davidbjaffe

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by davidbjaffe 2mo ago
Silurian Hypothesis, SETI, a widely help motivation for space exploration, much of sci-fi: all posit a high-ish rate of life (or intelligent life) invention, because the alternative is terrifying. I/we need/enjoy this, but it&#x2
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by davidbjaffe 3mo ago
My current most annoying thing: usage policy violations that come out of nowhere. I'm having claude develop code for processing scientific article PDFs, and I'm pretty sure the article content triggers the violation. Worse: - N
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Ask HN: What would you most like to see improved in the Claude Code interface?
1 points by davidbjaffe 3mo ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Are you OK with DeepSeek and other labs reading your data?
1 points by davidbjaffe 5mo ago|0 comments
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by davidbjaffe 5mo ago
Wow! I had not tried deepseek. I just had claude teach me how to use it, and then tested it on the same example, which it got right, and for which it charged next to nothing. This is wonderful and completely hilarious -- that claude woul
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Ask HN: Mining Scientific Papers
2 points by davidbjaffe 5mo ago|2 comments
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by davidbjaffe 6mo ago
Yes. I keep mine on my lap. My regimen is that I wake up at 3am and lie on the couch for several hours with coffee and write code (or these days, ask "someone else" to). It is highly productive and enjoyable and breaks all the
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by davidbjaffe 6mo ago
Cool! For GLM-OCR, do you use "Option 2: Self-host with vLLM / SGLang" and in that case, am I correct that there is no internet connection involved and hence connection timeouts would be avoided entirely?
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by davidbjaffe 6mo ago
When I was in junior high school and high school, I would hang out at the Purdue University chess club. He was a regular, prone to laughter, a funny guy. We would play double speed chess (which we called "p'dorky") and othe