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Congratulations that's a great achievement!

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Thank you! Let me know if you have any feedback.

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ah epic - please drop an email to the address on the website and I'll give membership to you and whoever else would like to take it for a drive

I'll try and get your feedback addressed today/tomorrow!

tajd

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thanks for taking a look! I came up with an algorithm for generating puzzles and it definitely needs more tuning plus some feedback like yours

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A few things:

- https://www.ironvolume.com/ for generating crossfit, hyrox and athx workouts and warm ups, with a few posts on topics I've found really helpful to train around.

- https://pokerchallenges.com/ for practicing the maths behind different aspects of playing texas hold'em poker, trialling it at the moment so can give anyone a free membership if they want to get to grips with it

- https://typst.app/universe/package/calendaring/ a typst calendar grid generation package

- https://github.com/TAJD/cofferdam a tool to help with implementing code architecture compile time checks, helps give agents relevant context on how well their code fits in with the wider codebase without them having to read it all

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Yes, cannot say highly enough of the emergency medicine. Timely and effective.

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I built https://www.ironvolume.com/ to help plan workouts for crossfit, hyrox and building it out for athx.

https://tajd.github.io/cofferdam/ - is an experimental compile time time checker that can be run for typescript/rust to be able to impose architecture, design principles that can be forgotten by agents. The goal is to be able to make it possible for an agent to be reminded about design conventions where it forgets, so it reduces the amount of context that needs to be used initially to define those sorts of conventions.

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I loved this.

A shameless plug for myself and my own investigations into the world of old strategy games - https://tom-dickson.com/blog/trias-game-investigation/ - was where I did an investigation into the game called Trias/ternii lapilli which is like an old version of tic tac toe.

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> A redesign that gets replaced 2 years later is a catastrophe

I mean, given how quickly things can change I think the language and sentiment here isn't quite right, it's just how businesses can change and we can't necessarily control that.

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I love these sorts of applied maths sorts of post! Nice work, interesting reading.

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what are the key references for this article? there was a tweet but also a screenshot of an error code in vertex ai, right?

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I totally agree that the most important thing is to write more and curate our own parts of the internet.

I think a lot of these things become simpler as AI abstracts and commodifies the functionality and code required to develop and ship new functionality.

E.g. my blog uses Astro and I write react islands to help illustrate ideas that I I think are interesting - https://tom-dickson.com/blog/startup-viability-calculator/

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https://tom-dickson.com/ - applied maths to various things

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Yeah agree, the devex has room for improvement as well. I use it perfectly fine for simpler apps but it could be better.

Big love for cloudflare though - all my apps are hosted with it. Their components and generous free tier have been able to let me ship so many random things.

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I've been building out my portfolio at https://verdient.co.uk/ and writing more blog posts about applied maths on my blog at https://tom-dickson.com/

Most recently I've been having fun extending the functionality on a website I use to host tools that help me structure and plan workouts - https://ironvolume.com/

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This looks interesting but I’m trying to understand it in more layman’s terms. Is it more about providing abstractions for llms to work within to do things?

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what sort of prod apps are you running from it? keen to learn by what other people are doing

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There has got to be opportunities here for abstracting over regulation to make it easier to comply with and prove compliance so that risk owners/govt can enact change faster. Now to figure out who would pay for that.

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I feel like articles like this need to come with a diagram like this to put it in the context of relevant tradeoffs.

                       High Scale/Revenue
                              │
                              │
      Managed Services        │      Self-hosted K8s
      (Overpaying but         │       (article is
      no choice)              │       pitched here)
                              │
  ────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────
      Low capacity            │         High capacity
                              │
                              │
      Managed Services        │      Managed Services
      (Right choice -         │      (Wasting money on
      focus on product)       │       platform team)
                              │
                        Low Scale/Revenue

Or something like that. Maybe as a function of time as well but that might be harder to do in 2d.

Sure I can absolutely manage my own k8s, but there is no doubt it's easier for me to spin up postgres and ship faster on my own. At enterprise scale it's definitely a lot easier to do everything in k8s and be able to manage as many aspects as possible. I have experience of both.

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Looking at an ancient game called Trias/Ternii Lapilli and learning/using maths to figure out if it can be solved https://tom-dickson.com/blog/trias-game-investigation/

It’s similar to tic-tac-toe but slightly different of course.

Found it a great opportunity to learn about new areas of maths. Trying to figure out where to go next with it.

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