TIL about universal database CLI tools, like usql or databow. I usually rely on DuckDB core extensions. #database

A useful asymptotic approximation for the expected range of n samples drawn from a N(0, 1) random variable:

$$ d_n = 2\Phi^{-1}\left(\frac{n - 0.375}{n + 0.25}\right). $$

Screenshots like these always make me feel a bit wistful. I must have grown older without really realising it over the last few years: macOS Needs Its Grid Back. #apple

What I would change in Common Lisp. #lisp

The message you’re sending is that you think I’m not capable of reading and writing my own emails. That the people I’m exchanging messages with don’t deserve my time and energy. That I’m doing something wrong by not outsourcing my communication skills to a token prediction machine. — Gmail Thinks I’m Stupid, So I Left

90 % of the t distribution: Another enlightning article by Christoffer Stjernlöf on Entropic Thoughts.

the key point is that matrix transpose serves as a prime example of the problem which appears trivial but nevertheless requires tremendous effort to be solved efficiently for CPU. Root causes of this unpleasant surprise can be traced to high memory latency and limited parallelization capabilities of CPUs. Neither of these issues is going to be alleviated in the future. — What it takes to transpose a matrix

Migrating from Go to Rust.

Over the past few years, it seems like the rate at which new CLI tools are being written has picked back up again, accelerating after seeing relatively little activity between ~1995 and ~2015. — The Modern CLI Renaissance