mattlangston

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by mattlangston 4mo ago
Crypto Wars v2. I know how this movie ends.
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by mattlangston 5mo ago
Software engineering is software engineering. An ace software engineer is not an ace because of tooling. It's not the plane, it's the pilot, or something like that.
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by mattlangston 6mo ago
Boris Cherny has said that Claude Code is simply a client of the public Claude API, so this may be a good thing for Anthropic to demonstrate Claude API best practices. Maybe CC "leaking" is just preparation for open sourcing Claud
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by mattlangston 7mo ago
I had the same SETI inspiration yesterday of "autoresearch swarms". Andrej and I had no coordination - we just both had the same idea at the same time. Experiments already running. Write up: "Autoresearch on DGX Spark: Error
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by mattlangston 7mo ago
The future is bright for software engineers. The big takeaway isn't reverse engineering the ANE per se, but what Manjeet could do with his software engineering skills when accelerated by AI. This is a good example of the present state
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by mattlangston 8mo ago
This is a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47005565 . Please have all conversations there about Dwarkesh Patel's interview with Dario Amodei.
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Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" [video](youtube.com)
2 points by mattlangston 8mo ago|2 comments
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by mattlangston 8mo ago
Dwarkesh Patel interview with Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO)
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by mattlangston 8mo ago
The frontier-of-knowledge point is the right question. My own research is a case in point - I apply experimental physics methods to LLMs, measuring their equations of motion in search of a unified framework for how and why they work. Some o
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by mattlangston 8mo ago
PhD physicist (Stanford/SLAC), Research Software Engineer doing low-level systems work in C/C++ and LLM research. Not a founder or investor — just a practitioner. One data point for this thread: the jump from Opus 4.5 to 4.6 is no
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by mattlangston 8mo ago
Good question. It's mostly the third — but let me unpack that. The Standard Model predicts a specific value for the weak mixing angle, which determines the electron's vector coupling. My measurement at SLAC, along with other SLD m
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by mattlangston 8mo ago
Fair - that sounds hyperbolic. But my point is specific: if the weak mixing angle is shifted from the Standard Model value, one of the standard explanations is a heavier cousin of the Z boson mixing in. Many of those models naturally includ
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by mattlangston 8mo ago
Experimental particle physicist here. It's just hard. I measured the electron's vector coupling to the Z boson at SLAC in the late 1990s, and the answer from that measurement is: we don't know yet - and that's the point.
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by mattlangston 1y ago
It does well with screenshot-calculus for me. For example, I pasted a screenshot of the Layer Norm equation into Claude Code 2 and asked: "Differentiate y(x) w.r.t x, gamma and beta." It not only produced the correct result, but i
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My Interview with Claude Code(mattlangston.com)
2 points by mattlangston 1y ago|0 comments
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by mattlangston 1y ago
fwiw I live in [macOS emacs]( https://emacsformacosx.com/ ) all day long for systems engineering (C/C++) and have 201 open buffers, an uptime of 57 days and ~540 MB memory usage.
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by mattlangston 1y ago
I have both a Claude subscription plan and console credits as my backup, which I thought was a reasonable solution.
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by mattlangston 1y ago
According to the published paper (linked in the article) Kletetschka's theory correctly predicts several experimentally measured quantities of the Standard Model. The two that jumped out at me were: 1) the weak mixing angle 2) the thre
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by mattlangston 1y ago
"... Miyazaki warns against the dangers of harmful technology and the moral implications of its use." Apropos for current times.
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by mattlangston 1y ago
Very nice find @pudiklubi. Thank you.