Mageek

Breadth vs. Depth.

Alg4Opt covers more topics, providing the motivation behind the algorithm, sometimes a basic derivation, and a concrete implementation. It has citations in the margin for more info.

Nocedal and Wright will go more in-depth on derivation, proving theorems, etc. Implementations are pseudocode, and fewer topics are covered.

To be clear, both are fiction, it’s just that one is fantasy and the other is set in modern reality.

The video doesn’t show how the car got into this situation

Rust has a method for enforcing better memory safety. That is great for deployed applications, but can be annoying when you’re still exploring / mutating your code to figure out the right shape of things.

The article says it: “We determined that due to the persistent orientation mismatch of the towed pickup truck and tow truck combination, the Waymo AV incorrectly predicted the future motion of the towed vehicle.” It was detected, but it predicted the truck would move in a way that it didn’t end up moving.

My mom was hit by a driver when she was biking and fell with her arm in front of the wheel. The driver then decided to pull forward and drove over her arm. So humans don’t really solve that problem.

NHTSA standing general order crash rates are a mandated and publicly available data source. That’s what the study is based on.

Isn’t Waymo already operating a full service in Phoenix? Haven’t heard of many issues from there.

I highly recommend the course “Computer, Enhance!” by Casey Muratori on substack for those interested in how CPUs / assembly work. You get to decode byte code, simulate instructions, learn how the stack works, etc. It is really well-paced, gives you plenty of space to figure things out your own way (with reference material if you need it), and helped me get several “aha!” moments that solidified how things work.

I recently started the new class by Casey Muratori, “computer enhance”, that teaches performance-aware programming.

I also try to complete a small personal project every month and write about it.

“As of 2020, South Korea was the only country among the OECD members to have a rate below 1, giving it a shrinking population.”

Being below 2 gives you a shrinking population, because men are half the pop and don’t produce children directly.

You still run A*, it’s just on the nav mesh rather than on a grid.

The title is complete clickbait. It should say “no one’s short intuitive explanations of why planes stay in the air are fully correct”