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Wikipedia (FWIW) says that the fictional USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) was named after the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) rather than the Space Shuttle Enterprise (OV-101).

There are enough grammatical oddities (e.g. "reads off", "my not-the-proudest") in the linked excerpt that I'm honestly inclined to believe them.

I'm not a DBA or sysadmin, but naïvely I feel like there's a difference between adding it to the client prompt and adding it to the server log. One-time startup messages in prompts…

I've never really understood this argument. If someone's a manager of an incompetent team, no amount of management skill will save the quality of the resulting software. I don't th…

The general sense of “liking” something is usually 好き ( suki ) in Japanese, AFAIK. Depending on the context (romantic, etc.), “love” could be 愛, 恋愛, 大好き, and probably others.

I ran into that issue too w/ sentence-based flashcards, where I almost immediately memorize the sentence itself and the whole thing becomes self-defeating. Similarly, I thought to …

But Wikipedia[0] says Ῥωμαῖοι transliterates to Romaioi, i.e. "Romans". [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire#Nomenclature

On the subject of nostalgic paint apps, I distinctly remember one of the Kid Pix drawing tools/games that I had growing up... what a weird piece of software that was!

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IIRC linguists (like, actual academic researchers) prefer to “break up” kana and analyze the consonant and vowel separately when dealing with conjugations. Treating kana as indivis…

The lead says "how I approach IIS targets during bug bounty " (emphasis mine), so (assuming the author is being truthful) I'm guessing the tone of the title is just for fun.

Excluding supergeniuses, pure mathematics—even at a very basic, undergraduate level—simply can't be understood passively. Even with an infinitely patient AI teacher who could answe…

> horrific things are going to happen to them without the their/or their families consent Indeed, that is (allegedly) the case with organ donation: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/…

Towards the end of the article: "the company plans to eventually remove the anesthesia from some brain slices" Here's hoping the idea is that the slices will be really small, or so…

The advantage(?) of take-home exams à la Caltech is that they can be open everything and 3–5 hours long :-P (For what it's worth, being able to listen to music during an exam, ctrl…

Things may have changed, but I don't recall any group exams during my time at Caltech, and conversely I do recall a strong sense of pride in the Honor Code. Also, if your professor…

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I'm not the other commenter (and I believe you that it's not AI), but I'd guess it's mostly the first line: a short affirmation followed by "The problem is ...." feels like the sor…

In general, I think this phenomenon is called "phono-semantic matching": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phono-semantic_matching .

It's just that, in my (uninformed) opinion, Anthropic is incentivized a priori to claim things like this about their models. Like, it's probably really good marketing to say "our p…

In the paper itself, the abstract actually does have a paragraph break, so it's probably just an autoformatting issue or something.

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