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alexmolas

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Joined: Tue, Jun 28, 2022, 7:59 AM UTC
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Public activity: 729 items
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About alexmolas

I’m a husband, father, physicist, and data scientist. In that order.

www.alexmolas.com

Recent public activity

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GPT 5.6 Has 72 Possible Configurations. What's a Good Default?
Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 8:39 AM UTC
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Ask HN: What happened with Eureka Labs, Karpathy's startup?
In 2024 Andrej Karpathy launched Eureka Labs [1], an AI-first education startup. Since the initial announcement, I haven't seen much public activity or updates, and the GitHub org …

Fri, May 29, 2026, 9:07 AM UTC
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What does " 2>&1 " mean?
Thu, Feb 26, 2026, 7:58 PM UTC
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Text classification with Python 3.14's ZSTD module
Mon, Feb 09, 2026, 8:14 AM UTC
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The longest possible chess game, and bounds on the number of possible games
Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 5:13 PM UTC
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It took 5 years to merge this PR
Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 3:05 PM UTC
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Bayesian A/B testing is not immune to peeking
Thu, Nov 13, 2025, 10:32 PM UTC
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NASA let me test my weird chain theory in space [video]
Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 8:12 AM UTC
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 – macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling
Tue, Oct 07, 2025, 9:52 AM UTC
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A History of Large Language Models
Mon, Oct 06, 2025, 8:13 AM UTC
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Who needs Git when you have 1M context windows?
Fri, Oct 03, 2025, 1:37 PM UTC
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Atomic Bomb Go Game
Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 9:33 PM UTC
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The Martians (Scientists)
Tue, Sep 23, 2025, 9:29 PM UTC
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Music-Map – Find Similar Music
Fri, Sep 19, 2025, 1:45 PM UTC
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Comment #45287496
Read the first paragraph of the Wikipedia page [1] for a lot of sources claiming the opposite. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide

Thu, Sep 18, 2025, 9:25 AM UTC
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Scream cipher
Thu, Sep 18, 2025, 9:22 AM UTC
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We are starting a company to rethink email
Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 6:29 AM UTC
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Pope Leo XIV declares teen computer whiz Carlo Acutis the first millennial saint
Sun, Sep 14, 2025, 9:40 PM UTC
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Baby's first type checker
Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 8:41 AM UTC
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How big are our embeddings now and why?
Tue, Sep 02, 2025, 11:45 AM UTC
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Big O
Mon, Aug 25, 2025, 9:40 AM UTC
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Comment #45001856
Very interesting idea, but the result is a bit disappointing. It doesn't matter what I answer, the questions are always repeating

Sun, Aug 24, 2025, 6:23 AM UTC
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Adding search to my static blog
Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 9:42 PM UTC
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Comment #44863274
Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 12:07 PM UTC
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What is the average length of a queue of cars? (2023)
Mon, Aug 04, 2025, 4:55 AM UTC