"In the last few weeks, I've been playing around with the newest version of Claude Code, which wrote me a read-it-later service including RSS, email newsletters and an Android app."
Claude Wrote Me a 400-Commit RSS Reader App
Filler tokens don’t allow sequential reasoning
"One of my favorite AI papers is “Lets Think Dot By Dot”, which finds that LLMs can use meaningless filler tokens (like “.”) to improve their performance, but I was overestimating the implications until recently[1] and I think other people might be too."
Robust Software Isn't About Error Handling
"CloudFlare recently had an incident where some code expected that a list would never contain more than 20 items, and then it was presented with a list of more than 20 items. Internet commenters rushed to point out that the problem was that the code was written in Rust, or that the source code had the word unwrap[1] in it. A surprising number of people argued that they should have just \"handled\" this error."
Fairly Breaking Ties Without Fair Coins
"I was thinking about an approval-style voting system that could end with a large number of ties, and ran into the problem of how to break ties in a provably-fair way that doesn't depend on candidates trusting each other and won't make voters' eyes glaze over."
Review: E-bikes on Hills
"I recently moved near Seattle[1], where traffic is terrible but there are surprisingly many bike lanes. Unfortunately, there are also a lot of hills. For a while, I would occasionally bike to work, but the hills were intimidating and I had to re-motivate myself every morning. Around a year ago, I finally gave up and just got an e-bike."
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