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I'm surprised the author didn't mention the other argument for paraxanthine being less addictive than caffeine: it has a less acute/peaky curve of adenosine blocking. I'm not a bio…

Some explanations considered in this video: 1. Software engineering isn't "real" engineering. 2. Nobody cares about bugs when they write software in the first place. 3. Software is…

If you like reasoning about a program in terms of expression trees/graphs, I recently discovered that Wolfram Language has built-ins for this: https://reference.wolfram.com/languag…

This was such a great story. Steve was a mischievous person himself, so surely a part of him respected this.

This is so cool. Real-time accent feedback is something language learners have never had throughout all of human history, until now. Along similar lines, it would be useful to map …

What kinds of speed can be achieved, in terms of words per per minute?

Is this really how SOTA LLMs parse our queries? To what extent is this a simplified representation of what they really "see"?

Does anyone know if NOVAMIN based toothpastes (e.g. Sensodyne) have been tested?

The author should make a meta-entry about how he makes the (insanely beautiful) diagrams in the book (ideally walking through the process).

Insane that people would downvote a totally reasonable comment offering a competing alternative. HN is supposed to be a community of tech builders.

Somehow completely missed that, thanks! I think reading this makes it even clearer that the 70.3% score should just be discarded from the benchmarks. "I got a 7%-8% higher SWE benc…

Yes, however Claude advertised 70.3%[1] on SWE bench verified when using the following scaffolding: > For Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Sonnet (new), we use a much simpler appro…

Very impressive! But under arguably the most important benchmark -- SWE-bench verified for real-world coding tasks -- Claude 3.7 still remains the champion.[1] Incredible how resil…

SimulaVR[1][2] is releasing our standalone (belt-strappable) compute packs this year, which will (ii) come pre-installed with our FOSS Linux VR Desktop compositor and (ii) work wit…

Still waiting for rr to work more transparently/easily with Haskell.

This is such an insightful comment. Now that I see it, I can't see unsee it.

Makes sense. Thanks for the correction.

Did anyone else notice that o3-mini's SWE bench dropped from 61% in the leaked System Card earlier today to 49.3% in this blog post, which puts o3-mini back in line with Claude on …

======= Technical Summary ======== Here's a problem with NixOS: 1. Suppose we have a `./nixos_binary_program_with_glibc-newer` compiled on a NixOS machine against bleeding edge `gl…