all of this, I just have to, you know, finish writing the rest of it (I have thoughts!)

Maybe close to the end of year at current rates.

I call it Memoria, it allows me to rapidly create fully sourced flashcards from books.

Currently am processing Chapter 12 of Tooze's Wages of Destruction.

A graph comparing Spanish and German gdp, which diverge in 2008 but reconverge between 2017-2024

Here’s a crazy fact for you: Spain and Germany have now seen basically the exact same amount of economic growth post-2008. Would have been unthinkable to people during most of the 2010s. Spain has seen ~10 percentage points more cumulative growth since 2017.

A text-based image with a heading 'Strategies for Learning' at the top and 'Andy Masley' at the bottom. The main content is a long paragraph highlighted in pink/red that discusses the psychological challenges of genuine learning versus pretending to learn. The text explains how people often avoid real learning due to ego and status concerns, describing how actually learning new things can make one feel vulnerable or stupid, especially at older ages. It emphasizes that powering through ego hits is a crucial life skill, while avoiding them leads to stagnation

This is it right here. There's nothing else but this.

For those who partake, Scott Sumner's Money Illusion is on sale for the Kindle today.

www.amazon.com/Money-Illusi...

In case you missed it: Bluesky runs on-prem. They migrated off of AWS months back.

So yeah, they DO need to put orders in for servers! (Good luck to the dev team!)

More on their architecture: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky

I don't recall much of anything from that book - other than I enjoyed it what must be more than a decade ago - but the one thing that stayed with me from John Taylor Gatto's Weapons of Mass Instruction was this.

Bought Agustina's book on release day cuz have always wanted to follow up on that

Bluesky having links really does make feel way more like the golden age of Twitter than Twitter currently does.

Optimistic something good will come out of this.

Going to give this website a try - with a new profile picture! Definitely feels like an econ bubble, but I guess that’s the point.

Expect a thread on my newest work, Malthusian Migrations (with @romainwacziarg.bsky.social), soon! 🚨

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This chart is pretty insane. More of an overnight social/political-type shift than typical tech adoption imo: techcrunch.com/2024/11/19/b...

2. Relatedly (and again tentatively): an update against *downward* nominal wage rigidity -- the idea that nominal wages are asymmetrically rigid downward, but not upward
- seems like wages have been rigid upward too
- would be very curious if someone digs (or has dug) into this