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Did you see that Claude Code just came out with "channels" that allows for messages to be injected into the session/sent out by claude via hooks and MCP server [1]? I had CC code a…

> How parallelism changed the agent’s research strategy > With a single GPU, the agent is stuck doing greedy hill-climbing: try one thing, check the result, pick a direction, try t…

Very cool. I'm imagining using this with Claude Code, allowing it to wire this up to MCP or to CLI commands somehow and using that whole system as an interactive dashboard for admi…

On Linux there is a nice little utility called “tree” https://packages.debian.org/stable/tree Not sure about Mac or Windows.

Grassroots-level adoption was key for things like Dropbox, IMHO - it solved a real need for individual people and it worked well and was easy to use. Same for Docker - developers a…

> "In many ways, 2017 marked the year that cryptocurrency stopped being about technologically innovative peer-to-peer cash and instead essentially became a new, unregulated penny s…

My toddler is allowed about a half hour of cartoons on Youtube on the big TV per day. He's played with the iPad a few times in his life. Lots of books and Legos and physical toys i…

Every other month I go on a media diet: no social media, no news, no unnecessary browsing of any kind - only books and a small number of podcasts are allowed (plus whatever Interne…

Wait, so if I run a Go-playing program from 10 years ago on the AlphaGo cluster then it'll produce better results than it did 10 years ago?

> but what's to stop us from cloning big chunks of our civilizations... simulating them, but using vastly less power/resources for each simulation? Then writing software to have th…

> If we have a computer program that is able to design better hardware, it can be improved by simply moving it to better hardware. Could you please elaborate? What is it about "bet…

But we, humans, aren't going at anything like the speed of light. What if we tweaked our DNA to produce human beings with the working memory capacity of 50 items instead of the nor…

> Our environment, which determines how our intelligence manifests itself, puts a hard limit on what we can do with our brains — on how intelligent we can grow up to be, on how eff…

It's a firewall for attention. One day somebody will build an app like that for AR glasses.

None of the 15" Precision series laptops linked from that page seem to be available with Linux on their dedicated sales pages... Weird. Edit: they don't list Linux as being availab…

> Are there any movements to combat this and prevent more local papers and tv stations from becoming smaller delivery mechanisms for the same partisan bullshit? Not sure about move…

On a cynical note, "young men immersed in alternate reality" is also an opportunity: - It's a rapidly growing market - those people will eventually need financial support systems b…

I'm with you, to some degree. By "solving problems" I was referring to the parent comment's phrase "provided we're able to keep the scarcity problem solved", which I read as "let (…

> and starting your career in your 20s without an inherently marketable skill is terrifying for most people Not as terrifying as starting your career in your 40s without an inheren…

> provided we're able to keep the scarcity problem solved (which I'd bet we'd be able to pull off). I'm curious as to how we can pull that off given that an ever increasing percent…

> Perhaps the "index subsystem" and "placement subsystem" are small enough for full-scale tests to be tractable, but certainly not cheap, and how often do you run it? Rough guide: …

Mainstream religions have been advocating various forms of fasting for centuries. Thank you science for explaining why and how it works.

You missed the second part: "But that was in the days of IPOs, now the investors prefer to keep the rise in equity to themselves. So you chances of winning the lottery are much les…

If you are thinking about starting a company AND doing right by your employees, consider using alternative ownership structures like ESOP ( https://www.nceo.org/articles/esop-emplo…