Arseny Khakhalin

@khakhalin.bsky.social

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Data Scientist in Berlin Head of Automation in incycling.ai Former Bard College prof For my after-work alter-ego, see @elstersen.bsky.social Support Ukraine! 🇺🇦

shades of brown (green to red technically, but still)
Before writing code, the agent stops at the first rung that holds: 1. Does this need to exist? → no: skip it (YAGNI) 2. Already in this codebase? → reuse it, don't rewrite 3. Stdlib does it? → use it 4. Native platform feature? → use it 5. Installed dependency? → use it 6. One line? → one line 7. Only then: the minimum that works
what the best college teachers do
Take this damnatio memore table. Make it into a meme. Two sides, left and right, this image on both sides. On left side, it goes as is, except on geta (erazed boy) we write in meme font "old code", on Caracalla (remaining boy) we write "new code", on top we write "What I want". On the right, same thing, but on top is written "What Claude does". On the image, Geta's face is present (use fayum portrait that I pasted above), but then crossed out. It's also labeled "old code", with Caracalla labeled "new code". And then the entire space around the circle is filled with semi-transparent faded versions of Geta (old code), including the semi-transparent label "old code". The joke is that Claude has extreme path dependency, and it always leaves mentions of old code in the docs, which is not hepful at all.Take this damnatio memore table. Make it into a meme. Two sides, left and right, this image on both sides. On left side, it goes as is, except on geta (erazed boy) we write in meme font "old code", on Caracalla (remaining boy) we write "new code", on top we write "What I want". On the right, same thing, but on top is written "What Claude does". On the image, Geta's face is present (use fayum portrait that I pasted above), but then crossed out. It's also labeled "old code", with Caracalla labeled "new code". And then the entire space around the circle is filled with semi-transparent faded versions of Geta (old code), including the semi-transparent label "old code". The joke is that Claude has extreme path dependency, and it always leaves mentions of old code in the docs, which is not hepful at all.
Claude on a whiteboard
Literally the same place a year ago. Trees.
Bornholmer street in Berlin
A photo of an office with sun shining right on my monitor that is on but you can't tell
Aice and Bob transparently communicating PRs in chat
Am i out of touch? No, it's pydantic that is too hard
An updated sankey diagram of my recent hiring
A sunkey diagram converging from 1000 applicants to 2 offers
People on bikes
have a good day! thanks, you too!
Formulas with emojis
Snufkin in a boat
a map of how strongly different parts of Europe are attached to the idea of Europe
Three books about sex with price tags placed right on poor women's behinds
Political compass but for Richard Dawkins
150 reviews deleted
a screenshot of how removed reviews look like
a map of Berlin with tiny logos on it
green-red scales
A map of how parliaments sit in diff countries. It turns out, quite a few sit in a classroom style =/
A dude sits in a chair as he started a new job, and this dude is me
A map showing that russia, us, italy, czechia, and bunch of other countries all endorsed Orban
Lego and Duplo Computers
is your internal calendar clockwise or counterclockwise?
france vs italy, population
Kettenschiff close-up
Kettenschiff on a postcard
the explanation of the hack
Claudelia Gptelia forking a repository
microtubules spaghetti
a map showing airplane routes...
A detailed justification for the mapping
Asked an LLM about how Urdu, Punjabi, Farsi and Pashto could "map" to European langauges, in terms of their closedness. In terms of how long, roughly, would it take a person knowing one tongue to learn another one, and how the diffrence is split between lexical and grammatical differences.
A complicated diagram of id situations
digger
alley cat from IBM
a map with photos of garbage and status for each photo, of whether it was reported
google doesn't endorse marriage through differentiation for constants and exponentials
an octopus
brains of diferent birds
The epic handshake meme about universe expanding and biological tissue growing both allowing local random changes to affect global structure
a sample screen output of termplotlib
German (Germany) or English (US), no English (Germany)
two posts, one dislikes bsky, another one likes it
a map of social media bans for kids
Travel Activities that increase the death risk by roughly one micromort, and their associated cause of death: Travelling 6 miles (9.7 km) by motorcycle (collision)[23] Travelling 17 miles (27 km) by walking (collision)[23] Travelling 10 miles (16 km)[24] or 20 miles (32 km)[23] by bicycle (collision)[a] Travelling 250 miles (370 km) by car (collision)[23] Travelling 1,000 miles (1,600 km) by jet airplane (collision)[24] Travelling 6,000 miles (10,000 km) by train (collision)[26]