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Thanks for doing this benchmarking Dylan. I wanted to teach people PCA in my original article, but had no idea it would stack up this well against Matroyshka! Feels like a “just us…

If I ran a dev team, I’d spend a day a week on deliberately hand coding. Even if the clankers write most of the code, IMO we need deliberate practice to develop taste. There’s a si…

There’s not going to be much of a price difference from Luna (Luna might be a bit cheaper too) And Luna has actually been my favorite coding model that predictably just works at bo…

To be clear, this isn’t wind power currently under construction. It’s proposed future wind power with leases being planned. Trump has largely failed to stop the nearly complete pro…

Usually in these cases you don't need to do much tuning to the retriever. So you just give it BM25 or somesuch. I'm hesitant to say absolutely zero tuning, because there are cases …

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People are building agentic search one of three ways: 1. Actually good retireval. There’s been a lot of progress on serving the kinds of queries agents tend to serve, from places l…

What I really mean is a difficult to revoke license. Not dependent on a server or DRM. I realize I do not actually own copies.

I can buy and own legal copies of movies and music. But I often really can’t with games.

There’s also a class of “detailed agent written technical blog” that’s you can just scan and get the shape that it’s long paragraphs, tables of statistics, and dry LLM writing. You…

Recently got a big fancy TV with 4k + Dolby Vision It’s a lot of work figuring out what movies support the format. And all the premium upgrades to Netflix, etc get them to stream p…

I don’t think this is true. Opposition is not really related to aesthetics. People fight even theoretical housing (zoning). NIMBYs oppose building housing on derelict / ugly lots. …

We need a master list of companies with such stupid metrics :)

We have http://layoffs.fyi and https://www.trueup.io/ to name a few places that track this pretty well

It’s more effective to convince people 95% of beef is very mid. So you’re not missing anything I would never argue for banning red meat as it will certainly backfire and end up cou…

Do whatever you want. I'm just sharing my personal choices based on what I've learned. What could be more American than that? :)

On the ecological point, the difference is whether the grassland would naturally support that number of bison. Or if bison (or cows) are continually being grown, killed, grown kill…

My research seems to indicate its about on-par with chicken. IE a chicken filet is about the carbon impact of 8oz of milk. And it seems here its about 1/4 carbon per kg of food as …

The next frontier will be meat consumption. Particularly red meat. A single 1/4 beef hamburger emits 7-12 kg of carbon[1]. Compared to ~1.5kg of carbon driving your car 3 miles[2].…

At least "Claude said" is honest. What's worse is when people send you slop and pass it off as their own work and expect you to take it seriously.

Thank you! <3