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AIME and HMMT are high school math olympiad competitions now used to benchmark AI. Frontier models score 95-99% https://benchlm.ai/blog/posts/aime-hmmt-competition-math

I get wrist pain as soon as I use anything taller than Apple’s flat Magic Keyboard and touchpad. I’ve used this combo for like a decade now and never experience fatigue. Once, I bo…

This reads like a nervous breakdown at the thought of having to buy a ticket from A to B. It’s really not that complicated in most countries with functional public transport.

No, memorize many noun most important. Grammar less Important. Can do food, can do travel, can do tax. Because, noun most important.

When does it get too abstract? What’s wrong with plotly? Or plotly express? How is yet another JSON spec era-anything?

But your choice of funny variable names is not a craft, and you’re not a craftsman if you think it matters. What matters is extensibility, maintainability and value delivered. I ca…

This reminds me of the Go Grandmaster speaking out after losing to AlphaGo, that the model has no sense of "aesthetic play", as long as it would lead to a win within the rules.

What properties does this have that somehow allows one to essentially predict the market or a proxy thereof, when seemingly nothing else can? Or did I get that part wrong? It might…

Is that why their laptops routinely beat the competition year after year in reviews and reliability surveys? Because they “look cool”? I’m going to need some more numbers on that o…

I still remember one course where the lectures were basically just 1:1 summaries of the textbook, so I said "This is a waste of time. See you at the exam", and many of the more tra…

Some years ago people also said “Japanese bears are harmless, shy and fear humans” and now the country is experiencing a slowly approaching bear-pocalypse, with bear attacks occurr…

> why romaji is actually good It isn't. It falls slightly apart in the `s` column, and completely in the `t` column which contains both "chi" and "tsu". It also breaks for godan wo…

> Google is your friend But really, it's more like tolerated business partner, right?

Yes, the most of its safety comes after you compile the graph. In that sense, it's "compile-safe" strictly speaking, which puts it on par with DuckDBs validation step. But you don'…

The better question is, why is DuckDB so popular when one can use Polars which has a sane, lintable, typesafe API compared to the mess that is SQL: WITH lagged AS ( SELECT *, LAG(e…

The level of nested ifs is just pure insanity. Is this COBOL forcing this kind of style?

It's like when Bill Gates tried to guess grocery prices. "How much memory does a regular computer have? I don't know, 50 GB? Like a small EC2?"

> So, if we had an AI demonstrating symptoms of consciousness and suffering, how long would it take for you to accept that it is? Could an AI one day be suffering while plowing thr…

> We don't act like this in society Did you miss the part where the convention was ratified by 180+ countries, because clearly society can't just take a seat?

If I log into my system it's safe. If someone reads my password off my screen post-it and logs into my system it's quite thoroughly compromised. How would you demonstrate which of …

It's actually even simpler than that. The airplane isn't just a "private business, and you shouldn't mess with their space". They're protected and empowered by broadly ratified con…

Before LLM you could sum up the web as the hamburger menu, bootstrap and materialize. Even Apple threw everything in a hamburger at some point.

If anything, China proves that 996 is not sustainable as it simply leads to involution and attrition. At best the populace benefits in a few hyper-focused industries such as take-o…

After a refreshing walk it suddenly occurred to me - I had forgotten to add "make no mistakes".

I've found programming books good at what the internet isn't always: a cohesive story/presentation meant for a broad audience. I've enjoyed reading some more style-oriented books, …