Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Going forward, a programming language optimized for analyzability beats one optimized for human ergonomics. 010
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Great 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-...theargumentmag.comThe great American math collapseWe've erased two decades of progress in math. 000
Reposted by Steven Klaiber-NobleKen Acks @costbenefitkmaacks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026The great American math collapse - by Kelsey Piper www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-great-...theargumentmag.comThe great American math collapseWe've erased two decades of progress in math. 011
Reposted by Steven Klaiber-NobleThe Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 30/05/2026theglobeandmail.comThere is no reconciliation without truthThe undeniable reality of crimes committed against Indigenous children at residential schools does not automatically validate claims of hundreds of unmarked graves 1168
Reposted by Steven Klaiber-NobleMichael Geist @mgeist.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Signal 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.michaelgeist.caBill 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 GeistSecure 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… 02923
Reposted by Steven Klaiber-Nobleian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 01/03/2026the us and israel attacked iran. why now and what comes next? i break down the decision, the risks of escalation, and what to watch.youtu.beThe Attack on Iran — Why Now? | TED Explains the World with Ian BremmerYouTube video by TED 76617
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 04/01/2026If 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. 130
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 01/01/2026It'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. 000
Reposted by Steven Klaiber-NobleMichael 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...nationalpost.comHarley Finkelstein: Canadian Jews are being targeted simply because they are JewishCelebrations of Jewish life that have nothing to do with Israel are being disrupted as the nation stands idly by 173
Reposted by Steven Klaiber-NobleNational Post @nationalpost.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Celebrations 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.comHarley Finkelstein: Canadian Jews are being targeted simply because they are JewishCelebrations of Jewish life that have nothing to do with Israel are being disrupted as the nation stands idly by 011
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Strange bedfellows on the pipeline MOU: Poilievre and progressive Carney defenders are making the exact same prediction from opposite directions. 🧵 110
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 21/11/2025It 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. 🧵 100
Reposted by Steven Klaiber-NobleMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 17/11/2025Some 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.la.urbanize.cityVertical construction underway for trio of apartment buildings near Expo/Bundy StationJust 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. 312519
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 17/11/2025There 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. 1/2 120
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Countries 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... 1/2x.comSteven 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" / XCountries 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 110
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Great 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...thetyee.caMath and Reading Scores Are Declining in BC. Why? | The TyeeAnd what’s the fix? Second in a series. 065
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 23/08/2025The 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. 020
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Does 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? 100
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 09/07/2025I 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. 000
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 30/06/2025AI makes list making so much fun. Anyhow, here are some 80s albums for your consideration. claude.ai/public/artif...claude.aiTop 80s Albums by Category - Sub-Lists | ClaudeTop 80s Albums by Category - Sub-Lists - Markdown document created with Claude. 030
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 29/06/2025I 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. 010
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Tax 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. 130
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 21/06/2025I 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...gist.github.comVibe Coding Best Practices For One Person ProjectsVibe Coding Best Practices For One Person Projects - vibe-coding-best-practices-for-one.md 030
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 13/06/2025I was chatting to Claude about nvidia really being a Linear Algebra company and ended up with a nice timeline artifact. claude.ai/public/artif...claude.aiNVIDIA Linear Algebra Tweet Thread | ClaudeNVIDIA Linear Algebra Tweet Thread - Markdown document created with Claude. 010
Reposted by Steven Klaiber-NobleJens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Glad 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. 22910
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 10/06/2025For 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. 000
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 09/06/2025My 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. 000
Reposted by Steven Klaiber-NobleJens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Fun 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.) 041
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 07/06/2025I should have called this the NIMBY history of Vancouver. 000
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 07/06/2025I 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...gist.github.comTimeline 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... 060
Reposted by Steven Klaiber-NobleJamu Kakar @jkakar.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Building 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...linkedin.comPair‑Programming a Wallet on FragmentHow 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... 021
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 02/06/2025I 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. 110
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 13/05/2025This 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. 000
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 06/05/2025I'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. 000
Reposted by Steven Klaiber-Noblefragment.dev @fragment.dev · 29/04/2025We’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... 001
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 28/04/2025I 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. 000
Reposted by Steven Klaiber-NobleKevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Now 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. 48336
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 20/04/2025If 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. 100
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Is Mark Carney still the board chair for Bloomberg LP? @canadaland.com you’ve been reporting on his career. Is there a clear answer? 000
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Has anyone made an agent that adds more property based tests to your PRs to cover more edge cases of your code change? 010
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Property 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. 000
Reposted by Steven Klaiber-NobleBen Matasar @matasar.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Stocks falling can also cause some additional bad things. 121
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 07/04/2025The thing to remember is stocks falling isn’t the bad thing. Stocks falling is predicting the bad thing. 110
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Does everybody understand what dead weight loss is yet? Can we all draw the triangle with a blind fold on? 000
Steven Klaiber-Noble @snoble.bsky.social · 02/04/2025One 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/ 110