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How Do You Get Good at Programming Language Design?
I get asked a lot in the lab to help people out with API and language design. I wish I had resources I could point people at to learn better, but I don’t. As...
Mindfulness and Abstraction Design
Formalism and Awareness Skill building helps us focus our awareness. Formalism is an incredible scalpel for sharpening thought. It forces us to be really pr...
Why Doing Research Is Like Playing Jazz
This post is from November 26, 2021. I have lightly edited it and published it now, because the ideas are still on my mind. I played jazz trumpet from ele...
HCI Is the Bottleneck
HCI Is the Bottleneck in a World with Strong AI As model capabilities advance, we are rapidly gaining the ability to generate images, videos, and audio from...