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ahurmazda··on DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)
Just look for the “corresponding author”
ahurmazda··on Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md
Won’t you have to do it recursively for all child directories?
ahurmazda··on Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions
What’s the point of running /clear vs starting a brand new session. At least with the latter I have session history, no? Pardon my ignorance since Claude isn’t my primary driver
ahurmazda··on Shopify Is Down
@river fix it please.

https://x.com/tobi/status/2053121182044451016

ahurmazda··on Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism
A few of my relatives who grew up on a farm drives that way (right for gas, left for brakes)
ahurmazda··on White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released
Mobster admin so checks out

“Nice model you got there… shame if someone prompt injected a regulatory framework into it.”

ahurmazda··on HEALPix
I recall when I first saw Ubers’s H3[1], it really reminded me of healpix (from grad school). I know the algorithm is different but similar problem space: “given a point on a sphere, assign it to a stable cell ID”

1. https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/h3/

ahurmazda··on Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage
aside: YT has a AI/summary option (unless creator opts out). Look for the sparkle button. Personally, it gets me 80% there most days.
ahurmazda··on The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
Hail Zorp
ahurmazda··on A Brief History of Ralph
Anyone get a feeling that we are “inventing” a bunch of things that will be subsumed by the model in near(ish) future? Like the whole context refresh thing? Codex is already better (ime) than CC.

And then all these planning steps … if CC/codex interviews a ~million senior devs, next iteration of models will perhaps know how to plan way better than today?

ahurmazda··on Why Arab states are silent about Iran's unrest
Once the Iranian “autocrats” are dealt with who do you think is next? Many of these Arab states have absolute monarchy fwiw
ahurmazda··on I switched from VSCode to Zed
I had a miserable experience with it. It could not do as simple task as discovering my python interpreter! IDEs are a dime a dozen these days — most are fast enough. But common workflows need to be air tight.
ahurmazda··on The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup
https://xcancel.com/bcherny/status/2007179832300581177
ahurmazda··on Sharp: High performance Node.js image processing/optimization
Also worth mentioning libvips[0] the underlying engine behind sharp. We use the golang wrapper at work and love the simplicity and speed (ofc)

[0]https://github.com/libvips/libvips

ahurmazda··on The Death of Arduino?
Really appreciate the link. I simply had no idea about this history. Just the sheer intellectual dishonesty is mind-boggling.
ahurmazda··on NASA pushes back after Kim Kardashian claims the 1969 moon landing was fake
Hear hear. Also, Carl Sagan’s famous warnings about the decline of science (from 1995) is equally prescient [1]

1. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/632474-i-have-a-foreboding-...

ahurmazda··on US Treasury Sells Dollars to Keep Peso Within Argentina FX Band
This was on nytimes just a few days ago. Quoting the bits that might be relevant[1]. A lot more in tfa

> Those efforts have been complicated by the fact that major hedge funds, including those led by friends of Mr. Bessent, stand to benefit financially from an Argentina economic lifeline. Funds at investment firms including BlackRock, Fidelity and Pimco are heavily invested in Argentina, as are investors such as Stanley Druckenmiller and Robert Citrone, both of whom worked with Mr. Bessent when he was an investor for George Soros.

1. https://archive.ph/6bWMv

ahurmazda··on AI is different
When I hear folks glazing some kinda impending jobless utopia , I think of the intervening years. I shudder. As they say, "An empty stomach knows no morality."
ahurmazda··on U.S. may require visa applicants to post bond up to $15,000 to enter country
The famous “see-what-sticks” school of thought/economy/X/Y/Z
ahurmazda··on Google's Sergey Brin: Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI
7am-7pm

60hr/wk implies that after accounting for traffic etc, they are essentially signaling the need for sweat labor from ppl in their 20s without family etc.

It’s ofc Google’s right to demand whatever.

I hope this opens up other brilliant folks for the other companies. Google’s loss is hopefully others’s gain.

ahurmazda··on TikTok goes dark in the US
ByteDance is flexing as well. It knows it’s not going anywhere.
ahurmazda··on TikTok goes dark in the US
Much ado about nothing! Not available for download a day at max! (You can still use the app if it’s already installed)

The ban will be repealed on Monday and it will be sold to US tech lords by month’s end. The damn hysteria is embarrassing

ahurmazda··on Ask HN: What is a common PR review time at your company?
Typically no more than a day. But let me caveat it by an anecdotal observation that the duration is roughly proportional to the cube of LoC(changes).
ahurmazda··on Meta Urges California Attorney General to Stop OpenAI from Becoming For-Profit
https://archive.ph/octlD
ahurmazda··on Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week
Hopefully it’s a win-win for most. If you are happy with RTO, rubbing-shoulders with peers, you should be happy. If you are a startup looking for bright engineers, quite a few will be in the job market shortly. Good way to distribute talent imo
ahurmazda··on Eric Schmidt Says Google Is Falling Behind on AI–and Remote Work Is Why
My my he’s certainly very “hands-on”[1] fella, isn’t he? Makes sense why he’s a champion of RTO.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/12/technology/eric-schmidt-a...

ahurmazda··on A.I. Fuels a New Era of Product Placement
Was mildly curious how one goes about training such models. Best I could find was

https://www.amazon.science/publications/zero-shot-virtual-pr...

ahurmazda··on NumPy 2.0
This one will be rough :|

> arange’s start argument is positional-only

ahurmazda··on NumPy 2.0
No.

You may want to check out cupy

https://cupy.dev/

ahurmazda··on Musk ordered Nvidia to ship AI chips reserved for Tesla to X/xAI
TFA, “But emails written by Nvidia senior staff and widely shared inside the company suggest that Musk presented an exaggerated picture of Tesla’s procurement to shareholders.”

That’s a mighty accusation with substantial legal ramifications.

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