We are all le Carré’s people now
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‘If you don’t like dark roast, this isn’t the coffee for you’: How exclusionary ads can win over the right customers
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Sampling at negative temperature
Note: Looking at the equations above, if T<0T<0 then the sign of the exponent flips. That means that the states that were previously the least likely are now the most likely, and vice versa. As temperature approaches zero from the negative side, the model output will again be deterministic — but this time, the least likely tokens will be output.
Looking at the equations above, if T<0T < 0T<0 then the sign of the exponent flips. That means that the states that were previously the least likely are now the most likely, and vice versa. As temperature approaches zero from the negative side, the model output will again be deterministic — but…
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The Emperor Has No Clothes: How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code
The core of tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Warp isn't magic. It's about 200 lines of straightforward Python. Let's build one from scratch.
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The first step is to decide what to work on.
Develop a habit of working on your own projects.
Why Character Matters To You and Society
An Invitation to The Gentleman's Circle
How To Manufacture Luck
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Reactance: Why People Ignore Expert Advice (and How Psychology Can Help Them Listen)
Behavior is the end result of a prevailing story in one’s mind: change the story and the behavior will change.”― Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana In 2020 we were all asked to change our behavior in some way, in service of “flattening the curve” — using social distancing measures to slow…
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These 2 Traits Make You More Likely to Believe Conspiracy Theories
A new study suggests that those wacky conspiracy theories aren't just a social media problem, they're a problem of mindset.
tolerance for ambiguity
strong sense that the world is fundamentally unjust.
Building Long-Lasting Companies with AI Moats | Nicholas Charriere posted on the topic | LinkedIn
This is a great resource.
Nano Banana: AI Image Editor with Gemini 2.5 Flash Image
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The Worst Shot Ever Taken - Believer Magazine
I was sixteen when my mother gifted me a painting by Ernie Barnes. I’d seen one Barnes painting at that point on the cover of Marvin Gaye’s 1976 album, I Want You, on the brown carpeted floor of my Auntie Sue’s apartment. Then I saw it five days a week for at least a decade…
New battery idea gets lots of power out of unusual sulfur chemistry
Rather than being used as a storage material, the sulfur gives up electrons.
sulfur is a great storage material for lithium
Chinese researchers has managed to turn sulfur’s complex chemistry into a strength, making it the primary electron donor in a sodium-sulfur battery that also relies on chlorine for its chemistry.
The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time
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How Ralph Wiggum went from 'The Simpsons' to the biggest name in AI right now
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Implementing Softmax From Scratch: Avoiding the Numerical Stability Trap - MarkTechPost
Learn about implementing Softmax from scratch and discover how to avoid the numerical stability trap in deep learning projects.
This function implements the Softmax activation in its most straightforward form.
numerically unstable—large positive logits can cause overflow, and large negative logits can underflow to zero. As a result, this version should be avoided in real training pipelines
How to be less awkward
a three-part treatment for a near-universal affliction
Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language--It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It's Now Free Online
It took 90 years to complete. But, in 2011, scholars at the University of Chicago finally published a 21-volume dictionary of Akkadian, the language used in ancient Mesopotamia.
An Introduction to Ruby Parsing with Prism | AppSignal Blog
Prism is here to change our lives as Ruby developers: find out how.
A Behavior-Centric Taxonomy for Swarm Intelligence: Reclassifying Algorithms Based on Bio-Inspired Mechanisms
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Stop, Shop, and Scroll
Behind every influencer is an army of the influenced, many adrift in debt and mass-produced clutter. These are the stories of credit card debt and piles of mass-produced clutter.
NVIDIA Rubin Is The Most Advanced AI Platform On The Planet: Up To 50 PFLOPs With HBM4, Vera CPU With 88 Olympus Cores, And Delivers 5x…
NVIDIA is formally announcing its Rubin AI platform today which will be the heart of next-gen Data Centers, with a 5x upgrade over Blackwell.
Claude Code is about so much more than coding
It’s a general-purpose AI agent. And it’s already a pretty good knowledge worker
George Bell Served 24 Years in Prison for a Crime He Didn’t Commit. Now He’s Learning to Live Again.
After a quarter century behind bars, he was exonerated for the 1996 crime and received the largest payout ever from New York City. But money can’t buy back all that time.
21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google
Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code.
Claude Wrote Me a 400-Commit RSS Reader App — LessWrong
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The triumph of logical English - Works in Progress Magazine
English prose has become much easier to read. But shorter sentences had little to do with it.
We think we are looking at a language that got simpler
Sentences can be simple (one main clause), compound (two or more main clauses linked with a conjunction), complex (a main clause with dependent clauses, i.e. clauses that cannot stand alone), or complex-compound (one or more dependent clauses and two or more main clauses).
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Meshtastic: A Comprehensive Guide to Off-Grid Communication
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Training GPT-2 on a budget from Vishwanath Sangale
Impact Of On-Chip SRAM Size And Frequency On Energy Efficiency And Performance of LLM Inference (Uppsala Univ.)
A new technical paper titled “Prefill vs. Decode Bottlenecks: SRAM-Frequency Tradeoffs and the Memory-Bandwidth Ceiling” was published by researchers at Uppsala University. Abstract “Energy consumption dictates the cost and environmental impact of deploying Large Language…
Our simulation methodology combines OpenRAM for energy modeling, LLMCompass for latency simulation, and ScaleSIM for systolic array operational intensity.
Counter-intuitively, high compute frequency can reduce total energy by reducing execution time and consequently decreasing static energy consumption more than the resulting dynamic power increase
What makes something a cult? Here is what our data say
Short of time? Read the key takeaways. 💡 People rely on relational dynamics to judge cultishness. When people rate groups as cult-like, they focus most on signs of control, isolation, and suppression of outside information rather than on unusual predictions or strange practices…
Python Coding (CLCODING) (@clcoding.bsky.social)
These 9 Python features separate beginners from professionals pythonclcoding.gumroad.com/l/bfyxw
The Big LLM Architecture Comparison
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Why your brain needs everyday rituals
Rituals serve psychological functions that go far beyond mere habit or tradition.
Shared routines make cooperation easier in times of stress
Lastly, rituals transmit culture across generations
Why does every film and TV series seem to have the same plot? | Aeon Essays
The three-act ‘hero’s journey’ has long been the most prominent kind of story. What other tales are there to tell?
AI’s trillion-dollar opportunity: Context graphs - Foundation Capital
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