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Spanish-speaking American code teacher and adventure sports enthusiast living around the globe
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Just discovered Make.md completely replaces Notion in @obsidian.md while supporting SSG with BrainDB 😍 youtu.be/ISpII6nsego?...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

JFC 😿

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I'm torn whether to follow fellow technicians I probably agree with politically but want less politics in my feed 🥲

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

2014 - Stockfish dominates humans by checking all reasonable moves 2017 - Google AlphaZero destroys SF 100-0 by learning against itself 2019 - open source Leela Chess Zero inspired by a0 beats SF Ratings: SF - 3680 lc0 - 3650 Humans - <2900 youtu.be/jYlyOwlD5dA?... Other significant moments in 🧵

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

There's a mismatch between public perception of what AI is, what it's good at, and what's being done to improve it. My own brother working in DS with high security clearance didn't believe me that SOTA LLMs train on largely synthetic data. TLDR "next word predictors" memorize vs "do" math

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

This is how I feel about our entire political system every fucking day

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Facebook is actively blocking messages from my (not new) personal account to several US (close) friends for mentioning country names 😳

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Thinking about quantum mechanics this week I realized how many scientific facts could be plausibly denied if you didn't investigate how they were uncovered. @3blue1brown.bsky.social illustrated how astronomical distances were determined. Using grade school math! youtu.be/YdOXS_9_P4U?...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

I dropped my university physics degree because I believed quantum was a fairy tale. Later they proved it. Now it's in actual tech ⚛️ youtube.com/watch?v=zWd3...

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As an American living in Asia the criticism of R1 for censoring Tiananmen Square infuriates me: 1. The western account is at least partially invented 2. Should your first question for o3 be how many children US bombs slaughtered last year 🧵 x.com/texastoland/...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

This is the biggest thing since Windsurf for me 🎆 Finally an agentic editor with @jetbrains.com support! And maybe even outperforms Cursor in both quality and speed?

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Was looking for a coding benchmark of a niche LLM and found this 1 @hf.co 🏆 huggingface.co/spaces/bigco...

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Temporal looks so good! Node esp. has lacked so much compared to .NET etc. Between this, all-inclusive runtimes like Bun, and @deno.land's new standard library JS feels like a whole new ecosystem 🔥 Props @betterstack.com for this overview youtu.be/zwFlVPdtKvE?...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

TIL modern LLMs are practically identical (minus some math and scale) to the mechanical perceptron invented in 1958 🤯 Even back propagation has been around since 1986. It's like a jigsaw puzzle slowly (compared to today) slotting into place until the 2020 magnum opus youtu.be/l-9ALe3U-Fg?...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

My deep hope for this term is that the current autocrat crosses enough red lines to lose his cult and shock the next regime into actual democratic reform (a boy can dream)

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Epic AI web scraping pipeline into structured data. I'm sure I could build this out myself with LangGraph but this Just Works ™️ youtu.be/Qq1pFm8enZo?...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Should you use AI to learn (anything)? This response is wonderfully even-handed. I both agree and disagree. Listening to other takes before I stake mine 🤔 youtu.be/Y3IxS2Bakig?...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment