Grant Slatton

simple and useful algo for your toolkit: chao1 cardinality estimation have a large dataset and wanna estimate cardinality? 1. take a sample 2. count number of samples that appear exactly 1 or 2 times 3. estimate = sampled uniques + singletons^2 / (2*doubletons)

New post for the board game nerds: Solving Quoridor grantslatton.com/solving-quorid… In which I present a novel breakthrough towards solving this very fun game Major results include finding that boards can switch which player wins based on initial wall count, and forced draws do exist

@zeddotdev @xeophon just tried, unfortunately still not fixed

@GrantSlatton @xeophon very specific, I am not sure

has openai just given up on making the chatgpt native mac app not a buggy mess? i was told vibe coding simple apps had been solved

@adastroworld when codex app launched, it wouldn't even display diffs to large files that is, if you had a 10k line file and made a 1 line change, it wouldn't even render the 1 line diff

@GrantSlatton lol github.com/openai/codex/i…

@zeddotdev @xeophon has zed fixed the issue where "jump to next ctrl+f result" puts the result as the last visible line at the bottom of the screen instead of the line in the middle of the screen? this was the reason i churned despite trying very hard to love zed, i use ctrl+f all the time

@xeophon @GrantSlatton you can also use the codex CLI in terminal threads zed.dev/blog/terminal-…

@xeophon also full of bugs, particularly around large-ish files (10k lines of code)

@GrantSlatton It’s all the Codex app these days

@Dee_Tay_ler I am currently experiencing a bug where the “jump to line” navigation by clicking a line number reference is failing Tons of bugs around big-ish files (10k lines)

@GrantSlatton Nah. I've had zero issues.

@KelseyTuoc @alexolegimas @TuhinChakr It depends on length You will find almost all non-cliched 6 word snippets to only have a single occurrence For example, I just pulled these unremarkable 6 words from a random post of yours, and voila, it is indeed the only text on the internet with those exact words

@alexolegimas @TuhinChakr I'm not convinced by this. I expect you could do the exact same analysis of human-written text - most grammatical three-word phrases are on the internet somewhere! But that doesn't mean the AI memorized it in pretraining.

This from @TuhinChakr is brilliant. That prize winning story from Granta? Turns out it's just a bunch of random whole phrases taken directly from existing text on the internet. Tool allows you to trace those n-grams directly to their source, which is mostly random fanfiction. tuhinchakrabarty.substack.com/p/ai-slop-gran…

shockingly common trope of skepticism about detecting AI writing is "AI is trained on good writing, so any good writing sounds like AI" basically tells you everything you need to know about their discernment

@moultano Dominos currently sells a large any-toppings pizza for $11 All your calories for a whole day!

Seeing $28 lunch floating by on the feed made me wonder if I was out of touch, so I checked chipotle around here, not a cheap area. Burritos are still $10.50, and more food than I can eat in one sitting. What are y'all doing?

would pay a ton for a tool as easy to use as SketchUp that specifically targeted making it easy to design stuff entirely made from laser cut tube like the tool should figure out the details of all the snap-together joints etc for me x.com/FabworksHQ/sta…

@aviel the dream of the 2010s is alive at @GetRowZero this is after we outgrew the garage we were in for a few years

@GrantSlatton Related: WeWork ruined the office culture of 99% of startups in the 2010s

i permanently fixed my dopamine receptors by living on $15K/yr in university in arkansas then going straight to a west coast faang job i am Ressentiment-proof x.com/ByrneHobart/st…

in the summers i liked to see how long i could go without turning on the AC in my old $300/mo apartment would make it to late June, just sitting at my desk writing Haskell and playing Counterstrike in my underwear, covered in sweat good times

This also applies to sports like BJJ After experiencing high quality BJJ pedagogy, one realizes how terribly low quality almost all tech pedagogy is

Almost nobody makes money being a world class chess player; you only make money teaching Contrast with tech or finance where world-class practitioners make a ton of money Thus is your median chess tutor is *much* better than median tech or finance tutor

@charliermarsh Have ton of mileage from /goal try to reduce code size with deduplication, dead code removal, conceptual simplification, etc — no bullshit golfing/reward hacking. record the current time every time you find a reduction. stop after 15 minutes of no finds. x.com/GrantSlatton/s…

Cut ~2% off the uv binary by removing and consolidating some of our dependencies, thank you /goal!

@EigenGender why did OS have to kill people why couldn't they have just like made people miss their dentist appointment to get the appropriate ripple effects

Terra ignota fanfic where O.S. is basically Cambridge analytica and has a bunch of marketing hype but no real effect