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Reposted by Andrew Duffy
My colleague Sanjay Ghemawat & I have done a fair bit of performance tuning of various pieces of code. We wrote an internal Performance Hints document ~2 years ago as a way of identifying some general principles & we've recently published a version of it externally.
Doc: abseil.io/fast/hints.h...
Doc: abseil.io/fast/hints.h...
December 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
My colleague Sanjay Ghemawat & I have done a fair bit of performance tuning of various pieces of code. We wrote an internal Performance Hints document ~2 years ago as a way of identifying some general principles & we've recently published a version of it externally.
Doc: abseil.io/fast/hints.h...
Doc: abseil.io/fast/hints.h...
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🔮Introducing OXtal – a new all-atom diffusion model for crystal structure prediction!
We tackle a grand challenge in computational chemistry: predicting the structure of crystalline solids directly from their chemical composition.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.06987
Blog Post: oxtal.github.io
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We tackle a grand challenge in computational chemistry: predicting the structure of crystalline solids directly from their chemical composition.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.06987
Blog Post: oxtal.github.io
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December 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
🔮Introducing OXtal – a new all-atom diffusion model for crystal structure prediction!
We tackle a grand challenge in computational chemistry: predicting the structure of crystalline solids directly from their chemical composition.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.06987
Blog Post: oxtal.github.io
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We tackle a grand challenge in computational chemistry: predicting the structure of crystalline solids directly from their chemical composition.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.06987
Blog Post: oxtal.github.io
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This looks beautiful. How do you make those ascii art diagrams? I’ve seen planetscale and turbopuffer both use that style and I’m obsessed
December 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This looks beautiful. How do you make those ascii art diagrams? I’ve seen planetscale and turbopuffer both use that style and I’m obsessed
Somehow this isn't even the worst thing Boebert has been caught doing with her boyfriend in a public place
November 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Somehow this isn't even the worst thing Boebert has been caught doing with her boyfriend in a public place
CommonForms is cool. Guy filtered CommonCrawl down to PDFs and trained a 3-class YOLO model on it. Performs better than Acrobat.
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16506
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16506
arxiv.org
October 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
CommonForms is cool. Guy filtered CommonCrawl down to PDFs and trained a 3-class YOLO model on it. Performs better than Acrobat.
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16506
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16506
hard to tell if it’s doing nothing or it’s just a volume problem. sometime in the last few months i’ve started getting at least 3-5 BS group texts per day. reporting junk diligently has not ceased the onslaught
October 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
hard to tell if it’s doing nothing or it’s just a volume problem. sometime in the last few months i’ve started getting at least 3-5 BS group texts per day. reporting junk diligently has not ceased the onslaught
TIL ClickHouse is able to optimize queries using information from table constraints, pretty cool! clickhouse.com/blog/whats-n...
What’s New in ClickHouse 21.12
What’s New in ClickHouse 21.12
clickhouse.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
TIL ClickHouse is able to optimize queries using information from table constraints, pretty cool! clickhouse.com/blog/whats-n...
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Federal Troops Arrive in Portland and Immediately Form Bands
September 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Federal Troops Arrive in Portland and Immediately Form Bands
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Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols.
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September 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols.
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Sneakers deserves a mention as well. RIP to a legend.
Lastly, consider watching some of his films this week. My favorites include Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President’s Men, Three Days of the Condor, The Sting, Jeremiah Johnson, and All Is Lost.
Rest in peace to a man who has given us much.
Rest in peace to a man who has given us much.
September 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Sneakers deserves a mention as well. RIP to a legend.
Crazy shit happening in the footnotes of this ruling
September 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Crazy shit happening in the footnotes of this ruling
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We just launched Foursquare Spatial Desktop – a geospatial analysis tool powered by embedded DuckDB and built on sqlrooms.org. Everything runs locally: your data stays on your machine, no cloud needed. A modern reimagining of Kepler.gl. Mac only for now. More coming.
foursquare.com/products/spa...
foursquare.com/products/spa...
July 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM
We just launched Foursquare Spatial Desktop – a geospatial analysis tool powered by embedded DuckDB and built on sqlrooms.org. Everything runs locally: your data stays on your machine, no cloud needed. A modern reimagining of Kepler.gl. Mac only for now. More coming.
foursquare.com/products/spa...
foursquare.com/products/spa...
I feel like I need to level up my agentic coding. 90% of my usage is asking Claude Code to generate a first draft of something. Then I'll follow up and guide it to do some targeted improvements, but eventually I take back manual control. I haven't used context truncation, tool calls, hooks, etc.
July 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I feel like I need to level up my agentic coding. 90% of my usage is asking Claude Code to generate a first draft of something. Then I'll follow up and guide it to do some targeted improvements, but eventually I take back manual control. I haven't used context truncation, tool calls, hooks, etc.
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@rust-lang.org-people, what's an open source project that you think has good error handling? I've been using thiserror for the past ~3 years in multiple codebases and I keep running into the same corners I'm unhappy with, and I want to read some new patterns/designs and get some better ideas
July 14, 2025 at 12:14 PM
@rust-lang.org-people, what's an open source project that you think has good error handling? I've been using thiserror for the past ~3 years in multiple codebases and I keep running into the same corners I'm unhappy with, and I want to read some new patterns/designs and get some better ideas
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SUPER EXCITED about this. However, I highly recommend that if you haven't read the book, please go into this movie blind. Or at the least. Turn off the trailer after the 2min mark. Idk why every movie trailer has to spoil the plot nowadays.
Project Hail Mary - Official Trailer
YouTube video by Amazon MGM Studios
www.youtube.com
June 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM
SUPER EXCITED about this. However, I highly recommend that if you haven't read the book, please go into this movie blind. Or at the least. Turn off the trailer after the 2min mark. Idk why every movie trailer has to spoil the plot nowadays.
Sounds like CIA is about to overthrow the Nobel committee
June 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Sounds like CIA is about to overthrow the Nobel committee
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When anti-AI zealots say untrue things like “ChatGPT can’t search the web,” they’re just hallucinating because their training data ends in 2022. The next generation of anti-AI zealots will be better. Eventually, we will achieve “general anti-AI,” which will only say true things about LLMs.
May 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
When anti-AI zealots say untrue things like “ChatGPT can’t search the web,” they’re just hallucinating because their training data ends in 2022. The next generation of anti-AI zealots will be better. Eventually, we will achieve “general anti-AI,” which will only say true things about LLMs.
sites still doing CAPTCHAs: the clock is ticking for you
June 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
sites still doing CAPTCHAs: the clock is ticking for you
I sometimes follow Federal court cases, and it's always funny to see the weird shit that random people enter into the docket
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I sometimes follow Federal court cases, and it's always funny to see the weird shit that random people enter into the docket
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
IT’S FINALLY THE YEAR OF THE LIN-
ah, fuck
ah, fuck
May 29, 2025 at 2:49 AM
IT’S FINALLY THE YEAR OF THE LIN-
ah, fuck
ah, fuck