What to Learn in Programming
From this moment on an episode of the Lex Fridman podcast.
Languages
- Assembly
- C
- Python
- Haskell or other functional language (Scala is also good)
- Verilog
- Machine Learning, aka Programming 2.0, aka data-driven programming
- PyTorch
- my note: FastAI is an abstraction on top of PyTorch, taught in this well-reviewed course
Techniques
- write good tests that you can trust
- "It was impossible to make progress on the codebase [at Twitter]"
The Last Niche of Humanity
- "I think in two years I'm gonna start using these plugins a little bit, and then in five years I'm gonna be heavily relying on some AI augmented flow, and then in ten years [shrugs]"1
- "Our niche becomes... I think it's over for humans in general; it's not just programming, it's everything."2
- "The last remaining human currency is in [this short story]"
- my note: spoiler alert is that it's human misery, or more specifically the ability to cause another human to suffer – wtf George??
