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As of 01:09 GMT on October 10, the Internet Archive is back up. In fact, the Wayback Machine and the book archives are responding more quickly than they did for me a week ago, when I showed the Archive to the students in an online class I t
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I remember reading somewhere, maybe in an essay by John Updike, that Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock, who aimed to produce purely nonrepresentational paintings, had to be careful that face-like figures did not appear in their w
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Ever since ChatGPT came out, I’ve been discussing it and other AI tools with the students in the university classes I teach. My impression matches the results of this survey. Some of the students have started following AI developments close
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I gave it a book in Japanese that I wrote and it generated an accurate podcast about it in English.
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Inspired by this discussion, I had NotebookLM make three podcasts based on very minimal input: a one-line proverb, pi to 15 digits, and a short list of the most common words in English (“the of and to a in for is on that ...”). Here are the
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I did the same thing, running one book I edited and another book I wrote through it, and it did quite well. I was particularly impressed with how the “hosts” came up with their own succinct examples and metaphors to explain what I had writt
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One somewhat obsessive customer here: I pay for and use Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and one or two others. The UX differences among the models are indeed becoming clearer and more important. Claude’s Artifacts and Projects are real
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North Korea's Four Dark Years(asiapress.org)
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I love the Internet Archive and deeply respect Brewster Kahle, but I think it is time for someone with money to fork it: with the Archive's permission, to make a copy of the Wayback Machine and its data as well as the older books and o
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I tested its ability to detect issues in my nonnative pronunciation of Japanese and Russian. As with you, it praised me more than I wanted, but it also provided pointed, appropriate feedback. I was particularly impressed that it corrected t
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I got access to the Advanced Voice mode a couple of hours ago and have started testing it. (I had to delete and reinstall the ChatGPT app on my iPhone and iPad to get it to work. I am a ChatGPT Plus subscriber.) In my tests so far it has wo
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I got access to the Advanced Voice mode a couple of hours ago and have started testing it. (I had to delete and reinstall the ChatGPT app on my iPhone and iPad to get it to work. I am a ChatGPT Plus subscriber.) In my tests so far it has wo
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> I noticed that my neighborhood is all Lawsons There's a Lawson-heavy area about a twenty-minute walk from where I live in Yokohama. The three convenience stores closest to me, though, are 7-11. One reason for this clustering, I su
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> I would imagine things begin to improve around 2000 due to the broad adoption of unicode? Yes. I don't remember the exact timing, but it was the switchover to Unicode by Windows and Mac that finally resolved the character encoding
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Excellent summary. A few additional comments from personal memory: I have lived in Japan since 1983, and I started working as a freelance Japanese-to-English translator in 1986. I wanted to produce clean-looking text in English for my clien
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Having read his blog [1] and HN posts [2] for several years, I found this interview with Simon Willison quite enjoyable. [1] https://simonwillison.net [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=simonw
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Developer Productivity with ChatGPT and Claude with Simon Willison [video](youtube.com)
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The company's website: https://mickey.com.py/
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It might be interesting to contrast MrBeast’s management approach with that of Marques Brownlee (MKBHD). He is also a successful YouTuber who leads a team that puts out videos on several channels. While his videos don’t have the huge produc
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The long-defunct literary magazine Wigwag ran a monthly essay by an Angolan writer named Sousa Jamba titled "Letter from Springfield." For each installment he visited a different U.S. Springfield. https://en.m.wikiped
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A Scientific Dispute Spiralled into a Defamation Lawsuit(newyorker.com)
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I thought this looked like good advice until I got to: > Mass/weight distinction > Incorrect: He weighs 70 kg; Correct: His mass is 70 kg > Incorrect: She weighs 50 kg; Correct: She weighs 490 N on Earth Really?! We’re not sup
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I like that app, too. The reading is very natural overall, though sometimes the emphasis is a bit off. What catches my ear is when Word A in a sentence receives stronger stress than Word B, but the longer context suggests that actually it s
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I was led astray by an interesting discussion among Anthropic employees about prompt engineering with Claude. They seem to do a lot of empirical testing of prompts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9aRN5JkmL8
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I just tested ChatGPT 4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet using the following prompt, with and without the last sentence: “Write a one-paragraph summary of research since 2015 on the use of machine translation in second-language academic writing. Incl
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For a paper that includes both a broad discussion of the scholarly issues raised by LLMs and wide-ranging policy recommendations, I wish the authors had taken a more nuanced approach to data collection than just searching for “as of my last
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AI prompt engineering: A deep dive [video](youtube.com)
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Great effort! I'm a fan of the NYT Mini, too. The art of that puzzle, I think, is in the clues, which are usually not straight synonyms or dictionary-type definitions. Some examples from recent puzzles: Name tag heading: HELLO W
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China self-driving cars have Tesla in their sights(asia.nikkei.com)
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For an essay that hinges on the notion that “art requires making choices,” I wish the author had chosen to delve a bit more into the question of what choosing is. Do humans really make choices? If so, how free are those choices? Is there so

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