Torben Hoffmann

Erlang Priest, Elixir Alchemist and Lego Minstorms hacker.

[Torben Hoffmann @LeHoff]

@mkonnikova @NateSilver538 I love Risky Business. Full stop. What book would you recommend on game theory to an engineer with good, yet dated, skills in math, logic, and probability theory?

[Torben Hoffmann @LeHoff]

DIY slant board to reduce stress on my neck when taking notes. Tomorrow I'll test how it feels after a whole day. It came out at 23.6° - a tad above the recommended 22°. I will try it and see if more cutting is necessary. At least it came out too steep - harder to add wood😃

[Torben Hoffmann @LeHoff]

As ⁦@basho⁩ is becomming more and more a distant, yet pleasant, memory the mug is slowly giving in to the passing of time.
Thanks to all my wonderful colleagues from back then for having been an important, albeit too short, part of my journey. Read your writes😃

[Torben Hoffmann @LeHoff]

Going home from a wonderful #ElixirConfEU in Lisbon I got a Beirão liquor, but I could not get it to pour without totally cutting the top off. Then the small ball at the top does not stay put. I clearly did something wrong - any clues?

[Torben Hoffmann @LeHoff]

@JanHenryNystrom @daveshanley @allenholub @quviq And there is a difference between debugging ang using a debugger. Lots of debugging, but did not have the need for the debugger. I hope that makes sense. I'm not claiming that we wrote perfect code - far from it, but we did make the code right in the end😃

[Torben Hoffmann @LeHoff]

@JanHenryNystrom @daveshanley @allenholub @quviq Oh, they failed, but the architecture was such a good fit for #Erlang that you could just look at the error message and you'd know almost instantly what was wrong. The Semantic Gap(TM) was very low,ie, happy life. TDD has to be coupled with good design to work that well.

[Torben Hoffmann @LeHoff]

@daveshanley @allenholub @quviq 2/2
We passed IOP test like a charm. Installed the system and it has now been running and used heavily for 13 years w/o patching.
With the right tech (#erlang) and TDD you don't need a debugger.

[Torben Hoffmann @LeHoff]

@daveshanley @allenholub I side with the OP. I was lead architect and developer on a telco gateway at Motorola. Used a debugger on the Erlang code once in five years. After twoeyears we started doing TDD with @quviq's Property Based Testing tool. No need for a debugger after that. 1/2

[Simon Wardley @swardley]

dX: You say that prompts are a programming language.
Me: Yes. An LLM with memory is a Turing complete machine. Prompts are a programming language I can use to construct a system such as a prototype.
dX: Why do I feel there is a but?
Me: But ...

[Saša Jurić @sasajuric]

That great feeling of holding my own book

[htmx.org / CEO of less.css Supremacy (same thing) @htmx_org]

miss him

[Torben Hoffmann @LeHoff]

Heading to the UK for a get2gether w/ my wonderful colleagues from @ErlangSolutions. Arriving early at the airport to park my car. I pick a nice spot. Get out to check to number of the slot and it's 404. Would you move your car?

[Torben Hoffmann @LeHoff]

I had to rename chronos to kairos in order to upload it to https://t.co/YiUFq10RrK. https://t.co/bvRC0Lkdd1 - https://t.co/FScBxj162W
I will write a blog post about how to use it from #elixirlang next week.

[Torben Hoffmann @LeHoff]

I just supported @will_stone_ on @buymeacoffee! 🎉

Will Stone is making Browserosaurus, Plastic Theme, and open source tools.. You can support by buying a coffee ☕️ here — https://t.co/ixVUyK6dWh

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

🚨 BREAKING: Code Interpreter is FINALLY rolling out to all ChatGPT Plus users.

It's the most powerful feature OpenAI has released since GPT-4. It makes everyone a data analyst.

Here are 15 mind-blowing use cases of Code Interpreter:

[Torben Hoffmann @LeHoff]

Late night hacking with my son trying to debug a faulty tree edit distance algorithm… our debugger was a sheet of A3-paper where we wrote down every step of the algorithm with full rigor until we found the indexing error that had eluded us for days.
#mediæval #debugging #ftw

[Torben Hoffmann @LeHoff]

@dcgibbons Have you tried comparing the full area of each of them and relate it back to Moore's Law? The same for computing power.

[Torben Hoffmann @LeHoff]

I guess book topics are not a continuous function?!?!

[Torben Hoffmann @LeHoff]

As always after playing a board game I recorded the results and remarked "We have played this game on & off since 1999!".
My daughter looks to my wife with a weird look and says: "You knew he was like this?!?!"

[Torben Hoffmann @LeHoff]

My daughter needs a one week internship for Danish school 9th grade. She likes physics and F1. @MercedesAMGF1 engineering team?? #womeninformula1 @LewisHamilton