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Lumen Labs | Simulation/RL Integration Engineer | REMOTE (US/Canada), then ONSITE SF from fall 2026 | $130k–200k + early equity | Visa OK Lumen ( https://lumenresearch.ai ) is buil…

Honestly having an AI agent that interviews a interviewees agent sounds like a great "first filter" for certain tech jobs if you do it right. As in "here are the api specs, build a…

As someone that enjoys carpentry, I don't think I would be entirely upset about this way of taking the question haha.

I have dealt with this issue as well before. If folks need something more in depth I will use a LLM + some massaging of my own to create a supporting document. Here is an example o…

I agree with the author, but I would also say there is something above goals and constraints. Values. A set of things that, when comparing multiple options, make the choice clear. …

I fight to record any presentations I do as often as possible. When I am asked for the slides I send the full recording instead as the way to manage this exact issue.

I'm glad someone else had the same thought. I have been wondering what their "secret sauce" is for a while given how their model doesn't degrade for long-context nearly as much as …

Is there any effort to organize scientific literature like this? I know journals often generate tags for papers but those can often be quite poor and restricted to the field The jo…

Have been searching for a deep research tool that I can hook up to both my personal notes (in Obsidian) and the web and this looks like this has those capabilities. Now the only pi…

I see Cohere, is there any support for in-line citations like you can get with their first party API?

Being able to control how many tokens are spent on thinking is a game-changer. I've been building fairly complex, efficient, systems with many LLMs. Despite the advantages, reasoni…

Thanks for the explanation this was very helpful. You've given me a whole new list of stuff to Google. The quasipotential/comittor functions especially seem quite interesting altho…

This out of everything, convvinced me. The more I get the "full picture" the more I appreciate what a wondrous thing computers are. I've learned all the way down to Forth/C and fro…

This looks to be very cool will check it out. Wild to see it on a Mario Kart Wii Site, but I guess modders/hackers are one of the groups of people who still need to work with assem…

Is stochastic calculus something that requires a computer to stimulate many possible unfolding of events, or is there a more elegant mathematical way to solve for some of the impor…

I'm curious from anyone who has done it. Is there any "pleasure" to be had in learning or implementing assembly (like there is for LISP or RISC-V) or is it something you learn and …

I think there is a large pool of near minimum-wage white collar workers who wouldn't care about that difference when it comes to executing on their jobs. These are the folks who ar…

I agree that at the business contract level, it's more about sales and regulations than tech. But in my experience working close to minimum wage white-collar jobs, about 1 in 4 of …

What made you decide to build for the NES specifically at opposed to building for a fantasy console with similar restrictions but more usability like the Pico-8?

Yeah! I am a computational neuroscientist and I was trying to understand this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.01678 so I had added the paper to my personal Gnosi and was asking q…

This looks cool. Would be willing to pay for it if there was a RSS option.

Gnosi: https://www.gnosi.ai/ . Y You can auto-generate a constantly updated encyclopedia from a set of documents and conversations with an AI about those documents. Trying to make …