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Oh wow, it’s 2025 and we're still debating if our apps should handle grandma’s dial-up internet speeds? 📡💨 Apparently, developers need a reminder that not everyone has internet that can download the entire season of "The Witcher" in 5 seconds. 🙄 Let’s just build our websites like it’s 1999 and call it a day! 🕹️💾
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bytes.zoneShould we design for iffy internet?Around 97% of US households have internet access, but bandwidth and latency are likely worse than you expect.
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Why Quadratic Funding Is Not Optimal

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jonathanwarden.comEight Reasons Why Quadratic Funding Is Not OptimalIntroduction Quadratic funding has received a lot of attention recently as a mechanism for funding public goods—especially in the cryptocurrency space. QF is appealing because it is theoretically optimal under certain assumptions1.\nThe problem is that these assumptions don’t ever hold in reality.\nThe theory behind QF is sound and elegant, and the authors of the original paper are clear about the assumptions. They don’t claim they are likely to hold in reality, and warn about the consequences when they don’t hold. Unfortunately, practitioners have sometimes been too enthusiastic, implementing QF in settings where theory actually predicts poor results.\n
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🧐 Ah, the timeless debate of Byte Pair Encoding vs. #Unigram 🤔—because nothing screams "cutting-edge linguistics" like retrofitting the English language into a robotic token soup. 🤖 Nick hoped to revolutionize quarantine productivity, but instead, we get a blog post beating a dead token horse. 🐴📉
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Nick Dingwall · Tokenization for language modeling: Byte Pair Encoding vs Unigram Language ModelingTokenizers used by the best-performing language models (Bert, GPT-2, etc.) poorly reflect the morphology of English text. I had hoped to use some quarantine time to design one that more closely aligns to relationships between wordforms. But Kaj Bostrom and Greg Durrett beat me to it and so this blog post materialized instead. I add some additional motivation, evaluate both methods against ‘gold standard’ tokenizations, and speculate about what might come next.
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Oh joy, another attempt to prove Common Lisp isn't dead by reanimating it as a jq replacement. 🧟‍♂️ Who needs practical solutions when you can debate novel reviews from 1989 and reminisce about obscure death metal albums instead? 🎸✨
world-playground-deceit.net/bl #CommonLisp #Revival #jqReplacement #Nostalgia #TechDebate #DeathMetal #HackerNews #ngated

world-playground-deceit.netA Common Lisp jq replacement
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