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I got this silly idea for a benchmark and decided to test how well models do. Repo here: https://github.com/venkatasg/fizzbuzz-bench

I was thinking about FizzBuzz and thought it might be cool to benchmark various LLMs to see the highest number they could go before they got it wrong. FizzBuzz is cool because you …

SHould have double checked Windows default fonts — Windows doesn't have Helvetica ugh.

Weird. I see the differences on mine across browsers and on my phone and desktop. And yeah I get it, I don’t claim this to be something amazing that should shoot up in ranking, jus…

The differences are very subtle in lowercase, check uppercase? But maybe your system doesn't have Helvetica/Arial installed? I assumed its available on every OS, but that might not…

Inspired by Jonathan Hoefler's essay that illustrated the problems with pangrams as typeface proofs, I wanted to build a simple site that lets you proof any font from Google Fonts …

Just wanna say this is a really cool project, and I can't think of higher praise than me hoping I build something as cool as this some day! I've been meaning to learn Go for someti…

Most sentences in the world are not about truth or falsity. Training on a high quality corpus isn’t going to fix ‘hallucination’. The complete separation of facts from sentences is…

Slightly related to the task, I wanna plug in my utility app for finding LaTeX commands for characters, DeTeXt: https://venkatasg.net/apps/detext I've gotten a lot of requests to d…

I've noticed that soundtracks show up in this Classical music app, so some (not all) of my Tamil songs (which are songs from movies because that's how most pop/commercial music in …

That worked thank you!

I keep running into issues, even after installing Rust in my condo environment (using conda). Specifically the issue seems to be building wheels for `tokenizers`: warning: build fa…

LSP is game-changing. I had made a bunch of clippings to work with for TeX and Python, and this obviates the need for most of those :)

For mac users these numbers are amazing lol