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He used his blog to queue the work to be executed asynchronously by another MS worker that reads it

Is this really a split that exists? In my case I see Claude produce code much worse than I would, but it's certainly much quicker and, even after reworking, it makes me finish task…

If you want the token sequence, you ought to avoid discarding it when you produce the string output. This is because, even ignoring special tokens, different token sequences map to…

This post you are commenting on (*6316) is a link post that points to the other one (*4663) The normal behavior for link posts in HN is that the title takes you to the link address…

I think 2.8 is where the Blender Foundation showed their commitment to improving the UX, but it just continually kept going from there

It's not perfect, but it's been vastly improved in recent years. If you lost interest in 3D art because of Blender's bad UX in the past, I recommend you give it another shot. Also,…

I don't think that's what the GP was going for... rather, implying that flat-eartherness is uncorrelated to IQ and, thus, the average IQ of flat-earthers is the same as that of the…

TFA is about letters, not programming in Haskell like I had assumed

> I would expect something more rigorous from verified code. I think you just want the illusion of safety :p A big advantage of verified code is that it enables you to write the sk…

yep, some padding fixes this JPEG compression can only move information at most 16px away, because it works on 8x8 pixel blocks, on a 2x down-sampled version of the chroma channels…

When you're a beginner you're a beginner, no way around it. But understanding your weaknesses and working on them is huge, and I think most people just don't try to do it. Being st…

I did competitive programming seriously between '17 and '24, then kept on coaching people As a beginner I often thought about a problem for days before finding a solution, but this…

I used to love Pomodoro until I found out that it goes against my own interests. I was a teenager with focus issues when a teacher introduced me to Pomodoro. It was great because I…

I kind of wish they start sending records in randomized order to take out all the broken implementations that depend on such a fragile property

I agree that your previous comment could be shorter, maybe half as long, with some effort. For example, this sentence could just be removed without changing the content or tone: > …

This is kind of bait-and-switch, no? The author defines American style intelligence as "the ability to adapt to new situations, and learn from experience". Then argues that the cur…

Fwiw, I think the four in the wikipedia comes from two people using the double entry system simultaneously. So it's two records in the landlord's own books which u dont necesarily …

To add some more detail, the max of two SDFs is a correct SDF of the intersection of the two volumes represented by the two SDFs, but only on the inside and at the boundary. On the…

You can take the minimum of two SDFs, which more or less gives you an SDF for their union. The maximum is the intersection. A few years ago I wrote a DSL that writes the SDFs for y…

I think the pictures of the reconstructions are source enough, they look horrible

Pretty sure that OpenAI uses BPE in their GPT models

I had the same feeling while testing the code. It might be caused by seeing the increasingly coherent output of the different models, makes you feel like it's getting smarter.

Cool article, it got me to play around with Markov models, too! I first did a Markov model over plain characters. > Itheve whe oiv v f vidleared ods alat akn atr. s m w bl po ar 20…