The Transformer architecture revolutionized sequence modeling with its introduction of attention, a mechanism by which models look back at earlier inputs to prioritize relevant input data. However, computational cost increases drastically with sequence length,…
GPTZero used our Citation Check tool to find 50+ hallucinations under review at ICLR, each of which were missed by 3-5 peer reviewers.
Homemade 1000+ transistor array chip
When Your Distributed Lock Lies to You
There's been a flurry of discussion on Hacker News and other tech forums about what killed Perl. I wrote a lot of Perl in the mid 90s and subsequently worked on some of the most trafficked sites on the web in mod_perl in the early 2000s, so I have some thought…
Same people, 13 years later.
LLM use varies widely, and the ramifications of those uses vary accordingly; it’s worth taking apart several of the (many) uses for LLMs.
The Scale Gap Problem
The idea wasn’t working, and no amount of optimism or grit would change that. So we made the only honest call left; return the money.
If you're applying to hundreds of jobs and hearing nothing back, it's not just you. The system is broken. Big companies dominate job boards...
Personal website for Aaron Brethorst - Seattleite, technology leader, photographer, transit enthusiast, erstwhile non-runner.
Having kids is weird. Here are these human beings, with their own interests, likes and dislikes, and absolutely no knowledge. I mean yes, over time they build up experiences, but they start out wit…
Visnu Pitiyanuvath of Observable advocates "never aggregate your datapoints". The outliers are the signal! His talk made me realize that we, the developer community, could do better, especially the Cloud providers.
Everyone's talking about vibe-coding, but most of the discourse completely misses the point. The real disruption isn't about security risks or scalability concerns, it's about who should actually be worried.