Stories by SomaticPirate

Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage?

Float Exposed

She left Salesforce for defense-tech firm, faced a culture of drugs and abuse

The McAfee Central America Travel Guide (2023)

Gojq: Pure Go Implementation of Jq

Why 10B crabs vanished from the Bering Sea

paraSITE: the bandage over the nomadic wound (2016)

Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)

A walkthrough of the probability problem “Gambler’s Ruin”

Leaked document on Amazon compensation ranges with the highest being $715k

Battlesnake: Competitive Programming Snake Game

Quant Bust 2020: A non-technical explanation of why quant firms underperformed

Interesting things to make out of paper–from mathematical models to toys

Only 15% of AI papers publish their code

JPMorgan to pay nearly $1B for metals market manipulation

Hardcaml: An OCaml library for designing hardware

Minimal Key Lengths for Symmetric Ciphers (1996) [pdf]

A blind gamer plays the Last of Us Part 2 [video]

What I learned working with a cheap Kubernetes cluster

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