Gwern Branwen's website.

One thing that annoys Ciro Santilli about that website are the footnote overload. Ciro likes linear things.

TODO find the best source for the amazing "I have done your mother" quote.

Ah, the Holy Grail of both biology and computer science!

Ciro Santilli feels it is not for his generation though, and that is one of the philosophical things that saddens him the most in this world.

On the other hand, Ciro's playing with the Linux kernel and other complex software which no single human can every fully understand cheer him up a bit. But still, the high level view, that we can have...

For now, Ciro's 2D reinforcement learning games.

After removing it:

Of course, we already knew that minimal plaster work would be needed from the start, since we have to hammer two small nails into the wall. But that level of damage might have been easily dealt with by a non-professional tenant himself. But the level I had was a bit more than I felt I should handle myself.

By cranks:

This script tests all executables under a selected directory.

Ciro Santilli has been writing scripts of that type for a long time in order to test his programming self-learning setups with asserts.

The most advanced of those being the test system of Linux Kernel Module Cheat.

But had too much stuff that would be specific to that project, so Ciro decided to start this new one in Node.js, hopefully it will also be the last he ever writes.

A sample usage of the test library can be seen at: nodejs/sequelize/test.

This is a good approach. The downside is that while you are developing the implementation and testing interactively you might notice that the requirements are wrong, and then the tests have to change.

One intermediate approach Ciro Santilli likes is to do the implementation and be happy with interactive usage, then create the test, make it pass, then remove the code that would make it pass, and see it fail. This does have a risk that you will forget to test something, but Ciro finds it is a worth it generally. Unless it really is one of those features that you are unable to develop without an automated test, generally more "logical/mathematical" stuff. This is a sort of laziness Driven Development.

See: math.stackexchange.com/questions/579453/real-world-application-of-fourier-series/3729366#3729366

Some blogs:

Also resonates with backward design.