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You can’t diagonalize a generic matrix by adding a rank 1 matrix. That holds only for dimension 2.

I’m not in any way aware of how macOS is architected, but aren’t all these inconsistencies (like different app icons, different menu styles, different window corners etc) pointing to bad code design? There should be one shared source of truth for what needs to be consistent.

I don’t think this is true.

This comment is hysteresical

Come on now, I don’t think it was meant as a justification of that inexcusable driver’s behaviour.

As cool as this looks, I can’t get past my suspicion of Meta…

That’s what I’m saying, I don’t set it up. I just install Claude code and I’m good to go.

Managing configuration files feels like worrying about fine-tuning in 2023

I’m a professional theoretical physicist in my 40s and I never thought the day would come that I would realize I became shit at mental math. I can do quantum physics in my head but don’t ask me to add 17 to 34

I’ve tried to keep up with “best practices” around AI use, but things are improving so quickly that I’ve largely given up. The vanilla agents are just fine for my needs as they come.

I don’t think so: the ELO rating difference is what matters, e.g. a 1000 player vs an 800 player has the same win probability as a 2800 vs a 2600.

George Costanza would be proud

That’s a fair question, but it seems that it’s not yet necessary. See here

https://dylancastillo.co/posts/pelicanmaxxing.html

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/

Reminded me of this https://xkcd.com/1367

IMHO the iPod nano (the little puck with a touchscreen that you could clip on stuff) was the best player I ever had.

ok ok, I get it now, it's satire ^^'

where are downpayments so cheap? I'll move there ^^'

Exactly. Is that figure about the water 'flowing' through the datacenter? I want to believe they would not just dump it after use.

> Academic studies and knowledge are literally a worthless waste of time

Not everything is about money

The duress pin should not erase the device, just unlock a spoof version of the device

I already have universal healthcare here in Canada. I just feel sorry for people living in the US who could have it too if it wasn’t for stupid political shenanigans and ideological stubbornness. Health should be a right, not a commodity sold by private corporations to those who can afford it.

It should never be shopping in the first place. I live in Canada, my family has needed the hospital and the ER a few times and we never ever had to even reach for our wallet.

No, overwhelmingly more people support a single payer healthcare system. The issue is that the people in Washington won’t make it a “votable” decision.

How much time did you invest in creating this benchmark? Any recommendations/resources you could give on how to do it?

But it supercharges what can be done once you get root, no?

Exactly. “Tell me more about X” is an open ended question, not feedback.

Sounds very cool! What do you mean by “revert side effects it created”?

Haaalleluja … BOOOOM!!

Compression and error correction also go hand in hand: in compressed data every bit carries more information and therefore errors are more detrimental. This is one of the results that Shannon phrased exactly in terms of entropy.

My PhD supervisor had a beautiful example. Take the English message "errors can make messages unreadable" and ‘compress it’ by removing vowels. It’s still intelligible because English has redundancy:

rrrs cn mk mssgs nrdbl

Similarly, an uncompressed message with errors (swapped characters) is also intelligible because of the redundancy of English:

erwurs lan nake wesaagis unfeatable

But now we do both: we compress the message AND add errors. The result should be much harder (if not impossible) to read:

rwrs ln nk wssgs nftbl

Yes something like that (around 50€)

I understand it’s cool to have an artistic website, but it’s very noisy and non-accessible.

But very interesting result.