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a mechanical engineer introduced me to the (HoC), an important conc...
from Hillel Wayne
My general reaction to flag arguments is to avoid them. Rather than...
from Martin Fowler
The ESA passed under a Republican president as a bipartisan consens...
from Disturbances
Adler and Van Doren suggest that the first and most important rule ...
from Dwarkesh Patel
And what you have is when you have this unequal economy, you’re giv...
from Garys Economics
when you have a very unequal society, you have a huge group of peop...
from Garys Economics
So the first big difference you see between a more equal society an...
from Garys Economics
While Pitchfork was well received by my immediate team, my manager,...
from byroot’s blog
My friend, however, asked his help not in repayment but as a matter...
from Ursula K. Le Guin
But we in the Handdara don’t want answers. It’s hard to avoid them,...
from Ursula K. Le Guin
This is interesting as a first large diffusion-based LLM. Most o...
from Andrej Karpathy
Your mind is not a storage facility. FROM: Day One | Your Journal...
from Day One | Your Journal for Life
In s1, when the LLM tries to stop thinking with "</thin...
from Tim Kellogg
not overfitting for the quantifiable. Everyone competes for everyth...
from Lenny's Podcast
I really, really, really think that there is not a single person o...
from Lenny's Podcast
Jhanas, breathwork, psychedelics, MDMA, etc are all tools to for in...
from Nadia Asparouhova
This is somewhat elementary and handwavy napkin analysis of a compl...
from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
An easy/primitive hack to “jailbreak” an LLM is to prepend/append ...
from Josh Beckman
The evolutionary tendency of machines, given improving material and...
from Contraptions
Staircase mode is a quality you want to design for. Elevators don’t...
from Carlos Bueno
How could they get huge wins out of ignoring the proverbial 80%? Be...
from Carlos Bueno
The love is not the love one feels for a job or a lover or any of t...
from David Foster Wallace
The metaphysical explanation is that Roger Federer is one of those ...
from David Foster Wallace
As is so often SOP with the truth, there’s a cruel paradox involved...
from David Foster Wallace
It is not an accident that great athletes are often called “natural...
from David Foster Wallace
The same soil that’s so full of humus farmers have to be bought off...
from David Foster Wallace
The old idea from Iris Murdoch endures: the most important revelati...
from Sara Hendren
Nearly every time I do one of these workouts, I get to the end thin...
from Chris Krycho (hello@chriskrycho.com)
No matter what we’ve tried so far, the request ends up being sent. ...
from ycombinator.com
five different patterns for workflows in detail: Prompt cha...
from Simon Willison
Agents begin their work with either a command from, or interactive ...
from anthropic.com
To be short, Parallelism is simply running things in parall...
from divan's blog
why synthetic data can provide better guidance to a model: ...
from simonwillison.net