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Using a PRNG and a seed, you can have paeudo-randomness and determinism. The pseudo-randomness is the key piece, it’s random to the extent that it cannot be distinguished from true…

I don’t find the recent spate of blog posts and systems delegating and combining LLMs to get better performance particularly interesting. Especially given that anyone who’s taken a…

Built this semaphore while working on our bootstrapped community dating platform (june.dating) after a traffic spike hit our SSR rendering path. It's a priority-queue semaphore wit…

It’s a huge problem, but I’d caution against this absolutism — there may well be structure that can be created around and between LLMs and their outputs to enable the necessary seg…

Location: Portland, OR Remote: Remote/Hybrid/On-Site Willing to relocate: California, Washington, Canada, EU, or UK (no visa required) Languages: Python, Rust, TypeScript, JavaScri…

Okay sure, but what happens when a high CVE is discovered that requires immediate patching – does that get around the Upload Queue? If so, it's possible one could opportunistically…

Would like to check this out when you're ready to share.

I just experienced this same issue with Gemini. I pasted a text message thread into Gemini (Pro, Thinking, Flash – all are affected) and it was misattributing dialogue. It said Ali…

It's funny because the author notes a prior attempt to uncover Satoshi's identity and giving up because an implied lack of technical depth. I guess this time they were undaunted. P…

Suspect it's a typo. 33, not 23, gives ~8.6*10^9.

This completely ignores that: 1. Russia was the aggressor in Ukraine, 2. Putin has made clear his desire to pursue expansionist goals through military action targeting prior member…

Need to look into how this turned out – I've sent letters to Merkley and Wyden over the years about privacy concerns relating to facial recognition and similarly invasive technolog…

Thanks for the recommendation – took a look, but I'm not seeing an odoo app that clearly seems to fit the criteria mentioned. Was there a specific odoo app you had in mind?

Curious if anyone in the community is well-versed in solutions for front-end business SMS UIs? Our key criteria is a desktop application that has basic contact management, leverage…

Hah! Looks like we found the same article. Interesting other links too!

I once read that some people who are blind from an early age, as they get older, start to click their tongue, but often those around them (parents, siblings, etc.) will discourage …

I don't know if this is true – that pupil sizes vary meaningfully between races and folks from Africa and Aboriginal populations in Australia have smaller pupils – but it may make …

Here's the thing you may be missing: The complete diversity of human phenotypes (including what is socially discussed as 'race') is almost entirely present on the African continent…

Sometimes, my dishwasher stacks are poetry.

In the documentation and Supabase CLI, edge functions on Supabase are demonstrated and scaffolded, respectively, with a Deno runtime. I don't think it's required though. And if you…

Mark Z. Jacobson! Haven't heard that name in a few years. Don't know him personally, but here's a tangent for the interested: In the first year of my PhD, I read several of his pap…

Been using Hono for a few months and have really enjoyed it. For me, it's been the perfect minimal HTTP/router functionality needed to structure an API that lives within a single e…

Yes, that's somewhat true, but in practice we have subtypes. As a counterfactual to that assertion, if it were meaningfully a billion different things, then we would need a billion…

In principle, yes, in practice, no; real-world mutations are (more often than not) non-random and their frequencies can be affected by a variety of factors. For example, the locati…