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Yeah especially for doing math, I've found it's really helpful that I can just select some equations I wrote and shift them down (or insert more space). It helps with adding deriva…

Mentioning neural ODE doesn't make sense here, as this is unrelated. Basically any implementation of transformer uses residuals, but you're not really training a neural ODE here. A…

ah nevermind it's just a fork of OpenCode

Good, coding harnesses should be open source and LLMs should be treated as commodities. Minimize switching costs for consumers, and let people understand how they're interacting wi…

is this the ChatGPT finance features they launched in May? it keeps asking me to integrate my finance data, but I have doubts about how useful it would actually be (not to mention …

> But enough people take this scenario seriously that we have to take them seriously. no we don't... not sure where this notion comes from that if enough public figures are worried…

glossy screens are better for visual clarity, especially contrast (reduces eye strain when reading text)

The interesting part is they chose to go with a normalizing flow approach, rather than the industry standard diffusion model approach. Not sure why they chose this direction as I h…

We need a dating app with this filter

As with many startups (especially ones with high burn rates) OpenAI is risky. It could take down SoftBank and its data center vendors. 6% of nvidia’s revenue is not that concerning…

I'd say it's more like kleenex. Lots of people ask you to 'pass them a kleenex' when their nose is runny, but they just mean tissue. They don't actually care what the brand is. Sim…

Well this was an entertaining take on the job market. tl;dr he's salty other people ended up better off doing the same work for other companies, based on views of tech compensation…

What ends up being useful is hard to predict, so it's better just to do what you enjoy. Lots of useful math started out as just an idle curiosity, though mostly it ends up being us…

That sounds like an endorsement of their ads platform?

Why do you think that?

I'm sure ChatGPT has it's uses for some people, but the few times I've tried to use it for tasks I would have used search for it's been confidently, eloquently wrong. A search engi…

Unless each parking stall will have an EV charger, you will have to share with others. That means plugging your car in (when it's not occupied) and remembering to go back down, unp…

> > ... which in turn causes people like me, who live in apartment blocks, to not be able to have a EV (I'm not going to spend half an hour and more every few days at an electrical…

How do self-driving cars funnel money into public transport and and reclaim space? I think they're more likely to do the opposite. Seems silly to rely on self-driving to reduce emi…

I profess that I like nice things, and buttons inside cars. If anything is excessive in modern cars, it's the size and amount of touchscreens, not the amount of buttons.

It's not even a safety thing. Power seats with memory functionality are a must-have for anyone that shares their car with someone else. It's so much less annoying to press one butt…

The fact that everything is on the center display is the biggest reason keeping me from seriously considering buying a Tesla. Distractions don't belong in a car.

Your article doesn't directly talk about the tax rate for the top 1%. The fact that the percentage of total tax collected attributed to the top 1% has risen from 24% to 30% seems t…

It's a lot easier to switch which store you shop than what phone you use. Switching iOS to Android costs a non-trivial amount of money. There's also a lot of lock-in, migrating fro…

Yeah. It seems like the author considers himself a generalist, but it sounds to me like he's a front end specialist.