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The government had been planning it for 7 years, beavers built the dam in two days and saved them $1 million, voxnews.al/english/kosova…

This is interesting as a first large diffusion-based LLM. Most of the LLMs you've been seeing are ~clones as far as the core modeling approach goes. They're all trained "autoregressively", i.e. predicting tokens from left to right. Diffusion is different - it doesn't go left to

Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked, ourworldindata.org/data-insights/…

To add to this: try getting Claude to come up with a counterargument or criticisms for your ideas, and to list adjacent intellectual tangents to both ideas and criticisms. Great way to keep yourself on your toes. It's like putting yourself into thesis defense mode every day.

Should you learn programming Now? Yes AI will raise the abstractions, more people will code, and with time coding will be like math, everyone will learn it, and few will go very deep. However, Knowing a little bit of code will not give one 10X the salary of their teachers.

I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs. I use GPT, Grok, Gemini, Mistral etc every day in the hope they'll save me time searching for information and summarizing it. They continue to fabricate links, references, and quotes, like they did from

I love how the responses to this are: - junior devs / amateurs : "yeah good idea we can rewrite it in rust in a fraction of the size " - senior devs / professionals: -incoherent screaming-

I am planning to do a talk on "Enterprise Software: How Enterprise can benefit while avoiding pitfalls?" at IESL next Monday (7th)

When I was in unv, this is thought impossible

Tears. Pride. Goosebumps 🇱🇰❤️ The Sri Lankan anthem echoed across the stadium as Tharushi Abhisheka clinched gold in the 800m at the 2025 Asian U18 Athletics Championship. Sri Lanka finishes with 8 medals (1🥇3🥈4🥉) and ranks 9th in Asia!

The happiness of the dogs when they saw the man who set up a shelter for paralyzed dogs.. 🥺

Good scaling case Study, medium.com/wix-engineerin…

Abstraction is Powerful — But So Is Knowing When to Repeat Yourself, medium.com/codex/abstract… ( An example of Principle 7: Understand the trade-offs between coherence and flexibility in my book "Book: Software Architecture and Decision-Making")

Loved the movie "The Match", netflix.com/title/81640991. It is a teacher-student rivalry, but there is a bit more in the story, and it is based on real life, and both student and teacher are considered among the greats in the game

Good architecture makes Code easy: Let code be your guide to good architecture, medium.com/@srinathperera… #SoftwareEngineering #Software #code

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