Sun, Oct 5, 2025 | Anand S - Things I Learned

Wrong answers are useful if you discover why they said that. Conversation is a game where you CO-CONSTRUCT common ground. Mike Caulfield #future

SSH3 is an emerging SSH alternative that's written on top of HTTP/3. It supports OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and HTTPS for certificates.

Cholesterol has become a victim of its own success. We give statins to those with high LDL. So most people who have heart attacks have lower-than-natural cholesterol. Inflammation (HS-CRP) is now the strongest predictor of heart attack (American College of Cardiology). The usual stuff reduces HS-CRP: no sugar/carbs, veggies, nuts, green tea, turmeric/black pepper, weight loss, exercise, sleep, meditation.

⭐ The beginner mindset: scrub your instincts and don't let life experience cloud you. This takes effort. Hold on to naivette and escape cynicism. The Knowledge Project: Barry Diller #future

Forecasts give comfort. They may not be good but they feel safer than instinct. The Knowledge Project: Barry Diller #future #prediction

My laptop's mic is much better than my phone's mic, surprisingly. When recording conversations, it's better to leave my laptop open and record than use the phone's recording app. #voice-cloning

GLM models can be used with Claude Code. At $3/month and a quality close to Claude 4 Sonnet, this is a good deal. But the effort of adding a new subscription is too high for me. I'd rather use it via OpenRouter which is doesn't support an Anthropic API end point at the moment.

typst is a good LaTeX alternative. Markdown-like syntax with fast rendering. Mostly useful for researchers using LaTeX. But publishers / journals don't accept typst often. #markdown #speech-to-text

libSQL is an SQLite compatible fork with remote access, replication, ALTER TABLE to modify columns, random ROWID, etc. It supports the same externsions. The maintainers are working on turso - a SQLite compatible improvement with async, vectors, change data capture, etc. (still in alpha). But because of this, I'm a bit uncertain about the future of libSQL.

Create a bookmarket that converts the latest ChatGPT Markdown response into Marp slides. #chatgpt #markdown #medium

Create a web app that polls a Slido survey and runs topic modelling to visually show the clusters of questions live, e.g. like pol.is. #future #prediction #hard

Create an npm package that exposes functions for LLMs/agents to use as tools to run JavaScript (browser), Python (WASM) and SQL (DuckDB WASM) code. #code-agents #future #llm-ops #markdown #medium

"Find evidence for and against" improves LLM responses far more than "Are you sure?" Mike Caulfield #future #llm-ops

⭐ LLM benchmarks show a correlation of ~0.5, hinting at a common theme of intelligence. Correlations in coding & science are particularly high. Ethan Mollick. Reminds me of student marks correlations. Strong correlation clusters (physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, computer science) with the weaker correlations going down to ~0.5. What does it indicate? LLMs learn like people? Knowledge areas cluster? Humans write benchmarks like exams? #llm-ops

Dayflow records your screen at 1 fps and uses Gemini to summarise your activity every 15 min. Has low CPU usage. #dev #gpu

⭐ Code Mode is a smart way to use MCPs and a very likely future direction. Using LLMs to write code to call MCPs rather than directly. #ai-coding #cloud #code-agents #future #llm-ops #markdown

Cloudflare supports an AI Index which will eliminate the need for a lot of custom RAG engineering. #ai-coding #cloud #code-agents