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by ricksunny 7mo ago
joke’s on the survivors who have to go find sunlight in nuclear winter
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by ricksunny 7mo ago
I never thought much of Adrian Gage as a director anyway
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by ricksunny 7mo ago
I solved the tangle issue going on years now with this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Z8G6VH4?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_... You accustom to the wrap-unwrap motion and then that's it.
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by ricksunny 7mo ago
Since I'm yet to seriously dive into vibe coding or AI-assisted coding, does the IDE experience offer tracking a tally of the context size? (So you know when you're getting close or entering the "dumb zone")?
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by ricksunny 7mo ago
Haven't opened the article yet, but surprised the comments so far are generally in the framework of "oh, economy produces more X, but too much more of a proportion of X is going to [the fortunate few] and too little to [the unfort
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by ricksunny 7mo ago
either the business press is very US-bound or parochial, or more likely, it believes its readership is.
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by ricksunny 7mo ago
OK, that's helpful thank you - I had to Google-AI & Gemini up some possible solutions to "TFed and CAed for SSC fellows" Gemini only got the SSC plausibly correct - is it "SSC Fellows: Refers to Senior Service Colle
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by ricksunny 7mo ago
Thanks - well what I'm actually interested in is what imaginary line can be drawn most tightly (i.e. descriptively) around a social group that would be familiar with all of the acronyms and institute names you referenced in this post&#
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by ricksunny 7mo ago
You casually drop a lot of acronyms and references to obscure programs (here and especially in parallel comment) on the apparent assumption that everyone reading does or should be clued in to the same acronyms. I feel you do so in good fai
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by ricksunny 7mo ago
OpenAI employee https://x.com/wesamo__/status/2027772549895995417 Wesam has done this.
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by ricksunny 7mo ago
turning point? The episode is literally playing out the AEC's (read: war-footed government) 1954 Oppenheimer security-clearance hearing in real-time for a fresh modern-day audience.
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by ricksunny 7mo ago
Great, Kalshi, now do this one: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/02/kalshi-aliens... Insider, market manipulation, or…?
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by ricksunny 8mo ago
Thanks and thank you for sharing the experience about diving into the history of those names from gravestones!
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Epibatidine in Siberia(science.org)
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by ricksunny 8mo ago
Imagine how much unanticipated historical perspectives might become uncovered if everyone uploaded paraphenelia of long deceased ancestors like this; after indexing, and searched as one hyper-amalgamated crowdsourced knowledge graph, can sh
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by ricksunny 8mo ago
Thank you! (Starts down fresh rabbit-hole...)
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by ricksunny 8mo ago
Thank you! Very helpful clarity, indeed sounds like an incredibly useful term!
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by ricksunny 8mo ago
happy to display that I'm clued-out, but what does 'meta' mean in this context? Clearly not the company, nor the general 'meta' modifier to something to describe qualifying criteria about it, like meta data for pho
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by ricksunny 8mo ago
Thank you for the advice / context! :).
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by ricksunny 8mo ago
That's cool - I'd imagine 'invested in a mining concern' is rare on the spectrum of HNers' resumes. May I ask how did you come to be confident enough to risk capital on something that's not typically within the
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by ricksunny 8mo ago
Again, raw LIGO data is sheer noise. They have to interrogate the dataset with their hypothesized candidate signal signature, natural or otherwise, and see if it ‘responds’ with a hit. In the case of black hole mergers, they had an idea - a
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by ricksunny 8mo ago
>When they turned LIGO on i wanted to see warp drives whipping around. But all we saw was distant black hole mergers; interesting but not exactly a star trek moment. • The LIGO methodology is to look for hyper-specified patterns in volum
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by ricksunny 8mo ago
a propos: https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/2019413089683411092?s=20
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by ricksunny 8mo ago
Since you've undertaken the effort of distinguishing, please elucidate the difference in your own understanding of it, (and not whose brand or publication name is validating the terminology) in more detail.
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by ricksunny 8mo ago
Were there comms between them or one referencing the other?
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by ricksunny 8mo ago
Smacks of: "support my thesis and ignore alternative explanations and contrary evidence on whether there's even a there, there" AI-research slop.
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by ricksunny 8mo ago
Actually that link was helpful, thanks. The fact that CHM's early progenitor was called Digital Computer Museum in a 1979 out of Boston actually explains a lot. They were fundamentally distinguishing lineage from the likes of differ
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by ricksunny 8mo ago
Great initiative - so now let me throw a query: * Why isn't the Lewis Terman OH https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10265394... showing up in the main link? * Also, not related to Oral Histori
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by ricksunny 8mo ago
I'm a fan of CHM. That said there collections have (understandably) a rather Silicon-Valley-legacy-centric view of, erm, computer history. You'll find little mention, for example, of these tantalizing early mentions of alternativ
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by ricksunny 9mo ago
I hope they've fixed the stability issues for Zotero's Google Docs plugin when citation count gets in excess of 100+. It's a special kind of terror when the bibliography breaks and fails tracking with superscripts in the text

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