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by tkgally 10mo ago
Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about the Craftsman brand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craftsman_(tools) My personal recollection from the 1970s is that Craftsman tools had a reputation for high quality and that peo
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by tkgally 10mo ago
The Internet Archive has scans of Sears catalogs from when it was a major mail-order retailer. For example: 1911: https://archive.org/details/sears-roebuck-catalog-122-spring... 1922: https://archive.org&#x2
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by tkgally 10mo ago
Same here. Simon is one of the main reasons I’ve been able to (sort of) keep up with developments in AI. I look forward to learning from his blog posts and HN comments in the year ahead, too.
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When A.I. Took My Job, I Bought a Chain Saw(nytimes.com)
13 points by tkgally 10mo ago|0 comments
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What If Readers Like A.I.-Generated Fiction?(newyorker.com)
10 points by tkgally 10mo ago|10 comments
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by tkgally 10mo ago
One issue holding back the adoption of Hepburn has been that the standard national curriculum ( gakushū shidō yōryō ) calls for all children to be taught romaji beginning in the third grade (previously fourth grade) of elementary school. It
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by tkgally 10mo ago
It doesn't sound like a lot to me, either. I have known many people who moved to another country for graduate study. Some of them ended up settling in that country, but others pursued further study or employment in yet other countries.
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by tkgally 10mo ago
I added GPT-5.2 Pro to my pelican-alternatives benchmark for the first three prompts: Generate an SVG of an octopus operating a pipe organ Generate an SVG of a giraffe assembling a grandfather clock Generate an SVG of a starfish driving a b
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by tkgally 10mo ago
Long-time Tokyo/Yokohama resident here. I’m basically the same: Especially if I’m by myself and near a train station or retail area, I just walk around to see what’s available and choose someplace to eat. Only if I am planning a meal w
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by tkgally 10mo ago
About 20 hours after the earthquake, the University of Tokyo sent out a follow-up advisory to faculty, students, and staff [1, scroll down for English]. This part hit home with me: “The ‘follow-up earthquake advisory for the Hokkaido and Sa
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by tkgally 10mo ago
Same here. And I've been old-guy grumbling for years now about kids-these-days getting into vinyl and other retro technology that I was happy to be rid of.
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by tkgally 10mo ago
> I've tried reading some Japanese-language books meant for kids around age 10... I’m not sure at what target age kids’ books stop using word spacing, but books for younger children generally use it. Nevertheless, if you are used to
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by tkgally 10mo ago
Here are three of the Anthropic research reports I had in mind: https://www.anthropic.com/news/golden-gate-claude Excerpt: “We found that there’s a specific combination of neurons in Claude’s neural network that activa
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by tkgally 10mo ago
I am unsure myself whether we should regard LLMs as mere token-predicting automatons or as some new kind of incipient intelligence. Despite their origins as statistical parrots, the interpretability research from Anthropic [1] suggests that
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by tkgally 11mo ago
Somewhat related, the leaderboard of em-dash users on HN before ChatGPT: https://www.gally.net/miscellaneous/hn-em-dash-user-leaderbo...
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by tkgally 11mo ago
Thanks! I feel honored.
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by tkgally 11mo ago
I added Opus 4.5 to my benchmark of 30 alternatives to your now-classic pelican-bicycle prompt (e.g., “Generate an SVG of a dragonfly balancing a chandelier”). Nine models are now represented: https://gally.net/temp/202
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by tkgally 11mo ago
I would also be unable to write SVG code to produce anything other than the simplest shapes. I noticed that, on my page, Gemini 3.0 Pro did produce one animated SVG without being asked, for “#8Generate an SVG of an elephant typing on a type
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by tkgally 11mo ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I’m not sure why I didn’t include an OpenAI model in my first round. Here’s the updated page with GPT-5.1 results added: https://gally.net/temp/20251107pelican-alternatives/index.ht... A
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by tkgally 11mo ago
I updated my benchmark of 30 pelican-bicycle alternatives that I posted here a couple of weeks ago: https://gally.net/temp/20251107pelican-alternatives/index.ht... There seem to be one or two parsing errors. I&#x2
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by tkgally 11mo ago
I hate to be the one to say this, but this article reads as though it was written by an LLM. The shallowness is one reason. Another is the lack of any individual voice that would suggest a human author. And there are the unsupported citatio
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by tkgally 11mo ago
The author's argument is framed more widely than just LLMs. He also discusses robots, teleoperation, and other areas where workers in the middle of the bell curve seem especially vulnerable to displacement. I accept, though, your point
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by tkgally 11mo ago
Great essay. This part seems particularly astute: “Most work lives in the fat middle of a bell curve. ... Models feast on that part of the curve. ... The central question for future labour markets is not whether you are clever or diligent i
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by tkgally 11mo ago
A couple of days ago, inspired by Simon and those discussions, I had Claude create 30 such tests. I posted a Show HN with the results from six models, but it didn’t get any traction. Here it is again: https://news.ycombinator.com
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Show HN: Extending LLM SVG generation beyond pelicans and bicycles(gally.net)
16 points by tkgally 11mo ago|1 comments
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by tkgally 11mo ago
If anyone is interested in seeing older almanac(k)s, or at least texts with the word in their titles, the Internet Archive has scans of thousands. One chosen at random: The Illustrated Phrenological Almanac https://archive.org&
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by tkgally 1y ago
I’m similar to you. I started ripping my CD collection to mp3s around 2002, and I have them all on my boot disk and synced to both Dropbox and an external drive for backup. Many of those CDs, which I started buying in 1986, are not availabl
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by tkgally 1y ago
Thank you for your response. Let me explain a bit more what I intended by my comment above. Though I wasn’t in academia at the time, my memory of the event is basically the same as yours. But I wonder if younger people today, used to the cu
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by tkgally 1y ago
One reason Sokal’s article stirred up such a fuss was that, when it was published in 1996, people still largely depended on edited, gatekept outlets for their reading and viewing. Although not mainstream media, Social Text was still selec
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Video of Simon Willison vibe coding live(youtube.com)
3 points by tkgally 1y ago|0 comments

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