Ethan Herdrick

Data engineering. I make software.

[Ethan Herdrick @herdrick]

Repo: https://t.co/5uAQk61jOh

[Ethan Herdrick @herdrick]

I made a scriptable Chaos Game environment. Before this it hadn't occurred to me that attractors have parameters that can be played with to get endless variations on the classic shapes.

[Ethan Herdrick @herdrick]

In the code you can add sliders for live control over numbers. I think the project's slogan is "no constants". Always replace a constant with a slider.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

It is absurd that Palo Alto School district just voted to remove honors biology for all students & already removed honors English. They call it de-laning. I call it an assault on excellence. I took many honors classes at Council Rock High in PA.

[Ethan Herdrick @herdrick]

Every software engineer I know is wondering how the next LLMs will impact our work. I'm sure about one thing: if they're slow, they're employees, and we become managers. If they're fast, they're tools, and we're still ICs.

[Ethan Herdrick @herdrick]

Last year on @RickRubin's podcast, @pmarca said some AI experts think within 5 years a single person will create software by marshaling thousands of AI programmers - telling them to make functionality, integrate, test, etc. So now the engineer is like a manager. 👇

[Ethan Herdrick @herdrick]

You make sandwiches like an IC, but you manage a breakfast team. (And if you are a manager, maybe you should consider the things you manage to be employees, even if they aren't human, or even sophisticated.)

[Ethan Herdrick @herdrick]

@michael_nielsen You'd think it'd be impossible to write a book that is a socratic dialogue with its readers, but it has been done — the wonderful "The Little Schemer" by Dan Friedman and Matthias Felleisen.

[Aaron Iba @aaroniba]

I made an app with @dyang: https://t.co/GtHAtuplcb

[Ethan Herdrick @herdrick]

@paulg ... which is amazing. The official productivity numbers for the overall economy over that period show linear growth.

[Ethan Herdrick @herdrick]

@paulg Looks like constant exponential decay for the whole curve, with a little squinting. Which means exponential growth for employee productivity(!). The function .125*(1.038^t) works out right, i.e. starting at $125k profit per employee increasing at about 3.8% per year.

[Ethan Herdrick @herdrick]

@Chris_arnade Looks like canola. https://t.co/LsIhcLzL9q

[Ethan Herdrick @herdrick]

@Jason @Azure @googlecloud @awscloud @googlecloud, because of BigQuery. It's great. I also much prefer GCP's IAM but I've heard others say the opposite.