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Yossi Frenkel
Blog: https://abstractnonsense.xyz
Email: hello@<blog-domain>
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Possibly controversial, but I think short commands should be disallowed. This is the stance the AWS CLI takes, and it 1) vastly improves readability, especially for those learning the syntax 2) makes …
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(Disclaimer: I am not a cryptographer and this is a heavily simplified explanation). Homomorphic encryption is built on the foundation of 'hard problems' (e.g. the Learning with Errors Probl…
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Handwritten! (aka no LLM assistance :) It wasn't transpiled or anything like that. I've been meaning to post a little about it on my blog; just been caught up with other stuff atm. One thing…
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Gosh, tired brain moment apologies. I thought it'd linked to the original code gist.
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Andrej Karpathy has a walkthrough blog post here: https://karpathy.github.io/2026/02/12/microgpt/ …
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I had good fun transliterating it to Rust as a learning experience ( https://github.com/stochastical/microgpt-rs ). The trickiest part was working out how to represent the autograd…
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I think that web browsers only allow up to 4GB of memory per tab.
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https://abstractnonsense.xyz/ My personal blog, I normally post about maths and computer science. But sometimes random design things, or bits about linguistics and words.…
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I recently wrote an eigenvalue solver for an interactive component on my blog with Rust compiled to WebAssembly. Being able to write-once and compile for the web and desktop felt like the future. But …
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Thanks for writing this game! I came across it after seeing your Checkers written in Rust for WASM game[0], and thought it deserved an HN submission of its own. [0] https://github.com/…
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Ooh, thanks for sharing that algorithm! Somehow, I didn't come across this and jumped straight into using the QR algorithm cited everywhere. I found it hard to find a good reference that had a cl…
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In particular, Hugo overhauled its templating system in [v0.146]( https://gohugo.io/templates/new-templatesystem-overview/ ) which resulted in build fails for my blog when I u…
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Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Remote: Yes (preferably)
Willing to relocate: Yes. Willing to to relocate to England. Technologies: Python. Have also worked with Haskell, C, Prolog, Java, MAT…
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I'm writing a toy eigenvalue solver in Rust using the QR algorithm.
I didn't intend to, but I recently discovered the Gershgorin Circle Theorem and thought it'd be neat to create an int…