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Micah Cantor
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Software engineer @ Rinse • Grinnell College '24 • Washington, DC
https://micahcantor.com
Reposted by Micah Cantor
What happens when LLMs train on code that's popular but wrong? zdimension.fr/everyone-get... explores this, with interactive diagrams exploring the error
Everyone gets bidirectional BFS wrong
People really need to stop blindly copying code from the Internet.
zdimension.fr
February 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I didn't realize until recently that iCloud lets you use a custom domain for email for $1/month. Good stuff. Compare that to $6/month for 1 user on Google workspace for a custom domain on gmail.
December 30, 2024 at 4:22 PM
wasm_of_ocaml (a compiler of OCaml to WASM, and a fork of the JS compiler js_of_ocaml) has been merged. Congrats to all that contributed!

github.com/ocsigen/js_o...
Merge wasm_of_ocaml by OlivierNicole · Pull Request #1724 · ocsigen/js_of_ocaml
This aims to merge wasm_of_ocaml, currently hosted at https://github.com/ocaml-wasm/wasm_of_ocaml, back into this repo. This is pending on Dune support ocaml/dune#11029. For now, Dune is pinned for...
github.com
December 5, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Reposted by Micah Cantor
Sometimes it takes me 22 years (+ one evening) to write a blog post. Here are my thoughts on "homoiconicity" and, as an alternative, "bicameral syntax". (Warning: 4000 words.)
parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/bic...
Bicameral, Not Homoiconic
Parenthetically Speaking: Articles by Shriram Krishnamurthi
parentheticallyspeaking.org
December 2, 2024 at 3:19 AM
Doing Advent of Code this year in Racket. I may not finish them all, but should be fun!

github.com/micahcantor/...
GitHub - micahcantor/advent-of-code-2024
Contribute to micahcantor/advent-of-code-2024 development by creating an account on GitHub.
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December 3, 2024 at 3:23 AM