Articles by alexmolas
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What does " 2>&1 " mean? (stackoverflow.com)

33

Text classification with Python 3.14's ZSTD module (maxhalford.github.io)

2

The longest possible chess game, and bounds on the number of possible games (wismuth.com)

2

It took 5 years to merge this PR (github.com/matplotlib)

2

Bayesian A/B testing is not immune to peeking (alexmolas.com)

2

NASA let me test my weird chain theory in space [video] (youtube.com)

3

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 – macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling (nobelprize.org)

30

A History of Large Language Models (gregorygundersen.com)

31

Who needs Git when you have 1M context windows? (alexmolas.com)

2

Atomic Bomb Go Game (wikipedia.org)

3

The Martians (Scientists) (wikipedia.org)

5

Music-Map – Find Similar Music (music-map.com)

43

Scream cipher (sethmlarson.dev)

2

We are starting a company to rethink email (austinhenley.com)

4

Pope Leo XIV declares teen computer whiz Carlo Acutis the first millennial saint (apnews.com)

9

Baby's first type checker (austinhenley.com)

11

How big are our embeddings now and why? (vickiboykis.com)

3

Big O (samwho.dev)

1

Adding search to my static blog (alexmolas.com)

4

What is the average length of a queue of cars? (2023) (e-dorigatti.github.io)

8

Do LLMs identify fonts? (maxhalford.github.io)

1

Who needs git when you have 1M context windows? (alexmolas.com)

2

Hand-Drawn QR Codes (sethmlarson.dev)

2

Is There a Half-Life for the Success Rates of AI Agents? (tobyord.com)

2

Library of Babel (libraryofbabel.info)

3

Unpredictability and Undecidability in Dynamical Systems [pdf] (gwern.net)

3

A Consequentialist Critique of Binary Classification Evaluation Practices (arxiv.org)

1

How to Provide Feedback on Documents (lethain.com)

29

docker2exe: Convert a Docker image to an executable (github.com/rzane)

17

Semantic unit testing: test code without executing it (alexmolas.com)

40

Vatican Observatory (vaticanobservatory.org)

1

Black Hole Information from Non-Vacuum Localised Quantum States (arxiv.org)

3

DeepWiki (deepwiki.com)

1

Show HN: I built a package for Semantic Unit Testing (alexmolas.com)

1

GPT Image 1: image generation model (platform.openai.com)

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[flagged] Llama 4 Smells Bad (fastml.com)

3

Testament of Holy Father Francis (vatican.va)

3

Semantic Unit Testing (alexmolas.com)

1

Optimizing PyTorch Docker images: how to cut size by 60% – Marton Veges (mveg.es)

10

Smartfunc: Turn Docstrings into LLM-Functions (github.com/koaning)

1

Symmetric Math Riddles (alexmolas.com)

1

Three Symmetric Math Riddles (alexmolas.com)

2

Vector Search with DuckDB (huggingface.co)

1

Remote work sucks, but that doesn't mean it's over (revenuecat.com)

1

Stackexchange Cleo Mystery – Cleo is finally revealed (reddit.com)

1

Investigating Cleo (cleoinvestigation.notion.site)

3

An Important Message from Duolingo (twitter.com/duolingo)

16

Protecting your time from predators in large tech companies (seangoedecke.com)

2

KATRIN's Odyssey (symmetrymagazine.org)

2

[dupe] Meta Panicked by DeepSeek (reddit.com)

3

Optimizing Jupyter Notebooks for LLMs (alexmolas.com)

19

Why is hash(-1) == hash(-2) in Python? (omairmajid.com)

1

Dana White joins Meta board of directors (twitter.com/danawhite)

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[flagged] Are there more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way? (2016) (snopes.com)

1

Scaling Test Time Compute (huggingface.co)

2

Show HN: CLI that explains the output of your last command (github.com/shobrook)

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Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history (lichess.org)

1

o1 pro Solutions to 2024 Putnam Exam (twitter.com/danhendrycks)

3

Ask HN: Which are the best small/compact smartphones?

1

informatiker/20-million-bluesky-posts (huggingface.co)

1

Devils Hole Pupfish (wikipedia.org)

1

Why can't we separate YAML from ML? (ethanrosenthal.com)

28

Prompt Injecting Your Way to Shell: OpenAI's Containerized ChatGPT Environment (0din.ai)

6

They are selling dollar coin flips for 36 cents (fastml.com)

2

Twenty-Three Nobel Economists Sign Letter Saying Harris Better for U.S. Economy [pdf] (uchicago.edu)

2

Automatic Responses for Recruiters (github.com/bcneng)

1

Supercharging Discovery in Search with LLMs (instacart.com)

6

The Surprising Predictability of Long Runs (2012) [pdf] (csun.edu)

6

Han Kang Wins Literature Nobel Prize (nobelprize.org)

8

Gboard double-sided version (landing.google.co.jp)

10

In Defense of LeetCode Interviews (alexmolas.com)

1

Alfred Noble Prize (wikipedia.org)

31

An Intuitive Explanation of Black–Scholes (gregorygundersen.com)

2

Rule of 72 (wikipedia.org)

1

Negative Probability (Richard Feynman) [pdf] (cern.ch)

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[dupe] Chain of thought empowers transformers to solve inherently serial problems (twitter.com/denny_zhou)

1

Rip-Off ETF? (allendowney.com)

1

So You Think You Can Test? (lukasvermeer.nl)

1

Can astrologers use astrological charts to understand people's character? (clearerthinking.org)

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Ask HN: Resources about math behind A/B testing

2

Likelihood-ratio inference on differences in quantiles (arxiv.org)

7

IsoFLOP curves of large language models are flat (severelytheoretical.wordpress.com)

13

Spikey Spheres (2010) (penzba.co.uk)

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TOTP tokens on my wrist with the smartest dumb watch (singleton.io)

2

Why do medical tests always have error rates? (johndcook.com)

1

Finding a Random Seed That Solves a LeetCode Problem (mcognetta.github.io)

2

TOTP tokens on my wrist with the smartest dumb watch (singleton.io)

1

Coding Sucks (2022) (alexmolas.com)

27

Win your fantasy league using operations research (alexmolas.com)

2

You're the best at something (2023) (alexmolas.com)

1

Covering All Birthdays (liorsinai.github.io)

3

Fitting an Elephant with Four Non-Zero Parameters (arxiv.org)

1

How to Interview and Hire ML/AI Engineers (eugeneyan.com)

4

Microsoft gives up OpenAI board observer seat (axios.com)

1

Right to Left (R2L) Integer Tokenization (beren.io)

9

Something happens to everyone (alexmolas.com)

1

BM42: New Baseline for Hybrid Search (qdrant.tech)

1

The SF Underground Beyblade League (sfbayblade.com)

1

Regrets and Regression (allendowney.com)

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Beating NumPy's matrix multiplication in 150 lines of C code (salykova.github.io)