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schlichon Redesigning source control at Anthropic

It always seemed like it was good tech just in need of good marketing and this seems to confirm some suspicions. But yes, in any case, it's good to be seeing new things! I just want remote storage for my jj repos

schlichon Redesigning source control at Anthropic

I would love to get an expert's opinion on if Pijul has any potential to be the "non-git backend". Their patch-based data model seems to align with Scion's. And they also happen to already have a functioning forge!

I've done a decent amount of personal research on this but I'm wondering what kinds of considerations go into the storage layer for these things.

schlichon Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU

you might be interested in property-based testing, which somewhat enumerates tests based on invariance and induction

schlichon Neural Boids

Cool stuff! It's an interesting approach to the starling phenomenon. I'm familiar with the phenomenon through the lens of phase transitions and the critical point, which you allude to in the article briefly. Any further thoughts on how your neural-network based approach maps conceptually to the critical point and related models of emergent behavior?