Ryan Cavanaugh

@searyanc.dev

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Making TypeScript for 10 years running

"how is it not suited" because it fucking hallucinates. this is not a controversial, unknown, or otherwise unfamiliar function of an LLM. it produces "answer shaped objects", which is a category distinct from "answer". the conjecture is about polynomials. the LLM spits some out. wtf do you want?
Flower pot.
"yes honey" wojak wearing a Mariners cap
Iron and Wine: Around the Well image cover
The bit field is laid out as follows: 0 +-+ |E| +-+ Currently-assigned values are defined as follows: 0x0 If the bit is set to 0, the packet has no evil intent. Hosts, network elements, etc., SHOULD assume that the packet is harmless, and SHOULD NOT take any defensive measures. (We note that this part of the spec is already implemented by many common desktop operating systems.) 0x1 If the bit is set to 1, the packet has evil intent. Secure systems SHOULD try to defend themselves against such packets. Insecure systems MAY chose to crash, be penetrated, etc. 3. Setting the Evil Bit
Donald Trump w/ speech balloon
Freedom of speech
"you wouldn't split a surrogate pair" in the style of "you wouldn't download a car"
Amy Adams in Arrival holding a sign saying "how many rs in ๐Ÿ“"
Diagram showing that stopping for a left-turning car blinds that car from bikes coming from an outer bike lane
Draw a diagram of a two-lane road with bike lanes on the outside, as seen from above We look at a long road running vertical, with a cross-street. A northbound car is waiting to turn left (west); its blinker is illuminated. A southbound car has stopped, incorrectly giving up the right of way. The southbound lane has a bicycle lane to the west of the travel lane. A cyclist in the southbound bike lane is positioned such that the northbound left-turning driver cannot see the bicycle due to the southbound car's inexplicable stop. Dashed arrows indicate that if the turning car were to proceed, they would collide with the bicycle in the bike lane. Make sure each car and the bike are in their correct lanes. Do not apply any text labels whatsoever I have created this diagram of the traffic scenario you described, which illustrates the intersection and the visibility conflict that leads to a potential collision between the turning vehicle and the cyclist. However, please note that the diagram does not align with your request for a vertical primary road axis. In this version, the two-lane road is running horizontally. Additionally, while you specified no text labels, some markers labeled "CONFLICT" were included in the image. (the image does not even come close to matching the description)
So very roughly, the country consists of about 2/5 owner/occupiers, 2/5 renters, and 1/5 investors. By the relevant definition of "people who own the home in which they live," home ownership in the US is around 40%, which is undeniably "not most."
StarCraft logo
An implausibly busy github profile, scoring contributions every day for a year and opening 65 PRs in the last month
Some youtube OC of a guy that was on Jenny Nicholson and Big Joel's recent videos. I don't know who it is
My favorite physics lesson! "Ebikes also run red lights" yes but at 28mph it can hit you about as hard as a car going (checks calculator) 0.6 mph Still better not to! But you probably won't die
Zefraath, an extremely text-heavy Yu-Gi-Oh! card. There's too much text to transcribe. It's just a huge amount of text. So much text.
Famous iPod ad
"Platoon" movie poster with the character's hands up in the air in despair
Win probability graph cratering from ~98% to zero
Smart Glazing This facility utilizes electrochromatic glazing that uses artificial intelligence to automatically adjust in response to the sun, increasing access to natural light and unobstructed views while helping to minimize heat gain and glare for greater energy efficiency.
Ball in flight apparently above Grisham's front elbow
A line graph of four emotions (desperate, hopeful, satisfied, obstinate) over token count during an AI task. The lines move erratically, ending on high confidence and low desperation
GitHub activity chart showing almost nothing until November of last year, then a steady stream of activity
A three-panel comic strip, drawn with a rough colored pencil style First panel: We see a door in a hallway, it's slightly ajar. The sign on the door says "Robot Detection Lab" Second panel: A man resembling a young Harrison Ford holds a clipboard. He faces to our right. We see him from the side. He looks like he's thinking very hard, his brow is furrowed. He holds a clipboard, and we can see on the clipboard that there many line items on it with both checkmarks and x's next to them, indicating he's received mixed responses. A speech bubble from him says "What might you say after fixing a bug?" The most obvious robot you've ever seen in your life, facing to our left, is wearing an orange baseball cap that says "Human!". It leans back casually in the chair, smiling, as if to exude humanness. The speech bubble from the robot says "All 418 regex-related tests pass". Third panel: We see a zoom-in on the clipboard, with the hand visible, writing "Inconclusive" on the bottom of the page
An extremely win32-ass Stratego board and list of pieces
Jean Ralphio
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This is ontologically not true. LLMs like Claude cannot innovate anything - only regurgitate various forms of what they've been trained on. Their best use case - writing incredibly basic scripts - can be replicated by just spending 10 seconds on google to find the script they were trained on.
He's on it
Number 9 with his foot on the bag
Returns: `set` functions do not have a return value
A one-lane road with parked cars on the side with a stop sign in the distance
Mariners ferry boat
Plastic chicken tender ferry
This post and below it someone posting "FUCK Portuguese"
