Data Compression Explained.

It’s interesting to see that biological evolution, which creates and operates in an entirely separate domain, uses a similar sort of trick: using genetic recombination (in the form of sexual reproduction and horizontal gene transfer) to make the search process more modular and gain information more rapidly. — Biological Evolution and Information Acquisition

Now, the “Top 40” has become a real hamster-on-the-wheel project. The following plot shows my count of the number of new packages to make it to CRAN since I began publishing on R Works. — New CRAN Packages: signal or noise?

Matt’s Web Scripts, as it appeared on worldwidemart.com in 1997. One example of many of a random website becoming popular, no real rhyme or reason to it. But hey, Matt had some pretty good scripts! — What Was Matt Thinking?

So good…

(…) when even the most sophisticated Git users talk about branches, they don’t simply mean refs; they mean sequences of commits. — I wish people would stop insisting that Git branches are nothing but refs

/me is listening to “The Greatest” by Billie Eilish

reader seems to works better than readability-cli. Compare w3m https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html vs. reader https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html | w3m.

But it is much better to say “Your function is not enough. You are correct that it needs to be a homomorphism”. That acknowledges the student’s contribution. It tells them that their analysis of the difficulty was correct! — Just ANSWER THE QUESTION

As advertised, no math at all: How LLMs Actually Work.