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you know, i think this is great and thank you for sharing

i wish i could do syntax highlighting in my head

and this is why you read the code

Most people don't use flash cards at all. So if their experience with them is terrible then why would they keep doing it? Also effort can be fun. Working out is effortful and most …

I love this. Did you make it? Why?

The best advice I've ever read about flash cards is if you are dreading to review, because you are forgetting your cards or they are too complicated, you are writing cards wrong. L…

there should be some law where publications have to track their brier scores

dungeon crawler carl is a great series. never read a litrpg in my life and i probably won't again but DCC is really fun. and calling it amenable to LLM is pretty reductive in a stu…

This is a beautiful and haunting book.

yeah, the "proactivity" of recent anthropic models and sophisticated bullshitting are bad, although my experience is that even on simple tasks i've never used a oss model that has …

Frontier models are still better (everyone would use them if it was cheap). Open source models are capable on even non "simple" problems but I trust them less, even though I usuall…

As a phish fan, this is an especially sad read. I wonder what new developers might feel, if they have the same sense of wonder and joy, listening to a brand new jam, working with a…

holy crap, I was literally imaging how I wanted something exactly like this yesterday! you are a hero!

it's not formal writing it's a blog post.

"Not as an aesthetic choice. Not as nostalgia. But as a thinking tool " is a perfectly normal sentence, and I think there is an equally bad trend of people assuming things are AI w…