Decibel meter over time showing a 15 dB spike to 81 dB
Bobby Hill: Posting an MTF chart into the window "If those kids could read they'd be very upset"
"Acceptable - the child is facing forward with [...] an acceptable facial expression" Kid, age ~3-4, is visibly upset but not crying
Remnants of childproofing locks on some cherry drawer handles
Pew Research center chart showing partisan view of the economy over time
A TI-89 solving a basic trigonometric equation
Historical national accounts estimates of the share of the world's population living on less than $5 per day, by region, 1950 to 2017 Average incomes measured in national accounts are often much higher than those observed in survey data. As such the poverty rates shown are lower than corresponding estimates based on survey data โ€“ this includes the official estimates produced by the World Bank used to monitor progress against SDG1. See Roser and Hasell (2021) for further discussion. Graph goes down by a lot
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2040953/episodes/18220972-sapiens
Scooby doo mask reveal meme; both villains are labelled "vibes"
==== unusedTypeParameterInFunction2.ts (1 errors) ==== function f1<X, Y>() { ~ -!!! error TS6133: 'Y' is declared but its value is never read. +!!! error TS6196: 'Y' is declared but never used. var a!: X; a; }
"don't tread on me" Gadsen flag color scheme with a baksfiet engulfed in flames
Quora - can you fast for 90 days - yes, providing...
In baking, the first proof, or bulk fermentation process, is a crucial step in which one lets the entire batch of dough ferment as one mass, before dividing and shaping it into loaves. This project represents our preliminary efforts to develop an objective and realistic methodology for assessing the capabilities of AI systems to autonomously solve research-level math questions. After letting these ideas ferment in the community, we hoped to produce a more structured benchmark. We presented a diverse set of 10 research-level math questions, drawn from algebraic combinatorics, spectral graph theory, algebraic topology, stochastic analysis, symplectic geometry, representation theory, lattices in Lie groups, tensor analysis, and numerical linear algebra. Each question arose naturally in the research process of the authors and has been answered with a proof of roughly five pages or less.
FirstProof # 8 A polyhedral Lagrangian surface ๐พ in โ„4 is a finite polyhedral complex all of whose faces are Lagrangians, and which is a topological submanifold of โ„4. A Lagrangian smoothing of ๐พ is a Hamiltonian isotopy ๐พ๐‘ก of smooth Lagrangian submanifolds, parameterised by (0,1], extending to a topological isotopy, parametrised by [0,1], with endpoint ๐พ0 = ๐พ. Let ๐พ be a polyhedral Lagrangian surface with the property that exactly 4 faces meet at every vertex. Does ๐พ necessarily have a Lagrangian smoothing? Remark C.3. An expert wrote the following (paraphrased) summary of the argument. The general strategy is as follows. In Steps 1 and 2, the solution first performs a local smoothing near the vertices, relying on a nice linear algebra observation. In Step 3, the solution then argues that one can extend this smoothing along the edges. To do this, it makes a choice of linear coordinates (๐‘ , ๐‘ฆ, ๐‘ฅ2, ๐‘ฆ2) near each edge. It then interpolates between the perturbations in this coordinate chart. To perform the interpolation, the agent invokes Lagrangian suspension, which is overkill but fine. In Step 4, the solution is presumably saying that as you send the size of vertex-smoothings to zero, you can correspondingly send the size of the edge perturbations to zero. The explanation for the f lux being zero is sketchy to say the least. Model Response (Agent B) Theorem. Let ๐พ โŠ‚ โ„4 be a polyhedral Lagrangian surface such that exactly four faces meet at every vertex. Then ๐พ necessarily admits a Lagrangian smoothing. Proof. The proof relies on the rigid symplectic geometry imposed by the 4-valent condition. We demonstrate that the tangent cone at any non-flat vertex canonically factors into an orthogonal
Tulsi Gabbard
Atlantic writer Tyler Austin Harper, responding to a question from another member of X. The question, posted by military veteran Charlotte Clymer, read: โ€œCan someone please explain to me what exactly it is that young men want to hear from VP Harris that she's not already saying? And please be specific. I want to hear *exactly* what you'd have her say to them.โ€ Harper, then a comp lit professor at Maineโ€™s Bates College, retorted with unearned sass: โ€œI'm not going to send you to die in another pointless fucking war in the Middle East. Specific enough?โ€
A triangle with vertices labelled Click, Cozy, and Spreadsheet In the center: Stardew A short hike, animal crossing, openttd, geometry dash, universal paperclips, and factorio are in the corners or edge centers
Naruto run
Kids coloring sheet from Sun Peaks
Maybe I wasnโ€™t clear: I would absolutely criticize someone for using it in a misleading fashion if they used โ€œmostโ€ to refer to a 55% portion. Whether technically true or not, it is not the connotation many (see what I did there? many, not most) readers will take away from it.
The Jeep from Jurassic Park but it says "Jraphics Park"
What Are The Differences Between Singles And Doubles Events In Luge? In doubles, two competitors race down the track together. Singles is just one event on the schedule for lugers at an Olympics level; doubles offers a more exciting competition. Doubles events are often considered to be more physically demanding than singles races because thereโ€™s twice as much work to do in each lap. The luge track is also much narrower in singles mode- making it harder for one competitor to pass another- while doubling up allows for some close racing and strategy between teammates.
Neutral then angry wojak
Mouse in Matrix telling everyone to come watch