A blog by Erty Seidohl
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I Wrote Crossword Software! In Haskell!
I’ve been posting the crossword puzzles I’ve been making on this blog. A fellow Recurse Center alum asked if I’d blogged about the software I wrote to help make these crosswords and I thought that was an interesting idea, so here we go! I’ll first do a high-level overview, and then we’ll dive into some…
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I made a Crossword! (Monday Nov 18, 2024)
Here’s a new crossword I made! This one has a “mini theme”, which you’ll find out as you solve it. This was one of the first ones I made, so there are a few one-letter clues, but zero “?” clues! I was chatting with my parents (who are crossword aficionados) and they mentioned that most…
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I Made a Crossword! (Sunday Nov 17, 2024)
Here’s my first attempt at creating a Sunday style crossword! It’s 17×17, which is larger than I’ve worked on before. Crossword 2024-11-17.pdf I give this one a 4/5! There’s no 1-square answers, and only a handful of “?” clues. (question mark = a real stretch). I’m pretty proud of it. Actually, there won’t be one-square…
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I Made a Crossword! (Saturday, Nov 16, 2024)
A while ago, I wrote some crossword puzzle creation software, and I had some time recently to create with it. So, here’s my crossword for Saturday, 2024-11-16! Crossword-2024-11-16.pdf I give this one a 3/5. There are a few single-letter clues and three “?” clues (Clues ending in “?” are a real stretch – basically, I…
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!!Con Mini-Postmortem
I was recently contacted by a researcher who was interested in studying “alt” events, like !!Con, and I wrote up some answers that I thought might be interesting to folks and worth preserving. Some of the questions are edited for brevity or style. These are also only my opinions and do not necessarily represent the…
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Aphantasia
I’m pretty sure I have aphantasia, but I’m not sure that I’ve always had it. Maybe my brain is weird! I’m writing this up just in case it’s interesting or helpful to someone else. If you haven’t heard of it before, aphantasia means the inability to visualize things. If someone presents me with the classic…
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CUDA – Four
I’ve been busy with other things, but I woke up early and decided to get some CUDA studying in. I did talk with the hiring manager for the position that I’m interested in, who (as I expected) clarified that I didn’t actually need to know CUDA for this position. I’m still interested, though I should…
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CUDA – Three
I ran a CUDA program 🙂 It was a rough experience 🙃 Honestly, getting started with pretty much any programming language involves a lot of banging your head against the toolchain, and slowly untangling old tutorials that reference things that don’t exist anymore. Honestly, this was easier than some python setups I’ve done before. I…
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CUDA – Two
I have an art sale coming up in three days, so I’m spending most of my focus time finishing up the inventory for that. But in my spare time between holding the baby and helping my older kid sell lemonade, I’ve started exploring a few of the topics I’m interested in from the previous post.…
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CUDA – One
First, some backstory. I was laid off from Google in January and I’ve taken the last six months off, mostly working on art glass and taking care of my kids (one of whom was just born in April, and is sleeping on my chest as I write this). I’m slowly starting to look for work…