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Author: ericpan64

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 	- Seeing my diabetic grandma going from wheelchair-bound at 82 to walking daily at 87 is an inspiration to me. It started with simple, daily walks in the california sun. So gratifying, and I'm confident it has been great for her overall health
 	- A phrase from my short time at Stanford d.school: meet people where they're at. Fortunately, others have paved roads for us. Weather can't always be great, but while there's peace safety and community, we can embrace our innate superpower: walking
 
+#### Compilers are more important than ever
+- Importance of compilers -- we stand on the shoulder of giants. Used to shrug it off as "too sweaty", though diving into the coursework gained both massive respect and some of the worst grades in my life
+- Compilers are like open-source -- a gift from someone in the past, they handled the dirty work so we can all enjoy the benefits
+- Compilers compress human knowledge into more composable and useful forms
+- DSLs studying -- these are my people (I think! Have been a bit of a black swan generalist -- a little big of different things)
+- The importance of HANDLING AMBIGUITY -- cultural difference in compilers, confronting ambiguity as it is, and going through it thoroughly, even if it takes 40 hours for one assignment. We gain knowledge for doing the dirty work, believe it or not
+- ...
+- LLMs as KNOWLEDGE COMPILERS, Prompts as DSLs (key idea!)
+- ...
 
 #### I miss the old Kanye, and the old democratic republic