varunneal

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by varunneal 10mo ago
Highly AI generated article, including the whiteboard image.
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by varunneal 1y ago
I think it's good to bring up Bernstein & Newhouse as well as Yuchen Jin, Jiacheng You and the other speedrunners who helped iterate on Muon. But I think it's very fair to call Keller Jordan the main author of Muon of its curr
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by varunneal 1y ago
Muon was invented by Keller Jordan (and then optimized by others) for the sake of this speedrunning competition. Even though it was invented less than a year ago, it has already been widely adopted as SOTA for model training
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by varunneal 1y ago
I think this is a different construction. "And" in "try and find out" is acting as a conjunction, separating two different actions
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by varunneal 1y ago
this guide is just for an example of how to build a single mcp (e.g. a vector store). chatgpt connectors implement mcps in general now
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by varunneal 1y ago
claude sonnet typically forgets about uv script syntax in my experience. I usually find myself having to paste in the docs every time. By default it wants to use uv project syntax.
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by varunneal 1y ago
Not publicly, but a few people in berkeley are working on it. Here is a paper from last year: https://imjal.github.io/theory-of-tetrachromacy . (Disclaimer: i am on this paper). They've prototyped displays that can test
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by varunneal 1y ago
Have you tried o3 on those problems? I've found o3 to be much more impressive than Opus 4 for all of my use cases.
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by varunneal 1y ago
isn't this survivorship bias? e.g. people who genuinely feel highly nihilistic, that there is no order, structure, meaning, etc. are very unlikely to be successful--and also unlikely to continue choosing to be alive
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by varunneal 1y ago
How can reason give us shared values across cultures? Why do you suppose your moral clarity was generated from your brain and not your gut?
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by varunneal 1y ago
Why is o3-mini there but not o3?
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by varunneal 1y ago
I believe this is from 2019 or 2020. Any LLM e.g. Gemini could one shot any problem here, I believe.
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by varunneal 1y ago
I'll check it out!
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by varunneal 1y ago
I'll take the long side on that bet
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by varunneal 1y ago
I've been hacking away at trying to process PDFs into Markdown, having encountered similar obstacles to OP regarding header detection (and many other issues). OCR is fantastic these days but maintaining a global structure to the docume
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by varunneal 1y ago
hey there's preview
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by varunneal 1y ago
Would be interested in inclusion of PEP 292 [1] in your discussion here, which introduced `string.Template`. Is this Template going to be deprecated? [1] https://peps.python.org/pep-0292/
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by varunneal 2y ago
One of the most novel demos I've seen openai ship in a few years. I love how it looks almost like a synth. Fun to play around with!
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by varunneal 2y ago
Cool anecdote from inside article > A seasoned performance engineer was looking through Strobelight data and discovered that by filtering on a particular std::vector function call (using the symbolized file and line number) he could iden
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by varunneal 2y ago
to support custom key mappings, as many people with fancy ergonomic keyboards use
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by varunneal 2y ago
very beautiful simple animation. Good visualization of the proof of the algo; namely, that at each step i of the outer loop the first i elements are sorted (this is easy to show via induction)
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by varunneal 2y ago
Hilarious post. I recommend people read to the end > If Jeffries started with a different core representation, then it's likely his subsequent design decisions would also change. The bookkeeping for constraint propagation might push
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by varunneal 2y ago
I really like the thesis of this post: that there is a fundamental divide in tech that can be summarised as "the gamer" and the productivity-maxxing "nihilist". Here's how they describe gamers: > In this sense, t
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by varunneal 2y ago
norepinephrine = primary neurotransmitter for the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight). Mostly produced in brain stem/adrenal glands.
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by varunneal 2y ago
Your prompt verbatim turned out quite well, single-shot. https://claude.site/artifacts/0f696bf8-399d-42c3-93c0-296493...
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by varunneal 2y ago
so beautiful. I can imagine using this a lot if some buttons are added (start/stop harmony, view note/resonance, etc). great job
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by varunneal 2y ago
API Dev keys, e.g. https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/oauth2#1.-o... .