I’m using Racket instead of Scheme to go through the “Structures and Interpretations of Computer Programming”. I think I might be in love. The webservlet framework seems beautiful in its simplicity. It’s a Lisp that’s actually useful for practical problems. The standard library is so big it looks like a roided out hulk next to Python’s.

I would like to publicly say I was wrong on this one. According to https://lmarena.ai, Grok 3 is the best for style at least. For content GPT-4o still edges it out but I was def wrong that xAI wouldn’t achieve SOTA. View quoted note →

Programmers: “A few billion tensor operations a second to simulate language? No problem.” Also programmers: “A calculator app? That’s going to take a PhD in mathematics and some new research to almost get a correct calculator.”

Chad Nauseam Home

calculator-app - Chad Nauseam Home

"A calculator app? Anyone could make that." (this was originally a https://x.com/ChadNauseam/status/1890889465322786878, and has since been turned ...

With all the anti science stuff going on in the media, here’s your reminder that there has never been a competent study at realistic levels showing any downsides of fluoride. On the contrary, many studies have shown no health concerns and large dental health improvements from fluoridated water. Stop believing whatever media personalities or podcasters tell you and do your own research. Remember, bitcoin is built on verification, let’s follow that example.

Scientific American

What the Evidence Says about Fluoride in Drinking Water

RFK, Jr., and other potential and current government officials have spread shaky health claims about fluoridated water. Scientists explain the evid...

Google keeps releasing new and better models and AI tools before OpenAI at lower prices and yet no one even knows. Google’s AI division makes great products, but they’re awful at announcing them and getting publicity. They need to have at least some sort of big announcement and fanfare. Get up on a stage, make a keynote, a demo, literally anything. Example: deep research. Google released the same product with the same name, but two months before OpenAI. Everyone still talked about OpenAI’s announcement and acted like it was totally new.

Google

Try Deep Research and our new experimental model in Gemini, your AI assistant

Try Deep Research, a new research assistant in Gemini Advanced, and a chat optimized version of Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental.

Found this yesterday.

Copilot Arena - Visual Studio Marketplace

Extension for Visual Studio Code - Code with and evaluate the latest LLMs and Code Comp...

It's the VSCode extension that powers the Copilot leader board on LMArena. I looked through the source code. Seems pretty simple. I think I'll take a crack at porting it over to Neovim.

After some thought, all new projects will use Typst and I can just switch old projects to just use Typst as the pdf engine instead of LaTeX because the Typst compiler is stupidly fast. One small CLI flag change in a Makefile and compilation is now stupidly fast. View quoted note →

Considering moving from a hacked together setup of Pandoc Markdown, Makefiles, Python scripts, and a sprinkling of Jinja templates and raw Latex to Typst. Does anyone have experience switching from Markdown to Typst? To me it seems like it optimizes well for making the hot path of the markup used for most documents look similar to Markdown while also allowing you to drop down into lower levels of abstraction seamlessly. Any footguns or horror stories I should know before I put in the effort to switch?

The principle honestly goes for most Musk statements. 19 out of 20 times he’s spewing total bullshit but 5% of the time they do something crazy like catch a rocket. 5% is a solid base rate for any Musk statement actually happening. View quoted note →

Forecasting tip, whenever Elon says something about xAI, immediately bet that it won’t happen. Literally every time they release a model everyone on twitter huddles up to hype it and then it comes out as the most bland model that was already outdated before the training run began. Follow for more investing tips lol.

Well, not much of a game.

Put on a random Apple Music compiled workout playlist. A song came on and for a moment I thought I had suddenly lost to ability to understand language. Then I realized I wasn’t having a stroke and that the song was in Korean but sung with the same cadence as English.

Why is the JavaScript ecosystem so confusing? I thought Python was bad. I'm just trying to run a model in the browser but now I have to deal with a half dozen ways of importing a file? Why isn't there a standard for how the language is supposed to work?

Found a stupidly good TTS model that just came out. Working on making a browser extension so we can finally have something decent TTS in the browser. Made a version that relied on using a Python server but now trying to switch it to run the inference in the browser using the new kokoro-js library the author released this morning.

GitHub

GitHub - hexgrad/kokoro: https://hf.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M

https://hf.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M. Contribute to hexgrad/kokoro development by creating an account on GitHub.

Adding this onto my list of delightful Norse words. Other favorites are currently hygge and sisu. View quoted note →

Everyone, let’s once again take a moment to remember that partisan news on either side is horrendously inaccurate. If you you don’t trust the far left news outlets like TYT or the Grayzone, it might be worth reflecting why you trust Benny Johnson or InfoWars.

The Dispatch

No, Politico Did Not Receive ‘Substantial Funds’ from USAID

Various government agencies have purchased subscriptions to its publications since 2016.

Josh Hawley is just the Elizabeth Warren of the right. He introduces the most idiotic dead-on-arrival bills on whatever the latest Twitter trend is to farm attention. His snide condescending air when he’s farming sound bites for his YouTube channel just makes him way more punchable than Warren.

404 Media

Senator Hawley Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek

According to the language of the proposed bill, people who download AI models from China could face up to 20 years in jail, a million dollar fine, ...

Getting on a phone call with a support rep to access your account after getting locked out is always a strange experience for me. There’s a moment when they start asking you other questions to authenticate you when you remember they’re just looking at literally all of your information. Bank account customer service is looking at all of your transactions, ISP customer service is looking at every device on your network, and Amazon is looking at all of your orders. Privacy is dead because it’s convenient.

I’m a simple man. I read Wikipedia article of wall named Ha Ha because people would laugh when they tripped over it. I go “Ha Ha”

Ha-ha - Wikipedia