SatvikBeri

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by SatvikBeri 7d ago
I started paying for phones with really good cameras once I had kids and I wanted to take lots of pictures with them. I definitely notice the quality difference in random, off-the-cuff photos (which is the vast majority), though if I have t
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by SatvikBeri 10d ago
One example that comes to mind is math textbooks – the early textbooks in a field are usually much worse than later ones that come along. To pick on one, I think most people who've read both would agree that the commutative algebra sec
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by SatvikBeri 24d ago
I hit it once when I asked a question about whether butterflies remember anything from their time as caterpillars. I've never hit it for coding, but I also don't really do much related to security.
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by SatvikBeri 2mo ago
> We can also imagine the application of these models for malicious purposes , including the following (or other applications we can’t yet anticipate): * Generate misleading news articles * Impersonate others online * Aut
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by SatvikBeri 2mo ago
It's trivial to try another agent. You can spend $20 for a monthly subscription and ask it to import all your settings from Claude Code.
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by SatvikBeri 3mo ago
I use Julia! I like it a lot, and add type parameters to all application code. But JET.jl does not feel anywhere close to the assurances I can get from a statically typed language (yet)
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by SatvikBeri 3mo ago
What statically typed language would you suggest for machine learning and large data pipelines? I don't love Python, but it has by far the largest ecosystem.
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by SatvikBeri 3mo ago
Every interview method has some glaring flaws, and I find you mostly have a choice of which flaws you pick. On my current team, I care a lot about the ability to write fast code. The most important part of my process is a take-home designed
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by SatvikBeri 4mo ago
I'm a fairly moderate user, never hit any kind of usage limits, but I used 44 million cache create tokens and 1.5 billion cache read tokens, which ccusage estimates would have cost $990, and calculates the different categories separate
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by SatvikBeri 4mo ago
Not OP, but Dario said on Dwarkesh's podcast 3 months ago that their gross margins are "significantly higher than 50%"
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by SatvikBeri 4mo ago
Run rate is annualized revenue based on some recent period, e.g. taking the last month of revenue and multiplying by 12. Revenue (classic) is a historical measure, e.g. revenue in 2025.
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by SatvikBeri 4mo ago
Julia does this – you generally write synchronous, single-threaded functions most of the time, and can use code like `t = @spawn foo(b)` to get a Task, and then `output = fetch(t)` to wait for it and get the value. I like this general appro
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by SatvikBeri 4mo ago
I usually aim to have Claude end up with about 500 lines of code after a night of work. Most of what it's doing is experimenting with many different approaches, summarizing them, and then giving me a relatively small diff to review and
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by SatvikBeri 4mo ago
The context window has nothing to do with RAM usage and even if it did, a million tokens of context is maybe 5mb.
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by SatvikBeri 4mo ago
9-5 Pacific Time
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by SatvikBeri 4mo ago
Yes, I've pretty much used Opus exclusively for the last year, except for a brief period when Sonnet was ahead
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by SatvikBeri 4mo ago
I've never actually run into the issues that people talk about online, like Claude suddenly getting dumb or running out of usage. So there's just not a lot of incentive for me to shop around. I've used Amp a bit, and it'
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by SatvikBeri 4mo ago
Re: REPL use, you just use it to run code and look at results. e.g. for TDD – you can modify your code files normally in the IDE, changes get picked up by revise, and then you re-run the tests in the REPL. For long-running jobs, I basically
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by SatvikBeri 4mo ago
It's definitely closer to matlab than python, but it's closer to python than most mainstream programming languages. I ported ~20k lines of python code to Julia over a couple years manually, and for the most part could do line-by-l
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by SatvikBeri 4mo ago
Well, my workflow uses Revise.jl. I develop either in Jupyter notebooks or in the REPL, prototyping code there and then moving functions to files when they're ready. In that context, rapid iteration is fairly fast. Nowadays I often use
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by SatvikBeri 4mo ago
Yes, with unlimited development time I would expect C++ solutions to be as fast or faster. But Julia hits a really nice combination of development speed and performance that I haven't found in other languages, at least for number crunc
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by SatvikBeri 4mo ago
This is 7 years old. Julia is a totally different language by now. As a quick anecdote, in our take-home interview exercise, we usually receive answers in C++ or Julia, and the two fastest answers have been in Julia.
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by SatvikBeri 5mo ago
I actually do this, but that's mostly because our team reviewed all the existing autoformatters for the relatively obscure language we use, and either really hated the formatting or found that they actually introduced errors!
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by SatvikBeri 5mo ago
jj has almost 30,000 stars on github. You might not be looking for a different git ux, but plenty of people are!
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by SatvikBeri 5mo ago
Yes, but a patient who googled his real name would not find his blog. That was the point.
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by SatvikBeri 5mo ago
Are you aware that you can use tmux (or zellij, etc.), spin up the interpreter in a tmux session, and then the LLM can interact with it perfectly normally by using send-keys? And that this works quite well, because LLMs are trained on it? Y
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by SatvikBeri 5mo ago
It's totally compatible though, and that's a big selling point. I use jj and nobody else at my work uses it and that has never been an issue.
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by SatvikBeri 6mo ago
I use a REPL in tmux. That lets Claude code read/write to it easily, as well as letting me take manual control to investigate.
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by SatvikBeri 6mo ago
One person's bug is another's feature.
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by SatvikBeri 6mo ago
I think my toddler saw roughly 100 dogs and cats before she was able to reliably tell the difference.

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