cortesi

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by cortesi 3mo ago
I only had time to use it for a couple of deep reviews of large Rust projects, and a few agentic coding tasks (implement plan X, refactor Y in fashion Z) before my quota ran out. My impression is that the reviews were quite strong - maybe O
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by cortesi 3mo ago
As a developer outside the US I think it's vital to have alternatives to OpenAI and Anthropic, but sadly this is not it. For $200/month you get < 3 hours of use per week, the API is extremely slow, and the output quality in my
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by cortesi 7mo ago
I'm sorry, but we can tell absolutely nothing about Gary Marcus from this. People should have a look at the final data: https://github.com/davegoldblatt/marcus-claims-dataset/blob/... Many of the "s
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by cortesi 8mo ago
Written in Rust, with cross-platform + web visualiser in egui.
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Spacecurve: A space-filling curve playground(corte.si)
43 points by cortesi 8mo ago|5 comments
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by cortesi 1y ago
I have a tiny, relevant weekend project: https://github.com/cortesi/agentsmd This is a command-line tool that lets you generate your AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md files from common sources. So, for instance, if you have Rust
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by cortesi 1y ago
SQLx is great, but I had a long laundry list of issues with its SQLite support so I forked it into a focused SQLite-specific library. It has now diverged very far from SQLx, and the number of small inaccuracies and issues we fixed in the lo
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by cortesi 2y ago
Nextest is one of the very small handful of tools I use dozens or hundreds of times a day. Parallelism can reduce test suite execution time significantly, depending on your project, and has saved me cumulative days of my life. The output is
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by cortesi 2y ago
I'd love to say that it's taking off, but it looks like daily active users (as measured by sampling popular relays) has been stagnant at just under 20k for 6 months: https://stats.nostr.band/
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by cortesi 2y ago
We haven't found this to be an impediment. Keep things modular, and share the type definitions of anything you import with the model. As the benefits here become more and more clear tooling will improve and people will adapt their deve
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by cortesi 2y ago
Claude 3.5 Sonnet's coding abilities are incredibly impressive. I think it lets an expert programmer move more than twice as fast. There are limits - to produce high quality code, not copy-and-paste pablum, you have to be able to give
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by cortesi 3y ago
Oh, right! That's just a bit of fun - a random pattern (picked to be vaguely visually pleasing), which is laid out on the Hilbert curve, and then offset by a calculated amount depending on the mouseover. So I'm just shifting the s
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by cortesi 3y ago
The mousover always shows a contiguous section of the underlying file. So you're seeing a constant-length section of the space-filling curve centered on the cursor as you move the mouse about. The hex to the right is that same contiguo
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by cortesi 3y ago
There is, but I see it's not visible on smaller resolutions - I should fix that. The default color scheme just classifies bytes into black (0x00), white (0xff), blue (ascii), and low (green) and high (red).
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by cortesi 3y ago
Ah, this is an old side-project of mine. Something I should probably make clearer is that files are not uploaded anywhere - the app is completely local, and all analysis is done in the browser. This version is written in React but when time
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by cortesi 4y ago
This was a fascinating rabbit hole. Here's Myron May - who shot and injured 3 people and then was killed by the cops - describing his "stalking". At first blush, he seems intelligent and rational - but as you listen, it soon
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by cortesi 5y ago
I once correctly guessed a that friend's PIN was "1729", based only on the fact that he was a maths major, a huge fan of Ramanujan, and was sure to have read this story. I still cherish the look of complete confusion on his f
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by cortesi 5y ago
It depends on what kind of geek you are. "The Ants" is perhaps my favourite non-fiction book of all time - at the time it was written it was a fair account of the total sum of human knowledge of ants. It's beautifully written
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by cortesi 5y ago
This review of "Naturalist" in the NYTimes gives some flavor of events: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/06/s... The book itself is well worth reading - it's a
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by cortesi 5y ago
The feud is alluded to in the article. The broad summary is that Wilson had the temerity to devote the final chapter of Sociobiology, a book that pretty much launched the field of evolutionary study of animal behaviour, to humans. Lewontin
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by cortesi 5y ago
Lewontin's reputation will be forever tarnished by his disgraceful treatment of E.O. Wilson, a dispute in which he was viciously unfair and in which Wilson has proved to be correct in every particular.
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by cortesi 6y ago
That's quite possible! Though after staring at thousands of these across many application domains, I do think the space-filling curves perform legitimately better. Another factor is that the large discontinuities in the zig-zag curve m
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by cortesi 6y ago
Oh, hey - that's my post. I have a blazingly fast re-implementation of these algorithms in Rust, which will soon make an appearance as a set of command-line tools. This will be a companion to the interactive in-browser implementation a
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by cortesi 6y ago
Whoa. Many, many years ago I started idly hacking on a similar project with similar ideas and an identical name. I've always intended to return to it in my Copious Spare Time, which of course means I never did and probably never will.
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Generative Zoology with Neural Networks(corte.si)
67 points by cortesi 6y ago|4 comments
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by cortesi 7y ago
Taleb's prominence is baffling to me. I've read all his books, and tried hard to figure out why people I respect believe he's an important thinker. I just can't see it. Almost everything he says sets off my bullshit alar
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by cortesi 7y ago
Excellent. I did something similar a few months ago using a dataset of zoological silhouettes, resulting in a menagerie of mammals, bugs, spiders and other mutant wonders. https://twitter.com/cortesi/status/1153075
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by cortesi 8y ago
This matches my experience with BigTable, down to the short-duration failure spikes. I feel that something should be said on the plus side of the ledger here. I'm the solo founder of a company that indexes huge amounts of fine-grained
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Tracking left and right: website behaviour in the lead-up to the midterms(blog.netograph.io)
6 points by cortesi 8y ago|0 comments
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by cortesi 8y ago
I find the rank graphs in this post a bit unsatisfying - I keep wanting to see what the relative magnitudes are. I've been experimenting with a visualisation that combines rank and magnitude. It needs another few iterations but I think

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