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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
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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