Steven Klaiber-Noble
@snoble.bsky.social
I’ve studied math. I’ve studied actuarial science. I’ve worked in payments and e-commerce (but also retail and fast-food).
Currently working on ledger APIs at fragment.dev.
Father, Jewish, Canadian.
Currently working on ledger APIs at fragment.dev.
Father, Jewish, Canadian.
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Steven Klaiber-Noble
@snoble.bsky.social
· Nov 18
We need to change the emphasis of "evidence based policies"
from:
"policies that follow the best available evidence"
to:
"policies that generate the best possible evidence".
Experimentation >> observational analysis.
from:
"policies that follow the best available evidence"
to:
"policies that generate the best possible evidence".
Experimentation >> observational analysis.
Strange bedfellows on the pipeline MOU: Poilievre and progressive Carney defenders are making the exact same prediction from opposite directions. 🧵
November 28, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Strange bedfellows on the pipeline MOU: Poilievre and progressive Carney defenders are making the exact same prediction from opposite directions. 🧵
It was great to hear @dkthomp.bsky.social talk about the decline in math education on Plain English.
One thing they did not discuss is the way pedagogy and curriculum changes could be a cause. 🧵
One thing they did not discuss is the way pedagogy and curriculum changes could be a cause. 🧵
November 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
It was great to hear @dkthomp.bsky.social talk about the decline in math education on Plain English.
One thing they did not discuss is the way pedagogy and curriculum changes could be a cause. 🧵
One thing they did not discuss is the way pedagogy and curriculum changes could be a cause. 🧵
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Some years ago LA upzoned a single family area next to the Expo/Bundy station. 20 homeowners sold their property at huge profits to developers and now they’re turning into 600 new apartments.
Hopefully we’ll see projects like this all over the state in coming years now that SB79 has legalized them.
Hopefully we’ll see projects like this all over the state in coming years now that SB79 has legalized them.
Vertical construction underway for trio of apartment buildings near Expo/Bundy Station
Just south of Expo/Bundy Station in Sawtelle, the arrival of two orange tower cranes are the latest sign of progress on the construction of a trio of developments from Carmel Partners.
la.urbanize.city
November 17, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Some years ago LA upzoned a single family area next to the Expo/Bundy station. 20 homeowners sold their property at huge profits to developers and now they’re turning into 600 new apartments.
Hopefully we’ll see projects like this all over the state in coming years now that SB79 has legalized them.
Hopefully we’ll see projects like this all over the state in coming years now that SB79 has legalized them.
There is an educational philosophy that believes there is no value in kids learning how to do mathematical tasks that a computer or calculator can do.
What this philosophy misses is that we need people who can create these mathematical tasks. 1/2
What this philosophy misses is that we need people who can create these mathematical tasks. 1/2
November 17, 2025 at 8:07 AM
There is an educational philosophy that believes there is no value in kids learning how to do mathematical tasks that a computer or calculator can do.
What this philosophy misses is that we need people who can create these mathematical tasks. 1/2
What this philosophy misses is that we need people who can create these mathematical tasks. 1/2
Countries that test math performance and improve scores see massive economic returns.
Hanushek & Woessmann find half a standard deviation improvement in math test scores produces 1% higher GDP growth annually for 40 years.
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Hanushek & Woessmann find half a standard deviation improvement in math test scores produces 1% higher GDP growth annually for 40 years.
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Steven Klaiber-Noble on X: "Countries that test math performance and improve scores see massive economic returns. Hanushek & Woessmann find half a standard deviation improvement in math test scores produces 1% higher GDP growth annually for 40 years. “That 4.5% increment in GDP is equal to the total the" / X
Countries that test math performance and improve scores see massive economic returns. Hanushek & Woessmann find half a standard deviation improvement in math test scores produces 1% higher GDP growth annually for 40 years. “That 4.5% increment in GDP is equal to the total the
x.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Countries that test math performance and improve scores see massive economic returns.
