ColinWright

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Programming the AGC with Blockly(neil.fraser.name)
1 points by ColinWright 1mo ago|0 comments
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Holden's Lightning Flight(en.wikipedia.org)
234 points by ColinWright 1mo ago|53 comments
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by ColinWright 1mo ago
Although they are rarely read in monospace, I write all my emails in monospace, and frequently "choose my words carefully" to have the text left and right justified. Every now and again someone notices. I invite you to have a look
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Lambs grazing under an Oregon solar farm put on the same weight to the gram(spacedaily.com)
13 points by ColinWright 1mo ago|5 comments
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The advent of capable AI tools has highighted a variant of Simpson's paradox(mathstodon.xyz)
2 points by ColinWright 1mo ago|0 comments
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Sally–Anne Test(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by ColinWright 1mo ago|0 comments
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by ColinWright 1mo ago
Tim Minchin
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by ColinWright 1mo ago
He was brilliant in "Oscar". (Sorry, just noticed the older sibling comment said the same thing)
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by ColinWright 1mo ago
I first saw the announcement here: https://people.com/dolly-parton-dead-7565853 I submitted that, but it was DOA. I suspect the domain is on the HN block-list.
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Dolly Parton Has Died(en.wikipedia.org)
91 points by ColinWright 1mo ago|10 comments
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One-handed clock – hyperbolic-map(jpivarski.github.io)
3 points by ColinWright 1mo ago|0 comments
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by ColinWright 1mo ago
There is a karma threshold for downvoting comments. It's not clear to me why you should ever have been able to ... perhaps your memory is at fault in this regard.
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Delve(netwars.pelicancrossing.net)
3 points by ColinWright 2mo ago|0 comments
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A journalist was banned from a Flock Safety convention, so they hacked it(mastodon.social)
29 points by ColinWright 2mo ago|11 comments
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There are two kinds of theorems(blog.plover.com)
4 points by ColinWright 2mo ago|0 comments
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by ColinWright 2mo ago
There's one at the Leeds armoury in the UK.
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How generative AI affects homework productivity and learning(graphics.social)
3 points by ColinWright 2mo ago|0 comments
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by ColinWright 2mo ago
Quoting from the abstract: "AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full pena
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The Generative AI Learning Penalty: Evidence from Chinese Secondary Education(papers.ssrn.com)
6 points by ColinWright 2mo ago|1 comments
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by ColinWright 2mo ago
Also here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329384 Submitted many hours earlier, fewer upvotes, one comment, sank without trace.
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by ColinWright 2mo ago
I write like this sometimes, and I've come to deeply resent the fact that AI slop-machines mimic things that make some writers' style "suspect" or "AI smells". The slop-machines write the way they do because th
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Supersonic Trebuchet [video](youtube.com)
2 points by ColinWright 2mo ago|0 comments
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DEF CON dingus suspected of trying to take over Delta in-flight Wi-Fi(theregister.com)
13 points by ColinWright 2mo ago|2 comments
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How to disable or avoid intrusive AI(librarian.net)
340 points by ColinWright 2mo ago|198 comments
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by ColinWright 2mo ago
The obligatory relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/538/
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And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway(shkspr.mobi)
15 points by ColinWright 2mo ago|1 comments
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John Carlos Baez: How many Erdős problems will be solved by the end of the year?(mathstodon.xyz)
3 points by ColinWright 2mo ago|0 comments
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Texas Court Locks Luxembourg-Based Adult Website's Domain(thetexasinsider.com)
1 points by ColinWright 2mo ago|1 comments
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What sort of maths are LLMs good at?(gowers.wordpress.com)
261 points by ColinWright 2mo ago|164 comments
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Activist charged with felony, gave border agent "duress code" that wiped phone(arstechnica.com)
1 points by ColinWright 2mo ago|0 comments

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