there’s now a publicly-available recording of our RustWeek talk. it went extremely well, and I’m very proud of our work on it. talk is viewable @ youtu.be/Gx21yYLwn10 slides are hosted @ asteri.sm/assets/pdfs/...

Writing a top-10 chess engine in Rust (Kora & Cosmo Bobak at RustWeek)

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this reminds me of something that comes up in discussions about AI and art: an essential or defining characteristic of art is decision-making; the more decisions there are to be made, the more opportunity there is to create art. the devil is in the details, and art has much more depth when...

Kora 🏳️‍⚧️@koragendum.bsky.social · 4mo ago

realization: one reason i don’t like contemporary AI: i’ve seen people describe agents as “like having a junior dev at your beck and call”. but i don’t want a junior dev! i don’t want anyone else to write any part of my program – i want to write all of it myself!

rustweek is good.

realization: one reason i don’t like contemporary AI: i’ve seen people describe agents as “like having a junior dev at your beck and call”. but i don’t want a junior dev! i don’t want anyone else to write any part of my program – i want to write all of it myself!

My reason for doing this is very similar to why rubber duck debugging works so well: the act of saying something in one's own words (or to type it out with one's own fingers) forces one to make a deeper level of mental contact with it than we normally would and greatly improves accuracy/quality

I have been more or less silent on the dumpster fire formerly known as Twitter, and even though the algorithm will prevent anyone from seeing it, I felt this needed to be said...

** Speaker announcement ** Catch Kora & Cosmo Bobak's talk 'Writing a top-10 chess engine in Rust' at RustWeek 2026! Info & tickets: 2026.rustweek.org/talks/chess/ See you in Utrecht May 18-23, 2026! @affinelytyped.bsky.social #rustweek2026 #rustlang

Very excited to open day two with @affinelytyped.bsky.social!

RustNL@rustnl.bsky.social · 6mo ago

** RustWeek Speakers Announced! ** Check out the selected speakers and talks here: 2026.rustweek.org/blog/2026-02... Thanks to everyone who submitted to our CFP! #rust #rustweek2026

Von Neumann said, per Fermi’s word, that “four params can fit an elephant,” elephant! How absurd, and there he didn’t quit: “with five I’ll make them wiggle their trunk,” which shows to great effect: with skill, an appendage is easy to rouse and even make erect.

Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking? Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me. 1/

Phrases like “biological male who identifies as a woman” drive me up a wall. If by “biological male” you mean “assigned male at birth”, say that instead of pretending to be objective. Biology is not uniaxial, not discrete, and not immutable, and in most or all aspects a transfemme person may be...

i do not think that nonhuman things have feelings to be hurt but i do think the intent to hurt feelings is bad for a person notwithstanding whether the object of their sadism is real

“Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, [icons, races, ...], armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.”