15 September 2024

29 links · Sunday

Programming As A Hobby

Being a founder is a lifestyle. You adopt a certain language, you end up running into a lot of the same people at various industry events and parties, you value certain things and feel certain pressures. There is a lot of pressure to not just be a founder, but…

Being Productive

Posts and writings by Julian Schrittwieser

Digital decluttering

I'm resisting my temptation towards digital hoarding and "save everything", and trying to be more selective about the data I'm keeping.

HOW TO SUCCEED IN MRBEAST PRODUCTION (leaked PDF)

Whether or not you enjoy MrBeast’s format of YouTube videos (here’s [a 2022 Rolling Stone profile](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/mrbeast-youtube-cover-story-interview-1334604/) if you’re unfamiliar), this leaked onboarding document for …

NetworkManager or networkd [LWN.net]

Posted Sep 13, 2024 22:42 UTC (Fri) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325) In reply to: NetworkManager or networkd by mathstuf Parent article: Debating ifupdown replacements for Debian trixie

LLMs Will Always Hallucinate, and We Need to Live With This

As Large Language Models become more ubiquitous across domains, it becomes important to examine their inherent limitations critically. This work argues that hallucinations in language models are not just occasional errors but an inevitable feature of these sys…

OpenSCAD

OpenSCAD Chat: #openscad (on IRC network libera.chat)

OpenAI o1: Incremental Progress, Not Revolution

o1 shows some improvements over GPT-4o. It fixed a small bug in my code, returning a working solution that was on par with Claude 3.5 Sonnet and better than GPT-4o. The reasoning summaries it provides…

Inline Composables in Vue

Inline composables offer a way to refactor components without creating multiple files. The idea is to organize related functionality into units within the same component file.

Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech

I could — and probably should — write an entire essay about the cult of the founder in Silicon Valley, how it developed and the damage it has done. This article from Dave Karpf, though,…

To Forget is an Ethical Act · EmilyGorcenski.com

On and off for the last several years I’ve been manually curating my roughly 40,000 lifetime tweets. I recently finished, and in the process embarked on a

OpenAI Strawberry vs Herbie

A year and a half ago, I wrote a blog post comparing Herbie to the first ChatGPT (which we now call, I think, GPT 3.5). I chose 11 floating-point repair benchmarks, and fed all of them to Herbie and ChatGPT. Herbie is a tool my students and I develop to do exa…

Is the College Student Startup Pipe Dream Dead?

The college startup pipe dream I write this article to pose a question: Will the next trillion dollar startup be started by a college-aged kid in his dorm? Can the pattern of Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Apple, and Google be repeated? (Bezos being a sort-of except…