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We really need solutions like this if we are going to reverse atmospheric carbon the necessary amount to mitigate planetary catastrophe. Thanks for working on this. Good luck.

I can't imagine a worse use case for AI. Literally thought the title was a clown

A David Graeber inspired study!? In case you haven't heard of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_of_Everything

Title is pretty clickbaity. Cool data set though

It is extremely early days for these offerings. Synthetic ferts are a relatively mature technique and the related product offerings (which are now effectively commoditized) had sta…

They just leave it in place mostly. Sometimes in big mounds that become berms over a few years. Discarding wood chips is actually very expensive.

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Placing it at the root of the trees makes a ton of sense as it increases yields and lowers need for inputs. Also helps with the compaction from all the mechanization in the orchard…

Incredible work folks. Can't wait to try it out. The Germans look cool!

Yep. Not just stack overflow -- pretty much everywhere. If only someone could have foreseen this problem!!! Anyways, no issue. We'll just get claude to start answer stack overflow …

Compared to itself. Same phenomenon as in Japan. Rising powers almost never have this issue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_tsunami

Without entering (and winning) some kind of major conflict, this was always going to happen. Two things are important to think about. 1. Power should be measured in relative terms …

Cyanosis is the medical term is but I should clarify its not like their skin was purple all the time. What happens is that if you drink a lot of the polluted well water then when y…

Data centers should do everything they can to reduce water usage. That said, this is masterful scapegoating. The ag lobby must be gleeful if they're not directly responsible for th…

As others have already said, the reason is mainly to cycle yard and food waste, as well as some garden tasks (they can be used to prepare beds as well as cut my lawn). I also plan …

As someone who keeps backyard chickens and recently got a new flock, I will say anecdotally this spike was observed even in livestock. In March 2025, I tried to order baby chicks t…

I've seen folks doing both. Certainly, once you understand the OTP well enough, it makes sense to build all your systems on it. I've been doing that for seven years now; the only r…

Joey has really pushed boundaries on botany. Great to see his thoughts being discussed here. I think everyone could learn something from him

Telco integration sounds amazing. Wishing yall success

Nice. Yeah, we are dogfooding some systems I built in my household. We use whisper.cpp and I haven't had any issues. I get told frequently I should be using eleven labs but I just …

Looks really cool, exciting to see. I have two questions around this: 1. Given that you are concerned with providing access a class of folks that are traditionally ignored by techn…

Looks like a really cool project. Do you have any opinions on which transcription models are the best, from a quality perspective? I have heard a lot of mixed opinions on this. Cur…

This is true but also your API needs to actually implement all the use cases (often its only for a subset) and it needs to work well (often there are many nuances or inconsistencie…

Yeah, this is so true. Well designed APIs are also already almost good enough for AI. There really was always a ton of value in good API design before LLMs. Yet a lot of people sti…

I think its likely that soon the "AI" aspect of the "models" get worse and worse with each iteration. This is because: 1. data pollution/dilution -- with each subsequent generation…