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by nilstycho 2y ago
Based on the flow diagram, that doesn't seem to be the same thing. Webwright seems to be a shell as a tool for me, enhanced with AI features. I'm suggesting the shell as a tool for AI. Webwright is a front-end shell that presents
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by nilstycho 2y ago
IIUC, Claude's "Computer Use" is roughly a remote desktop, which is a superset of a remote shell. I don't think I'm proposing anything with a greater risk than already exists.
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by nilstycho 2y ago
What are the risks? Isn't this a strict subset of the risks of full desktop access? Claude can just open a GUI terminal with Computer Use. (I think.)
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by nilstycho 2y ago
It seems like a cheaper intermediate capability would be to give Claude the ability to SSH to your computer or to a cloud container. That would unlock a lot of possibilities, without incurring the cost of the vision model or the difficulty
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by nilstycho 2y ago
The Unicode Consortium is in the pocket of Big Chordate.
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by nilstycho 2y ago
“Very” was stripped from the title, but in this case its inclusion is justified.
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by nilstycho 2y ago
Tripped me up too. I didn't expect the need. Then I thought maybe there was some restriction of which blocks could go where, or which blocks needed to be placed first. The first letters I placed, by coincidence, worked fine, so that co
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by nilstycho 2y ago
Making of: https://phoboslab.org/log/2021/09/q1k3-making-of
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by nilstycho 2y ago
“Catalyst, pollution control, petroleum cracking, and processing fats” are already listed for platinum. There’s an attempt to not make a lot of duplicate uses, and palladium already has pollution control illustrated. Also some uses are hard
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by nilstycho 2y ago
The PDF has Illustrator Editing Capabilities, so it can be easily edited in Illustrator.
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by nilstycho 2y ago
You might be interested in the orbitals laser crystal sculptures that he designed with Bathsheba. https://bathsheba.com/crystal/orbitals/
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by nilstycho 2y ago
Keith is a doodler/amateur cartoonist, and this periodic take is in that style, so the font is deliberate. He was happy to see Fabiola Gianotti’s announcement of the discovery of the Higgs boson in Comic Sans. Also, it’s really Comic R
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by nilstycho 2y ago
What I mean is that instead of measuring the bits of a particular program BB(n,k), we could instead define a function BBWOHT(n,k) ("Busy Beaver With One Halting Transition"), and measure the bits of a particular BBWOHT(n,k) progra
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by nilstycho 2y ago
Also, is there any sense in restricting the universe of machines to those that include one and only one halting symbol? Machines with more or fewer than one halting symbol are possible, but they're less interesting, right?
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by nilstycho 2y ago
Can you help me understand the log2(4+1) term? I calculate 3*4*log2(4*2*log2(4+1)) ≈ 51. I (a layperson) would have thought the calculation would be 3*4*log2(4*2*4) = 60. Is it perhaps 3*4*log2(4*2*log2(3*3*4-1)) ≈ 64?
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by nilstycho 2y ago
I am a happy user of smallpdf, which seems quite similar. What advantages do you offer?
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by nilstycho 3y ago
I agree with your general point, but world population is still visibly increasing on that interval. https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/population-and-demograp... Perhaps "global mean temperature in Kelvin"
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by nilstycho 3y ago
How would you section off the list? If you do it uniformly randomly, then every constituency looks identical and you'll get identical results in each constituency. This creates a very non-representative result. Notably, large racial mi
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by nilstycho 3y ago
For those unfamiliar with the pronunciation of lichen: “like in”.
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by nilstycho 3y ago
I think you're referring to https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/111268799920192168
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by nilstycho 3y ago
Sure. I would feel much safer if only FAANG had nukes than if the car wash down the street also had one.
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by nilstycho 3y ago
Nuclear weapons is probably not the best comparison, but there are very dangerous infohazards where the only thing missing is the recipe. For example, there are immensely destructive actions that individual misanthropic people can take with
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by nilstycho 3y ago
“I'm not sure how nuclear armament is going to end, but one thing I do know is that I don't want a small number of giant countries to hold the reins.” Perhaps you think this analogy is a stretch, but why are you sure you don'
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by nilstycho 3y ago
A large proportion of living expenses are housing, so this calculation is sensitive to the housing component. The housing component is estimated as the U.S. HUD's "Fair Market Rent", which is defined as the 40th percentile re
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by nilstycho 3y ago
> His economist father and barrister mother gave him a traditional Ashanti first name, meaning "born on Sunday", when he was actually born on a Monday. He told the BBC's Political Thinking with Nick Robinson podcast his pa
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by nilstycho 3y ago
Good point; you're right. I might be misremembering the cross product. I do remember that he didn't even teach the geometric interpretation of vector addition.
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by nilstycho 3y ago
I had a math graduate student teaching my linear algebra class. He taught dot and cross products entirely algebraically, never drawing vectors as arrows, but as arrays of numbers. When I suggested after class that teaching the visual repres
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by nilstycho 3y ago
Have you seen jefftk's ceiling air purifier? Post: https://www.jefftk.com/p/ceiling-air-purifier HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31590773
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by nilstycho 3y ago
"Cuban" was my first try. I'm surprised that "Zuckerberg" works so well given how poorly "Cuban" performs.
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by nilstycho 4y ago
The advocates of multi-member districts in the United States usually prioritize three- or five-member districts, or a mixture. Ten-member districts are unwieldy for voters, and the marginal increase in proportionality drops off quickly.

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