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by mncharity 4mo ago
Has anyone seen a good set of prompts for that disagreement? For the "skeptical eyebrow-raise" or "confused/doubtful head tilt" aspect of rubber ducks? Agentic uses adversarial expert, steel-man opponent, risk-mitig
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by mncharity 4mo ago
That's "passive daytime radiative cooling" for the curious. Supporting sweat, durability, non-toxic, existing textile tech, etc, gets hard. Or perhaps, like radiator-free ships in The Expanse, Dune just didn't want to sh
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by mncharity 4mo ago
I like the "service animal" analogy. But it's not that easy to escape the ethical fork/tradeoff, as the breeding of universal companions would be far better resourced than that of service animals. Then it's not &quo
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by mncharity 4mo ago
I've long since given up on seeing thoughtful policy space discussion, here or anywhere, but I see drdaeman's 'I need assistance in recognizing faces' being downvoted here today, so briefly... Europe and the US have had
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by mncharity 4mo ago
Years ago I did an exploratory UX spike, an attempt to make history more tangible, by giving each day a dot (so a couple of centuries fit on a screen), with the dots providing, among other things, scans of that day's newspapers and mag
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by mncharity 4mo ago
> They stopped selling them Ouch. Thanks for the catch. On ebay just now, there's someone claiming they have "more than 10 available".
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by mncharity 4mo ago
> To the point of making it harder to find a job Fwiw... (1) Lenovo sells compact keyboards with trackpoint. USB and bluetooth. There are mouse buttons below Space, but it cuts off there, with no pad. I once taped a kludgy bare usb pad t
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by mncharity 4mo ago
"I read books [...] I've read a couple of books a week for [...] 50 [years]"[1] - Jim Keller (CPU designer) with Lex Fridman. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb2tebYAaOA&t=5039s
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by mncharity 4mo ago
"There's strikingly little agricultural innovation in this corner of France" they mused... as the ground shook from tanks and shrapnel bursts. A glass of sea water seems so peaceful... with its turbulent combat hellscape of v
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by mncharity 4mo ago
> stacking "search accelerators" ([...]) On my long-term todo list, is making a didactic simplified tree-of-life, compressed reflecting highly conserved microRNA families (perhaps also Hox clusters and TF transcription factor f
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by mncharity 5mo ago
> To be clear no one actually thought it was a problem [1] Susan Kare https://kare.com/ at EG8 (2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlb77dDHIXQ&t=273s "I designed this image [unhappy Macintosh
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by mncharity 5mo ago
Preview[1] available on Google Books. [1] https://www.google.com/books/edition/Ratio/yXwYoXmYTD4C
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by mncharity 5mo ago
> write trivial to avoid memory corruption bugs because they were thinking about [something else] [...] defects [...] written by people that know better, but the bug introduced was orthogonal to [their focus] For whatever reason, hadn&#x
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by mncharity 5mo ago
A laptop to be carefully padded for protection... of people's walls and floors. Getting a bit geriatric now, but we've had fun.[1] [1] https://imgur.com/a/keyboard-cam-Z1VipaL
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by mncharity 5mo ago
> I use it to render entire GitHub repos in one go Nifty. Some scattered thoughts... First-time visitors easily bounce away if there's friction. My experience was: After reloading the page to reread the "load a repo" messa
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by mncharity 5mo ago
A couple of comments here mention using this in VR. Fwiw, years back I played a bit with shallow-3D UIs for software dev. Shallow like within a few cm of a laptop display, to minimize VAC eye strain for all-day use. Think more being able to
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by mncharity 5mo ago
Thanks for the sys bio robustness papers. Regards such cross-cutting insights, I'm tempted to see what an LLM, given a order-100 author tome, where the expertise is applied mostly silo-wise, might make of something vaguely like "E
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by mncharity 5mo ago
> deterministically But won't it be fun when we can cloud burst-parallel a grid /tiled sampling of multiple code implementations/architectures, and interactively explore navigate/blend-points-in the latent design spa
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by mncharity 5mo ago
Fwiw, one case where I've wanted rollback has been input fusion over interface devices with diverse latencies. You might have 10 ms for a keypress, 100 ms for optical tracking, and 1000 ms for speech. So given click+"the red one&q
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by mncharity 5mo ago
First, thank you for the comment. It prompted fruitful reflection. I note LLMs as nifty for this. For me, success means "robust structural intuition". Perhaps frame it as understanding that's robust to adversarial noise? To f
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by mncharity 6mo ago
> Get any modern undergraduate Intro Biology textbook [...] These are fantastic books Curious how perspectives vary. I would have said there's basically nothing available, textbooks being horribly wretched. I don't know of anyt
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by mncharity 6mo ago
A cautionary note: the jiggle can be misleading, making one think motion is fully represented. These are traditional 3D animations, with their profoundly misleading handling of motion, just with a "jiggle filter" added. For illust
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by mncharity 6mo ago
A micrograph.[1] Usual EM prep caveats: surface appearance is all artifact, ~10% shrinkage. [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:E._coli_Bacteria_(73...
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by mncharity 6mo ago
> order of magnitude calculations of about the processes of the cell There's a searchable database of bionumbers[1], and a draft version of "by the Numbers" officially online[2]. [1] https://bionumbers.hms.harva
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by mncharity 6mo ago
Interesting. Tnx. In case anyone else wondered about using gptel to edit thinking (eg vis Qwen3.6's `preserve thinking`), [1] explains: > In a multi-turn request, from the time you run `gptel-send`, everything the LLM sends is pas
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by mncharity 6mo ago
The xkcd color survey[1] was 16 years ago now. With the data available, there were various follow-ups. Many, including xkcd's own "take it for fun here " link there in [1], are now 404. But the strata[2] and word cloud[3] ar
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by mncharity 6mo ago
Just to stir thought, I note the TiddlyWiki[1] community (wiki as a self-modifying single html file; 20+ years old) has of course been exploring AI tooling... though not necessarily as an agentic environment. There's a markdown plugin,
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by mncharity 6mo ago
> and we couldn't come up with even one realistic example This worries me about how we approach teaching rough-quantitative reasoning. It's widely thought of great importance for expertise. But even when there seems outlier opp
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by mncharity 6mo ago
Two analogies for thought: There's a meme, "Why develop one's own expertise? It's a poor investment. When you need it, you can hire it." Does AI make us all trust-fund kids? An intro-physics educator at a first-tier
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by mncharity 6mo ago
> More oral defense of arguments. [...] More [...] work in which students must explain not only what a result shows but what it does not. More rough-quantitative reasoning? Fermi questions. Especially if done by collaborative iterative b

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