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New comment by pikachu0625 in "Autoresearch on an old research idea"

pikachu0625 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:29:14 +0000

It's better to outsource optimization phases. Our idea should be for constraint, assumptions etc. for breakthrough. Boyd often argues that once you can express a problem in a standard mathematical form, the implementation becomes a commodity that software can handle automatically.

New comment by pikachu0625 in "Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies"

pikachu0625 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:55:34 +0000

Everyone works for their community, and rewarding those who contribute the most by consensus is trust, regardless of gender, race, skill, or inheritance. The opposite is corruption.

New comment by pikachu0625 in "The Linux Programming Interface as a university course text"

pikachu0625 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:36:15 +0000

One of the best books I've read. It helped me lead meetings and solve complex problems where other engineers struggled.

New comment by pikachu0625 in "How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform"

pikachu0625 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:21:07 +0000

It's just different skills.

New comment by pikachu0625 in "65 Lines of Markdown, a Claude Code Sensation"

pikachu0625 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:37:47 +0000

Do you ever filter signal from noise by the quality of the code? The code written by the Google founders was eventually rewritten by others, and it was likely worse than what a fresh grad produces today. Still, that initial search engine is the most influential thing they ever built, and it's something the modern Bay Area will probably never create again.

New comment by pikachu0625 in "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"

pikachu0625 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:11:24 +0000

OS's file system? Implementation cost has been significantly decreased these day. We can just prompt 'use S3 instead of local file system' if we need to use a S3 like service.