Attached: 1 image The number pi has an evil twin! It's a number called ϖ with many properties similar to π. There are even mutant trig functions connected to this number, called sl and cl. So maybe while you were studying trig in high school, some kid …
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About three years ago, I memorized the first one hundred digits of pi. I did it on a lark, after reading Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein. The book’s central claim is that nearly anyone can achieve seemingly super-human feats of memory with proper techn…
I take a ride on the very last overnight train in Malaysia.
My attempt to organize in folders thousands of great articles sourced from Hacker News.
Over Christmas I set out to teach myself axiomatic . Specifically, I wanted to teach myself Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with the axiom of Choice or . Z...
When the world adapts to LMs, the boundary between agent and environment start to blur
These are low cost, first principles methods to help treat cancer. They are aimed at the poor and desperate, but some also serve as preventative measures for normal healthy people. I was inspired to put it together after hearing about a friend's dad (neuro sur…
Nio is an experimental async runtime for Rust. This project initially began as an experiment to explore alternative scheduling strategies.
Make full content rss feeds when the author only provides a summary.
By now, everyone knows that hybrid search has improved RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) search quality. While dense embedding search has shown impressive capabilities in capturing deep semantic relationships between queries and documents, it still has nota…
I got a guaranteed return of 10.66% by paying down my low-interest mortgage to eliminate PMI.
In this article I’d like to show how to get Nix working on your Steam Deck and explain why you might want to. Firstly, you need to install …
My friends and I play GeoGuessr every Wednesday. It’s a small yet awesome tradition of ours, a reason to get together on Discord every week. Being a naturally curious person, I had a lot of questions to ask. What is our top score? How often do we confuse UK wi…
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Why tracking screen time doesn't matter and improving the relationship with your phone requires conscious decisions.
Both compiler developers and security researchers have built disassemblers. They often prioritize different aspects. Compiler toolchains, benefiting from direct contributions from CPU vendors, tend to
Born with limited opportunities, I reflect on the "darts" analogy of risk and chance. From poverty in post-Soviet Russia to building a new life in Canada, this is my journey of resilience and growth.
You don’t need to do it all. Just pick the next most important thing and start.
I was homesick alone for Thanksgiving and always trying to think up ways to make more money. I decided to copy the Vidalia Onions guy by selling Mississippi Sweet Potatoes directly to consumers online. I read his blog post “I sell onions on the internet” sever…
It’s hard to take claims of AGI seriously when it can’t even order a pizza.”
I have been exploring the capabilities of structured generation with OpenAI models for a long time, starting from when function calling was introduced. I believe structured generation is a powerful use case for LLMs. The reason is that if we can extract inform…
last week at NeurIPS’24, one extremely salient thing was the anxiety and frustration felt and expressed by late-year PhD students and postdocs who were confused by the job market that looks and feels so much different from what they expected perhaps when they …
Thoughts on building and maintaining trust with very senior managers
As an active user of npm and an author/maintainer of several libraries, I’ve recently encountered significant problems with npm’s new search experience. While I appreciate the effort the npm team has put into improving search, the current implementation has in…
A weird thing happened when I joined Figma. I ended up getting a lot1 of followers on Twitter. Prior to my time there I had around 100 followers, and was mostly shitposting to empty air. I now have 6.9k followers (huge, I know - you m…
Observability, so hot right now. Over the years, we’ve seen observability go from an unknown concept to a ubiquitous phrase that everyone is desperate to stamp...
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My colleague Julius par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.