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Hi HN. I built a free math academy that's structured as a tour of duty in a fictional Martian navy. Every gamified math app I tried (and I tried a lot with my own kids) answers "wh…

Good point. Normalization is deliberately scoped to 'what a human reads off the title page' rather than reconciling all possible metadata sources. LSH as a complementary fuzzy-matc…

It’s 2026. “ Drive. You need the car at the car wash. ” Opus 4.6

Just use an LLM to weed them out. What’s so hard about that?

Claude wasn’t confused at all by that

Would be nice to get a version for Unitrees robot dogs…

Where is AlphaZero?

Let the planet warm back up. More CO2 in the atmosphere is positive for life.

Clunky code. Slow growing. Makes sense.

Livewire is fantastic!

The future is bright. Powerful tools, explosion of consciousness, exploration of the cosmos.

Not really. Heise’s “ct” seems to be still going as strong as ever. heise.de - it’s Europe’s largest computer magazine. https://shop.heise.de/magazine/ct-magazin/

This paper details Harold Katcher's recent research into rejuvination (he was one of the discoverers of the human breast cancer gene (BRCA1). Also interesting to read is his book "…

Aehm… living memory of an impoverished nation that didn’t export anything else than propaganda - not even cheap crap yet. It’s been incredible to watch Capitalism and hard work res…

Regulatory capture and cartel structures.

That article sounds like it was AI-generated…

It’s not a fantasy. Read “A case for Mars” if you are sincerely interested in the topic. Terraforming could dramatically thicken the atmosphere - a process that would take several …

Everyone I know who has great success using GPT4 has tuned their prompts to a friendly and kind tone of conversation. In fact it’s fascinating to watch people start out like talkin…

I need that Go1 support asap. Time for my little Unitree friend to evolve and keep up with its GPT4 brain…

The mental acrobatics on HN in favor for censorship are quite something to behold.

This works for philosophers too. Try Schopenhauer (already easy to read in comparison) in English translation.