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by quirino 14d ago
My experience in Brazil: Uber is way cheaper here. Compared to what I paid in San Francisco, I'd estimate a ~10x difference. And things here are rarely 10x cheaper. The difference in restaurants is probably less than ~2x. My point bein
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by quirino 17d ago
I've been studying these a bunch for a project in university. Last week I went over the derivation of the ELBO for a couple hours and it was a very fun and elucidating exercise. Once you give names to the larger mathematical structures
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by quirino 21d ago
I think many people would consider 60fps to be a minimum and 30fps to be almost disorienting, even for casual games. Gamers often go for 120-240Hz monitors even.
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by quirino 1mo ago
A couple days ago they had published an overall score of 53 for this model, but that was removed and today it returned with a score of 56. I wasn't able to find an explanation from them. Anyone knows what happened?
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by quirino 2mo ago
Sometimes I wonder, if I read a piece of Claude writing back in 2020, would I feel how alien it is? Would I be off-put?
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by quirino 2mo ago
It's still 50% off apparently. Listed as $0.10 for input (original price was $1.0 without this reduction or sale)
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by quirino 2mo ago
According to the link I mentioned above it's roughly as good as GPT-5.4. Haven't tried it in practice yet. I bet it must be better in some contexts and worse in others.
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by quirino 2mo ago
I generally just check the Price/Performance graph on Openrouter: https://openrouter.ai/rankings#performance#benchmarks . Activate the "Show Pareto" toggle on the right. I was still using GLM-5.2 in my persona
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by quirino 2mo ago
Even if LLMs lied 30% of the time, they would still be about as useful as they currently are for me. When I ask for their input, it's always for a situation where I'm capable of judging if their input is useful or not. In all situ
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by quirino 2mo ago
The gov.uk Design System calls this the "Exit a page quickly" pattern [1], with an associated component [2]. It can be activated by clicking the Shift key three times. There's this nice blog [3] that explains why they chose S
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Place 24 rowers in 4 boats of 6 – how many days for every pair to meet?(quirino.net)
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by quirino 3mo ago
3Blue1Brown just released a viduo about this Intelligence-Compression connection. https://youtu.be/l6DKRf-fAAM
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by quirino 4mo ago
I've had good fun reading about best practices for forms in Adam Silver's blog. https://adamsilver.io/blog/form-design-from-zero-to-hero-all... He has posted many new things since. Probably one of the best UX
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by quirino 4mo ago
That's actually one of the more polished sites of this genre, thanks for sharing! Sent some waves to a couple of friends
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by quirino 4mo ago
If you're a Spotify user, you can get even more precise data by downloading your listening data. The website I linked gets data from MusicBrainz and tries to fill in the gaps with an average, but even then it gets some things wrong. E.
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by quirino 4mo ago
last.fm is one of my very favorite services. It's rough around the edges in some parts, but I've gotten incredible value from it. A couple of websites built on it that I check out from time to time: - https://lastfmviz
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by quirino 4mo ago
Yesterday, or the day before, Google lowered the AI Pro quota from 33x standard usage to 4x. From the talk on the Gemini subreddit it's severely lower than before. I'm likely canceling my AI Pro. The update also broke the app for
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by quirino 4mo ago
I think the parent's point is: a couple of years ago handwriting was the only option. You'd see a post like this and know it was something special. With LLMs, we can't tell anymore if something is a labor of love with hundred
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by quirino 5mo ago
On optimizing binary search: https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/data-structures/binary-searc...
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by quirino 8mo ago
I was wondering why the original poster chose 21. Maybe it was because he's 34 and that's the previous Fibonacci number. Following this logic, you're precisely the age you should be to write a list like this :P
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by quirino 8mo ago
One of my favorite web apps for testing your microphone and camera has this echo feature built in, with 0s, 1s and 3s delay: https://webcammictest.com/mic/
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by quirino 9mo ago
The best way to discover music nowadays is RateYourMusic. I go to an album I like, read a couple reviews to find like-minded people and check out their profiles. They often have lists with their favorite albums. The album chart queries are
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by quirino 9mo ago
Tried it out now, pretty nice. Note that apps built from the SDK don't have access to the full history, only up to some cutoff. I tried a couple over the years and wrongly concluded Spotify deleted your history after some time. The dat
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by quirino 9mo ago
I'm a big fan of last.fm. If you use Spotify, you can download your full listening history here: https://www.spotify.com/us/account/privacy/ . You get it in a pretty convenient JSON format and with a litt
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by quirino 9mo ago
This "headings closer to the content" suggestion is very good. I came across it when reading Butterick's Practical Typography and it's possibly the lowest effort/clearest improvement guideline in the book. Now I can
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by quirino 10mo ago
Serious in-person competitions like ICPC are still effective against cheating. The first phase happens in a limited number of venues and the computers run a custom OS without internet access. There are many people watching so competitors do
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by quirino 10mo ago
Watched it this week. Pretty good. There are a couple parts at the start and the end where a lady points her phone camera at stuff and asks an AI about what it sees. Must have been mind-blowing stuff when this section was recorded (2023), b
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by quirino 10mo ago
Small anecdote: In the IEEEXTREME university programming competition there are ~10k participating teams. Our university has a quite strong Competitive Programming program and the best teams usually rank in the top 100. Last year a team rank
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by quirino 10mo ago
There's a tweet with a Claude screenshot with a bit more context (linked on the PR). I don't know enough about the project to know if it makes any sense, but the Zig contributor seemed confused (at least about the title).
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by quirino 10mo ago
> As a bonus, we look forward to fewer violations (exhibit A, B, C) of our strict no LLM / no AI policy, Hilarious how the offender on "exhibit A" [1] is the same one from the other post that made the frontpage a couple of

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