With effort, the effect can persist. But you have to be willing to make changes.

Time will hit the breaks, hard.

Between $18k-40k to run a benchmark.

I was digging through the store when I found a full pallet of computer punch cards. As a computer science undergrad, I thought, “ how cool, I want a bunch to use as bookmarks, or whatever”.

I went to haggle with Ed, and he outright refused to sell me any. He said he wouldn’t break up the pallet. I had to buy all or none…

because I would read it.

For the record, I did laugh, I just didn't type it out.

> how do you feel about paying 5% on every token's cost to stripe?

Life is compromise. In a perfect world, I'd love to buy a linux native system comparable to the Mac Studio that could run something in the ballpark of Deepseek V4 flash "fast" at home.

Not only does that not exist, but even if it did I couldn't justify the cost. Between work and home my annual token spend is maybe 3k.

So... paying a 5% fee on a service that allows me to not shell out 10k on hardware at home still seems like a pretty sweet deal.

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Plus, I still am learning a ton and playing lots. It's hard to imagine anything beating openrouter for that. So much exposure to all the latest LLMs...

I mostly rent my tokens.

Oh, okay, so this is an ad.

I do still think it's well written and interesting... But if anything, it's just making me more curious about the newest generation of M5 Ultra. (and less and less interested in PCI-E Gen 5 anything)

I once calculated the number of books in The Library of Bable, and had to try a number of numerical libraries to do so. one after another they kept puking on the large integers.

I also think of "the secret miracle" often.

I'm pretty sure that the kids getting admitted to Berkeley actually are the best and the brightest. we should absolutely be welcoming them.

what are we even doing here?

Since you're currently asking humans to explain this to you and not LLMs, you've already got your answer.

Congratulations on release 1.0.0, and thank you for your contributions to open source.

:)

Minigraph looks promising for some introductory goofing around.

SQL is based in pure mathematics: set theory, relational algebra.

The process of applying mathematical rigor to your database design to prove correctness is referred to as normalization.

I don’t mind criticisms like “It’s old, yuck”, but criticisms like “it’s not correct” mean you haven’t studied or applied the mathematical underpinnings of sql.

As long as we are already on a tangent about rods, cones, and visual perception: one of my favorite fact is that the occasional genetic mutation that creates color blindness in men sometimes leaves a woman with "tetrachromacy". Four sets of rods and cones which increases color perception from some one-million colors to one-hundred million colors.

When people get lost in a great movie or a great video game, we call it immersion. We say it’s the mark of a great work of art.

When people get lost in the perfect challenge, like running a race at the edge off their ability, or doing work that’s the perfect amount of challenging, we call it flow.

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It’s common knowledge that introspection in people is context dependent.