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Vivek Haldar
Vivek Haldar
Jun 15, 2014
Heartbeats
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Quantum of Work
There’s something about all the recent talk about distraction and concentration and shredded attention that doesn’t quite sit right with me. Most of it focuses on the individual– thinking patterns, ac...
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LLMs are compilers
I’ve been thinking about a fruitful way to frame the act of writing code in the age of Copilot/Codex, and I don’t think “autocomplete on steriods” is it. Prompt-driven programming with an LLM is bette...
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Start here
I started writing here in 2008. And now when I look back, it pleasantly surprises me to see a body of work. But the reverse-chronological presentation of a blog is particularly hostile to new readers,...
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On Vagueness
Here is something I struggle with: given a vague goal, how do you move towards reaching it, towards shaping something concrete out of it?
This is important, because all projects start with a big blob ...
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Should I do a PhD?
Tim Hopper recently posted a series of interviews with folks from both academia and industry, posing this question to them. (I’ve written about the topic myself.) If you are pondering the question, yo...