Agost Biro

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New blog post: We Must Resist Trump https://continuations.com/we-must-resist-trump - includes a call for Senator Schumer to resign to make room for new people wirh new ideas

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There is no master plan, the fate of the world rests on the instincts of Donald Trump, one of the greatest populist politicians ever, and a man whose business success is grounded in weaseling out of failures. Buckle up people! https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/us/politics/trump-tariff-pause-be-cool.html

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> But if the whole world order suddenly aligns against them, what do they do? They invade Taiwan, because they don't have anything to lose anymore, and there isn't anything the US can do about it short of nukes. This will disrupt semiconductor supply chains for a long time and the US will depend on EU goodwill to repatriate as EU controls fab manufacturing. I myself have purchased all advanced chips products I'm planning to use in the next ~3 years.

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It's starting to sink in for Elon https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/us/politics/musk-says-he-hopes-europe-and-us-move-to-a-zero-tariff-situation.html

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What to read on the division of Korea and the subsequent war?

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This is typical cope about authoritarian regimes. Strong man does something seemingly stupid, but he is a strong man, so there must be some master plan behind it. In reality, there is typically no plan, just a lack of checks on the leader.

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props for the header!

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what does this mean? okay, the more you prompt, the more you'll realize how much minor nuances can affect the results. a simple example is, in a huge context prompt, if you put the goal at the end, the goal will likely be missed. now, wrap the goal in <goal>better prompts</goal>, and suddenly the prompt has a new level of precision. throw away the concept of a single language; models were trained on all programming languages... that knowledge is not isolated. that is why something like mixdown is the future, a hybrid language designed for precision prompting. for accurate prompting, we should focus on minimizing the tokens without reducing the information required to achieve our goal—less words, not less data. right now, this is mostly pseudoscience because the models are improving, and the prompts are usually not evaluated (non-standard benchmarks) for how performance changes based on these inclusions. https://x.com/PalmerLuckey/status/1907493224668868677 https://github.com/galligan/mixdown

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I've recently discovered that Hannah Arendt wrote poetry and these lines stuck with me: "Doch das Leid will nich beschwichten Alte Träume, junge Weisheit. Und es lässt mich nicht verzichten Auf des Glückes schöne Reinheit." The last line is so beautiful, but I think it only works in German.

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TIL: Amazon developed the P Programming Language as a successor to TLA+. They also built PObserve that takes "structured logs from the execution of distributed systems and validate post-hoc that they match behaviors allowed by the formal P specification of the system" https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3712057

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If you're on AWS, then Route 53

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Yes! It’s Orwellian doublespeak

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turns out le pen is not mightier than the sword

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Math Academy is easily my favorite recent discovery on FC. I think I saw it on @francos.eth 's feed. I'm using it to fill in holes in my math knowledge and it's worth every penny. https://www.mathacademy.com/

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AlphaGo captures this beautifully

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Login + frames that need wallet. Last concrete example I remember is having to install Warpcast iOS to get Amps working

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A bunch of stuff only works on mobile

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Zooming out a bit from day-to-day politics, US foreign policy in the 21st century looks disastrously bad: 1. GWB started 2 can't win wars and set the stage for a 3rd one (Ukraine). 2. Obama failed to course correct and left a disaster in the Middle East. 3. Biden allowed the Ukraine war to start, but didn't follow through. Handed Russia to China on a platter. 4. Trump broke the North Atlantic alliance, the net result will be probably both US and EU weaker, while China stronger as EU seeks protection elsewhere.

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I got into Rust, because I needed to implement a cross-platform native library, and I did just enough C++ earlier not to want to use it again 😅

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