Archive - newsletter.param.codes

great by choice

what makes 10x companies different?

Jan 13 •

July 2024

simple key value server in go

Distributed Systems #2

Jul 13, 2024 •

mapreduce from scratch in go

Distributed Systems #1

Jul 7, 2024 •

June 2023

Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center

Excerpts from a great biography.

Jun 5, 2023 •

May 2023

Continuing simulations.

Dev log for my implementation of generative simulacra.

May 21, 2023 •

Thinking about simulations.

Thoughts on simulations and their impact in the near/far future.

May 14, 2023 •

April 2023

Embeddings and latent factors

Magical vectors that blow my mind.

Apr 30, 2023 •

Decision trees and random forests

Introduction to some pretty simple and intuitive classification algorithms

Apr 23, 2023 •

Infinite adventures with AI

I’ve been building adventures.param.codes for the last few weeks.

Apr 16, 2023 •

The Making of Prince of Persia

Jordan Mechner's journal is the best thing I've read this year (so far).

Apr 10, 2023 •

March 2023

The Contrasting Personalities of John Carmack and John Romero in Masters of Doom

(or how I became a John Carmack fanboy this week)

Mar 25, 2023 •

AI generated text-based adventures

Running a crowd-sourced adventure generated by ChatGPT on Twitter

Mar 19, 2023 •

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