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I actually just built an ATS for my company Mathpix. But it never occurred to me to use resumes. Basically we have a set of company values and a specific open ended questionnaire t…

tokenmaxxing is silly, but if a developer or manager NEVER uses AI then I do think that's cause for concern as it shows a genuine lack of curiosity... perhaps tokenflooring makes m…

Part of what makes Hendrix's live performances so great is how completely unreproducible they are. Even Jimi himself could never recreate that one note sustain when he begins the s…

great article and many great points here

What I dislike about Claude code and vibe coding in general is that I haven’t seen Claude code users learn a whole lot about how to do their jobs better. A terminal pane is just to…

My main take on microservices at this point is that you only want microservices to isolate failure modes and for independent scaling. Most IO bound logic can live in a single monol…

This seems completely wrong. In an RPC call you have a trivial loop, for example. It would make more sense to say that the event tree should not have any cycles, but anyway this se…

Microservices in Golang are definitely related to classes due to the ergonomic aspects of a language. It takes a lot of discipline in Golang not to end up with huge flat functions.…

The solution to bad abstractions it not to make it very difficult to create abstractions at all. For systems code I think it's fine but for application code you probably want some …

Golang to me is a great runtime and very poor language. I could maybe get used to the C pointer-like syntax and to half of my code checking if err != nil, but the lack of classes i…

Note that Mathpix Snip can quickly convert such screen shots to markdown code via keyboard shortcut. Disclaimer: I’m the founder.

There are only two political systems at the end of the day: authoritarianism (everyone knows who is in charge) and oligarchy. Populism, in a liberal democracy, is basically authori…

What kind of codebases do you work on if you don't mind me asking? I've found a huge boost from using AI to deal with APIs (databases, k8s, aws, ...) but less so on large codebases…

The most important piece ever written about startups, probably. Applicable to doing anything new. For startups, the devil's in the details though. The goal is to scale but you get …

For accurate and easy PDF to Markdown / LaTeX / JSON check out: https://github.com/mathpix/mpxpy Disclaimer: I'm the founder. Reducto does cool stuff on post processing (and other …

I tend to agree with this. These days I usually use LLMs to learn about something new or to help me generate client code for common APIs (especially boto3 these days). I tried Wind…

Check out mathpix.com. We handle complex tables, complex math, diagrams, rotated tables, and much more, extremely accurately. Disclaimer: I'm the founder.

Thanks for the kind words. What are some of the annoying issues?

You can get bounding boxes from our pdf api at Mathpix.com Disclaimer, I’m the founder

Check out mathpix.com we have a hybrid approach towards OCR that features accurate layout understanding (with accurate bounding boxes) plus accurate OCR outputs. Disclaimer: I'm th…

Shameless request for help: if anybody has experience with seq2seq on TPU, and you want to do a cool project to deploy a world class Pytorch image parsing model to TPU (and do this…

Agreed, something simpler than Nomad as well hopefully.

https://mathpix.com/careers

Not in baseball. I recently watched some Mets games and it’s just incredible how commonly you use a left handed hitter go up against a left handed pitcher.

Have you checked out Mathpix? It's another option. Disclaimer: I'm the founder.