Philosophical Hacker

Mythos’ system card contains the following graph to support its argument that Mythos performs better on SWE-bench: Anthropic and others are worried LLMs are memorizing SWE-bench, so they asked an LLM to estimate the probability that a solution is memorize…

Bertrand Russell, the 20th century philosohper and mathematician, once said: The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Libraries are under-used.

Our original idea for our coding challenge was to ask candidates to build a tic-tac-toe game in React with a few curve balls thrown in around making the solution more general for larger game boards and play modes.

Founders are often told to price based on the value they are providing to their customers.

Parsing a Sqlite database file is a nice way to brush up on data structures, bit manipulation, and recursion.

We’re thinking about building a product for developers that enables them to build applications that operate on encrypted data via homomorphic encryption.

I’ve been an programmer for a decade, and I can’t believe how much wasteful code we write.

When we were raising money for ATLAS, I often told investors that my cofounder and I were probably the most skeptical GenAI founders they would meet.