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<title>From the neuron to the agent: what we learned when we tried to speak to machines</title><link>https://rossen.page/writing/neuron-to-agent/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rossen.page/writing/neuron-to-agent/</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Every technique for working with a language model is a scar.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language>
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<title>Metaprogramming:  An elegant weapon for a more civilized age</title><link>https://rossen.page/writing/metaprogramming/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rossen.page/writing/metaprogramming/</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>The thing about lightsabers, and the films rather skate over this, is that a Jedi has to build his own.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language>
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<title>The AI Apocalypse Won't Come From Superintelligence — It Will Come From Layoffs</title><link>https://rossen.page/writing/ai-apocalypse-layoffs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rossen.page/writing/ai-apocalypse-layoffs/</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>We spend an awful lot of time worrying about the wrong catastrophe.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language>
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<title>Mathematics is the most beautiful thing in the world. School made sure you'd never find out.</title><link>https://rossen.page/writing/mathematics-bg/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rossen.page/writing/mathematics-bg/</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Ask any adult if they love math. Eighty percent will say “no”.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language>
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<title>The Tyranny of Bureaucracy and the Heroic Individual</title><link>https://rossen.page/writing/bureaucracy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rossen.page/writing/bureaucracy/</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Look, it's not bloody complicated. When you have a society that prioritizes—and I mean really prioritizes—the creation of tangible value through disciplined…</description><dc:language>en</dc:language>
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<title>Dreaming in Code: Envisioning the Perfect Programming Language — DreamLang</title><link>https://rossen.page/writing/dreaming-in-code/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rossen.page/writing/dreaming-in-code/</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Programming languages are much like instruments; each has a unique voice, character, and purpose.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language>
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<title>Adopt GPT, or Be History!</title><link>https://rossen.page/writing/adopt-gpt/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rossen.page/writing/adopt-gpt/</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>In the timeless words of Charles Darwin, &quot;It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language>
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<title>Leadership Lessons for Business from The Art of War</title><link>https://rossen.page/writing/art-of-war/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rossen.page/writing/art-of-war/</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>In the competitive realm of business, wisdom from an unexpected source – the ancient military treatise, The Art of War by Sun Tzu – proves to be strikingly…</description><dc:language>en</dc:language>
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<title>The Hitchhiker's Guide to Artificial Intelligence</title><link>https://rossen.page/writing/hitchhikers-guide-ai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rossen.page/writing/hitchhikers-guide-ai/</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Good afternoon, ladies, gentlemen, and silicon-based lifeforms of all configurations.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language>
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<title>Erlang: The Curiously Strong Language Every Developer Should Learn</title><link>https://rossen.page/writing/erlang/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rossen.page/writing/erlang/</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Imagine, if you will, that you're standing on the bustling streets of London, faced with a myriad of transport choices to navigate the city.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language>
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<title>The Metamorphosis of Greatness: How Startups Transformed Through the Act of Pivoting</title><link>https://rossen.page/writing/pivoting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rossen.page/writing/pivoting/</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 May 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>&quot;I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language>
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<title>Redis: From a Simple Key-value Store to the One-stop Database Solution</title><link>https://rossen.page/writing/redis/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rossen.page/writing/redis/</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Redis, the in-memory data structure store, has come a long way from its humble beginnings as a simple key-value store.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language>
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<title>Unearthing the Hidden Genius of ChatGPT and its Ilk: A Lobster's Guide to AI Redemption</title><link>https://rossen.page/writing/lobsters-guide/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rossen.page/writing/lobsters-guide/</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>In response to Noam Chomsky's article &quot;The False Promise of ChatGPT&quot; where the eminent linguist casts a shadow of doubt over the potential of artificial…</description><dc:language>en</dc:language>
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<title>The Quantum Computing Tsunami: A Looming Threat to Cryptocurrency Security</title><link>https://rossen.page/writing/quantum-tsunami/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://rossen.page/writing/quantum-tsunami/</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2023 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description>Cryptocurrencies have taken the world by storm, promising decentralized financial systems, secure transactions, and anonymity.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language>
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