OHAC 56: Put It On a Flashcard

Operation: Have a Conversation

function: write OHAC show description inputs: general theme, unused title ideas outputs: the most descriptor there ever was copy in description from last episode // (Note: if the general theme from last episode is too esoteric, try the episode before that one) let wittiness equal base level while wittiness is below witty threshold: modify some lines to better fit general theme //(Note: this generally proceeds top to bottom, but there is no way to be sure in advance) for each unused title idea: make niche joke evaluate is the reference recognizable? //(Note: the result doesn’t necessarily have bearing on the inclusion of niche joke, but is good to keep in mind) if tired: lower witty threshold //(Note: the magnitude of this reduction is proportional to the value of tired) evaluate wittiness realize how ridiculous it is to put pseudocode in a podcast description evaluate what are you doing with your life? return descriptor 

Subscribe on iTunes or your favorite podcast app!

Listen on Spotify!

Discuss this episode on reddit.

SHOW NOTES

VOCOlinc FLOWERBUD SMART DIFFUSER Quick Start Manual

Keychron Q10 Keyboard

Keychron K10 Keyboard

Kinesis Advantage 360 Professional Split Ergonomic Keyboard

Microsoft Sculpt Keyboard

CharaChorder One

Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 | Wikipedia

xkcd: Eclipse Coolness

Total Solar Eclipses Worldwide – Next 10 Years

Spark app | Positive Grid

Spark amp app interface

Python bug tracker – Issue17560: problem using multiprocessing with really big objects? | 2,147,483,648 = 2³¹

Arc Browser

Tree Style Tab for Firefox

Tree style tabs in Firefox

Tree Style Tab: Google accounts in containers

Tree Style Tab: Pinned tabs

Custom CSS To Remove Horizontal Tabs in macOS Firefox

Playball CLI – terminal app

React – JavaScript library

John Carmack on Lex Fridman podcast

Podcast of Unnecessary Detail: Series 3 Episode 4

Doom code on GitHub

Fast inverse square root | Wikipedia

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)

Structured Query Language (SQL) | Wikipedia

Bash (Unix Shell) | Wikipedia

Pseudocode | Wikipedia

Matplotlib – Visualization with Python

Playdate – handheld console

Application Programming Interface (API) | Wikipedia

Visual Studio Code (VSCode)

Neovim – text editor

VSCodium – Open Source Binaries of VSCode

GitHub Copilot

UofT Climate Impacts Hackathon

ChatGPT | OpenAI

Gemini | Google

Claude | Anthropic

Marc Andreessen | Wikipedia

Netscape | Wikipedia

Mosaic (web browser) | Wikipedia

Yang et al. “Large Language Models as Optimizers” | arXiv (take a deep breath)

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream | Wikipedia

ssh-agent not getting set up (SSH_AUTH_SOCK, SSH_AGENT_PID env vars not set) | StackExchange

Zettlekasten

Obsidian

pandas – Python Data Analysis Library

Haskell Language

Rust Programming Language

What They Teach You at Harvard Business School by Philip Delves Broughton

What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School by Mark H. McCormack

So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport