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iwhalen

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About iwhalen

https://github.com/iwhalen

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    Comment #49069250

    If your goal is to get the network as small as possible, you could try using NEAT[1]. A cool example of a small network for a hard task using NEAT is MarI/O[2]. [1]: https://en.wik…

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    Comment #48700377

    I came to mention genetic antennae as well! Since you beat me to it, I'll add something that relates relates you were saying on "realizing some pretty simple... ideas". I think a b…

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    Comment #48560692

    A lot of discussion in this thread about traffic stops. James Duane (the law professor from the video in the blog) himself makes a qualifier about traffic stops: https://youtu.be/-…

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    Comment #48541172

    If you already have a gaming desktop, I can recommend Shield for both. Streaming services work out of the box of course. Then I use Sunshine[1] on my desktop to stream to Moonlight…

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    Comment #48517333

    Implementing Tierra [1] in Zig a learning exercise. Trying to push all allocations to compile time and not use LLMs for coding. Repo: https://github.com/iwhalen/zierra [1]: https:/…

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    Comment #48356805

    uv supports the same for any Python developers out there: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/resolution/#dependency-co...

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    Comment #48356335

    To pile on, they're also bad at games that are 2D text based environments. ARC-AGI-3 shows this: https://arcprize.org/arc-agi/3 I've done some work as well on Rogue (sorry for self…

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    Comment #48196978

    I wonder why they didn't discuss price in the post? Compare to the GPT-5.5 announcement: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/

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    Comment #47925865

    From the full letter[1]: > Our Free Time is Our Own: Currently, if an employee makes anything creative in their free time, with their own resources, Hasbro may claim ownership. Wha…

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    Comment #47501993

    What is happening in this issue thread? Why are there 100+ satisfied slop comments?

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    Comment #47425577

    Makes me wonder if the era of heavily subsidized tokens is ending.

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    Comment #47268312

    Very cool stuff. Love the focus on CPU-first. Would also love to see some throughput numbers on basic VM setup. Edit: there are some latency numbers in the paper https://arxiv.org/…

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