Mikhail Medvedev

Software engineer with a passion for beauty. Coding. Books. Writing. Art.

[Mikhail Medvedev @m_medvedev]

Extending Python with Rust - my talk from EuroPython 2020:
https://t.co/HpkyXfIhdd
#rustlang #Python #europython

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

I think this reflects our confused spiritual relationship with our own past. We feel a strong and intuitive affinity for what we used to build, while our contemporary frameworks consider such buildings misguided and "immoral". The mind says massing prohibitions and setbacks; the heart says beautiful masonry, higgeldy-piggeldy layouts, and Victorians. Rather than resolve the tension, we designate large fractions of our city ontologically confused, simultaneously protected and illegal; sanctified and condemned.

[Mikhail Medvedev @m_medvedev]

@bunopus https://t.co/Ox7uitxBzP

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Yes. When Dario says "AI will make you unemployable", what the average person hears is "I, Dario, am trying to become a trillionaire by making you unemployable".

[Mikhail Medvedev @m_medvedev]

@leonidragozin “Less than a quarter of Russians live in villages” - this is not something to be proud of.
The reason being there’s no future in the countryside and all the people have migrated to cities. E.g. this is why Moscow is enormous.

[DHH @dhh]

This bit helped flip for me when I heard David Foster Wallace's critique of postmodernism and its use of moral relativism, cynicism, and ultimately nihilism. It's a dead end. We need to get back to earnest, sincere values, and grand narratives. https://t.co/i7CrYYTYxw

[Mikhail Medvedev @m_medvedev]

@SalzDevs @levelsio Луч is not light, it’s “ray”
Кубок comes from Greek, which might have affected Portuguese too

[Mikhail Medvedev @m_medvedev]

@asbesedin Ни одного

[Mikhail Medvedev @m_medvedev]

@john_mcguirk Putin was famous for the same. Before the war though

[Mikhail Medvedev @m_medvedev]

@lexfridman Lex, this is exactly what you need to tell Putin

[Mikhail Medvedev @m_medvedev]

@KonstantinKisin @elonmusk Please hold your line Konstantin, don’t give in

[Mikhail Medvedev @m_medvedev]

@bunopus Это как динамическое программирование

[Mikhail Medvedev @m_medvedev]

@visegrad24 You have my vote

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Tech companies and engineering teams rolling out customer-facing AI agents will very quickly realize a massive problem with them:

They are non-deterministic.

The classic eng approach of build-->test-->run automated tests to ensure there are no regressions - will NOT work here!

[Mikhail Medvedev @m_medvedev]

Happy New Year!

[Mikhail Medvedev @m_medvedev]

@levelsio Huh. X, Instagram and Facebook are blocked in Russia, along with a bunch of Western media (the ones that post in Russian). YouTube is half-banned. Who enjoys more freedom?

[Mikhail Medvedev @m_medvedev]

A little book of swearing words in Irish Gaelic

[Mikhail Medvedev @m_medvedev]

@Fireblade577 This may or may not be related to pay or visas, may be normal nepotism :)

[Mikhail Medvedev @m_medvedev]

Bodleian Library in Oxford

[Mikhail Medvedev @m_medvedev]

@grinogij Спасибо вам за то что вы делаете!