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This is amazing! Thanks for optimizing the code using Claude!

I wrote a C++ translation of it: https://github.com/verma7/microgpt/blob/main/microgpt.cc 2x the number of lines of code (~400L), 10x the speed The hard part was figuring out how t…

My guess is Craig Silverstein, as he mentioned that Larry and Sergey might have worked with him at Stanford.

I am planning to learn how to write better. I am starting that by maintaining a stream of consciousness personal daily log. Also get more practice by commenting on Hacker News :)

The analogy of the question "What is life?" with "What is a computer?" bring up interesting parallels. The author defines a computer as any device that has transistors, RAM, etc th…

How would you get the distribution from the sum of numbers individually?

|Q-Z| is countably infinite, but |Q| = |Z|. There are countably infinite rational numbers that are not counting numbers, yet there are exactly as many rational numbers as counting …

Change List: internal Google lingo for what is more commonly known as patch, diff, or pull request in the Open source wold.

You might find the last section "Sleep spindles and intelligence" in https://www.tuck.com/sleep-spindles/ interesting.

It's easy to transfer to transition to the manager ladder by becoming a TLM (Tech Lead Manager) once you are L5 or higher.

Headspace app has worked well for me too. I have been using it for more than 3 months, meditating for 20 mins every day and I feel calmer throughout the day.

There are broadly speaking two kinds of meditations: focussed meditation and awareness meditation. I heard a useful analogy of the mind being like an elephant that wants to wander …

I hope to see the day when this website gives the wrong answer.

What about Ola in India?

Aren't axioms just training data that you feed to the model?

FWIW, I am 35 and I feel like my memory has declined from when I was 10 - 20. I used to be able to remember a lot of content for exams, song lyrics, and general knowledge. Nowadays…

This post has a slightly more coherent and detailed account: https://medium.com/@scifipromise/imposter-syndrome-or-not-my...

My data model says 9 women and 1 man.

I gave a talk at MesosCon about how we (are starting to) run Cassandra across multiple datacenters at Uber ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2jFLx8NNro , https://schd.ws/hosted_fi…

> It would be expensive -- requiring a freeze of all running processes while the snapshot is taking place to maintain any level of precision. Have you thought about distributed alg…

I ordered one for $300 a couple of weeks ago :(