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Crypto Wars v2. I know how this movie ends.

Software engineering is software engineering. An ace software engineer is not an ace because of tooling. It's not the plane, it's the pilot, or something like that.

Boris Cherny has said that Claude Code is simply a client of the public Claude API, so this may be a good thing for Anthropic to demonstrate Claude API best practices. Maybe CC "le…

I had the same SETI inspiration yesterday of "autoresearch swarms". Andrej and I had no coordination - we just both had the same idea at the same time. Experiments already running.…

The future is bright for software engineers. The big takeaway isn't reverse engineering the ANE per se, but what Manjeet could do with his software engineering skills when accelera…

This is a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47005565 . Please have all conversations there about Dwarkesh Patel's interview with Dario Amodei.

Dwarkesh Patel interview with Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO)

The frontier-of-knowledge point is the right question. My own research is a case in point - I apply experimental physics methods to LLMs, measuring their equations of motion in sea…

PhD physicist (Stanford/SLAC), Research Software Engineer doing low-level systems work in C/C++ and LLM research. Not a founder or investor — just a practitioner. One data point fo…

Good question. It's mostly the third — but let me unpack that. The Standard Model predicts a specific value for the weak mixing angle, which determines the electron's vector coupli…

Fair - that sounds hyperbolic. But my point is specific: if the weak mixing angle is shifted from the Standard Model value, one of the standard explanations is a heavier cousin of …

Experimental particle physicist here. It's just hard. I measured the electron's vector coupling to the Z boson at SLAC in the late 1990s, and the answer from that measurement is: w…

It does well with screenshot-calculus for me. For example, I pasted a screenshot of the Layer Norm equation into Claude Code 2 and asked: "Differentiate y(x) w.r.t x, gamma and bet…

fwiw I live in [macOS emacs]( https://emacsformacosx.com/ ) all day long for systems engineering (C/C++) and have 201 open buffers, an uptime of 57 days and ~540 MB memory usage.

I have both a Claude subscription plan and console credits as my backup, which I thought was a reasonable solution.

According to the published paper (linked in the article) Kletetschka's theory correctly predicts several experimentally measured quantities of the Standard Model. The two that jump…

"... Miyazaki warns against the dangers of harmful technology and the moral implications of its use." Apropos for current times.

Very nice find @pudiklubi. Thank you.