psadri

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by psadri 6d ago
We have been working in this space for the past year. Based on our experience, I no longer trust any claims unless they are backed by benchmark results (yes, benchmarks are painful to run reliably and expensive). It is possible to reduce
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by psadri 6d ago
Thanks to coding agents, there is no reason not to
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What are you willing to spend 2 hours on?
5 points by psadri 10d ago|5 comments
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by psadri 10d ago
For anyone interested in private space flight: Wild Wild Space documentary. Also a commentary about startups in general. Separately, I've been wondering how uneven human progress is. I think we have come a long way in electronics (re
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by psadri 11d ago
I have been wondering: more solar means we are making Earth less reflective. Solar energy that might have been reflected back to space is now absorbed by the PV to make electricity. But that delta has to go somewhere? Where does it go in
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by psadri 14d ago
Looking forward to the series finale this Friday!
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by psadri 21d ago
Luna is at a very compelling point on the price/performance curve. I have found that sometimes a smaller model with max reasoning is actually more expensive than using the next tier model with a lower reasoning effort. It’s certainly
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by psadri 23d ago
Paul G is not writing this for a general audience of your run of the mill “engineer” hoping to be employed by someone. He is writing it for future founders. What knowledge / skills you need to develop today to be well positioned to h
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by psadri 25d ago
In my experience, the thing that makes your better at something is actually _doing_ it, badly at first and then gradually improving by iteration. But for writing, I usually see the advice that says you should read a lot instead of write a l
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by psadri 25d ago
I looked at the OTel schema generated for recording a single numerical metric. It was like 12 or 13 meta fields in addition to the actual metric fields like timestamp, metric and value. OTel looks like something designed by a committee of
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by psadri 1mo ago
Who are OpenRouter’s competitors?
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by psadri 1mo ago
This is an awesome thread. I agree - the catalyst is joy, in a broad sense of the word. One is lucky to find joy in something that can take you deep.
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by psadri 2mo ago
To be honest I also just read about it. However everytime I pass through Heathrow I think someone really took the idea to heart.
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by psadri 2mo ago
Aside for the algorithms and how well they work, there is a psychological aspect to how people perceive "wait" times. It turns out just waiting is very annoying. But having people do anything during that same wait period → perce
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by psadri 2mo ago
A version of this idea was mentioned in one of the Three Body Problem books. There, the bombs were pre-positioned along a path and detonated sequentially like dominos, with a vehicle riding the blast waves.
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by psadri 2mo ago
Sure. But I think they can do it more exhaustively than humanly possible.
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by psadri 2mo ago
I don’t think we have spent enough time on the creativity axis. When we solve problems we usually follow a heuristically guided energy efficient path. We just prune a lot of possibilities based on our existing knowledge and experience. Crea
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by psadri 2mo ago
Be sure to visit the basement museum to see the upside-down string + tiny sandbag weights model that was used to simulate the structure. Pure genius.
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by psadri 2mo ago
Learning to code = understanding a problem, breaking it down into small, manageable pieces, putting all the pieces back together. Debugging. Iterating towards better metrics, etc. All these are amazingly valuable skills/mindsets that
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by psadri 2mo ago
This will cause an extra round trip to the LLM. Which means more $ spent.
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by psadri 3mo ago
I met Om once in SF over a meal. I could tell he was a kind soul. RIP.
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by psadri 3mo ago
The comment about memcached being ephemeral is orthogonal to whether people will use it as if it persistent. If the cache appears to get hit 99.9% of the time and is always there, sooner or later people will write code that relies on that
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by psadri 3mo ago
We are witnessing the birth of the term "pre-times" you often see in dystopian sci-fi.
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by psadri 3mo ago
It’s interesting that you have to be an A to tell the rest apart. And good luck if you have a lot Bs that believe they are As.
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by psadri 3mo ago
Claude: configure my Emacs such that … has worked pretty well for me lately.
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by psadri 3mo ago
This is part of the plot in Murakamui's Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.
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by psadri 3mo ago
I believe 1:1 is fundamentally different than ever 1:2 ratio. So, even if you can have 3 person classrooms, I don't think it would be the same as 1:1 time. As soon as you are working with more than one student, you have to teach the c
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by psadri 3mo ago
This is even a more interesting idea! I guess similar to the teacher assistant system in higher education. One version of this could be students a year ahead teaching the previous year's students. In elementary school it might be tri
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by psadri 3mo ago
If you had the budget for two teachers, I’d utilize them as one teaching in the traditional way, and the other spending 1:1 times with each student (20 students in a class → 1-1:30 hr / student).
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by psadri 4mo ago
Separately, I love the word “bloke”. I wish it would take off here in the US.

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