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dbrans··on Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination
Replication is unpaid QA on someone else's product. Nobody gets tenure for finding the bug, hence the field has been meaning to get around to it for 20 years.
dbrans··on How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
These are high quality at first glance. the visualizations and exercises are helpful.

What is your process for creating these resources?

dbrans··on What Is Plus Times Plus? (Lambda Calculus Intro) [video]
Remarkable visual intro to lambda calculus.
dbrans··on Map of GitHub
Can you elaborate?
dbrans··on Willow, Our Quantum Chip
https://research.google/blog/validating-random-circuit-sampl...
dbrans··on Who is Marcellus Williams: Execution in Missouri despite evidence of innocence
Marcellus Williams was executed yesterday, Tuesday. https://apnews.com/article/missouri-execution-marcellus-will...
dbrans··on Organic thermoelectric device can harvest energy at room temperature
Source Nature Article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52047-5
dbrans··on Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes
Have you tried asking the llm to elaborate? There’s message box.
dbrans··on Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone
No trackpad?
dbrans··on Cuis-Smalltalk
Monticello lets you export/import code between your image and text files which can then be managed by a vcs like git. Created by Avi Bryant.
dbrans··on E Online has left a Gist url on the top of their site
I'm a Krux employee. Just before midnight PST, after friends noticed this post on hacker news, we got to work and resolved the problem.

Thanks a ton for all the eyes out there that helped us find this one. It's great when the community has your back.

Proof one more time of the dangers of making production changes on a Friday afternoon, and that there's no substitute for manual monitoring of a site.

Derek Brans Technology Krux