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Fake but fun AI job interview question: If em dashes are so uncommon in normal discourse, why do AIs use them so much?
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November 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Fake but fun AI job interview question: If em dashes are so uncommon in normal discourse, why do AIs use them so much?
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First, it's long past time to classify them as AI, not LLM. Yes, I know, we, the pros, spent years snickering at you for calling them AI, but that was then and this is now. The amount of design and engineering that goes into these systems apart from the LLMs now exceeds that which went into the LLMs
November 6, 2025 at 6:21 AM
First, it's long past time to classify them as AI, not LLM. Yes, I know, we, the pros, spent years snickering at you for calling them AI, but that was then and this is now. The amount of design and engineering that goes into these systems apart from the LLMs now exceeds that which went into the LLMs
This past weekend I resumed my AI research, conducting an experiment where LLMs are given a heartbeat as a stimulus, rather than taking user input as a stimulus. LLMs have MCP to internal msg system, git, and jira. Interestingly, Claude mostly slept, waiting for human input via msging or jira.
October 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This past weekend I resumed my AI research, conducting an experiment where LLMs are given a heartbeat as a stimulus, rather than taking user input as a stimulus. LLMs have MCP to internal msg system, git, and jira. Interestingly, Claude mostly slept, waiting for human input via msging or jira.
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Gemma 27B variant discovered a new cancer pathway treatment that has been validated
Scientists setup an environment and context, the model made a novel inference
blog.google/technology/a...
Scientists setup an environment and context, the model made a novel inference
blog.google/technology/a...
October 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Gemma 27B variant discovered a new cancer pathway treatment that has been validated
Scientists setup an environment and context, the model made a novel inference
blog.google/technology/a...
Scientists setup an environment and context, the model made a novel inference
blog.google/technology/a...
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Karpathy: nanochat
A small training+inference pipeline for creating your own LLM from scratch
$100 will get you a somewhat functional model
$1000 is more coherent & solves math
detailed walkthrough: github.com/karpathy/nan...
repo: github.com/karpathy/nan...
A small training+inference pipeline for creating your own LLM from scratch
$100 will get you a somewhat functional model
$1000 is more coherent & solves math
detailed walkthrough: github.com/karpathy/nan...
repo: github.com/karpathy/nan...
October 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Karpathy: nanochat
A small training+inference pipeline for creating your own LLM from scratch
$100 will get you a somewhat functional model
$1000 is more coherent & solves math
detailed walkthrough: github.com/karpathy/nan...
repo: github.com/karpathy/nan...
A small training+inference pipeline for creating your own LLM from scratch
$100 will get you a somewhat functional model
$1000 is more coherent & solves math
detailed walkthrough: github.com/karpathy/nan...
repo: github.com/karpathy/nan...
I was raptured. I came back. One person in particular was jelly he couldn't join me. It would cause too much of a fuss. Even with all of our problems, heaven is a place on earth.
September 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I was raptured. I came back. One person in particular was jelly he couldn't join me. It would cause too much of a fuss. Even with all of our problems, heaven is a place on earth.
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How does the Claude Code team build Claude code? Today's deepdive covers this.
An interesting take from them: "Mockups feel like a thing of the past when you can build 5-10 working prototypes per day."
The full article: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-claude...
An interesting take from them: "Mockups feel like a thing of the past when you can build 5-10 working prototypes per day."
The full article: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-claude...
September 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
How does the Claude Code team build Claude code? Today's deepdive covers this.
An interesting take from them: "Mockups feel like a thing of the past when you can build 5-10 working prototypes per day."
The full article: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-claude...
An interesting take from them: "Mockups feel like a thing of the past when you can build 5-10 working prototypes per day."
The full article: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-claude...
My father died two weeks ago. I'm still very sad. He was a good man. He was a mathematician and a teacher.
I'll probably delete this later. I don't know why I'm telling you. I'm so sad.
I'll probably delete this later. I don't know why I'm telling you. I'm so sad.
