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Comment · 3 hours ago
I thought the context would be obvious, but you're right. I've changed it to the full title.
Comment · 6 days ago
you can only do things that suck when attendance isn't optional.
Comment · 17 days ago
The late Jake Seliger and his widow Bess blogged at length about their experience navigating the medical system after his squamous cell cancer diagnosis. That was in 2023-25 though.

jakeseliger.com

bessstillman.substack.com

Comment · 1 month ago
Ready Player One, together with my 9yo boy.
Comment · 2 months ago
For people working with small local models like Qwen 35b what's even more important us that the LLM is good at coding in the language in which the agent harness is written so that it can write skills. I really like pi but had a few instances now where Qwen wasn't able to extend it because it isn't very good at writing typescript. Does that sound familiar to anyone, and did you find any fixes?
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Comment · 3 months ago
> I wanted to avoid teaching syntax. While Python makes sense as pseudocode [...] it is still nearly incomprehensible to new learners [...] I decided I wanted to either teach Forth or Haskell.

Sorry but this reads like a joke. If you find python incomprehensible, Forth and Haskell won't even register as languages.

Comment · 3 months ago
What is a "credit" and how does it translate to tokens for the different models?
Comment · 4 months ago
I treat these nutjob articles as a subgenre of science fiction and when they're somewhat well written find them very entertaining. The author cosplaying investigative journalist, one part of the audience acting as if it's a real discovery and another part playing debunking and outrage, is all part of the performance and it's hilarious. Check out the flat earth movement, it's great entertainment all around!

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