tommy / miscellaneous

A novel data structure has been invented four times now, with three different names. We think that's a good sign.

On the economics of happy meals, the gig economy and the hiring of employees versus contractors.

A book in which an anthropologist traces the intimate connections between gambling addiction and casino industry design tactics.

Three years ago, I wrote a rant about the problems of our current UI paradigm. Nothing has indeed changed - at least not for the better.

There was a time when one could sit down in front of any operating system and quickly get to grips with the GUI.

Karpathy argues we've entered "Software 3.0" where LLMs represent a new computing paradigm programmed in English.

An open-source book by Barocas et al.

Dokumentet samler eksempler fra ledende norske miljøer, relevant lovgivning og praktiske tips for å unngå fallgruver.

Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) and the efficiency of modern solvers, which can today find solutions within seconds for problems that were out of reach a decade ago.