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This is really cool! It's like Excel's goal seek but can also handle the case of arbitrary input cells. Goal seeek can only handle one input and one output cell. But how do you han…

> However, diving into a new caching approach without a deep understanding of our current system seemed premature Love love love this - I really enjoy reading articles where people…

I think it's pretty cool that the source code is all in a single file called app.js, and it's just doing simple DOM manipulations, no React, no minification, no libraries. I like t…

Dhall has imports from URLs, much like Javascript. From their tutorial: {- Need to generate a lot of users? Use the `generate` function from the Dhall Prelude -} let generate = htt…

icic, yeah that definitely shouldn't be allowed

Obv it depends, but one way to "solve" this it is to show an edit history, or at least the latest edit timestamp along with some visual indicator that the message was edited recent…

yeah, having eventual consistency for messages across homeservers makes the work on the client harder. I guess they just have to accept that messages will "appear in the past" as y…

Having dealt with this problem at work for several years now, I feel the pain of keeping different clients in sync - it's extremely difficult. Not sure if it's possible in Matrix, …

Whenever iterator design comes up, I always have to refer to munificent's excellent article: https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/01/13/iteration-insi... tldr: The gold standard…

Thanks! just read a few, was a real blast from the past

I really wish there was another platform than the app formerly known as Twitter, where AI discourse is thriving. Because right now, it seems that AI papers, discussions and article…

It's $8/24 per M input/output tokens. For reference, GPT4-Turbo is 10/30, and GPT4 is 30/60 https://docs.mistral.ai/platform/pricing/

Hi mtlynch, I just wanna say that your post brought back a lot of memories for me. I distinctly remember reading your original post back in 2018. I remember feeling that I really h…

Can't you just ask GPT to give you a summary? Here's my prompt for 3.5, it's not very sophisticated. System: You are a helpful AI assistant who follows instructions to the letter. …

A bit tongue in cheek, but I summarized your article using artificial intelligence ;) P.S. GPT 3.5 has a 16k context window now --- AI Generated summary : Marco's newsletter introd…

I'd recommend anyone who's interested in testing Chatbots to checkout https://chat.lmsys.org/ It lets you test out two random different chatbots with the same prompt and compare th…

Like the idea and the vision but I'll admit I was initially turned off by the name which sounds really cringe. Went spelunking through the blog and found this line which explains t…

Wow that's amazing! The best part is that you managed to get their entire database, that must have taken a lot of work. How did that burner account thing work? My favorite experien…

Sorry, but since the about page of sslping is down, what is it? From what i can tell from the scant information on the internet, it's a monitoring tool that tells you when your web…

As others have mentioned, this is very well studied in the field of distributed computing, where servers can acquire a lock and then immediately disconnect due to a power failure. …

Consider Captura: https://mathewsachin.github.io/Captura/ and if that doesn't work for you, you can always fork it. Warning: there are a lot of Captura clones in the Microsoft stor…