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I think it's good to bring up Bernstein & Newhouse as well as Yuchen Jin, Jiacheng You and the other speedrunners who helped iterate on Muon. But I think it's very fair to call Kel…

Muon was invented by Keller Jordan (and then optimized by others) for the sake of this speedrunning competition. Even though it was invented less than a year ago, it has already be…

I think this is a different construction. "And" in "try and find out" is acting as a conjunction, separating two different actions

this guide is just for an example of how to build a single mcp (e.g. a vector store). chatgpt connectors implement mcps in general now

claude sonnet typically forgets about uv script syntax in my experience. I usually find myself having to paste in the docs every time. By default it wants to use uv project syntax.…

Not publicly, but a few people in berkeley are working on it. Here is a paper from last year: https://imjal.github.io/theory-of-tetrachromacy . (Disclaimer: i am on this paper). Th…

Have you tried o3 on those problems? I've found o3 to be much more impressive than Opus 4 for all of my use cases.

isn't this survivorship bias? e.g. people who genuinely feel highly nihilistic, that there is no order, structure, meaning, etc. are very unlikely to be successful--and also unlike…

How can reason give us shared values across cultures? Why do you suppose your moral clarity was generated from your brain and not your gut?

Why is o3-mini there but not o3?

I believe this is from 2019 or 2020. Any LLM e.g. Gemini could one shot any problem here, I believe.

I'll check it out!

I'll take the long side on that bet

I've been hacking away at trying to process PDFs into Markdown, having encountered similar obstacles to OP regarding header detection (and many other issues). OCR is fantastic thes…

hey there's preview

Would be interested in inclusion of PEP 292 [1] in your discussion here, which introduced `string.Template`. Is this Template going to be deprecated? [1] https://peps.python.org/pe…

One of the most novel demos I've seen openai ship in a few years. I love how it looks almost like a synth. Fun to play around with!

Cool anecdote from inside article > A seasoned performance engineer was looking through Strobelight data and discovered that by filtering on a particular std::vector function call …

to support custom key mappings, as many people with fancy ergonomic keyboards use

very beautiful simple animation. Good visualization of the proof of the algo; namely, that at each step i of the outer loop the first i elements are sorted (this is easy to show vi…

Hilarious post. I recommend people read to the end > If Jeffries started with a different core representation, then it's likely his subsequent design decisions would also change. T…

I really like the thesis of this post: that there is a fundamental divide in tech that can be summarised as "the gamer" and the productivity-maxxing "nihilist". Here's how they des…

norepinephrine = primary neurotransmitter for the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight). Mostly produced in brain stem/adrenal glands.