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Silurian Hypothesis, SETI, a widely help motivation for space exploration, much of sci-fi: all posit a high-ish rate of life (or intelligent life) invention, because the alternativ…

My current most annoying thing: usage policy violations that come out of nowhere. I'm having claude develop code for processing scientific article PDFs, and I'm pretty sure the art…

What problems have you encountered with the Claude Code executable, or more generally with the interface (not the model)?

If you provide read permission on a directory, might the content be exfiltrated and used commercially? Or is this just paranoia?

Wow! I had not tried deepseek. I just had claude teach me how to use it, and then tested it on the same example, which it got right, and for which it charged next to nothing. This …

What are peoples' experiences with using LLMs to mine information from scientific papers? My own experience: I first attempted to extract the anti-drug antibody (ADA) rate from eac…

Yes. I keep mine on my lap. My regimen is that I wake up at 3am and lie on the couch for several hours with coffee and write code (or these days, ask "someone else" to). It is high…

Cool! For GLM-OCR, do you use "Option 2: Self-host with vLLM / SGLang" and in that case, am I correct that there is no internet connection involved and hence connection timeouts wo…

When I was in junior high school and high school, I would hang out at the Purdue University chess club. He was a regular, prone to laughter, a funny guy. We would play double speed…