Noah Sussman
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“Time is an illusion that helps things make sense.” — R. Sugar
People keep favoriting this even though I haven’t posted here in months. Which is great! This is the Abelian Sandpile Model (it has its own wikipedia page check it out). It is a Finite Cellular Automaton and what is most interesting about that is: This is a programming language!
Noah Sussman@noahsussman.bsky.social · 11mo agoThis is not Conway’s Game Of Life. But it is a cellular automaton.
“I can prove that the machine is thinking” My brother in christ, you cannot even prove YOU are thinking.
This is not Conway’s Game Of Life. But it is a cellular automaton.
A computer cannot tell what is good and what is bad. It can write working code but it can’t know whether it wrote good code or bad code. That’s why AI can never fully replace programmers. In general it’s the reason you can never fully remove the “human in the loop.”
Is something wrong with the test or is something wrong with the system is an undecidable question because it contains the halting problem
A Metcalfe wheel is the complete connectivity within which a hypercube projection can be inscribed.“ if you can visualize your communication system as a Metcalf wheel, then there is another way to visualize it: as a multidimensional structure that information traverses
Is something wrong with the test or is something wrong with the system is an undecidable question because it contains the halting problem
Bedrock Data, which has debuted ArgusAI to show enterprises what data their AI models access during training and to prevent data leakage, raised a $25M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
As I was saying about this being a weird time to be an SDET
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9mo ago“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time (no paywall) infinite-undo.medium.com/falsehoods-p...
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time
This paper compiles two previously published posts.
infinite-undo.medium.com
A computer cannot tell what is good and what is bad. It can write working code but it can’t know whether it wrote good code or bad code. That’s why AI can never fully replace programmers. In general it’s the reason you can never fully remove the “human in the loop.”
I mean this is one of the things it's genuinely good for, but it's like if people had first tried to sell autotune as the coming Rapture before everyone started hating on it
LLMs are autotune for text and we are freaking out about it just like we did when autotune came out.
Why do you think LLMs have a problem solving flaky tests in real-world work situations? Google Scholar and Arxiv are bristling with papers on how to succeed fixing flaky tests with LLMs. So what do you think is the delta? Why isn’t the academic success crossing over into the enterprise?
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time REMASTERED 🕓 🕑 🕛 Both posts collected in a single link. Downloadable PDF with a DOI number you can cite. Non-paywall link: infinite-undo.medium.com/falsehoods-p...
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time
This paper compiles two previously published posts.
infinite-undo.medium.com
Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog. Patients with brain fog may have disrupted AMPA receptor (AMPAR) expression—key molecules for memory and learning. Imaging of Long COVID patients showed elevated AMPAR density tied to more severe cognitive impairment.
Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog
Researchers employed a specialized brain imaging technique to identify a potential biomarker and therapeutic target for Long COVID. More than four years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, scien...
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Vibe coding will not lead to programmers being replaced by non-coding software creators. infinite-undo.medium.com/vibe-coding-...
Vibe coding is not going to lead to a generation of software creators who can’t program.
Vibe coding is not going to lead to a generation of software creators who do not know how to code.
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In 80s hang-out terms this site is the gifted and talented class (derogatory) and the other site is the dumpster behind 7-11 (derogatory).
Normal information-dense post: 100 views. No context #Vibium post: 2000 views. That’s the zeitgeist right now 🤯
vibium - yc f25 - founder video my reply to yc's spring 2025 request for startups for browser automation y... not, amirite? youtu.be/d-YNQqRnVao
yc f25 - vibium - founder video
YouTube video by Jason Huggins
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whether deliberate or unintentional, the people who want you to treat AI systems as human-like fully autonomous "agents" are simply laundering responsibility and accountability away from those who choose to monetize these systems onto the artifacts that can’t know responsibility or accountability
Irredeemable behavior. 😡
James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · 11mo agoThis firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pictoplasma in Kyiv! #CharacterMatters exhibition in the Ukraine
This is not Conway’s Game Of Life. But it is a cellular automaton.
I can finally say what I have been working on for the last two years!!! 🎉 #startup #startupLife #NYCTech #fintech www.linkedin.com/posts/noahsu...
I can finally say what I’ve been working on for the past two years. If you know me then you know I’m very focused on making the customer experience pleasant and safe. That’s the reason I pivoted my… |...
I can finally say what I’ve been working on for the past two years. If you know me then you know I’m very focused on making the customer experience pleasant and safe. That’s the reason I pivoted my ca...
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