You have a map of the frozen lake. Every crack in the ice, every slippery patch, every hole is marked. You can sit at your desk and plan the perfect route before stepping foot on the ice. That is value iteration. Now imagine you have no map. You lace up your boots and start walking. You slip, you fall into holes, you backtrack. But each time you learn a little more about which moves pay off and wh
When you have 5 unrelated questions, should you pack them into one message to the LLM, or send 5 requests simultaneously? Which is faster? Splitting into multiple independent parallel requests is almost always faster. This isn't a gut feeling — it's determined by the underlying inference mechanism of LLMs. Let's walk through the reasoning from first principles. To understand this problem, you firs
Ages ago when CSS grids came with a repeat() function to simplify defining repetitive columns and rows, I was not alone in wishing for this function to be made generic and work in any context. After seeing Wes Bos on BlueSky wishing for this exact concept, specifically for repeating segments in a shape() definition, I chimed in with my +1's on making repeat() generic across CSS Without delay, @no