Hanushek & Woessmann find half a standard deviation improvement in math test scores produces 1% higher GDP growth annually for 40 years.
x.com/snoble/statu...
1/2
Hanushek & Woessmann find half a standard deviation improvement in math test scores produces 1% higher GDP growth annually for 40 years.
x.com/snoble/statu...
1/2
Great piece from @kehyslop.bsky.social at @thetyee.ca about the pedagogical choices made in bc curriculum resulting in declining math and reading scores.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...
thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...
Math and Reading Scores Are Declining in BC. Why? | The Tyee
And what’s the fix? Second in a series.
thetyee.ca
October 23, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Great piece from @kehyslop.bsky.social at @thetyee.ca about the pedagogical choices made in bc curriculum resulting in declining math and reading scores.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...
thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...
The more I read about the science of teaching math the more it becomes clear how important constant testing and evaluation is for student success.
It is hard to appreciate just how much harm was done in reducing in testing because of reported testing anxiety.
It is hard to appreciate just how much harm was done in reducing in testing because of reported testing anxiety.
August 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The more I read about the science of teaching math the more it becomes clear how important constant testing and evaluation is for student success.
It is hard to appreciate just how much harm was done in reducing in testing because of reported testing anxiety.
It is hard to appreciate just how much harm was done in reducing in testing because of reported testing anxiety.
Does anybody else ever think about how in the early 2010s it seemed like stomp-clap was going to be a regular on the billboard charts, and then it just went away? Maybe @cmolanphy.bsky.social has written about this?
July 24, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Does anybody else ever think about how in the early 2010s it seemed like stomp-clap was going to be a regular on the billboard charts, and then it just went away? Maybe @cmolanphy.bsky.social has written about this?
I think a lot about how “I’ll fight for you” is a very common campaign slogan, but “I’ll carefully balance competing interests” isn’t.
July 9, 2025 at 5:34 AM
I think a lot about how “I’ll fight for you” is a very common campaign slogan, but “I’ll carefully balance competing interests” isn’t.
AI makes list making so much fun. Anyhow, here are some 80s albums for your consideration. claude.ai/public/artif...
Top 80s Albums by Category - Sub-Lists | Claude
Top 80s Albums by Category - Sub-Lists - Markdown document created with Claude.
claude.ai
June 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
AI makes list making so much fun. Anyhow, here are some 80s albums for your consideration. claude.ai/public/artif...
I want AI to curate my news feed, but not based on my lizard brain clicking on rage bait at 11pm. Give me personalization based on who I want to be, not who I am when I’m doom scrolling. The gap between my aspirational self and my impulse self is where I need a better product.
June 29, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I want AI to curate my news feed, but not based on my lizard brain clicking on rage bait at 11pm. Give me personalization based on who I want to be, not who I am when I’m doom scrolling. The gap between my aspirational self and my impulse self is where I need a better product.
Tax take: We should have a fine dining tax based on price per head.
If you’re paying over $200 a head for a meal you seem price insensitive to me. Charge a 50% sales tax on everything over $100 a head that all goes to the food bank.
If you’re paying over $200 a head for a meal you seem price insensitive to me. Charge a 50% sales tax on everything over $100 a head that all goes to the food bank.
June 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Tax take: We should have a fine dining tax based on price per head.
If you’re paying over $200 a head for a meal you seem price insensitive to me. Charge a 50% sales tax on everything over $100 a head that all goes to the food bank.
If you’re paying over $200 a head for a meal you seem price insensitive to me. Charge a 50% sales tax on everything over $100 a head that all goes to the food bank.
I got to thinking about how I get a lot of my taste into vibe coding sessions by way of .md files. I started to collect them all to share, and it got a little out of control and now I can share my personal best practices for vibe coding.
gist.github.com/snoble/874a4...
gist.github.com/snoble/874a4...
