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Simon Xiang

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  • The best general strategy I’ve come up with so far is trying hard to get tight feedback loops.I got the initial idea from a conversation with Bill Zito. In my mind this makes sense if you consider that programming is an engineering discipline and requires lots of structured experimentation. Running experiments is more successful if you get feedback on them faster.
    Becoming a Better Programmer by Tightening Feedback Loops
  • The devil is often in the details; if you think you understand a piece of mathematics, you should be able to back that up by having read all the relevant literature and having written down at least a sketch of how that piece of mathematics goes, and then ultimately writing up a complete and detailed treatment of the topic.
    Work hard | What's new
  • What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data.
    Curius / Onboarding