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Steven Klaiber-Noble

@snoble.bsky.social
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I’ve studied math. I’ve studied actuarial science. I’ve worked in payments and e-commerce (but also retail and fast-food). Currently working on ledger APIs at fragment.dev. Father, Jewish, Canadian.

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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Going forward, a programming language optimized for analyzability beats one optimized for human ergonomics.
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Great article from The Argument on the broken state of math education in America and how to improve. Also applies to Canada. www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-great-...
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The great American math collapse
We've erased two decades of progress in math.
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Ken Acks @costbenefitkmaacks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The great American math collapse - by Kelsey Piper www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-great-...
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The great American math collapse
We've erased two decades of progress in math.
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 30/05/2026
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There is no reconciliation without truth
The undeniable reality of crimes committed against Indigenous children at residential schools does not automatically validate claims of hundreds of unmarked graves
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Michael Geist @mgeist.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Signal is now warning that it could exit Canada over Bill C-22. The government has called Signal, Apple, Meta, US Congress, and cybersecurity experts all wrong. But this isn't a bluff. Canadians will lose access to secure services if the bill passes as is.
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Bill C-22’s Groundhog Day: Why the Government’s Dismissal of Signal, Apple and the U.S. Congress Concerns Runs Back the Disastrous Online News Act Playbook - Michael Geist
Secure messaging service Signal yesterday became the latest company to warn that Bill C-22, the lawful access bill, could force it to leave the Canadian market rather than comply with provisions it…
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 01/03/2026
the us and israel attacked iran. why now and what comes next? i break down the decision, the risks of escalation, and what to watch.
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The Attack on Iran — Why Now? | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer
YouTube video by TED
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
If I were a journalism entrepreneur I would be thinking a lot about data journalism right now. AI has just made it dramatically easier and faster to collect, analyze, and present data. Including implementing creative presentations; not just conventionalb charts.
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
It's very frustrating that there's a movement that has had decades long success at reducing testing from math education in the US and Canada and not only is there barely anyone resisting, barely anyone knows the movement exist.
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Michael Geist @mgeist.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
“What began as chants has crossed into intimidation. What is excused as advocacy now routinely crosses into harassment, disruption and outright antisemitism, playing out openly from places like the Eaton Centre to university campuses across the country." nationalpost.com/opinion/cana...
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Harley Finkelstein: Canadian Jews are being targeted simply because they are Jewish
Celebrations of Jewish life that have nothing to do with Israel are being disrupted as the nation stands idly by
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National Post @nationalpost.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Celebrations of Jewish life that have nothing to do with Israel are being disrupted as the nation stands idly by, writes Harley Finkelstein nationalpost.com/opinion/cana...
nationalpost.com
Harley Finkelstein: Canadian Jews are being targeted simply because they are Jewish
Celebrations of Jewish life that have nothing to do with Israel are being disrupted as the nation stands idly by
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Strange bedfellows on the pipeline MOU: Poilievre and progressive Carney defenders are making the exact same prediction from opposite directions. 🧵
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
It was great to hear @dkthomp.bsky.social talk about the decline in math education on Plain English. One thing they did not discuss is the way pedagogy and curriculum changes could be a cause. 🧵
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 17/11/2025
Some years ago LA upzoned a single family area next to the Expo/Bundy station. 20 homeowners sold their property at huge profits to developers and now they’re turning into 600 new apartments. Hopefully we’ll see projects like this all over the state in coming years now that SB79 has legalized them.
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Vertical construction underway for trio of apartment buildings near Expo/Bundy Station
Just south of Expo/Bundy Station in Sawtelle, the arrival of two orange tower cranes are the latest sign of progress on the construction of a trio of developments from Carmel Partners.
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
There is an educational philosophy that believes there is no value in kids learning how to do mathematical tasks that a computer or calculator can do. What this philosophy misses is that we need people who can create these mathematical tasks. 1/2
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Countries that test math performance and improve scores see massive economic returns. Hanushek & Woessmann find half a standard deviation improvement in math test scores produces 1% higher GDP growth annually for 40 years. x.com/snoble/statu... 1/2
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Steven Klaiber-Noble on X: "Countries that test math performance and improve scores see massive economic returns. Hanushek & Woessmann find half a standard deviation improvement in math test scores produces 1% higher GDP growth annually for 40 years. “That 4.5% increment in GDP is equal to the total the" / X
Countries that test math performance and improve scores see massive economic returns. Hanushek & Woessmann find half a standard deviation improvement in math test scores produces 1% higher GDP growth annually for 40 years. “That 4.5% increment in GDP is equal to the total the
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Great piece from @kehyslop.bsky.social at @thetyee.ca about the pedagogical choices made in bc curriculum resulting in declining math and reading scores. thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...
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Math and Reading Scores Are Declining in BC. Why? | The Tyee
And what’s the fix? Second in a series.
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
The more I read about the science of teaching math the more it becomes clear how important constant testing and evaluation is for student success. It is hard to appreciate just how much harm was done in reducing in testing because of reported testing anxiety.
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Does anybody else ever think about how in the early 2010s it seemed like stomp-clap was going to be a regular on the billboard charts, and then it just went away? Maybe @cmolanphy.bsky.social has written about this?
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I think a lot about how “I’ll fight for you” is a very common campaign slogan, but “I’ll carefully balance competing interests” isn’t.
