Ty Overby
@tyoverby.com
Professional OCaml enjoyer.
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Views expressed therein are also those of your employer.
I’ve been a big fan of the sunk cost fallacy for a long time, and at this point it feels like it’s too late to change my mind
just started having recency bias and i love it. easily the best bias
November 5, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I’ve been a big fan of the sunk cost fallacy for a long time, and at this point it feels like it’s too late to change my mind
Today is a good day to virtue signal
October 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Today is a good day to virtue signal
Anyone know of a good resource for learning modern gpu programming (graphics and/or general purpose)? Books, video series, tutorials, etc…
October 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Anyone know of a good resource for learning modern gpu programming (graphics and/or general purpose)? Books, video series, tutorials, etc…
Claude code isn’t actually connected to an llm on the backend, it’s really routing problems to all the people doing Anthropic take-home interviews.
October 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Claude code isn’t actually connected to an llm on the backend, it’s really routing problems to all the people doing Anthropic take-home interviews.
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"psychological safety was the number one factor differentiating their best teams"
"When people are afraid to speak up, errors fester"
"When people are afraid to speak up, errors fester"
October 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"psychological safety was the number one factor differentiating their best teams"
"When people are afraid to speak up, errors fester"
"When people are afraid to speak up, errors fester"
Yesterday, after spending ~5 hours watching youtube shorts against my will, I finally deleted youtube off my phone. Turns out nebula.tv has ~90% of the videos that I want to watch, and 0% of the content that will trick my monkey brain into wasting an entire weekend.
September 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Yesterday, after spending ~5 hours watching youtube shorts against my will, I finally deleted youtube off my phone. Turns out nebula.tv has ~90% of the videos that I want to watch, and 0% of the content that will trick my monkey brain into wasting an entire weekend.
My favorite cafe in NYC changed all their lightbulbs from ~3,000K to ~6,000K. Why would they do this to me?!
September 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
My favorite cafe in NYC changed all their lightbulbs from ~3,000K to ~6,000K. Why would they do this to me?!
Dunno what’s wrong with y’all, I’m comprehending these manmade horrors just fine
September 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Dunno what’s wrong with y’all, I’m comprehending these manmade horrors just fine
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Very interesting post on how the non-profit Feeding America implemented an auction system with its own currency which massively improved allocation of food to food banks.
www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-market...
www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-market...
How market design can feed the poor
America's largest non-profit had a broken distribution system. University of Chicago economists fixed it.
www.worksinprogress.news
September 16, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Very interesting post on how the non-profit Feeding America implemented an auction system with its own currency which massively improved allocation of food to food banks.
www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-market...
www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-market...
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I lost it at the influencer blahaj
blahaj goes to waffle house at 3am
YouTube video by Atoga
www.youtube.com
August 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I lost it at the influencer blahaj
In Claude’s defense, I usually am absolutely right
August 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
In Claude’s defense, I usually am absolutely right
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Some responses to my favorite small-model question:
August 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Some responses to my favorite small-model question:
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That is a photo of Jonathan Blow, so A
In your mind, is this guy:
A) The Worst Person You Know, or
B) The guy who is broken hearted by the Worst Person You Know making a great point?
A) The Worst Person You Know, or
B) The guy who is broken hearted by the Worst Person You Know making a great point?
August 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
That is a photo of Jonathan Blow, so A
Happy 4th of July to all trauma surgeons!
July 4, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Happy 4th of July to all trauma surgeons!
Rich coming from Slim “it hadn’t actually occurred to me that one could just play baseball” Lim
My goal is for the entire programming languages community to recognize me for what I am: a massive jock
July 3, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Rich coming from Slim “it hadn’t actually occurred to me that one could just play baseball” Lim
Just me but I wouldn’t want to live my life in such a way where a single hungry deer could kill my whole family
taking a break from milking my anemic micro-cow to thresh the 126 individual stalks of wheat that make up the entirety of this year’s harvest
July 1, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Just me but I wouldn’t want to live my life in such a way where a single hungry deer could kill my whole family
Day 4 of the Oregon Programming Languages Summer School. Morale is running low. 20h of lectures and we haven't seen a programming language yet. Many fear that we won't find one before the rations run out. If we don't make it back, tell my cat I love her
June 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Day 4 of the Oregon Programming Languages Summer School. Morale is running low. 20h of lectures and we haven't seen a programming language yet. Many fear that we won't find one before the rations run out. If we don't make it back, tell my cat I love her
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I watched this video years ago and I got extremely convinced by it (demo at 1min) youtu.be/vOvQCPLkPt4?...
Applied Sciences Group: High Performance Touch
YouTube video by Microsoft Research
youtu.be
June 26, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I watched this video years ago and I got extremely convinced by it (demo at 1min) youtu.be/vOvQCPLkPt4?...
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the reason I dislike DLSS and similar technologies are because I have a dream of computers being extremely low latency and this stuff feels like just more distractions and complications along the way
fascinated by the ontology in which certain frames in video games are fake and others real
As a gamer(TM), we already hated things like this. AI has gotten so embedded in computing that our GPUs make FAKE frames, just so they can say their new cards are better.
June 26, 2025 at 8:05 AM
the reason I dislike DLSS and similar technologies are because I have a dream of computers being extremely low latency and this stuff feels like just more distractions and complications along the way
Maybe another way to phrase this question would be something like:
"Learning C is a reasonably good way to understand the computational capabilities and best practices for programming an old CPU.
What what a language look like to do the same for modern CPUs or GPUs?"
"Learning C is a reasonably good way to understand the computational capabilities and best practices for programming an old CPU.
What what a language look like to do the same for modern CPUs or GPUs?"
People often say things like "C is only a low-level programming if you're compiling for a PDP-11", so what would a low-level programming language look like for modern CPU?
What would a low-level programming language look like for GPUs?
What would a low-level programming language look like for GPUs?
June 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Maybe another way to phrase this question would be something like:
"Learning C is a reasonably good way to understand the computational capabilities and best practices for programming an old CPU.
What what a language look like to do the same for modern CPUs or GPUs?"
"Learning C is a reasonably good way to understand the computational capabilities and best practices for programming an old CPU.
What what a language look like to do the same for modern CPUs or GPUs?"
People often say things like "C is only a low-level programming if you're compiling for a PDP-11", so what would a low-level programming language look like for modern CPU?
What would a low-level programming language look like for GPUs?
What would a low-level programming language look like for GPUs?
June 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
People often say things like "C is only a low-level programming if you're compiling for a PDP-11", so what would a low-level programming language look like for modern CPU?
What would a low-level programming language look like for GPUs?
What would a low-level programming language look like for GPUs?