
Polyglot and Elixir-enthusiast, Christian, bbq-er, mazer, fermenter, Staff Engineer at https://xitter.cf/t.co/ssuqgu4Upq @gregvaughn@genserver.social
Frisco, TX
Joined July 2008
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"artificial intelligence" is like "air fryer". They're useful tools, but their names are counterfactual marketing hype. It bugs me to use either name. I like to think words mean things (I'm naive that way).
If somebody butt-dials you multiple times over several months, how much of that is you being prominent on their favorites list vs. they're bad a smartphoning?
I’m excited to catch up with old friends, make new ones, learn great things, etc! I’ll be there this evening.
#ElixirConf2023 starts tomorrow!
It’s not too late to get a ticket. 2023.ElixirConf.com
#MyElixirStatus
This is amateur hour @GetSpectrum showing a literal google test hyperlink
I find myself pondering meta-emoji. Sometimes I want to recognize a particularly well chosen emoji reaction that is the perfect accent to the message. Other times I want to subtly encourage someone to never use that emoji again under any circumstances.
15 years seems both so long ago, but also memorable. It was around the time I transitioned from working for a large corp to smaller consultancies and startups. #MyTwitterAnniversary
I am on the lookout for my next employer. I'm seeking a technical leadership role where I can apply my hard-won experience, but I want to take some time to find the best fit for both sides. Elixir is strongly preferred. DMs open.
Code reviews are like dirty dishes. Even if you clean them up today, there will be more tomorrow
but some of them need to soak overnight.
The biggest downside of an everything bagel is requisite keyboard cleaning afterward. No matter how careful I am, _something_ always finds the keyboard.
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Take my money!!
This machine could make cleaning up your LEGOs infinitely easier #FutureBlink
This machine could make cleaning up your LEGOs infinitely easier
Created by engineer Daniel West, the Universal LEGO Sorter uses AI to recognize any Lego part and divide it into 18 sections.
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Retweet if you were part of one of those tiny first 4 bars.
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I was hesitant about using a natural primary key in a database table today. Upon reflection, I realized that hesitance was because Rails had turned that concept into something a generation of programmers had never experienced.
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Excellent post about applying insights from ML (overfitting control) to a much broader class of systems that optimize against an objective: politics, science, orgs, daily life.
Underfitting is underrated.
My first blog post ever! Be harsh, but, you know, constructive.
Too much efficiency makes everything worse: overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart's law
sohl-dickstein.github.io/202…
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My favorite #ElixirConf talk was released publicly today. @kipcole9 did such a great job sharing his enthusiasm for time algebra, and has such a rich, but simple, API. youtube.com/watch?v=4VfPvCI9…
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Using this next time I need to explain a deadlock in software xitter.cf/____B_S____/status/158…
















