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chaidhaton Markdown is holding you back

I believe that Markdown shines because it is literally human language. It’s the equivalent of tearing a paper sheet from a notebook and writing stuff down. If I wanted formatted, semantic writing, I’d use LaTeX

chaidhaton Things that aren't doing the thing

damn i was really excited to read about how my toaster wasnt actually intended for toasting bread or something like that

chaidhaton Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale – Terence Tao et al.

I'm an undergrad at UCLA and the biggest flex my friend has about Terence Tao is he used the urinal next to him once.

chaidhaton Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL

interesting, thank you

chaidhaton Dithering – Part 1

This is really cool! I always thought dithering was just blending two colors by alternating adjacent pixels, I didn't know there was more ways to do it than one.

chaidhaton Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL

that's cool thanks!

chaidhaton Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL

Which model did you distill it from? Great work! PS getting a few scenarios where it doesn't follow rules as well as sonnet 4.5

chaidhaton AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

is this why docker is down?

chaidhaton macOS Tahoe

It's good

chaidhaton How the tz database works (2020)

Took a class with professor Paul Eggert at UCLA, the person who maintains this db. Super chill dude. In his exams, he makes sure to add a question he doesn't know the answer to himself.

chaidhaton [dead]

Very cool!

chaidhaton Ask HN: advice! tired uni student gaining engineering skills (with joy)

How can smell be used to generate value? Do you want to generate value or are you just interested in that sort of stuff?

Are you in Berkeley or Stanford? They probably have a lot of professors you could email who are probably doing at least something to do with that. Or join university clubs. Or cold email people.

chaidhaton San Francisco Public Schools Convert F's to C's, B's to A's in Equity Push

If it were based on merit like class participation id be ok

chaidhaton Company Automates Job Applications

Hello I am one of the developers working on Open Sesame. We are very open to feedback on either technical or the ethical implications of this website. Currently we have made a full-stack applicatioon so people can upload their resumes and we spawn around 10-50 agents per person concurrently to push job applications. Current success rate is around 64% per agent, at 12-20 jobs per hour. The main obstacle is captchas, but we are developing another agent to get around that, with a 50%rate at the moment. We also are making agents to create and tailor resumes and cover letters.