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Just Ask for Generalization (2021)

https://evjang.com/2021/10/23/generalization.html

31•jxmorris12•2d ago

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xg15•5h ago

(2021), still very interesting. Especially the "post-overfitting" training strategy is unexpected.

luckystarr•1h ago

I remember vaguely that this was observed when training GPT-3 (probably?) as well. Just trained on and on, and the error went up and then down again. Like a phase transition in the model.

esafak•1h ago

The low sample efficiency of RL is well explained.

Local-first software (2019)

https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/

505•gasull•7h ago•150 comments

Cod Have Been Shrinking for Decades, Scientists Say They've Solved Mystery

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-cod-have-been-shrinking-dramatically-for-decades-now-scientists-say-theyve-solved-the-mystery-180986920/

31•littlexsparkee•3h ago•12 comments

Europe's first geostationary sounder satellite is launched

https://www.eumetsat.int/europes-first-geostationary-sounder-satellite-launched

148•diggan•7h ago•30 comments

Optimizing Tool Selection for LLM Workflows with Differentiable Programming

https://viksit.substack.com/p/optimizing-tool-selection-for-llm

7•viksit•1h ago•1 comments

Atomic "Bomb" Ring from KiX (1947)

https://toytales.ca/atomic-bomb-ring-from-kix-1947/

34•gscott•3d ago•6 comments

Speeding up PostgreSQL dump/restore snapshots

https://xata.io/blog/behind-the-scenes-speeding-up-pgstream-snapshots-for-postgresql

62•tudorg•5h ago•8 comments

macOS Icon History

https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/macos-icon-history

86•ksec•6h ago•24 comments

The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon

https://blog.thenewoil.org/the-prime-reasons-to-avoid-amazon

92•DanAtC•1h ago•45 comments

X-Clacks-Overhead

https://xclacksoverhead.org/home/about

178•weinzierl•3d ago•34 comments

The Moat of Low Status

https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/learn-to-love-the-moat-of-low-status

325•jger15•3d ago•137 comments

Seine reopens to Paris swimmers after century-long ban

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2025/07/05/seine-reopens-to-paris-swimmers-after-century-long-ban_6743058_7.html

76•divbzero•4h ago•40 comments

Haskell, Reverse Polish Notation, and Parsing

https://mattwills.bearblog.dev/haskell-postfix/

26•mw_1•3d ago•5 comments

The Calculator-on-a-Chip (2015)

http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/the_calculator-on-a-chip.html

12•Bogdanp•5h ago•0 comments

Gecode is an open source C++ toolkit for developing constraint-based systems (2019)

https://www.gecode.org/

58•gjvc•13h ago•13 comments

WinUAE 6.0.0 Amiga Emulator

https://www.winuae.net/

9•doener•59m ago•0 comments

Pet ownership and cognitive functioning in later adulthood across pet types

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-03727-9

29•bookofjoe•2h ago•11 comments

Build Systems à la Carte (2018) [pdf]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/build-systems.pdf

65•djoldman•3d ago•16 comments

Is It Cake? How Our Brain Deciphers Materials

https://nautil.us/is-it-cake-how-our-brain-deciphers-materials-1222193/

10•dnetesn•2d ago•3 comments

Just Ask for Generalization (2021)

https://evjang.com/2021/10/23/generalization.html

31•jxmorris12•2d ago•3 comments

QSBS Limits Raised

https://www.mintz.com/insights-center/viewpoints/2906/2025-06-25-qsbs-benefits-expanded-under-senate-finance-proposal

44•tomasreimers•10h ago•20 comments

Optimizing typography of insect labels using free fonts and free software (2012) [pdf]

https://www.akentsoc.org/doc/Bowser_ML_2012.pdf

23•exvi•3d ago•2 comments

Parametric shape optimization with differentiable FEM simulation

https://docs.pasteurlabs.ai/projects/tesseract-jax/latest/examples/fem-shapeopt/demo.html

6•dionhaefner•2d ago•0 comments

The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937–2001)

https://www.openculture.com/2025/06/the-history-of-electronic-music-in-476-tracks.html

105•bookofjoe•2d ago•36 comments

What 'Project Hail Mary' teaches us about the PlanetScale vs. Neon debate

https://blog.alexoglou.com/posts/database-decisions/

29•konsalexee•10h ago•49 comments

Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage

https://maalvika.substack.com/p/being-too-ambitious-is-a-clever-form

627•alihm•1d ago•179 comments

Problems the AI industry is not addressing adequately

https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/im-losing-all-trust-in-the-ai-industry

159•baylearn•11h ago•170 comments

EverQuest

https://www.filfre.net/2025/07/everquest/

262•dmazin•1d ago•148 comments

Telli (YC F24) Is Hiring Engineers [On-Site Berlin]

https://hi.telli.com/join-us

1•sebselassie•15h ago

Incapacitating Google Tag Manager (2022)

https://backlit.neocities.org/incapacitate-google-tag-manager

207•fsflover•1d ago•143 comments

A 37-year-old wanting to learn computer science

https://initcoder.com/posts/37-year-old-learning-cs/

135•chbkall•13h ago•132 comments