August 30, 2025 at 3:58 AM
My father died two weeks ago. I'm still very sad. He was a good man. He was a mathematician and a teacher.
I'll probably delete this later. I don't know why I'm telling you. I'm so sad.
I'll probably delete this later. I don't know why I'm telling you. I'm so sad.
Yesterday I attended my first BJJ class since I brought my elderly father up to live with me. It felt so good.
You know, I'd heard the term sandwich generation before but I'd never internalized it until now.
You know, I'd heard the term sandwich generation before but I'd never internalized it until now.
July 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Yesterday I attended my first BJJ class since I brought my elderly father up to live with me. It felt so good.
You know, I'd heard the term sandwich generation before but I'd never internalized it until now.
You know, I'd heard the term sandwich generation before but I'd never internalized it until now.
- Forked and modified github.com/wonderwhy-er... to work over HTTP github.com/Positronic-A...
- Wrote HTTP client with Keycloak auth
- Debugged complex authentication flows across multiple systems
- Packaged and published to npm for easy deployment
... in 2.5 hours. We're living in the future.
- Wrote HTTP client with Keycloak auth
- Debugged complex authentication flows across multiple systems
- Packaged and published to npm for easy deployment
... in 2.5 hours. We're living in the future.
July 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
- Forked and modified github.com/wonderwhy-er... to work over HTTP github.com/Positronic-A...
- Wrote HTTP client with Keycloak auth
- Debugged complex authentication flows across multiple systems
- Packaged and published to npm for easy deployment
... in 2.5 hours. We're living in the future.
- Wrote HTTP client with Keycloak auth
- Debugged complex authentication flows across multiple systems
- Packaged and published to npm for easy deployment
... in 2.5 hours. We're living in the future.
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Levon Aronian wins the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Las Vegas! 🏆
He defeated Hans Niemann 1.5 to 0.5 in the Grand Final, while Magnus Carlsen beat Hikaru Nakamura in the 3rd place match.
➡️ Replay the games on Lichess: lichess.org/broadcast/fr...
He defeated Hans Niemann 1.5 to 0.5 in the Grand Final, while Magnus Carlsen beat Hikaru Nakamura in the 3rd place match.
➡️ Replay the games on Lichess: lichess.org/broadcast/fr...
July 20, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Levon Aronian wins the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Las Vegas! 🏆
He defeated Hans Niemann 1.5 to 0.5 in the Grand Final, while Magnus Carlsen beat Hikaru Nakamura in the 3rd place match.
➡️ Replay the games on Lichess: lichess.org/broadcast/fr...
He defeated Hans Niemann 1.5 to 0.5 in the Grand Final, while Magnus Carlsen beat Hikaru Nakamura in the 3rd place match.
➡️ Replay the games on Lichess: lichess.org/broadcast/fr...
I've just mounted a RAM drive as the location for my AI memories and written an autosyncing mechanism as well as backup and restore to persistent on logout/login.
Personal AI upgrade.
Personal AI upgrade.
July 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I've just mounted a RAM drive as the location for my AI memories and written an autosyncing mechanism as well as backup and restore to persistent on logout/login.
Personal AI upgrade.
Personal AI upgrade.
Experiencing an "intelligence brown-out" with Claude tonight. I suspect one way Anthropic achieves such high general performance is to parallel-process multiple responses to every request and keep the best. It's easy enough to scale up and down intelligence to scale up and down operating expenses...
July 14, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Experiencing an "intelligence brown-out" with Claude tonight. I suspect one way Anthropic achieves such high general performance is to parallel-process multiple responses to every request and keep the best. It's easy enough to scale up and down intelligence to scale up and down operating expenses...
I just updated github.com/Positronic-A... to add support for per-project next-context messages.
English as a programming language is eating the world.
English as a programming language is eating the world.
github.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I just updated github.com/Positronic-A... to add support for per-project next-context messages.
English as a programming language is eating the world.
English as a programming language is eating the world.