melvinroest

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by melvinroest 12d ago
I posted this because recently I'm hitting my stride on Math Academy [1, 2]. So I got a bit curious about the people behind it. Turns out, I'm now questioning: how fast can I learn things really? Because if kids can go this far. T
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Math Academy Eurisko, 5 Yrs Ltr: Student Outcomes from High School Math/CS Track(justinmath.com)
4 points by melvinroest 12d ago|1 comments
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by melvinroest 14d ago
Thanks for figuring that out. Sort of sounds like AI programming programs to find vulnerabilities, of which fuzzing is one of the proven techniques to do it.
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by melvinroest 14d ago
You mean their own trained models, or do you think it's an open source model that they fine-tuned? If they use their own, I'd guess it's the latter.
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by melvinroest 14d ago
Wow, this announcement is good content marketing. Don't get me wrong, it's interesting. But there is no technical discussion as to how they did it. It's simply: we did it and Mythos and Codex didn't. It's good to kn
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by melvinroest 21d ago
Here is a sketch of my argument. It would need tidying but that would require a lot of work. I've been calling LLMs digital intelligence. That's in my opinion what they are and on the digital/conceptual realm they are better
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by melvinroest 21d ago
Hmm it's being done in a less cheesy way than AI does it. AI text feels more like "this matters, not less." There's always an "it's x not y" pattern somewhere. It could be written AI assisted but then look
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by melvinroest 23d ago
Given the time we live in, I thought it'd be nice to share this old gem and have a discussion started on architecture. It could be about this book or about more contemporary examples. I do like the fact that these are all examples of a
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The Architecture of Open Source Applications(aosabook.org)
2 points by melvinroest 23d ago|1 comments
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by melvinroest 1mo ago
I once celebrated my birthday where I asked everyone to give the following gift to me: create a presentation or workshop about something you're passionate about in your life. Treat us like experts and go down into your level of thinkin
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by melvinroest 1mo ago
> Remember when we needed 200 servers for an enterprise website because Apache used one process or thread per connection I don't, but holy moly. That sounds insane!
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by melvinroest 1mo ago
What small hole in the wall museum was that? I might travel to it no matter where it is in the world. Sounds awesome, I'm hyped up
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by melvinroest 1mo ago
> Odd variable naming? Stylistic choices that are watermarked? Whatever it is, I'm sure it's load-bearing.
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by melvinroest 1mo ago
Anyone want to organize one in Amsterdam with me? I live near the area, would be fun :)
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Raghu // dark-factory – press any key or click to power on(raghunathnair1-rgb.github.io)
4 points by melvinroest 2mo ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Are there good security benchmarks for LLMs?
7 points by melvinroest 2mo ago|1 comments
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by melvinroest 3mo ago
I am curious to check them out! I hadn’t heard of them. Marketing stuff takes time as I have noticed with aliceindataland.com [1]. Maybe I should do a show HN. I will think about it. To be fair, vibecoding this memo app in Swift didn’t take
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by melvinroest 3mo ago
I talk/walk for hours and want all audio files and transcripts in one place, full control.
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by melvinroest 3mo ago
A voice memo app, quite like the actual voice memo app from Apple. The thing is: now I can put my voice memo's on iCloud put Claude Code on it and make my transcripts into structured notes that my app then also displays. So basically a
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by melvinroest 3mo ago
I thought Karpathy’s microgpt explain how LLMs work
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Memo: Memory as a Model(arxiv.org)
2 points by melvinroest 4mo ago|0 comments
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by melvinroest 5mo ago
Yea, the amount of dev tools I'm creating per project is astounding. Usually tools that help me to debug certain things better.
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by melvinroest 5mo ago
> What should we do when code is cheap? Make usable software. Cheap code means that you can create a lot more prototypes to then perform usability tests by finding a user and sitting next to them. I mostly worked on internal apps lately,
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by melvinroest 5mo ago
Ah, I feel what you're saying. Yea that makes total sense.
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by melvinroest 5mo ago
How so? Could you give some specific examples?
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by melvinroest 5mo ago
Edit: yep, I really do type this much. I'm a bit of a "thinking out loud" person. > Cognitive Debt, Like Technical Debt, Must Be Repaid In quite a few circumstances, cognitive debt doesn't entirely need to be repaid.
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by melvinroest 5mo ago
library.aliceindataland.com I'm having fun writing a sequel on the books that Lewis Carroll wrote and mixing it with a SQL course. My hope is that SQL will be more fun to learn that way. And it's fun to write a few pages that will
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by melvinroest 6mo ago
TL;DR: you don't need to do any treasure hunt on your notes by just typing stuff into the search bar. Having your own graphRAG system + LLM on your notes is basically a "Google" but then on your own notes. Any question you ha
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by melvinroest 6mo ago
I have journaled digitally for the last 5 years with this expectation. Recently I built a graphRAG app with Qwen 3.5 4b for small tasks like classifying what type of question I am asking or the entity extraction process itself, as graphRAG
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by melvinroest 6mo ago
If you want some context about spec-driven development and how it could be used with LLMs I recommend [1]. Having some background like helps me to understand tools like this a bit more. [1] https://www.riaanzoetmulder.com/ar

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