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boltzmann_on The Illustrated Transformer

Kudos also to Transformer Explainer team for putting some amazing visualizations https://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/ It really clicked to me after reading this two and watching 3blue1brown videos

boltzmann_on Coursera to combine with Udemy

Hallucinations has made huge progress over last 3 years

boltzmann_on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?

This will destroy low margin business (ex Supermarkets?), they will be forced to increase prices. There is a million downstream bad consequences

boltzmann_on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

Love this! Will give it a try

boltzmann_on US Passport Power Falls to Historic Low

yes?

boltzmann_on Token growth indicates future AI spend per dev

Author just choose a nice number and give no argument to it

boltzmann_on Historical Tech Tree

Most comments here seems to be historical complaints. But I love this!)

boltzmann_on Push Ifs Up and Fors Down

You notice this quickly after working on codebases efficiency is important. Filter pushdown is one of the first database optimizations

boltzmann_on SQL Injection Isn't Dead: Smuggling Queries at the Protocol Level

Very smart!

boltzmann_on TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK

Sadly, only HN users care about this kind of stuff

boltzmann_on Testing a few new designs that don't show the public dislike count

I think social media companies underestimate the value of negative feedback.

Also ranking-wise is a very strong signal to have

boltzmann_on Yale’s 367-year-old water bond still pays interest (2015)

> constant

Yeah about that..

boltzmann_on Nyan Cat on the Blockchain

I still don't understand this. Who is buying art at this ridiculous prices? My only explanation is money laundering but if someone has another explanation please comment

boltzmann_on How WhatsApp works with other Facebook products

> except for social network effects In the social networks app world this is all that matters

boltzmann_on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)

Flightradar24 use raspberry pi's? Wow!

boltzmann_on I Feel Like I Have No Real Interests; My Only Interest Is Making Money

> germany

That's why, just check how tech is pay in USA http://levels.fyi

boltzmann_on I sold Baremetrics

kudos for the transparency, a really interesting post

boltzmann_on Which Cities Have the Highest Risk of a Housing Bubble?

click looking for SF, disappointed

boltzmann_on Researchers show how to transform materials using a finely shaped laser pulse

I mean relaying in something (gold price stability/limited quantity) that technology could eventually change dramatically from one day to another seems a bad move. But I guess that happens to everything anyways :) .

The platinum process seems interesting, any link/name about that?

boltzmann_on Researchers show how to transform materials using a finely shaped laser pulse

Gold is good to store value until you can create it. I guess that a good point to Bitcoin value

boltzmann_on Palantir S-1

only?

boltzmann_on Single Page Applications using Rust

waiting for a rails like framework that would let me use only one language full-stack.

boltzmann_on Philosophers on GPT-3

so what's intelligence then? it seems like you're saying humans are not intelligent?

boltzmann_on Facebook's employees reckon with the social network they've built

In that case twitter is way more toxic than FB.

boltzmann_on I Am Deleting the Blog

If you have not read Scott Alexander blog posts before I only can say you are missing out of an internet gem. Some personal favorites: - Meditations On Moloch - I can tolerate anything except the outgroup