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lwander··on LLMs tell bad jokes because they avoid surprises
I did a project along these lines a few months ago as well: https://larswander.com/writing/graphs-embeddings-and-llm-gen...
lwander··on Spectral Ray Tracing
Author here. Waking up to seeing this on the front page with all the wonderful comments made my day! Thank you for sharing and reading
lwander··on Why Juicero’s Press Is So Expensive
Oh that's fascinating - thanks!
lwander··on Why Juicero’s Press Is So Expensive
Oh this is interesting:

> The two primary exterior plastic parts are huge, detailed injection molded parts with multiple slides and actions, large changes in wall thickness (which makes it very hard to mold without imperfections)

Does anyone know why large changes in wall thickness makes molding these parts more difficult?

lwander··on Analyzing the Patterns of Numbers in 10M Passwords (2015)
The fact that there are peaks at 6 and 8 digits per password is probably due the fact that dates can be represented as DDMMYY and DDMMYYYY respectively, rather than imply that humans are better at remembering an even number of digits.
lwander··on How We Build Code at Netflix
Google is actively adding Kubernetes support as well: https://github.com/spinnaker/spinnaker/issues/707
lwander··on Understanding Infrastructure as Code
[Terraform](https://terraform.io/) is a great tool for representing infrastructure as code, plus, it's provider agnostic.