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Clanki is a great name. I’ve had a lot of success using AI to generate memorable images to show alongside vocabulary cards.

If you have CAT5/6 between the locations, USB-over-CAT5/6 adapters are inexpensive and work quite well. I've used OREI's successfully over >60m. But there are many options, with va…

FWIW, I have had great success asking AI coding tools to generate/edit tikz code. As with all AI coding, it helps to steer the agent to structure the code sensibly, etc. But fronti…

Parallel Lives: A Local-Realistic Interpretation of “Nonlocal” Boxes by Gilles Brassard and Paul Raymond-Robic. Abstract: We carry out a thought experiment in an imaginary world. O…

I’ve been building quantum photonics experiments. Repeating the Bell inequality tests that won the 2022 Nobel, quantum erasers, etc. I just published a fun interactive 3D demo of S…

I’ve been building quantum photonics experiments. Repeating the Bell inequality tests that won the 2022 Nobel, quantum erasers, etc. Probably the coolest part has been automating t…

Recorded 10 February 2026. Terence Tao of the University of California, Los Angeles, presents "Machine assistance and the future of research mathematics" at IPAM's AI for Science K…

I appreciate the ability to rapidly capture a note/thought/todo without friction and context switching. I solved this problem with a twilio sms number. When I send a text to it, th…

The Earth is generally expected to spin more slowly over time, due to tidal friction. But it has been spinning faster and faster since the 1960s. As shown in the figure in the wiki…

He just discussed this on Robinson’s podcast, in conversation with Tim Maudlin.

Zurek published a book about Quantum Darwinism about a year ago. It is a text book, not a popular treatment, but it is quite a good read. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/decoh…

Aider actually prompts the model to say if it needs to see additional files. Whenever the model mentions file names, aider asks the user if they should be added to context. As well…

Once you’ve confirmed when your target is visible, this site provides a handy forecast of atmospheric viewing conditions. https://www.cleardarksky.com/csk/

I’m building a quantum photonics experiment that is a variation of the quantum eraser. One aspect that HN may find interesting is my use of Bayesian optimization to control and per…

I like the unconventional approach. A few minutes with GPT raises two issues: 1. We've raised CO2 from 280ppm to 420ppm, about a 50% increase. To dilute it back down would require …

It would be interesting to see how hard it would be to walk these models towards general relativity and quantum mechanics. Einstein’s paper “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies…

I’ve relied heavily on seamless capture for a couple of decades, ala Getting Things Done. My solution is a twilio text number that automatically inserts any texts it receives into …

I regularly use LLM-as-OCR and find it really helpful to: 1. Minimize the number of PDF pages per context/call. Don't dump a giant document set into one request. Break them into th…

I’ve been building proficiency with quantum optics equipment. Repeating classic quantum entanglement experiments like the quantum eraser [0] and violating the CHSH inequality (whic…

I really like LLM+sympy for math. I have the LLM write me a sympy program, so I can trust that the symbolic manipulation is done correctly. The code is also a useful artifact that …

Below are some great videos on the physics and practicalities of single mode fiber. They are Thorlabs videos, so are slanted more towards the use of SMF in a laser lab rather than …

If you like this then you will probably enjoy the book How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler by cartoonist and computer-scientist Ryan North. ht…