brilee

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Pgrust was built: four attempts to rewrite Postgres in Rust with AI(malisper.me)
6 points by brilee 2mo ago|1 comments
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by brilee 4mo ago
(author here) As a serial successful field-hopper, I agree that I'm not the right person to be making these estimates. But the external view is that college courses roughly expect you to do what I'm claiming, in roughly the time i
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Expertise in the age of AI(moderndescartes.com)
129 points by brilee 4mo ago|111 comments
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What's in a Codebase?(moderndescartes.com)
3 points by brilee 4mo ago|0 comments
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Running a Minecraft Server and more on a 1960s UNIVAC Computer(farlow.dev)
243 points by brilee 5mo ago|38 comments
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What's in a Codebase?(moderndescartes.com)
2 points by brilee 5mo ago|0 comments
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Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI(lalitm.com)
959 points by brilee 6mo ago|301 comments
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What's in a Codebase?(moderndescartes.com)
1 points by brilee 6mo ago|0 comments
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Interviewing for ML/AI Engineers(moderndescartes.com)
1 points by brilee 9mo ago|0 comments
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by brilee 10mo ago
I could have sworn that sickly sweet smell was the smell of various phosphine reagents? Just my vague recollection of my time in lab from 15 years ago.
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by brilee 11mo ago
Does this handle, e.g., water of hydration CaSO4 . 2H2O? states of matter H2O(g)? does it preserve subunit information, as in (C6H5)CH2COOH? Writing a parser for basic formulae is such a tiny tiny part of the actual problem... deciding the
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Taste(moderndescartes.com)
2 points by brilee 11mo ago|0 comments
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by brilee 11mo ago
Great write-up, but I admit that I found the interweaving of human and AI-written content/headlines/summaries pretty distracting. I kept on wanting to scroll past, but had to keep on backtracking to find the human thread again. I
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Codebase is 250% AI generated(moderndescartes.com)
16 points by brilee 11mo ago|12 comments
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by brilee 1y ago
AI slop
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by brilee 1y ago
Taste is the field behind the goalposts, and we as humans are constantly expanding that field by "having taste" and developing taste as a community. https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/taste/
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Taste(moderndescartes.com)
1 points by brilee 1y ago|0 comments
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Taste(moderndescartes.com)
2 points by brilee 1y ago|0 comments
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by brilee 1y ago
For those commenting on cost per token: This throughput assumes 100% utilizations. A bunch of things raise the cost at scale: - There are no on-demand GPUs at this scale. You have to rent them for multi-year contracts. So you have to lock i
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Multimodal LLMs Are Blind(moderndescartes.com)
3 points by brilee 1y ago|0 comments
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Claude as Pipeline Orchestrator(moderndescartes.com)
1 points by brilee 1y ago|0 comments
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by brilee 1y ago
Desalinated water is also less dense than normal seawater, so the water column inside the output pipe would create a pressure imbalance with the water column outside the pipe, assisting in the outflow? I'm having trouble figuring out h
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by brilee 1y ago
I'm working on a startup in this space and wrote up my thoughts here: https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/study_mode/
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What ChatGPT Study Mode gets right and wrong(moderndescartes.com)
3 points by brilee 1y ago|0 comments
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by brilee 1y ago
As a former big tech engineer, I can't help but come up with a gazillion ways to work around these sorts of seemingly straightforward policies. Here's one way they could get around their own privacy policy: keep track of what % of
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by brilee 1y ago
Back when Claude Code had per-token pricing, almost nobody used it because it was clearly much more expensive than the Cursor pricing - $20 a month flat for Cursor vs $5-10 a day for per-token Claude. The incentives manifested in the way bo
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by brilee 1y ago
I'm a second-gen Korean-American; my korean is weak but conversational. I am intrigued by the reasoning model that analyzes my speech and points out various mistakes I'm making. It's a good first attempt at separating the 2 t
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by brilee 1y ago
For those of you suggesting we use the extra energy for $pet_topic I suggest reading https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/factobattery/ Tldr: most applications of free energy have capital costs that far outweigh
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by brilee 1y ago
The loop can be anywhere, not just the north pole :)
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LLM Shibboleths determine AI effectiveness(moderndescartes.com)
23 points by brilee 1y ago|1 comments

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