10+ hour, 34+ min ago   (657+ words) The previous experiment found that a count table over the current document overtakes a small transformer at a few hundred tokens of document, and that the transformer's marginal contribution collapses past that point. There is one obvious objection and it…...

14+ hour, 6+ min ago   (395+ words) I wanted a cross-venue price comparison for prediction markets and assumed the hard part would be the order books. It was not. The hard part is deciding that two markets are the same market. The Federal Reserve decision at the…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (623+ words) An absolute-baseline, 20-minute introduction to ChatGPT for first-time users. Learners see what ChatGPT is, how to access it, and how to send a first message and continue the conversation. It gives complete beginners a confident first touch. A hands-on introduction…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (271+ words) Production lessons from PureScript and Haskell in fintech. Type safety, migration patterns, team adoption, and when FP pays off vs adds overhead. Tagged with functional, programming, fintech, purescript....

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (21+ words) A software satire showing how deadlines, framework mandates, metrics, blame, and executive decrees collapse when production reality pushes back trump 80s....

2+ day, 6+ min ago   (712+ words) I have been building payment and crypto systems in production since 2018: custodial wallets for BTC and ETH, a fiat-to-crypto onramp, exchange order books, stablecoin rails in daily use. The amounts that gave me the most trouble were not the large…...

2+ day, 33+ min ago   (175+ words) The debates we're having about AI coding in 2026 (vibe coding, can you trust generated code, is learning to code dead) were answered decades ago. Here are 10 quotes from Dijkstra, Knuth, Kernighan and others that read like they were written about…...