Black Tulip

Har flyttat mina barn till en engelskspråkig skola och skillnaden mellan den och det handfallna kaoset i kommunalskolan är enormt. Bästa beslut vi har fattat. Fast mina barn har engelska som modersmål.

If it hadn’t been for people like Semmelweis daring to think beyond the limitations set for them, instead of modern medicine we may have decided to go all in on putting more leeches on faster.

This feels relevant for some reason…

You’re not prompting it right.

Really interesting thread, thanks.

Requiem for a 10x Engineer Dream People claim they get 10x productivity boosts with AI coding tools. After my recent experiments with Claude Code, I'm starting to think we're not using these tools the same way. Or that they’re just l...

People claim they get 10x productivity boosts with AI coding tools. After my recent experiments with Claude Code, I'm starting to think we're not using these tools the same way. Or that they’re just lying. Or both.

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My PhD touches on hypernetworks, complexity, and philosophy in connection to software engineering. Are you publishing your thesis?

It’s the stinging when you pee that makes it so.

Would love to read that!

Try having a black beard in Stockholm.

I love Ventimiglia, but that train station reminds me of the worse food poisoning ever when I ate a bad sandwich in Florence and had the worst train journey in history.

What is this affliction? An anaphylactic reaction to shallowness, posturing, and quasi-intellectual charlatans harping on like turkeys gobbling. Why does it drive us mad? Why can most people suffer it?

It won’t make them morally better, just a little less limited.

My experience is that STEM limits people to an inherited form of logical positivism that they aren’t even aware of, and when they try to interface with human systems they try to use the same thinking, and make a mess of everything. It’s why most software is shit.

Philosophy is being told you don’t know anything about philosophy because the person telling you has read a different book than you, but perservering anyway.

Just bought this!

AI hype as the reversal of the Enlightment. Essay underway.

Hegel and Heidegger and Agile and OOP and now LLM’s and there’s suddenly so much bullshit in the world it feels like Sisyphus should have been given a research project instead of a rock.

I am the baddies.

Long discussions on residues are usually a sign that you’re trying to be correct and precise - volume is more important than precision at this step.

Also, don’t spend time on discussions around residues, choose one and move on. If your stressor list is large enough you’ll come back to the decision with more nuance later.

It’s normal and perfectly fine to have a stressor appear multiple times if there are multiple possible attractors based on different business reactions.

Smart people are using ChatGPT for this.

Getting in the mood for Antwerp

Hoppas det gick bra!

This is especially true for those studying programming.

Kamelåsa.

Residuality Theory, random simulation, and attractor networks This article reviews earlier articles on the topic of residuality theory and places residuality theory in the context of the complexity sciences, rela…

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Yes! Rather than the fool’s errand of trying to completely describe complex business systems we use random simulation - little stories called stressors - to push the software structure to the point of surviving unspecified conditions.

I use randomly generated stress (fiction in context) to form software structures as opposed to trying to predict and control the actual future of context.

Really interesting! This might be something I can reference in my research on software design/complexity science.

Going to screenshot this and have it as my first slide.