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The hottest Substack posts of Fikisipi

And their main takeaways
4 HN points 12 Mar 24
  1. Devin is an AI-powered software engineer with features like a built-in terminal, IDE, website preview, and a text assistant.
  2. Devin demonstrated capabilities like finding and fixing bugs in GitHub repos and running tests on code, showing potential for automating debugging tasks.
  3. Cognition Labs, the company behind Devin, has notable supporters like Thiel's Founders Fund and founders with strong backgrounds in software engineering and machine learning.
2 HN points 19 Dec 23
  1. TIME.MK is a news aggregator in North Macedonia that uses document clustering and NLP techniques to rank top stories.
  2. The founder, Igor Trajkovski, employed algorithms like Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering and Word Mover's Distance to optimize news aggregation.
  3. Igor Trajkovski faced challenges like misconception of TIME.MK as a news source, but it eventually became the most visited website in Macedonia with added features for news analysis.
2 HN points 15 Aug 23
  1. Twitter users got angry over a poll resembling a game theory scenario involving life and death choices.
  2. The poll reflected the Prisoner's dilemma in game theory, showing strategic decision-making with rational players.
  3. The fail-safe option in the poll revealed nuances in strategic choices, leading to debates and blockings among users.
0 implied HN points 11 May 23
  1. Generating (x, y) coordinate pairs from a distance matrix involves infinite solutions through rotations, reflections, and translations.
  2. For the simple case of three cities, creating a triangle with edge lengths corresponding to distances can provide a solution.
  3. When dealing with thousands of cities, Euclidean distance matrices, Gram matrices, and dot products are key concepts for representing 2D coordinates and performing dimensionality reduction.
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0 implied HN points 11 Apr 23
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