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Alex Mackenzie

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Alex Mackenzie's personal blog at mack.work covers programming and systems. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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Why HN links it

Cited by one commenter as a source on recursive language models (RLM) and symbolic prompt representation, in a Show HN thread about a WASM bash sandbox for AI agents.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

A collection of thoughts, primers and investments

What Hacker News says?

  1. Nice! This looks like it would pair really well with something like RLM[0] which requires "symbolic" representation of the prompt and output during recursion[1] 0. https://mack.work/blog/recursive-language-models 1. https://x.com/lateinteraction/status/2011250721681773013

    Comment linking /blog/recursive-language-models

    on “Show HN: Amla Sandbox – WASM bash shell sandbox for AI agents”
  2. Submitted Antithesis – The Deterministic Computer as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Nix Primer as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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