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Now that I've written more Python than I care to admit, I'm getting tired of duplicating abstractions: one for sync code and another for async. Effect polymorphism wanted.

Looking forward to this.

In this episode of HUB History, Elena Palladino discusses the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir, the four towns that were sacrificed for its construction, and her book Lost Towns of the Swift River Valley. Listen now! www.hubhistory.com/episodes/wat...

There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding here. I don't think PhD students complete assigned tasks. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/w...

Photo taken today at @browncsdept.bsky.social. I'm glad to see that the PhD students (@genevievemp.bsky.social), furniture, and faculty seem to have not changed in 10+ years.

Congrats to Andy and Rich. A well-deserved recognition of their work and reinforcement learning in general! awards.acm.org/about/2024-t...

The real lesson from DeepSeek is the importance of good old-fashioned computer science. Every day this week, they've been doing open source releases. The latest is their in-house distributed file system. github.com/deepseek-ai/...

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O1, R1, etc. are so good that we evaluate them on “PhD-level” benchmarks. But, these benchmarks are so hard that most people can’t even understand what they are testing. We’ve built a benchmark with problems that are hard to solve but easy to verify: for both humans and models.

Last one: there are a LOT of people to blame for this one. I think @jasvir.bsky.social is to blame for this problem in "Humanity's Last Exam".

Ugh, who did this? @joepolitz.bsky.social ? Wait, was it @dbp.bsky.social ? Someone else from @shriram.bsky.social's group? Also from "Humanity's Last Exam".

OK, who is responsible for this? Is it @natefoster.bsky.social? Source: "Humanity's Last Exam" www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...

It was fun to be a part of this. We analyze a dataset of student-LLM interactions on programming tasks and ask: what do students get wrong when prompting?

Counterintuitively, this shows the power of GC. IIRC I've heard of similar tricks used for high-performance OCaml at Jane Street.