Alan Grow

Technical Co-Founder @endcrawl. 🎥 We made the end credits to Backrooms 🚪, Obsession 🪵, Barbie 💅, EEAAO 👁️, and 5,000 more. Backed by @calmfund.

[Alan Grow @alangrow]

++kids == 2

[Alan Grow @alangrow]

@ctrlcreep Heads. Follow the normal vector.

[Alan Grow @alangrow]

@nicbarkeragain These mental models are the actual source code. And they vary wildly from person to person. Feynman for instance discovered that Tukey modeled counting visually. And counting is just about the simplest algorithm there is! https://t.co/9eeJ7EuwaM

[Alan Grow @alangrow]

@__venki__ Can you say more about why “check out this technical trick” posts feel obviated?

Simon argues here that hoarding tricks is even more valuable now: you can ask a coding agent to compose them. (Hoarding and publishing aren’t the same thing, of course.)

https://t.co/kCo5pnVkq3

[Alan Grow @alangrow]

@mycoliza @pskocik Marked safe from the heat death of the universe

[Тsфdiиg @tsoding]

Programming is understanding. If you don't understand what you are doing, you are not programming. You are generating text.

[Alan Grow @alangrow]

"Anything too stupid to be spoken is sung."

Maybe we can extend the Beaumarchais quip to:

"Anything too stupid to be written is spoken."

[Alan Grow @alangrow]

Voice Mode = Airhead Mode. Maybe the low latency requirements of realtime conversation do require a different model entirely. But another possibility is that we're all airheads in voice mode, and the smart, deep conversations are the written ones.
https://t.co/4H58h4MflU

[Alan Grow @alangrow]

Whatever the reason for this, it's unfortunate. I like the spoken dialog modality. And most humans probably prefer it. But reading back through a voice mode transcript, the lower quality of thought is unmistakable.

[Manuel Simoni @msimoni]

"Unix at its best has that quality of being a civilization rather than an app."

[Alan Grow @alangrow]

@Swizec Was also surprised by this! But I've used Huckleberry daily for 3 years now and love it. Has scaled well to 2 kids. Check out the CSV data export btw.

Also, congrats man!

[Alan Grow @alangrow]

@johnloeber Market for Lemons effect? I wonder how things compare to earlier eras. In the late 00s I did technical interviews en masse, and the low applicant quality also blew me away. Found solace in the following explanation.
https://t.co/cRcVFQqncX

[Alan Grow @alangrow]

@kendrictonn I scream TAKE WHAT IS YOURS when this happens.

[Alan Grow @alangrow]

@AndySwan @Austen I think I followed you because Fred Wilson called you a knucklehead in his comments section. That was enough endorsement for me.

[Alan Grow @alangrow]

@stylewarning @onehappyfellow @JustDeezGuy But doesn't jb only write like one program per decade?

[Alan Grow @alangrow]

@simonsarris Car seat laws aren't the "real" reason, but they've had a measurable effect.

[Alan Grow @alangrow]

@Romy_Holland Our timekeeping system is accretive and multicultural and I think that’s beautiful.

[Alan Grow @alangrow]

• Our year numbering system is Christian
• Our month names are Roman
• Our day of week names are Norse
• Our 7 day week system is Babylonian
• Our 24 hour days are Egyptian
• Our 60 minute hours are Persian
• Our 60 second minutes, Persian
• Our use of base 60 is Sumerian

[Alan Grow @alangrow]

@littmath @tlbtlbtlb @slatestarcodex @souljagoyteller This kind of thing?

[Alan Grow @alangrow]

@rsnous Storing my comments inside microdots

[Trevor Blackwell @tlbtlbtlb]

@Noahpinion Assume the set of interesting math problems is finite, i.e. there are N of them. But problem N+1 is interesting because it's the first problem not in the set. Therefore, the set must be infinite.

[Tenobrus (→vibecamp) @tenobrus]

i'm sorry WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE "HIDDEN TEXT"???