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> > I'm using my skills to orchestrate LLMs and agents, and I can write better code much faster. > > The fact that the top comment on this thread calls it out, in a negative way, h…

That README hits all my “this is authored by an LLM” instincts. I presume the codebase is also written by an LLM?

Was this post prompted by this year’s ICFP competition? https://icfpcontest2026.com/

This is some wild cyberpunk future we’re living in. Never thought it would happen, but here we are.

Some speculation in this Claude chat: https://claude.ai/share/22abed98-d9af-43c5-9881-b19e009a07b0 linked from here: https://x.com/b_shrir/status/2079094004885668003?s=20 Very shor…

The Unsloth 8bit quant seems to manage this task without any syntax errors.

The 8 bit quant runs at 36tps using Vulkan on my AMD rx9070.

In the video I linked Felix only talks about DFUS, which has no value tilt. He may talk about their other funds in other videos, but not this one.

Most of the Dimensional ETFs seem to be following some kind of value investment strategy where they take an index but nudge it a bit by some value factor which is claimed to be bas…

Dimensional runs a bunch of ETFs which are effectively US & world equity index trackers that don’t slavishly follow the indices & can therefore avoid being forced to buy into IPOs …

This was a laptop, so cooling was very constrained. The fans can only be so big & you can only shift so much air in & out of a MacBook. I presume Apple knew perfectly well but want…

The i9 was notorious. Would thermally throttle almost instantly & for any sizeable build job would end up slower than the i7 IIRC. Intel really made themselves unpopular with Apple…

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I know this is kind of old hat by now, but it kind of blows my mind that I can upload a hand drawn decision tree & get a transcribed dot file back on consumer hardware using a pile…

IIRC DB currently has a worse punctuality record than the UK rail network. That takes some doing.

James Webb Telescope is up there with Hubble.

Clover is a nitrogen fixing plant - used to be that you’d plant clover for a year in between other crops to make your soil fertile again. (It’s the bacteria in the roots that do th…

> Is bread really.. always served? At any kind of formal dining? Yes, absolutely, I would expect there to be a bread roll & a pat of butter served at the beginning of the meal. Bot…

> They send me an invoice for $0.00 and I cannot seem to convince them to stop Same here! Am I being charged a fractional cent rounded down to 0? Who knows!?

Referencing this PG article: https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

See also: https://x.com/effectfully/status/2029364333919060123 “All the ways GPT-5.3-Codex cheated while solving my challenges, progressively more insane: It hardcoded specific typ…

Same. The Pixel 4a was the perfect phone for me: Light, screen exactly the right size to navigate with a single thumb whilst holding the phone in one hand, enough battery life, sma…

> I've had an AMD card for the last 5 years, so I kinda just tuned out of local LLM releases because AMD seemed to abandon rocm for my card (6900xt) - Is AMD capable of anything th…

Best plug though.