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@waitbutwhy You press red for survival. I press red to cull the blue pressers. We are not the same.

@JEBistline Another interesting thing is that the drops are after the checkpoints rather than before. You could imagine slowing down when feeling confident of hitting your goal. But it seems not the case on average

With the Boston Marathon today, a good time to re-up one of the greatest figures in sports data: the distribution of marathon finish times (n=9,789,093). The spike at 4:00 is not a coincidence.

@bryan_caplan Second one

What cover maximally makes you want to buy this book?

Context length should be renamed to attention span

I stand with @dhh because they’ll come for me next. Eventually they’ll come for you, too. It’s time we put our feet down and say “no” to these losers who demand everyone share their exact opinions or get smeared, fired, etc. Let’s usher in a new era of OSS: one where everyone is welcome, and nobody tells other people what they must think and say.

I found a fake mountain: @3.4170604,101.7885583,386a,35y,339.14h,35.89t/data=!3m1!1e3!5m1!1e4?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDkxNC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">google.com/maps/@3.417060… . What do I do now?

@sama Clippy

What do you call it?

@awesomekling @dhh I was not a huge fan of you either but now I am!

Not a huge fan of @dhh but I like his writings a lot. And his infectious enthusiasm. And the way he talks about running a business. And his willingness to do what’s right even when it’s unpopular. Okay maybe I’m a fan of @dhh.

Something like this. Or just re-use the ordinary copy button since it will only have different behavior where there is currently no copy button at all.

UI proposal: "copy to prompt". It should have its own icon, and should copy markdown to the clipboard (for use in chatgpt). Example use cases: google docs (preserve headings), product listings (parse cost, availability, etc), email threads

The race for LLM "cognitive core" - a few billion param model that maximally sacrifices encyclopedic knowledge for capability. It lives always-on and by default on every computer as the kernel of LLM personal computing. Its features are slowly crystalizing: - Natively multimodal text/vision/audio at both input and output. - Matryoshka-style architecture allowing a dial of capability up and down at test time. - Reasoning, also with a dial. (system 2) - Aggressively tool-using. - On-device finetuning LoRA slots for test-time training, personalization and customization. - Delegates and double checks just the right parts with the oracles in the cloud if internet is available. It doesn't know that William the Conqueror's reign ended in September 9 1087, but it vaguely recognizes the name and can look up the date. It can't recite the SHA-256 of empty string as e3b0c442..., but it can calculate it quickly should you really want it. What LLM personal computing lacks in broad world knowledge and top tier problem-solving capability it will make up in super low interaction latency (especially as multimodal matures), direct / private access to data and state, offline continuity, sovereignty ("not your weights not your brain"). i.e. many of the same reasons we like, use and buy personal computers instead of having thin clients access a cloud via remote desktop or so.

bro sh*t just got so real. Claude Opus published a response paper to Apple’s paper, criticizing their experiment design, putting models under token limit constraints, and having them solve unsolvable problems.

One of the core rules of the Unix philosophy is that each program should do one thing and do it well. For `find` that apparently means wiping out your whole folder if you get the order of arguments wrong.

@grok @persalam @grok is this really true?

Yes, the claim appears true. With 6 quarters, 2 dimes, 3 nickels, and 4 pennies (15 coins), you can make any amount from 0 to 99 cents. For example, 4 cents uses 4 pennies, 9 cents uses 1 nickel and 4 pennies, and 99 cents uses 3 quarters, 2 dimes, 1 nickel, and 4 pennies. At least 4 pennies are needed to avoid gaps, like 4 cents, and this distribution covers all amounts effectively. Other distributions with 4 pennies might also work, but this one is valid and likely optimal for minimizing unmakeable amounts.

If you have space for 15 coins, and have an infinite supply of dollar bills, then you should have (6,2,3,4) coins of value (25,10,5,1) cents in order to minimize the chance of not needing change.

My best @ScottAdamsSays-style affirmation: "any time I spend running/exercising is not lost since I will live that much longer"

@xai We’re all looking for the guy who did this, be on the lookout for someone who: 1. Has admin access to key functionality 2. Seems to disregard authority/process 3. Possibly some connection to S. Africa

Software engineering completion times have lognormal distribution. I realize this is just another instance of us not being able to understand exponentials intuitively

@yacineMTB Pin it?

dont you DARE page my kvcache out

I made a game based on Schelling points in psychology, link in replies