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Caterina Mammola

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  • Think of staging as directing a film. You're not just showing information you're manipulating attention.
    12 Principles of Animation
  • In 2011, an elderly Georgian woman was scavenging for copper to sell as scrap when she accidentally sliced through an underground fiber cable with her spade and cut off internet services to all of neighboring Armenia.
    Russia Developing New Underwater Drones to Target Internet Cables
  • Uncertainty about your values and the best actions for them is so painful and intractable that, upon for the first time exiting the cave aged 22, most people instantly find a new cave to hide in. (Ok, maybe the 22 year old who makes this decision isn’t fully informed of the gravity of their decision.)
    What's stopping you?
  • But even if Plath missed a day of her writing exercises, it was this ambition that set her up for a meteoric rise. Perhaps the point was not necessarily the daily ritual, but the attempt at one. I wish I could travel back in time to tell Plath not to be so hard on herself. In fact, I wish I could do the same for all of the resolute figures in this essay. And yet, what I perceive as kindness could turn out to be counterproductive. It seems that ambition requires a certain productive dissatisfaction. At the very least then, I’d say this: failed resolutions are merely the sign of ambition. Keep f…
    The Paradox of Failed Resolutions - by Jillian Hess - Noted
  • After all, many of the “psychotic” adaptations are common in toddlers, and the “immature” adaptations are essential in later childhood, and they often fade with maturity. As adolescents, the Grant Study men were twice as likely to use immature defenses as mature ones, but in middle life they were four times as likely to use mature defenses—and the progress continued into old age. When they were between 50 and 75, Vaillant found, altruism and humor grew more prevalent, while all the immature defenses grew more rare. This means that a glimpse of any one moment in a life can be deeply misleading.…
    What Makes Us Happy? - The Atlantic
  • You're not a machine. You're a person. Play to your strengths. Be sharp and strategic like a scalpel, not blunt like a mallet. Stop fetishizing the grind. Dream bigger. You aren't a stupid blunt tool. Stop acting like one.
    Becoming the Machine | Armeet Singh Jatyani
  • clever use of recursion allows you to iterate in much more complex ways than a simple loop. it is much easier, for instance, to continuously subdivide a group to perform some task on the subsets with recursion than with looping. various means of sorting collections, or searching for items in complicated nested hierarchies, are naturally suited to being subdivided or accumulated in this manner
    how I think when I think about programming - alice maz
  • A book is a mental model that an author explains through words, paragraphs, pages, and carefully structured chapters, all in a linear way. But real knowledge is non-linear, and it’s your job as a profound reader to read between the lines, in order to discover what this mental model might look like in a way that makes the most sense to you.
    How To Understand More of What You Reading - by Craig Perry
  • Normally, React preserves the state when the same component is rendered in the same spot. By passing userId as a key to the Profile component, you’re asking React to treat two Profile components with different userId as two different components that should not share any state. Whenever the key (which you’ve set to userId) changes, React will recreate the DOM and reset the state of the Profile component and all of its children
    You Might Not Need an Effect – React
  • A state variable’s value never changes within a render, even if its event handler’s code is asynchronous. Inside that render’s onClick, the value of number continues to be 0 even after setNumber(number + 5) was called. Its value was “fixed” when React “took the snapshot” of the UI by calling your component.
    State as a Snapshot – React
  • This mirrors prior work showing steep drops when test complexity exceeds training com- plexity (Dziri et al., 2023; Lee et al., 2025), and suggests that current LRMs remain tightly bound to their training distribution rather than exhibiting robust, human-like generalization
    Reasoning Models Reason Well, Until They Don't
  • in NLGraph-hard , the ex- pected lookahead of NLGraph-hard examples is bounded by ∼ 1 .
    Reasoning Models Reason Well, Until They Don't
  • use the lookahead metric L from Saparov et al. (2025) to measure the complexity of this task, which is defined as the number of BFS iterations required to determine the next correct node along the path from the start node to the goal nod
    Reasoning Models Reason Well, Until They Don't