Lambda syntax varies widely across languages; more widely, I think, than other language features. I wish it weren't so. It's difficult to see the elegance in a new language if the syntax is unfamiliar.

I'm already learning new things from GPT5 and I haven't even used it yet. For example i never realised until now that 69.1 is almost the same as 30.8

It's interesting to consider what happening here. Clearly they were on a time crunch. So either they used GPT 5 to do it, and it messed up this badly. Or they trust GPT 5 so little internally that they did it manually. Both are not good looks…

I think about this post once a month

'New Shared-Log Abstractions for Modern Applications', by Prof. Ram Alagappan from Siebel School of Computing and Data Science youtube.com/watch?v=t-a-BQ…

Efficient offline-to-online reinforcement learning with pre-reduced out-of-distribution Q-values (PRQL) sciencedirect.com/science/articl… PRQL #PRQL

My employee has been without electricity🔌 for over a month!She logged it on the Alfred app, followed up, visited an Eskom Hld SOC Ltd branch & still her fault hasn't been attended to.This is a single mother raising a family👩‍👧‍👦 in #Khayalitsha, this lack of service is not okay! City of Cape Town

Watching the F1 Grand Prix at Monza, Italy this weekend, I was struck by how much the Parabolica resembles one half of the Circus Maximus. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose!

How do you pronounce Biemlfdlkk? economist.com/business/2025/…

I've cancelled my Disney+ subscription. "Sorry kids, but that orange 🤡 on TV is why we can't have nice things." theguardian.com/us-news/2025/s…

Grindr outage during Charlie Kirk memorial buff.ly/nJuwZ88 2024: Grindr outage during Milwaukee RNC buff.ly/JELMirt 2008: Sydney brothels say pope’s visit will help business buff.ly/Ez96mBe I guess the story of the Pharisees just hit different for me.

So cool: Sherin Jacob added full text indexes into Parquet files using the techniques from our blog github.com/jcsherin/datab…

Looks very interesting! Current HackerNews discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=454377…

Today's Future Data Systems Seminar Speaker: Ian Cook (Ian Cook) will present Columnar's work on ApacheArrow database connectivity API (ADBC). ADBC is available in modern DBMSs. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/futured…

Nice, short post illustrating how simple text (discrete) diffusion can be. Diffusion (i.e. parallel, iterated denoising, top) is the pervasive generative paradigm in image/video, but autoregression (i.e. go left to right bottom) is the dominant paradigm in text. For audio I've

Why wouldn't you play your favourite song on repeat until the marginal utility of one more play is less than that of the next best song? Neurotypicals are so weird!

This is awesome! The only thing better than being spoilt for choice is not having to choose at all.

Anthropic just posted another banger guide. This one is on building more efficient agents to handle more tools and efficient token usage. This is a must-read for AI devs! (bookmark it) It helps with three major issues in AI agent tool calling: token costs, latency, and tool

Hey Hedgineer Podcast , how come you haven't automated cross posting your episodes to X? Let's bring the discussion here! I'd love to be able to comment and discuss...