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Something the best data scientist I ever worked with was adamant about... there is almost never an inherent "speed bump" at 0. If error bounds expand on both sides of 0, we have no…

CodeWhale is a coding agent that auto-routes requests to Flash / Pro based on complexity, as determined by Flash. It's also tuned for DeepSeek's caching behavior, making things eve…

You are right that they cannot control the language used by journalists. But then can loudly respond ( many journalists would give Altman a platform) that the AI did not go "rogue"…

As a fan of drumming, you're probably one of the millions who have seen this. But for anybody who hasn't, here's a fun video showing how complicated drumming can be with a live per…

Hanlon's Razor ("never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity") comes into this... A friend interviewed at OpenAI shortly after the HF story came out a…

JavaScript has module bundlers that will merge all your code modules into one module for deployment. It's a little surprising nobody (that I'm aware of) has done this for Python an…

On top of everything you mention, AC makes the climate problems worse. Solar reduces the negative impact, but does not eliminate it. I live in the Sierra Nevada mountains of Califo…

In terms of what we decide to build, impossible vs. impractical is not a particularly interesting distinction (that distinction can give rise to fun science fiction). Practicality …

> What's the difficulty of a 1GW datacenter in space? Simple back of the envelope calculations? Let's assume your numbers are correct and that panels in space can generate 10x the …

I didn't know about it for the first few years I lived here, so ask when you're at the counter.

> Why do rural people deserve subsidies by virtue of living in the sticks? For the same reason urban people deserve subsidies, for things like public transportation, by virtue of l…

I'm not who you're replying too, but I also live in a place with no delivery to the home, despite UPS and FedEx doing so. Everybody in our town gets a free PO Box - I suspect that'…

There is clearly a level of thinking that doesn't involve language. Participating in competitive sports has been a core part of my family, with some competing at elite levels. When…

This is not unique to SQLite... it should help with any database that uses B+Trees. Batch deletes are also typically faster when the IDs to be deleted are sorted in these same syst…

If this becomes law, it will give rise to a fun new form or protest art in this vain. What is the cutest thing you can design that nobody would consider to be related to guns, but …

Sometimes it's a "grass is greener on the other side of the fence" thing or a FOMO thing. But sometimes different roles fit different people better. I started my career doing mostl…

Around 2015, I found myself managing back end and machine learning engineers (not researchers) at the same time. Many of the back end engineers wanted to do more ML. Some of them d…

My understanding is that the core research team is between 100 and 200 people. I don't have a great source for that - a friend of a friend is on the team. By comparison, Open AI's …

I'm trying to keep this account anonymous so that I'll speak my mind more easily, and she's probably more private than I am, so I don't want to say her name. Among other things, sh…

CodeWhale (formerly deepseek-tui) automates this over DeepSeek V4 Flash and Pro. My shallow understanding is that it prompts the model to evaluate the complexity of a given task, t…

I want you to be wrong, but I think you're right. The cost discrepancy I pointed out is evidence of that. I've heard a lot of things that are consistent with what you're saying fro…