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6d ago
I'm not sure why one would even strike metal against a crucible! It's a container for liquid metal. One of the outputs shows it being smashed by the manoeuvre, which is probably the most realistic outcome of all of them. Sorry, I&
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17d ago
> Why do they insist on every new phone being bigger than the phones before them? Because every time, they want it to be the next big thing.
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18d ago
The original source is here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-76614-0 > Thylacine crania are far larger than expected for their body mass, as determined by their centroid size (Fig. 3a), and exceed the abs
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Pixel is a unit of length and area
(nayuki.io)
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19d ago
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What animal has a prime number of legs? And why does this confuse LLMs?
(tris.sherliker.net)
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19d ago
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1mo ago
Far worse from my perspective is that it's not a fixed citation that it's not falsifiable. It's just a mutable, generalized source, which is stochastic in nature. It may as well say "(Socrates, probably)"
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1mo ago
Just an aside on the design rather than the content: I was wondering for a while about the greenish and yellow bars on the margins of the page, but I'm pretty sure that those are padding to make the document work well on both US letter
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1mo ago
...but yes, some comments are performative.
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1mo ago
It does in the sense that ineffable things are unable to be described in language (conceptually: unknown to language).
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1mo ago
I think normally it's just that someone has the thought and shares it for discussion. Not every comment is performative.
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1mo ago
This is so similar to human decision-making though. First I my innate experience to approximate to what I expect is right, then I map that to the truth. It's the same for so many things: - reading documentation (what do I expect this f
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1mo ago
Genuine question - are you copying the Claude phraseology for effect (in which case you captured it brilliantly), or is there a more mundane explanation?
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The chew toy that ate my small business
(unherd.com)
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2mo ago
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2mo ago
Exciting! I needed this last week, and now here it is. Thanks. I share the annoyance about phone detection previees over-promising. But I'm pleased this comes with perspective correction and lighting correction together.
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2mo ago
> FAQ > Will you store my images? > We are running this service on a small server. We literally cannot afford to store any images. If that is what you need, there are more suitable services out there. This does not answer the quest
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2mo ago
Is this correct? I was fairly certain that the correlation between random data points approached 0. Is it also plausible that the relationship between true and percieved is wholly independent (as this presumes)?
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2mo ago
There's some interesting commentry at https://www.techtimes.com/articles/322754/20260803/norway-id... , which suggests that the widespread outage is due to a single point of failure: > ID-Porten: When
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2mo ago
Hi, I've been working on handwritten blogging too! It would be great to compare notes. I might also drop you a line on another platform.
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2mo ago
I think normally when people say Chinese made in this way, what they're really communicating is that there's no (meaningful) brand. All they know about it is that it is from China.
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2mo ago
Having subscribeed for years, I find it very good on that front. I haven't detected any political bias, and I suspect they would say that fairness and honesty is what the "journalism" half of "slow journalism" means
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2mo ago
Luckily the magazine came long before Claude, but I suppose your comparison describes their mission pretty well. It's a haven of non-AI writing.
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Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'
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2mo ago
Huh? He says he works at Modal, not Moonshot. Are they connected?
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2mo ago
He's responding _positively_ to the design and querying if this is accessible to everyone.
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2mo ago
Love it. This reminds me of wttr.in, but with the benefit of interactivity and that it works much better on mobile. I also happen to often use terminals in a narrower aspect, so wttr.in doesn't work perfectly for me. It'd be very
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Don't put your name to bot-written content
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2mo ago
I suspect the URL and the article title are correct, if you buy the whole chapter - and it's just that we are seeing a preview which gets the grounding down first.
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2mo ago
For some context (which people seem to be wanting): Gleam is an interestinf language that is very tight and small. I met the folks from Gleam at the recent Ubuntu Summit and was struck by the talk they gave which made the point (about the d
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3mo ago
Thank you, I think you're right! I've added a correction in the post and cited your comment.
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3mo ago
That's a new one and oddly apt :)
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