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No, it's not, unless you can argue that the bot would have thought of asking the same question I did, which is unlikely.

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like this idea. Add "tech trees": path dependence can be arbitrary. What if we kept going with vacuum tubes/no transistors?

"Well paid geologists"

Codexes Factory: algorithmic tools to create, operate, distribute, and market entire publishing imprints. This week I am launching my first imprint, Xynapse Traces, with 66 books i…

Pilsa is a form of journalling popular in Korea that should be popular everywhere.

AI Safety Event: DOGE is analyzing the entire Code of Federal Regulations this month with the goal of reducing it by 50% by Jan 20, 2026. [WaPo 7/26/25]. --This is an actual AI gov…

I see no privacy advantage to working with Ollama, which can sell your data or have it subpoenaed just like anyone else.

Per the Washington Post, DOGE is running LLM analysis against the Code of Federal Regulations (5B tokens) *this month* (August) with the goal of generating revision texts that will…

A lot of vibrant color, which is a nice change from muted and flat pastels.

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Isn't there a Python library that abstracts most of it away with a couple of gigantic classes with incompatible dependencies?

The article doesn't explain how users can exploit these features in UI or prompt. Does anyone have any insight on how to do so?

Very generous to compare to Manhattan Project or CERN.

This explains a lot about the last 1200 years.

We had APL on our Prime minicomputer at Swarthmore when I started there in 1978.

This article is not very good, notably, it is almost all guessing, no evidence. An explanation that I would have found plausible: building stairs clockwise is cheaper somehow.

This is theft.

The ruling also documents a pattern of Google performing badly in discovery which suggests that it is a strategy.

More context on the Energy Department labs: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/02/27/...