How does "import os as g" communicate the intent? How does hiding the payload behind zlib communicate the intent? This is the opposite: obfuscating the intent, so they can brag about 732 bytes instead of 846 bytes (or whatever it might have been).

It would have been less work for everyone involved to just release the unminified source.

They aren't, of course. The Y axis is missing. GitHub didn't have 0 daily commits at the start of 2023.

https://handsondataviz.org/how-to-lie-with-charts.html#exagg...

Not even close. We electrify more and more as tech improves. Do you really think people were using electric leaf blowers in the 1970s?

> Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression

"Redefine" is a favorite word of AI. Honestly no need to read further.

> the key-value cache, a high-speed "digital cheat sheet" that stores frequently used information under simple labels

No competent engineer would describe a cache as a "cheat sheet". Cheat sheets are static, but caches dynamically update during execution. Students don't rewrite their cheat sheets during the test, do they? LLMs love their inaccurate metaphors.

> QJL: The zero-overhead, 1-bit trick

> It reduces each resulting vector number to a single sign bit (+1 or -1). This algorithm essentially creates a high-speed shorthand that requires zero memory overhead.

Why does it keep emphasizing zero overhead? Why is storing a single bit a "trick?" Either there's currently an epidemic of algorithms that use more than one bit to store a bit, or the AI is shoving in extra plausible-sounding words to pad things out. You decide which is more likely.

It's 1:30am and I can't sleep, and I still regret wasting my time on this slop.

Doesn't FinalizationRegistry let you do exactly that?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Here's one fun example from following development on Zulip: advapi.dll loads bcrypt.dll, which loads bcryptprimitives.dll. bcryptprimitives.dll runs an internal test suite every time it's loaded into any process. So if you can avoid loading advapi.dll, your process will start faster.