Powers of 3 + √2
Yesterday’s post looked at the distribution of powers of x mod 1. For almost all x > 1 the distribution is uniform in the limit. But there are exceptions, and the post raised the question of whether 3 + √2 is an exception. A plot made it look like 3 + √2 is
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Research scientist John Flournoy sits down with Ryan and Eira to dive into the recent research around developer experience, including the nuances of measuring productivity, the potential reasons for variability in developer performance, and the impacts of collaboration and competition on developer efficiency.
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Read moreMultiples and powers mod 1
For a positive real number x, the expression x mod 1 means the fractional part of x: x mod 1 = x − ⌊ x ⌋. This post will look at the distributions of nx mod 1 and xn mod 1 for n = 1, 2, 3, …. The distribution of nx mod 1 is
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Pins are dead! Long live bookmarks! Pins was never a good name for the feature we have on CodePen where you can mark a Pen or Collection to more quickly jump back to it from anywhere on the site. The word is too similar to “Pen” that it’s just awkward,
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Read moreEvaluating and lowering AI hallucination cost
AI models hallucinate, and always will [1]. In some sense this is nothing new: everything has an error rate. But what is new is the nature of AI errors. The output of an AI is plausible by construction [2], and so errors can look reasonable even when they’re wrong. For
Read moreChris’ Corner: We Can Have Nice Things
It’s such a small, simple thing, but I’m very grateful that we’re getting “Gap Decorations” in CSS. Microsoft is working on “gap decorations” and have put together a nice playground to explore them, and I had a play. The idea is drawing lines where gaps would be, rather than empty space. It’s really quite well
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