miniblog.

I'm fascinated to learn that people are discovering weaknesses in state-of-the-art bots for playing Go, such that a novice player can reliably win: https://goattack.far.ai/human-evaluation This suggests that self-play doesn't always generalise: it's not sufficient to beat earlier versions.

Explaining syntax-aware diffing is tricky, so I'm trying to add some compelling screenshots to the difftastic readme. They need to demonstrate weaknesses in text diffing, and be small enough to be mobile friendly. Here's the current examples.

Thoughtful criticism of postgresql and its weaknesses (mostly in clustering): https://medium.com/@rbranson/10-things-i-hate-about-postgresql-20dbab8c2791