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Anecdotal, but I tried running a few identical biology questions through both Fable and Opus and the classifier was only rejected my queries with Fable.

Any previewers have hot takes? I've really preferred gpt-5.5 over Opus 4.8 for data analysis and scientific software work. It seems much more reliable. Fable is unusable for the ty…

Great article. This is the kind of web design that I like.

I see, very interesting, thanks!

This is a cool idea—I know from snooping on sumbit scripts and node utilization on the HPC that I use at my institution that most submissions leave some compute on the table (and m…

I wonder if the tendency to write short punchy sentences stems from deliberate RL efforts to avoid repetitive, consistent writing? I seem to remember that a critique of early LLMs …

You could say something similar about biology—just physics behind the curtains, and we understand a lot of the basics. The difficulty comes from complexity, not mysticism. To be cl…

It feels like a lot of the folks who occupy the same biotechnologist genre as Venter (George Church, Eric Lander, etc.) can come off this way. I agree fully about the grifty nature…

This looks interesting and I will give it a try. I agree that the space-switching animation is painful. I don't however think that this will solve spaces on MacOS, for the simple r…

Would love to read a Tell HN post about the kinds of attacks you are concerned with!

Thanks for chiming in, and for your great work on iNaturalist!