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
AI makes list making so much fun. Anyhow, here are some 80s albums for your consideration. claude.ai/public/artif...
claude.ai
Top 80s Albums by Category - Sub-Lists | Claude
Top 80s Albums by Category - Sub-Lists - Markdown document created with Claude.
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
I want AI to curate my news feed, but not based on my lizard brain clicking on rage bait at 11pm. Give me personalization based on who I want to be, not who I am when I’m doom scrolling. The gap between my aspirational self and my impulse self is where I need a better product.
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Tax take: We should have a fine dining tax based on price per head. If you’re paying over $200 a head for a meal you seem price insensitive to me. Charge a 50% sales tax on everything over $100 a head that all goes to the food bank.
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I got to thinking about how I get a lot of my taste into vibe coding sessions by way of .md files. I started to collect them all to share, and it got a little out of control and now I can share my personal best practices for vibe coding. gist.github.com/snoble/874a4...
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Vibe Coding Best Practices For One Person Projects
Vibe Coding Best Practices For One Person Projects - vibe-coding-best-practices-for-one.md
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I was chatting to Claude about nvidia really being a Linear Algebra company and ended up with a nice timeline artifact. claude.ai/public/artif...
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NVIDIA Linear Algebra Tweet Thread | Claude
NVIDIA Linear Algebra Tweet Thread - Markdown document created with Claude.
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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Glad this passed. Your regular reminder that housing is good, actually. People derive tremendous value from living in housing. We should allow more of it in more places. And make sure everyone has access to it.
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
For right now, and possibly for a long time, vibe coding produces much better results when you use lots of static analysis, testing, and general ci. Coding platforms that can accommodate a lot of dev tools are going to be very valuable for a while.
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
My prediction is in the next few months we’re going to see a ton of bad data journalism as writers discover how willing ai is to do exactly the analysis you ask of it. My hope is we will see ai tools emerge that able to identify and label the worst of it.
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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Fun way to compress the history of zoning battles. Loving the phrase “Provincial Defibrillator” for our current stage in this saga. (The verdict is still out if the defibrillator will work to return life to our ability to respond to housing demand.)
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
I should have called this the NIMBY history of Vancouver.
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
I got chatgpt to transform 50 years of Vancouver zoning battles into a “Density Health Meter” — a visual timeline of how protests, policies, and new reforms shaped what the city can build. 📊🏘️ Read the full story on GitHub Gist: gist.github.com/snoble/8eea9...
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Timeline narrative showing how neighbourhood activism, political decisions, and recent reforms shaped (and are reshaping) Vancouver’s capacity to add housing density, 1970 – 2023.
Timeline narrative showing how neighbourhood activism, political decisions, and recent reforms shaped (and are reshaping) Vancouver’s capacity to add housing density, 1970 – 2023. - vancouver-densi...
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Jamu Kakar @jkakar.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Building wallets used to be really hard. This article by @snoble.bsky.social demonstrating how Fragment makes it easy is really cool: www.linkedin.com/pulse/pairpr...
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Pair‑Programming a Wallet on Fragment
How an LLM used Fragment to delete code I thought I had to write Me: "I want to build a wallet for my app. Can you help?" LLM: "Great, let's build a wallet! …But first—what *is* a wallet?" Me: "It's t...
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I was chatting with chatgpt on how to make a fintech app on Fragment. I thought the conversation was pretty interesting so I asked it to turn our conversation into an essay. Naturally it swapped me into the role of Fragment neophyte and itself into the role of Fragment expert.
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
This is not the language to publicly post the day your party leader announces their new cabinet. All this does is confirms to decision makers in the party that they made the right choice leaving you out.
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I'm at stripe sessions next few days. I'll be at the fragment booth off and on. Let me know if you are here and want to say hi.
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Seat deltas per province compared to 2021.
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fragment.dev @fragment.dev · 29/04/2025
We’re hosting a happy hour event at #stripesessions If you want to see what it’s like inside the mind of a ledger, come check it out. lu.ma/fragment-ses...
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I asked o3 to come up with predicted net flows between parties in today's election. Not a lot of net movement between the leftwing and rightwing parties. Suggests that if we have much of a centre-voter that moves back and forth that they zeroed each other out on net.
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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Now that the CPC platform is out, I can post an update to the debt/GDP trajectories. The CPC document includes assumed revenue gains that many, including me, find dubious. So, I've put lines showing their numbers with/without the assumed revenue gains. I'm using PBO GDP as demominator.
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
If I were to try to succinctly distinguish between the core messages of Carney and Poilievre I’d say that Carney’s message is “I know how the world works” and Poilievre’s is “I’m listening to Canadians’ concerns”. I think both have an audience. And both should adopt the other’s message more.
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Is Mark Carney still the board chair for Bloomberg LP? @canadaland.com you’ve been reporting on his career. Is there a clear answer?
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Has anyone made an agent that adds more property based tests to your PRs to cover more edge cases of your code change?
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Property based testing is so good. Just wiped my database at the end of a non-property test and added a property component where the writes happen in any order should result in the same final outcome. found a bug. no reviewer would have ever caught this thing.
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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Ben Matasar @matasar.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Stocks falling can also cause some additional bad things.
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The thing to remember is stocks falling isn’t the bad thing. Stocks falling is predicting the bad thing.
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Does everybody understand what dead weight loss is yet? Can we all draw the triangle with a blind fold on?
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Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
One reason people hate YIMBYs and development is because rent control ends up as a volatile investment for renters. It's an investment because it pays to the renter an increasing dividend over time in that it lets them pay past market rent prices for current market housing. 1/
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