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The Biggest Identity Sandpiles and How to Compute Them

eavan.blog
1 points·by lachlan_gray·4개월 전·0 comments

Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)

britneyspears.ac
286 points·by lachlan_gray·8개월 전·87 comments

comments

lachlan_gray
·4일 전·discuss
Funny, I was really impressed with how concise and goal oriented the directions are!

I would have done better in uni if the lab manuals were written like this
lachlan_gray
·25일 전·discuss
I think they were doing something like this, the tradeoff is that it's hard to do without an irritating number of false positives and/or wasting loads of precious tokens on useless audits.
lachlan_gray
·지난달·discuss
Yes, so many times I've been jumpscared by work-related audio in my playlists because of this
lachlan_gray
·지난달·discuss
Almost too much so, it often feels like opus is pushing back for the sake of pushing back. The way old models used to add disclaimers to every message regardless of content
lachlan_gray
·2개월 전·discuss
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lachlan_gray
·3개월 전·discuss
Tangential, but made me think of this YouTube channel I like.

I have no plans to own a tractor but for some reason many others and I enjoy videos like this one:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pQO-pVxvKvA
lachlan_gray
·3개월 전·discuss
Robotics/control systems is exactly what came to mind when I saw this release! What struck me is the possibility of look ahead search in real time, a bit like alphazero's mcts.
lachlan_gray
·3개월 전·discuss
Mentioned elsewhere, but

:term claude

In a split goes a long way for me!
lachlan_gray
·3개월 전·discuss
Ymmv, but I have been very happy using classic vim’s “native claude support”

:term claude

It will also expand special characters so you can do something like

:term claude “refactor %”

And Claude starts work on your current file right away. Also your buffers will update with Claude’s edits!
lachlan_gray
·4개월 전·discuss
According to this, notifications are possible if you add the app to the home screen, which I didn't know.

A feature more devs should use- I've been surprised how much websites behave like native apps if you just "add to homescreen" instead of downloading an official app, e.g. twitter, instagram.

When you open the shortcut, it doesn't launch as a tab in safari, but appears independently in the app switcher. They are often indistinguishable from official apps!

Seems like a great way for devs to avoid app store pains
lachlan_gray
·4개월 전·discuss
Not sure about the ssd in particular but the neo is apparently pretty modular

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k7Lv7f-5CQ
lachlan_gray
·5개월 전·discuss
Another crazy one is SectorLISP, 223 lines of asm

https://justine.lol/sectorlisp2/
lachlan_gray
·5개월 전·discuss
fwiw there are more granular controls, where you can for example allow/deny specific bash commands, read or write access to specific files, using a glob syntax:

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings#permission-settings

You can configure it at the project level
lachlan_gray
·6개월 전·discuss
Does this mean I get to take a cut for assisting their training data?
lachlan_gray
·7개월 전·discuss
Earlier this year moving home to Canada, instead of flying I bought a van in California and drove it back with all my stuff.

I was taken aback to learn my dad did the exact same thing at my age!
lachlan_gray
·7개월 전·discuss
What I meant is, assuming that they do find solutions. If they're not doing anything of course that's different.

In the article, "speed" is about reaching specific answers in a specific window of time, the bane of ADHD.
lachlan_gray
·7개월 전·discuss
I think part of the message is that speed isn't a free lunch. If an intelligence can solve "legible" problems quickly, it's symptomatic of a specific adaption for identifying short paths.

So when you factor speed into tests, you're systematically filtering for intelligences that are biased to avoid novelty. Then if someone is slow to solve the same problems, it's actually a signal that they have the opposite bias, to consider more paths.

IMO the thing being measured by intelligence tests is something closer to "power" or "competitive advantage".
lachlan_gray
·8개월 전·discuss
I think what you're describing is a form of conflict aversion, where the (tiny) conflict is what would clear up your read, or the group's attitude on something, for going forward. Short sighted kindness is a nice way to put it
lachlan_gray
·9개월 전·discuss
They have helped me a lot with chunking tasks, and guiding me through tasks that I can't hold in focus.

There's a prompt I used while moving out, where I had claude ask me questions, what is in each room. And then once we had this item list, organizing it.