Vibe Coding Best Practices For One Person Projects
Vibe Coding Best Practices For One Person Projects - vibe-coding-best-practices-for-one.md
gist.github.com
June 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I got to thinking about how I get a lot of my taste into vibe coding sessions by way of .md files. I started to collect them all to share, and it got a little out of control and now I can share my personal best practices for vibe coding.
gist.github.com/snoble/874a4...
gist.github.com/snoble/874a4...
I was chatting to Claude about nvidia really being a Linear Algebra company and ended up with a nice timeline artifact. claude.ai/public/artif...
NVIDIA Linear Algebra Tweet Thread | Claude
NVIDIA Linear Algebra Tweet Thread - Markdown document created with Claude.
claude.ai
June 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I was chatting to Claude about nvidia really being a Linear Algebra company and ended up with a nice timeline artifact. claude.ai/public/artif...
Reposted by Steven Klaiber-Noble
Glad this passed.
Your regular reminder that housing is good, actually. People derive tremendous value from living in housing. We should allow more of it in more places. And make sure everyone has access to it.
Your regular reminder that housing is good, actually. People derive tremendous value from living in housing. We should allow more of it in more places. And make sure everyone has access to it.
Final Vancouver City Council vote on the exceptionally long Commercial Broadway CD re-zoning (just the most recent application here: www.shapeyourcity.ca/1780-e-broad... )
ABC approved
OneCity still eloquently pro-housing
COPE opposed (sigh)
Greens abstain (sigh)
ABC approved
OneCity still eloquently pro-housing
COPE opposed (sigh)
Greens abstain (sigh)
June 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Glad this passed.
Your regular reminder that housing is good, actually. People derive tremendous value from living in housing. We should allow more of it in more places. And make sure everyone has access to it.
Your regular reminder that housing is good, actually. People derive tremendous value from living in housing. We should allow more of it in more places. And make sure everyone has access to it.
For right now, and possibly for a long time, vibe coding produces much better results when you use lots of static analysis, testing, and general ci.
Coding platforms that can accommodate a lot of dev tools are going to be very valuable for a while.
Coding platforms that can accommodate a lot of dev tools are going to be very valuable for a while.
June 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
For right now, and possibly for a long time, vibe coding produces much better results when you use lots of static analysis, testing, and general ci.
Coding platforms that can accommodate a lot of dev tools are going to be very valuable for a while.
Coding platforms that can accommodate a lot of dev tools are going to be very valuable for a while.
My prediction is in the next few months we’re going to see a ton of bad data journalism as writers discover how willing ai is to do exactly the analysis you ask of it.
My hope is we will see ai tools emerge that able to identify and label the worst of it.
My hope is we will see ai tools emerge that able to identify and label the worst of it.
June 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
My prediction is in the next few months we’re going to see a ton of bad data journalism as writers discover how willing ai is to do exactly the analysis you ask of it.
My hope is we will see ai tools emerge that able to identify and label the worst of it.
My hope is we will see ai tools emerge that able to identify and label the worst of it.
Reposted by Steven Klaiber-Noble
Fun way to compress the history of zoning battles. Loving the phrase “Provincial Defibrillator” for our current stage in this saga. (The verdict is still out if the defibrillator will work to return life to our ability to respond to housing demand.)
I got chatgpt to transform 50 years of Vancouver zoning battles into a “Density Health Meter” — a visual timeline of how protests, policies, and new reforms shaped what the city can build.
📊🏘️ Read the full story on GitHub Gist: gist.github.com/snoble/8eea9...
📊🏘️ Read the full story on GitHub Gist: gist.github.com/snoble/8eea9...
Timeline narrative showing how neighbourhood activism, political decisions, and recent reforms shaped (and are reshaping) Vancouver’s capacity to add housing density, 1970 – 2023.
Timeline narrative showing how neighbourhood activism, political decisions, and recent reforms shaped (and are reshaping) Vancouver’s capacity to add housing density, 1970 – 2023. - vancouver-densi...
gist.github.com
June 8, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Fun way to compress the history of zoning battles. Loving the phrase “Provincial Defibrillator” for our current stage in this saga. (The verdict is still out if the defibrillator will work to return life to our ability to respond to housing demand.)
