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Wait, did I get this right that the answer after all the investigation that showed they had set up a goblin-reinforcing loop during fine tuning was... to ask it to not mention gobl…

"Not dead. Not retiring. Not moving on to start a blockchain company. He was quitting — because of a fight over two characters" Time to AI tell: 20 seconds? Still, interesting acco…

Very cool, thank you! Both the visualization tool and the description of Miller-Rabin. I didn't know an algorithm with these properties existed! Furthermore, your tool gave me a mo…

It's federated as in ActivityPub.

I was first exposed to Popper in my first year in university, in an introductory course to epistemology, and I liked him right away. I've carried Refutability and the Paradox of To…

I'd like to buck the apparent trend of reacting to your project with shock and horror and instead say I believe it's a great idea, and I appreciate what you are doing! People have …

Found this archive link: https://archive.is/2026.02.02-090119/https://www.wired.com/s...

File under "unexpectedly interesting and cool". I'd never seen such good visualizations of magnetic fields before, or of the magnetization process.

I had downloaded the final Aldus TIFF specifications document, hoping to find the author’s name. However, the name is seemingly written in white text on white paper - making it inv…

I believe this is likely true and will become evident in time to most, but not all, carbon based systems.

Immich is supposed to solve this nowadays: https://github.com/immich-app/immich

TLDR: a user of ChatGPT and weed became convinced they had chanced upon earth shattering discoveries while interacting with the chatbot over weeks/months.

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About the person: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin The observatory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_C._Rubin_Observatory

No cred gained here :) I was just surprised by the low quality of the article and there were no other comments by the time I got here so I thought I'd write this short critique to …

Pretty weird article. Just on the title alone: - 'Mysterious': there's very little of substance in the article to advance the position that it is mysterious at all. - 'Sacred': OK,…