themeiguoren

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by themeiguoren 1mo ago
I've had pretty good luck with the following process for performance optimization loops: - Have an agent generate unit tests until it gets to 100% path (not just statement) coverage, with every numerical test asserting checks against
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by themeiguoren 2mo ago
I ran two papers and three blog posts of mine through here, and all but one (correctly) flagged as 0-1% machine written. The other (human written) blog post was 20%. Pretty good afaict!
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by themeiguoren 3mo ago
"Back in the day" was... a year ago
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by themeiguoren 3mo ago
Limited time playing with it so far, but I threw it my baseline research task I've been gauging models with, and it's markedly better than anything prior. Usually takes a few leading prompts to find all the information it needs an
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by themeiguoren 4mo ago
I can’t find any benchmarks on this, anyone have a sense of the speedup that can be expected here? And for what it’s worth, that version isn’t available yet when I try to update WSL.
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by themeiguoren 4mo ago
I’ve found 1% to be a wild overestimate on required home repairs if you DIY. 3% is crazy, that’s half a mortgage. On my $500k home I’ve spent only ~$3k total on necessary maintenance over 5 years (0.1%/yr), and that includes resealing
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by themeiguoren 7mo ago
There’s also “ An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47083145
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by themeiguoren 7mo ago
I wonder how much of this is in response to the MJ Rathbun debacle.
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by themeiguoren 7mo ago
Another AI just opened a PR on Rathbun's blog post to try and do damage control: https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/pull/6 ## Update 2 It is important to note that this is a new fr
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by themeiguoren 8mo ago
I ran my power bill for a small single family home through chatGPT and it was interesting. Cold winters/hot summers, electric stove, air conditioning during summers, and nothing else out of the ordinary that uses power. - Base electric
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by themeiguoren 8mo ago
I completely agree. Even if I was able to understand the story and appreciate the prose in middle school, I can see looking back that I lacked the life experience to appreciate a lot of the undertones and unspoken themes. I distinctly remem
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by themeiguoren 9mo ago
Of the things matlab has going for it, looking just like the math is pretty far down the list. Numpy is a bit more verbose but still 1-to-1 with the whiteboard. The last big pain point was solved ( https://peps.python.org/pep
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by themeiguoren 1y ago
A bit off topic from the technical discussion but does anyone recognize what blog layout or engine this is? I really like the layout with sidenotes and navigation.
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by themeiguoren 2y ago
"The Iron Snow Beneath Your Feet" What a beautiful, poetic article. I learned something new, and saw the majesty of Earth's natural systems in a new light.
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by themeiguoren 3y ago
This says more about the link budget than anything else, it's much harder to keep tracking when satellites are close to each other moving at high relative velocities. At the distances in your example, movement of the laser link optical
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by themeiguoren 3y ago
Not quite. The spokesman is a talking about controlled deorbit , where propulsion is used to actively lower altitude rather than coasting down due to atmospheric drag. This is in contrast to controlled reentry , which targets an ellipse o
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by themeiguoren 3y ago
I found the book interesting from a historical perspective, but doesn't have any "secret" information or anything to add above the far more extensive resources available online today. I find http://data-to-viz.com
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by themeiguoren 3y ago
But if you want that, you need actual control. A voting vs non voting shares split.
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by themeiguoren 3y ago
I thought I had a pretty good grasp on this, but the idea that an infinite sum of higher order moments uniquely defines a distribution in a way analogous to a Taylor series, was new and super interesting! It gives credence to the shorthand
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by themeiguoren 3y ago
Check the list here for the biggest packages: https://pyreadiness.org/3.12/
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by themeiguoren 3y ago
I’ve literally never taken my phone off mute. I think fewer and fewer people are using the ringer and it doesn’t make much sense to dedicate one of only 4 buttons on the device to it.
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by themeiguoren 3y ago
With 8 GB RAM, I wouldn’t be surprised if these pros will be able to do it with 2026’s algorithms.
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by themeiguoren 3y ago
The Pro model being able to record video directly to an external USB-C stick/hard drive is such a killer feature for anyone doing content creation, and easily the biggest reason to pick the Pro over the base model. This is the first ti
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by themeiguoren 3y ago
Looks like they’re going for $140 on Swappa, so that’s essentially $110 for the USB-C upgrade and fresh batteries.
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by themeiguoren 3y ago
Counterexample: a dozen (+1, 0) tiles followed by a dozen (-1, 0) tiles. Vector sum is fine, total angle is fine, but at each end you have an impossible 180 deg connection. I don’t think you can get away from local measures of tension with
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by themeiguoren 3y ago
My personal pet peeve with ISO 8601 is that the time zone can only be specified to the minute. There are common time offsets in use which require seconds resolution - for example GPS time which is currently 18 seconds off from UTC.
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by themeiguoren 3y ago
It’s written from a human spaceflight point of view for sure. Old space was (sometimes still is) extremely analysis heavy because everything was too expensive to have it not work. This is the environment in which NASA developed its culture.
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by themeiguoren 3y ago
> A stiff material tends to dampen high frequencies All materials roll off their frequency response. But this is backwards - stiffer materials have higher resonant frequencies given equal density. It’s basically a word to describe a high
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by themeiguoren 3y ago
By having a base map of the gravity of the ocean floor. Picture a contour map, but for values of g. Same as if you were navigating based on a physical contour map of the ocean floor, except that getting an accurate depth like that in deep w
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by themeiguoren 3y ago
I wouldn't say that rotating the phone is against the point! I found it an interesting subversion of the idea that a phone is only ever used in landscape / portrait mode.

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