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It’s a very soft skill that changes as the capabilities of AI change. But one thing that doesn’t change is the need to specify an end goal correctly and precisely. I think the emph…

Pretty cool, rendering PowerPoint files to an image is probably the only way for LLMs to make sense of them. Does this work in Cloudflare’s workerd environment? Would be nice to ha…

> While OpenAI originally pioneered Codex (which went on to power GitHub Copilot), Google’s direct answer for dedicated, native code completion and natural-language-to-code generat…

If you give every agent an isolated container to use, you’re going to be paying for the reserved memory while the container is active, even if the agent isn’t doing anything.

Wow, that’s very interesting. I wish more benchmarks were reported along with the total cost of running that benchmark. Dollars per token is kind of useless for the reasons you men…

Lots of comments about the price change, but Artifical Analysis reports that 3.1 Flash-Lite (reasoning) used fewer than half of the tokens of 2.5 Flash-Lite (reasoning). This will …

C2PA has lots of problems. https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?%2Farchives%2F10...

Very interesting blog post. I’d never seen that method for quickly computing the patterns. I thought I had done a lot of research on bloom filters, too!

Yeah, I agree with this. I think there are open addressing hash tables like Swiss Table that do something similar. IIRC, they have buckets with a portion at the beginning with loss…

This article is a little confusing. I think this is a roundabout way to invent the blocked bloom filter with k=2 bits inserted per element. It seems like the authors wanted to use …

I wonder if the “spawn” API is ever preferable over “fork”. Do we really want to remove context if we can help it? There will certainly be situations where we have to, but then wha…

AmIUnique.org has a good collection of non-cookie tracking techniques. https://amiunique.org/fingerprint

I wonder how this compares to similar initiatives by e.g. Sony [0] and Leica [1]. [0]: https://authenticity.sony.net/camera/en-us/ [1]: https://petapixel.com/2023/10/26/leica-m11-p…

"Scientists unscramble egg proteins" https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-unscrambl...

It’s vibrating at a microscopic level. You won’t be able to feel it at all.

What are your thoughts on how Bevy's developing UI toolkit compares (in terms of goals and use cases) to some of the other Rust efforts in the space (egui, xilem, iced, etc.)? Do y…

About 7% of people who have ever lived are alive today. Still pretty lucky, but not quite winning the lottery.

For sure; using total energy delivered makes a lot more sense. But then I think it would be better to use whatever tool humanity has that delivers the max total energy; let’s say T…

To kill a mosquito, you need "a few tens of millijoules, delivered within a few milliseconds" [0], so let's say 10W. To destroy the Earth (so that it turns into scattered dust and …

A company called Invent Wood (based on research out of UMD) is creating “densified” wood that solves a lot of these problems. They have a process that collapses the cell walls in w…

Modern mini-led monitors are very good. The “local” dimming is so local that there isn’t much light bleed even in the worst-case situations (cursor over black background makes it p…

You can definitely get around a lot of the pain points by using owned types like String as much as possible instead of borrowed types like &str. This is even generally recommended;…

A simple extension of the Bloom filter called “block Bloom filters” fixes this. The idea is that the first hash is the index of a small constant-size block of your array, and the r…

The Underway app is basically an interactive version of this (NYC-specific). It’s just the transit map, but you can click on stations to see current arrival/departure times (“3min”…