Jacob Tan EnHow the ego creeps into a technical discussionDespite full agreement on superficial/immediate technical facts/factors, each engineer may subjectively assign a different…Oct 12Oct 12
Jacob Tan EnOriginal thought is incompatible with subject-based standardised testing (under time pressure)Original thought, i.e. independently solving an unfamiliar problem, is like graph search in an unfamiliar “problem state space” (see video…Jan 18Jan 18
Jacob Tan EnAGI, triangle of meaning, Plato’s Caveoriginal written at https://twitter.com/jacob_tan_en/status/1639636441171992579Mar 25, 2023Mar 25, 2023
Jacob Tan EnVS Code bracket pair colorsVS Code has a fast native implementation of bracket pair colorizationJul 29, 2022Jul 29, 2022
Jacob Tan Enexport ban and price ceiling hurts businessMalaysian chicken industry players say export ban will hurt business; urge government to review price ceilingMay 27, 2022May 27, 2022
Jacob Tan EnKeyboard layouts: qwerty vs dvorakMax typing speed: no significant difference.Apr 7, 2021Apr 7, 2021
Jacob Tan EnSocial media value propositions of Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, TikTokTwitter (1) forced concision (2) public audience & assymetric (non-mutual follow) by default (2→3) follow people smarter than you in…Feb 18, 2021Feb 18, 2021
Jacob Tan EnAccepting the state of being stuckHow a world-class mathematician solves problems.Jan 27, 2021Jan 27, 2021
Jacob Tan EnHaskell: derive (>>=) via fmap and join(Demonstrating mathematical thinking. And why some basic abstract maths knowledge is a pre-requisite to properly understanding Haskell…Jan 25, 2021Jan 25, 2021
Jacob Tan EnLearning (autodidacting)Related: « Learning: “good stuck” vs “bad stuck” »Jan 24, 2021Jan 24, 2021