I should have called this the NIMBY history of Vancouver.
I got chatgpt to transform 50 years of Vancouver zoning battles into a “Density Health Meter” — a visual timeline of how protests, policies, and new reforms shaped what the city can build.
📊🏘️ Read the full story on GitHub Gist: gist.github.com/snoble/8eea9...
📊🏘️ Read the full story on GitHub Gist: gist.github.com/snoble/8eea9...
Timeline narrative showing how neighbourhood activism, political decisions, and recent reforms shaped (and are reshaping) Vancouver’s capacity to add housing density, 1970 – 2023.
Timeline narrative showing how neighbourhood activism, political decisions, and recent reforms shaped (and are reshaping) Vancouver’s capacity to add housing density, 1970 – 2023. - vancouver-densi...
gist.github.com
June 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I should have called this the NIMBY history of Vancouver.
I got chatgpt to transform 50 years of Vancouver zoning battles into a “Density Health Meter” — a visual timeline of how protests, policies, and new reforms shaped what the city can build.
📊🏘️ Read the full story on GitHub Gist: gist.github.com/snoble/8eea9...
📊🏘️ Read the full story on GitHub Gist: gist.github.com/snoble/8eea9...
Timeline narrative showing how neighbourhood activism, political decisions, and recent reforms shaped (and are reshaping) Vancouver’s capacity to add housing density, 1970 – 2023.
Timeline narrative showing how neighbourhood activism, political decisions, and recent reforms shaped (and are reshaping) Vancouver’s capacity to add housing density, 1970 – 2023. - vancouver-densi...
gist.github.com
June 7, 2025 at 3:49 AM
I got chatgpt to transform 50 years of Vancouver zoning battles into a “Density Health Meter” — a visual timeline of how protests, policies, and new reforms shaped what the city can build.
📊🏘️ Read the full story on GitHub Gist: gist.github.com/snoble/8eea9...
📊🏘️ Read the full story on GitHub Gist: gist.github.com/snoble/8eea9...
Reposted by Steven Klaiber-Noble
Building wallets used to be really hard. This article by @snoble.bsky.social demonstrating how Fragment makes it easy is really cool: www.linkedin.com/pulse/pairpr...
Pair‑Programming a Wallet on Fragment
How an LLM used Fragment to delete code I thought I had to write Me: "I want to build a wallet for my app. Can you help?" LLM: "Great, let's build a wallet! …But first—what *is* a wallet?" Me: "It's t...
www.linkedin.com
June 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Building wallets used to be really hard. This article by @snoble.bsky.social demonstrating how Fragment makes it easy is really cool: www.linkedin.com/pulse/pairpr...
I was chatting with chatgpt on how to make a fintech app on Fragment. I thought the conversation was pretty interesting so I asked it to turn our conversation into an essay. Naturally it swapped me into the role of Fragment neophyte and itself into the role of Fragment expert.
June 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I was chatting with chatgpt on how to make a fintech app on Fragment. I thought the conversation was pretty interesting so I asked it to turn our conversation into an essay. Naturally it swapped me into the role of Fragment neophyte and itself into the role of Fragment expert.
This is not the language to publicly post the day your party leader announces their new cabinet. All this does is confirms to decision makers in the party that they made the right choice leaving you out.
May 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This is not the language to publicly post the day your party leader announces their new cabinet. All this does is confirms to decision makers in the party that they made the right choice leaving you out.
I'm at stripe sessions next few days. I'll be at the fragment booth off and on. Let me know if you are here and want to say hi.
May 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I'm at stripe sessions next few days. I'll be at the fragment booth off and on. Let me know if you are here and want to say hi.
Seat deltas per province compared to 2021.
April 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Seat deltas per province compared to 2021.