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Horffupolde··on Ask HN: Any insider takes on Yann LeCun's push against current architectures?
WTF. The cardinality of words is 100,000.
Horffupolde··on I stopped everything and started writing C again
SQL, Lisp.
Horffupolde··on How do you process the news?
Do as Taleb does: if it’s important it’ll reach you.
Horffupolde··on Ladder: Self-improving LLMs through recursive problem decomposition
That doesn’t induce nicely. Unless it was an insult.
Horffupolde··on Ex-SAP CTO walks away with €7.1M payout after scandal
Or better: external, and make him resign.
Horffupolde··on The power of interning: making a time series database smaller
What about loading it into ClickHouse?
Horffupolde··on Substance in broccoli, celery inhibits graying of black hair
It’s quite a reasonable metric. It ignores water and non-dietary fiber.
Horffupolde··on GPT-4.5
This is the ultimate business model.
Horffupolde··on "The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab" – a "study"
This was discussed by Taleb as “I’d rather my surgeon be ugly and not look like George Clooney.”
Horffupolde··on What really happens inside a dating app
https://xkcd.com/196/
Horffupolde··on DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]
Are you French?
Horffupolde··on The Simplicity of Prolog
The thing with Prolog is that it’s beautiful for solving very specific and well-defined combinatoric problems. Steer away and you hit a wall.
Horffupolde··on Why I Chose Common Lisp
Common Lisp is great until it isn’t.
Horffupolde··on Postgres UUIDv7 and per-back end monotonicity
So what if there’s a collision? If the column is UNIQUE at most it’ll ROLLBACK on INSERT. 16 INSERTS per nanosecond is 16 billion TPS. At that scale you’ll have other problems.
Horffupolde··on 30% Drop In o1-Preview Accuracy When Putnam Problems Are Slightly Variated
Feathers are less dense so they have higher buoyancy in air, reducing their weight.
Horffupolde··on 30% drop in O1-preview accuracy when Putnam problems are slightly variated
10 pounds of bricks is actually heavier than 10 pounds of feathers.
Horffupolde··on Nordstrom family to take company private
There are drag along clauses or forced buyout clauses of public shares.
Horffupolde··on Dumb TVs deserve a comeback
Don’t have a TV to begin with.
Horffupolde··on ChatGPT Pro
It doesn’t have to work everywhere to work.
Horffupolde··on ChatGPT Pro
When compared to an employee $200 is peanuts.
Horffupolde··on Scientists are learning why ultra-processed foods are bad
My fast rule is to only eat food that’s been around for 1000 years or so.
Horffupolde··on Marshall Brain has died
What happens with domains, content, etc now? Is there a systematic way of preparing and securing online services for death?
Horffupolde··on Phased Array Microphone (2023)
No, there you are measuring R, assuming the air inside the cylinder was an ideal gas.
Horffupolde··on Scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab
Antibiotic sulfamides were also tested and first proven to work this way where the chemist Domagk tried it on his own daughter who would have otherwise died.
Horffupolde··on Ask HN: How would you launch a privacy-first, Instagram-like social network?
It’s an oxy, moron.
Horffupolde··on Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
Just be rigorous with your words.
Horffupolde··on Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
That’s standard traditional Hebrew time still today.
Horffupolde··on Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
A diff of a diff is just 2 diff. It’s not a product of diffs.
Horffupolde··on Sampling with SQL
ORDERing by RANDOM on a large table requires a full scan, even with LIMIT. For tables that don’t fit in memory this is impractical and I/O shoots to 100%.
Horffupolde··on Eating less can lead to a longer life: study in mice shows why
Fasting is widespread in religions. Can’t be a coïncidence.
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