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Prosa o viñetas con LLMs
Published 2025-08-23Los LLMs son fanáticos de escribir cosas con viñetas (puntos)
- Demuestran sabiduría
- Minimizan spam
O al menos eso diría un LLM. Pero yo diría que sí alargamos cada punto a un párrafo quedamos en:
It's fine if the Gemini protocol doesn't make sense
Published 2025-05-04It is common for programmers to think that everything can be transmitted via text. It's also Obviously False, just watch a 3blue1brown video and you'll realize the incredible value that visuals can have for understanding concepts. Yet us programmers keep making that mistake:
- In the Gemini protocol, images are a second-class citizen. And it's designed to not be extensible, so that "bug" can't be fixed.
- One of the most common requests for notes applications is for the backend format to be plain text, because that's portable.
Yet another "computers are fast" post
Published 2024-04-05I've seen many of these posts, so reading this one probably doesn't help anyone learn anything new. But sometimes you get used to slow things, and remembering that it doesn't have to be this way comes as a surprise.
So I took an optional course on compact data structures in my last year of university, where we learned different representations of common CS data structures, like trees, arrays or text indexes, that were designed to use less bits than the traditional representations. For example, ordinal tree structures can be represented as simple parentheses, like this
I made an online "Tipover" game
Published 2024-02-07When I was a kid, I had a puzzle game/toy about figuring out the way to get to a red box, on a grid with stacked boxes. A while ago, I decided to make a web version of that, to learn React and Tailwind.
Why make this post now? Because I wanted to have more posts here, I guess.
Utilidades de construcción
Published 2023-12-22La idea de este post es que sea una referencia de las cosas cuyos nombres siempre olvido cuando necesito.
Cáncamo
Un tornillo que termina en gancho. Puede ser abierto o cerrado.