irfan

posting into the void

[irfan @ir_foo]

Hand-writing code for a first time in a ~year, on a side-project.

Asking AI to review every new chunk I write. Pretty slow, but it's the best code I wrote in my entire life!

[irfan @ir_foo]

@CJHandmer @TerraformIndies Yeah, I’m really into it. Makes me wish there were deserts in Austria lol

[irfan @ir_foo]

@CJHandmer @TerraformIndies Shaun Overton | DUSTUPS channel

[irfan @ir_foo]

@CJHandmer @TerraformIndies There's a guy on YouTube trying to turn green the 320 acres of Texas desert wasteland he bought.

He should 100% try this!

[irfan @ir_foo]

@birch_js because you usually also want a web version - and Flutter web still sucks

[Swann Bessa @swann_bessa]

Introducing e-means, an algorithm beating k-means in 10x fewer epochs.

With order of magnitude wall-clock speedups, e-means is released in FAISS and needs no hyperparameter tuning beyond k. It is robust to various scales and datasets. Still skeptical ? Just try e-means [1/10]🧵

[irfan @ir_foo]

@IsForAt > ifykyk

but if I don’t know, would you tell me?

[irfan @ir_foo]

Surprised that nobody is reviving Donald Knuth's Literate Programming... Seems like it would work super well with AI coding agents.

[irfan @ir_foo]

@meekaale valid crashout

[irfan @ir_foo]

@rough__sea you could literally just use email

[irfan @ir_foo]

@CompileAndCope @ligma__sigma would you rather her be up to some evil billionaire shit or chasing her 5th degree from Stanford?

[irfan @ir_foo]

@followthemani @cityofthetown > Bogomil Balkansky

what a name!

[irfan @ir_foo]

@Olmirad miles ahead of my feeble attempts...

https://t.co/nhFISziRpi

[irfan @ir_foo]

a shitty ocean sim is better than no ocean sim!

[Rikiya Takehi @rikiyatakehi]

We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math.
It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training.

We call this Weight-Space Programming: frontier LLMs can now natively read/write neural network weights! 🧵
Blog: https://t.co/bOWCcFhCVq

[irfan @ir_foo]

tell Claude to turn your X bookmarks into a personal wiki

you're not going to regret it

[irfan @ir_foo]

@ScansLibrary @fab Does this work on Linux dev machines?

[Jack Bridger @jacksbridger]

The sort of thing your agent writes tests for

[irfan @ir_foo]

@_albertgu but isn’t a byte itself also an arbitrary hand-crafted encoding?

[irfan @ir_foo]

to be fair, PROLED was *right there*… I can’t believe nobody thought of it before

[irfan @ir_foo]

AI is the only patient teacher I ever had