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Aaron Decker (enjoyer of technology)

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The Value of Information at the Edges of AI Knowledge

The Singularity Already Happened for Dogs and They Seem Fine

Stop blackpilling, stop dooming, forget p(doom), and learn to love building GPT wrappers

It's 2025 But Is It 1995 or 1998?

Trend Reversal - Developed Economies Poised to Reap Greater AI/Automation Benefits

My Thoughts on AI Progress and Alignment (April 2025)

Making the product sing

Hallucination Yield or LLM Market Premium?

New Technologies and Promising Companies for 2024

Information Gradients Lead to Technocapital Sinks

Creating Potently Agentic Individually Aligned Models

The human credulity defense is in finite supply.

How I built Bounty's internal customer service tools using Retool

Evenly spreading scheduled job load across hourly time buckets

The Semantic Search Engine and Unsupervised Learning Powering Saymore.ai

Divide & Conquer - Musk's Attention Hack for Startup Founders

Attention in the Western Hemisphere is a Gaussian Beam

Bounty's Engineering Org Guiding Principles

UUIDs are so much better than autoincrementing ids and it's not even close

Organizational Hierarchy as a Hidden Markov Model - For Sales

Building a (software) engineering organization one year in.

Bureaucracy navigation as a service startup ideas

Concerned about the world? Ask GPT-3!

Sobol's Daemon is Alive

Doing A Good Code Review Should Be Simple

The Great American Melt Up

An Introduction To Ultra Long Term Trend Following

Wait For The Crash And Pick Up The Pieces

All Markets Are A Dark Forest

Predicting What Will Happen in 2021

Testing A Simple "Buy The Dip" Alpaca System (4 Months In)

"Donnie Pump" a Presidential Press Conference Trading System.

Buy Boeing, Sell Boeing?

Selling People What They Want, Not What They Need

Why You Can't Narrow "any" in TypeScript

Adding Jest To Sharepoint Framework React Sites in 2020

How I Built A Custom Art Commissions Site In 2019

The Pros and Cons of Various Secret Storage Systems

Evidence of Diminishing Attention Span of YouTubers

How Does Sector Rebalancing Impact Returns?

The Basic Math of Trading for Income

One Week Side Project Ideas

My First Attempt At Systematic Trading Algorithms

One to Three month side-project ideas list

React Native Android app as a Module

Kubernetes HPA uses cpu.request not cpu.limit

React Redux Mega Tutorial

Raspberry Pi Packet Capturer

Introducing Submittal Extractor

The State of Node Debugging

When to use Object Pooling in Java

Positive Risk Exposure

Looking back at my 2016 Reading List

Algorithmic Trading Experiments With Cryptocurrency

Shutting Down Trollboxarchive

Software Project Premortems

Correlating Sentiment with Bitcoin Prices

Generating Signed Access Tokens (HMAC)

Yarn vs npm one week in

6 months of pair programming

How npm scripts really work

Finding Freelance Development Work

Version Control and Git For New Developers

Generating Ideas For Software Projects

5 ES2015 Features You Should Use Today

The First 3 Things to Discuss With a Prospective Freelance Web Developer

Web Push Notifications with Web Workers

Making npm install faster

Computer Science for the Self Taught Programmer

The increasing commoditization of downmarket web development

git tip: replace your master branch with a fresh copy from upstream

How to wrap console.log in-place with a prefix

JavaScript constants using Object.defineProperty

Calling "forEach" on array-like objects (e.g. arguments).

Gigabyte GA-H170-GAMING 3 motherboard Audio and Linux

Fun with semicolons in JavaScript

Jasmine - spyOn().and.callThrough() argument mutability

MongoDB Full-text Search Default Oddities

Android 4.1 and 4.2, GPU rendering and DOM not repainting

HTML5 Number Input validation is perturbing

Searching Sphinx From PHP

Full text search with Sphinx and MySQL InnoDB

Microsoft AD LDAP authentication via Apache2

LCD and Arduino