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Since the donut is already leaning "entertainment", make it bipedal and I'm sold!

Aside: the AI summary of this attributes the wrong person. This is Andrew Wiles.

Love that this goes beyond paged attention. Curious how this compares with Radix Attention [1]? [1] https://sgl-project-sglang-93.mintlify.app/concepts/radix-at...

Food for thought: if inflation remains poor (3.5%) a $5 hot dog will cost twenty-fold in under a century.

I ventured out to better read Qiskit code, and came back with this fun idea of 2D expressions

> In the AI era... Back in my day, you could also just Google the problems and find the solutions. What mitigated cheating at UVA was the honor code and each professor's faith and …

Compared against MCPs, CLIs, and SKILL.md files

Beautiful write-up, thank you. One aspect that still bothers me is that you claim the just-say-no-engineer "was a critical role during ZIRP." I might be in the minority here, but I…

Ever read a quantum circuit? It's all so foreign, so let me introduce to you a simple one (no speedup) called rank-select, described through an interactive story.

Great ideas, though not a huge fan of pre-commit hooks that run full CI locally :) I'd like to add another idea: automatic PR merge contingent on another PR getting merged.

Python DSL for safe quantum programming that compiles to Qiskit, where the type system enforces coherence and ancilla cleanliness https://github.com/binroot/b01t

A popular philosophy in the HN community is that inventing problems to be solved by a technology is antithetical to the user experience. Much to the horror of some, I did just that…

LLMs fall victim to "garbage in, garbage out." Claude can solve open problems if you know what you're doing, but it can also incorrectly convince you it's right if you don't know w…

Rousseau said "mathematical precision has no place in moral calculations," so I was tempted to see how far I could go. Started it during the holidays, but finally came around to pu…

The human still needs to think, of course. But, I can get to my answer or my primary source using a tool faster than a typical search engine. That's a super power, when used right!…

One of my favorite tricks in elementary school was to convince people I can calculate any logarithm for any number of their choosing. > Me: Pick any number. > Friend: Ok, 149,135,1…

Huge fan of minimizing Kolmogorov complexity [1]. There's a balance, but typically if the same behavior can be described in less code, then the simplicity will yield dividends. [1]…

Simple example: o3-mini-high gets this [1] right, whereas Gemini 2.0 Flash 01-21 gets it wrong. [1] https://chatgpt.com/share/679d9579-5bb8-8008-ac4a-38cef65b45...