Cartography, Cinema, and Adventure
The 2016 meeting of the North American Cartographic Information Society was held in Colorado Springs, CO, and if you were there on Friday October 21st at 10:40am, you had a really difficult decision...
Claude Fable 5.2 vs Opus 5.5 vs Sonnet 5.5 Effort Level Benchmarks
The resultEffort is Claude’s setting for how much work a model puts into each reply. Claude Code has five levels, low, medium, high, xhigh and max, and you pick one with the /effort command or the...
Foundation Models framework
Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/foundation-models-framework/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50474361 Points: 267 # Comments: 35
Why Tolkien Is Great, and Sanderson Isn’t
Hello, friends!One year ago this week, I got to thinking about what makes a novel “great,” and so whipped off a blustery little article using Tolkien and Sanderson as examples. Apparently it struck a...
List of woo shit I think is real from most real to least real
Energy. Extremely real, unbelievably real, possibly more real than most normal things in some sense. Closely related to but maybe not quite the same thing as vibes which are of course also extremely...
can groups bear knowledge?
This is the content of a talk I gave today, which I recorded on my phone and then used AI to transcribe. I’ve given it a very quick look over and tidy up, but errors of transcription may remain! An...
Your Self-Hosted Apps May Be Sending Data You Didn’t Know About
I would say that one of the biggest reasons that many self-host instead of put things in the cloud is data privacy and having control over their data. But a… The post Your Self-Hosted Apps May Be...
Closing tabs
I got to attend my nephews wedding last night, and ended up dancing late with my 80yo mom and all of our family until late. I got in late so I’m going to make this one brief. Thank you again for...
A few more style guides
A while back I shared a bunch of interface guidelines and style guides, and I found a few more since then. I will update the previous link so it can stay a reference, but here they are as well: GEM...
“And honestly, that feels like magic.”
This is a really fun video by 3Blue1Brown about the cleverness and elegance of Hamming codes, simple algorithms that help recover data when some of it gets mangled – for example, if you scratch your...
Weight-Only Quantization
Overview This post is divided into five parts; they are: • Asymmetric Affine Quantization • Post-Training Quantization with PyTorch • GPTQ and AWQ • Quantizing a Model to GGUF • Evaluating...
Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's medical claims
Article URL: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-eli-lilly-ceo-becomes-latest Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50483480 Points: 270 # Comments: 375