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SecureBio Detection | Senior infrastructure engineer; [senior] software engineer (high-performance pipelines) Cambridge, MA, USA (metro Boston) | ONSITE strongly preferred; REMOTE …

SecureBio Detection | Senior infrastructure engineer; [senior] software engineer (high-performance pipelines) Cambridge, MA, USA (metro Boston) | ONSITE strongly preferred; REMOTE …

I'm curious to see how Claude can interact with Blender, and how people use it. I use Claude every day for both work and personal research, overall think it's a great product, but …

This author is really prolific in the Julia visualization ecosystem. One of my favorite projects from them is actually quite useful outside Julia: a super minimal but slick Unicode…

[citation needed] that some combination of "New Urbanism, traditional neighbourhood design, streetcar suburbs, one-way streets, bike paths, walking paths, mixed-zone walkable villa…

sparsely updated blog: https://evanfields.net

> Is multi-agent collaboration actually useful or am I just solving my own niche problem? I often write with Claude, and at work we have Gemini code reviews on GitHub; definitely t…

I'm finding 4 Opus good, but 4 Sonnet a bit underwhelming: https://evanfields.net/Claude-4/

I can confirm this has been true since at least v0.4!

I'm sorry for your loss, and I hope that helping others through this project helps you find some solace. IMHO, it's a mark of character that your response to having a problem is "I…

Whoops forgot the link https://entropicthoughts.com/the-misunderstood-kelly-criteri...

This makes sense in the context of trying to maximize log wealth (or I think any concave function of wealth, though the arithmetic is different). But in one of OP's other articles …

OP, you have a comment there about mouse support in the Keyboardio. I've been using a Keyboardio since 2019 and haven't much tried the mouse support -- any advice? How did you set …

I'm curious what kind of slow IO is a pain point for you -- I was surprised to read this comment because I normally think of Julia IO being pretty fast. I don't doubt there are cas…

Why don't gradients vanish in large scale LLMs?

How do modern foundation models avoid multi-layer perceptron scaling issues? Don't they have big feed-forward components in addition to the transformers?

Location: Cambridge, MA, USA [Boston/Somerville in case anyone is text-searching] Remote: strongly prefer in person or hybrid Willing to relocate: I'm very happy in the Boston area…

Location: Cambridge, MA, USA [Boston/Somerville in case anyone is text-searching] Remote: strongly prefer in person or hybrid Willing to relocate: I'm very happy in the Boston area…

I don't think I follow, can you elaborate? * Car users are quite dependent on the government for transportation, e.g. the many billions (in the US) of public dollars spent on roads…

I've heard this before -- that oversized cooling units (whether standalone AC or part of a heat pump) mean muggy interiors in the humid seasons. But...why? I'd think that a fixed a…

Anyone have suggestions for the lowest friction / best UX way to generate and study Anki cards? (my smartphone is Android, if that matters.) I know spaced repetition is super helpf…

What's the user-facing difference between Lux and Flux?

I agree that cars and trucks are appropriate for a variety of trips and cargo-hauling use cases that scooters are not appropriate for. But I confess I'm missing the implication - w…

Bird the company has/had lots of problems, but I'm sad to see them hit bankruptcy for what it signals about micromobility as a whole. I've long been frustrated that micromobility i…

Am I missing something, or are all these effect sizes just shockingly improbably large? "decreased the risk of all-cause mortality, CVD-related mortality, and cancer-related mortal…