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There's a setting called `showThinkingSummaries` which you can enable to see them (going forward).

You can see bathtub rings on the underside as it's lifted up. The rings are caused by it's melting faster under the water than in the air, so there's a discontinuity at the waterli…

> If the agent itself concatenates a new URL together - with leaked data after a ? - you should block that from being fetched. You're correct of course, I just want to note that th…

To a degree that feels intentional.

Well, I do agree that all measurements contain error, but the point wasn't that the error rate would be greater than 0% but that a single headline summary of error can't always dis…

If 1 in 10,000 people have a disease, then a "test" which always reports the patient doesn't have the disease will be correct 99.99% of the time. "99.99% accuracy" should be "looke…

Claude Code is quite buggy but doesn't generally crash, which is what you would expect if it shipped an immature backend for a month. Maybe the rewrite is full of bugs and they hap…

I don't think we have the same understanding of "insider". There are dozens to several hundred insiders at any one time. There aren't enough for them to reliably trade against ones…

And who will they be trading with?

You won't incorporate information from outsiders if they think they're going to get ripped off by insiders.

I said similar, not identical. The primary role of a futures market is for consumers and producers of commodities to hedge out their risk so that they don't go bankrupt if there's …

Lots of Unix stuff uses hooks. cron, init, bash has multiple different hook-shaped files (eg .bashrc). The Unix philosophy isn't a sacred cow, purity over pragmatism was the Multic…

NPM has at least had the good sense to use namespaces so that it isn't entirely a free for all and is less of a high stakes game of Mavis Beacon. (You could typosquat a namespace t…

"Better" depends on the application but more precisely it would be "real time" and may include things that are measured but rarely if ever published. A prediction market doing poor…

Entirely possible but let's give it some time to see if they try to make it GA and if the DoD sends them a letter.

Insider trading by, say, having direct access to the particular wind vane that grounds the market and being able to manipulate it is a problem. Being better at trading because you …

As far as I know it is "P2P", a continuous double sided auction like any proper exchange. If there's something fishy going on with the order book I do not personally know about it.…

If you're going to gamble, it's probably for the best that your counterparty doesn't also control the platform. I'm not saying that justifies being able to gamble frictionlessly, b…

JavaScript can be tricky.

Would you rather pay for a nonsensical explanation?

And also because it creates "one neat trick" where it can answer "I don't know" for many/most things and still get credit.

If you could write that reward function you wouldn't need an LLM, you'd just query the reward function to answer any question. You can create a benchmark and check that automatical…

What's burned me before is iterating over hash maps. B-tree maps (or hash maps that are guaranteed to iterate in insertion order, or any fixed order) are your friend.