Dismissing new tools is a mistake. You cannot avoid ChatGPT nowadays. It has been claimed that an average chess player paired with an average computer can beat the most sophisticated supercomputer. You aren’t average, and ChatGPT isn’t either, so it’s your chance to dethrone Stephen King. But ChatGPT keeps giving…

Or was static typing the right paradigm all along? — Static typing has won! Just check Quora or Stack Overflow, and you’ll see the top answers favor static typing. JavaScript is being TypeScripted. Python and PHP are type-hinted. And the popularity of Java, Go, and Rust is freshly minted! And if you challenge the…

When quoting one another, writes have, what appears to be honest yet annoying, tradition of copying a quote as it is. This sounds like the virtuous approach to take, until the readers start encountering those, out of place, square brackets. [T]he dog was following it’s [sic] ball, as if their…

Understand how Python objects behave as hashed dictionary keys. — You can think of Python dictionaries as key/value pairs, where keys are required to unique. If keys have to be unique, how could I create the following dictionary? {'Apple': 1, 'Apple': 2, 'Apple': 3} This is the topic of this post, but first let’s understand how dictionaries and their keys…

And this is probably its main weakness as well. — Mental models shape the way we think and how we see the world around us. This is something in which Peter Thiel excels. He has brilliant mental models where he contrasts the World of Bits with the World of Atoms. In this dichotomy, the world of bits is mostly the…

A quick guide on how not to calculate averages 🧮 — Apple pride themselves on their attention to details, and that’s why I had to hold them up to their standards. I am talking about their Health app in particular, and the way they calculate averages in it. This is a chart of my weight over the last 12 months. Each…

When it comes to books and movies, there are reviewers helping us discover what is worthy of our time. But why aren’t there reviewers for op-eds and Medium posts? The algorithm and the claps try to play this role, but sometimes we need a news-jockeys, a la disc-jockeys or DJs…

And what is the point of probability distributions anyway? — A footballer is known to score 70% of the penalty kicks he shoots. In the next season we expect him to shoot 10 penalty kicks, how many of them will he score? He will score 7 out of the 10 penalty kicks, obviously! Actually, 10 penalty kicks is a very…

All the big names promised me personalized news, but they all failed and failed again — Privacy online is everyone’s concern. When apps and websites started to track us, they promised us a better experience. The promise of a personalized content was their justification for their tracking cookies and hidden pixels. But, unlike Amazon’s same-day delivery, this promise was never delivered. Not even by Amazon itself.