The hottest Substack posts of Rabbit Thoughts

And their main takeaways

Extremely Open Science

39 implied HN points • 17 Jan 24
🔬 Science Research Experiment Data
  1. The author will work on a scientific project completely in the open in 2024, streaming and recording sessions for an hour per week.
  2. The project aims to show the process from scratch to help junior researchers understand and learn from the experience of dealing with minor issues.
  3. The author is choosing a question for the project that can be followed along at home with just a personal laptop or desktop computer.

Technical Cantilevers

2 HN points • 10 Jan 24
🕹 Technology Software Engineering
  1. The term "technical cantilever" is proposed as a better alternative to "technical debt" in the context of software engineering.
  2. Software development can be categorized into three main aspects: foundation, internal libraries, and applications, each with varying levels of formal engineering and testing.
  3. A technical cantilever can function and extend smoothly until a point where it requires immense effort to further extend, unlike technical debt which accumulates gradually and can be paid down slowly.

Hostile regulators can still be right

0 implied HN points • 08 Jan 24
💼 Business Regulation Plagiarism
  1. Hostile regulators can still make correct decisions, like China grounding the 737 MAX.
  2. European car manufacturers and Volkswagen were caught falsifying Diesel emissions data.
  3. Facing accusations from adversarial parties, the President of Harvard faced backlash over plagiarism claims.