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Software engineer at MLSE Digital Labs. Previously: Freshline, Google, and @riotgames.com. I made @zeal.gg, and post about code and games. 🎮 💻 🇨🇦 See kevinyap.ca for more.
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This video gives a wonderful perspective on not just the brilliance of ancient astronomers for explaining the cosmos without modern technology, but also the diligence of early civilizations' record-keeping when they stared up at the stars. Terence Tao is a fantastic storyteller.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

A few weeks ago, I was super high on Standard, but all that enthusiasm has evaporated after getting everything bounced to hand for the 100th game in a row. Been queueing up for Explorer events on MTGA and it's been super refreshing playing Phoenix again. Pioneer is such a great format.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

It was disappointing to miss on Soto and Sasaki, but adding Santander, Scherzer, Hoffman, and (fingers crossed) Alonso/Bregman means the Jays will actually be a lot of fun to watch this season.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

@isziaui.bsky.social made a proof-of-concept of a QR code that resolves to two different URLs depending on the angle that you hold your phone at while scanning 😱 Took a bit of shifting my phone around, but it does indeed work (using more of a top-down, then a bottom-up angle).

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Went 1-2 and dropped at a Standard RCQ. Was hoping to face UB/GB Midrange, but played against UB and UW (!) Bounce and lost both matches — terrible-feeling matchup for Azorius Convoke. Starting to put together Temur Otters in paper so I can be a Stormchaser's Talent + TTABE gamer too. 🦦

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

I'm significantly more invested in the right half of this graphic than the left, but still hilariously accurate.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Okay, so I KNEW I heard this chime coming from somewhere recently, but couldn't remember buying any new devices and thought I was going crazy. TLDR: AirPods Pro now sometimes play a quiet 3-note arpeggio while charging, as part of a diagnostic/calibration process. mastodon.online/@tuckerjj/11...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

After 6 years of maintaining @zeal.gg, I finally got around to adding an unobtrusive Patreon page a few days ago, on the off chance anyone wanted to help support the site. To my genuine surprise, someone actually subscribed yesterday — it feels like a whole new level of side-project now!

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

I saw a spike in users on @zeal.gg today, and it's because Caedrel was recapping his Challenger climb on-stream before Los Ratones starting scrimming for the day. He also published this video that showcases the site in the intro (and is actually very good advice for climbing solo queue)!

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Caedrel looked at the custom @zeal.gg leaderboard I made for Los Ratones on-stream during his Challenger climb today! It was super exciting to see him pull it up in front of >16k viewers on Twitch and play around with it, even if it was just for a couple minutes. 😀

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

I'm working on a blog post that briefly touches on LLM interpretability, and came across this fascinating paper published earlier this year by @anthropic.com that demonstrates the ability to extract features corresponding to various real-world ideas and concepts from Claude 3 Sonnet.

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Someone built a site that lets you explore #AdventOfCode leaderboard data from all 10 years of the event! You can really see my decline over time as more people started participating and I got rustier from doing less day-to-day coding 😅 caderek.github.io/elfvsmachine

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Bluesky has been really refreshing for me, so I wrote some thoughts on the things I feel make the platform cool and exciting. Even cooler, thanks to @emilyliu.me's and @coryzue.com's work, replies to this post on Bluesky should show up as comments on my website! kevinyap.ca/2024/12/blue...

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

Just watched this @abyssoft.bsky.social video detailing someone accusing a speedrunner of cheating, where they used audio spectrogram analysis as their smoking gun. Except the accuser isn't an expert in audio analysis, and learned how to do this "work" via >100 pages of conversations with ChatGPT.

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

Out of curiosity, I asked Notion AI to "check my grammar" on a blog post I've been writing. It gave a few "suggestions" that were literally what I had already written, but surprisingly, it determined I typo'd someone's name by cross-referencing a link I included in the post, which is pretty neat.

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

Another Christmas, another #AdventOfCode in the books (and 500 total stars)! Thank you to @was.tl for another delightful month of holiday puzzles! 🎄 I'll include some of my thoughts in this thread.

submitted 60 days ago • 3 comments

Redesigned my personal site again! Got inspired by a bunch of different blogs I've come across recently to make it even more minimalist (the sticky sidebar had to go). I found that monospace fonts are hard to visually process for longer pieces of writing, so it's back to `system-ui`.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

The Bluesky dev team pushed a change this week to reserve your bsky.social handle when swapping to a custom domain handle, but it isn't retroactive. Can confirm that if you manually made a "squatting" account and go through the flow that @emilyliu.me describes here, it'll re-associate correctly!

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment