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Heh, one vestigial bit of code, and they all are. Mind you, it's quite a creaky codebase, so it's forgivable to keep finding these appendices and calling them out as such. Useful, …

The possibility to continue to sound like yourself after permanently losing your voice (e.g. from motor neurone syndrome) is one. Perhaps almost the only one.

Quoting Troy from a thread beneath the article: > The easiest approach in that case is to take out the subscription, then immediately cancel it. It'll still last the full month, mo…

Uh, no, most crypto wallet addresses have either a checksum or some other means of typo detection / prevention.

100 billion a quarter is Alphabet, right? Given how much click fraud there is, and that every org and business under the sun is held to ransom to feature on the SERP for their own …

Outstanding video, thank you. No wonder this took months’ worth of research and animation to make.

Well, yes. Rather than that being a takedown, isn’t this just a part of maturing collectively in our use of this technology? Learning what it is and is not good at, and adapting as…

FWIW, Claude Sonnet 4.5 and ChatGPT 5 Instant both search the web when asked about this case, and both tell the cautionary tale. Of course, that does not contradict a finding that …

I’m finding that whether this process works well is a measure (and a function) of how well-factored and disciplined a codebase is in the first place. Funnily enough, LLMs do seem t…

How about a narwhal spacewalking from the ISS, with Earth visible below (specifically the Niger delta)? https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/f3860a8a-2c7d-404f-978b-e... Requesting a…

VLLMs are incredibly good at decoding math from screenshots, if you’re working from a PDF textbook. ChatGPT especially, and since it’s conversant in LaTeX, it can respond directly …

Isn’t GP’s point, that it’s already enough for those two to have solved it? Not every country with a civil nuclear program needs its own waste containment, it’s just such a small a…

Also Antartica → Antarctica

Relative to humans, these models sure have ungodly amounts of knowledge, but they also kinda have a lobotomy, in never having moved through the world. It’s remarkable they work as …

What is a visualisation? Our rod and cone cells could just as well be wired up in any other configuration you care to imagine. And yet, an organisation or mapping that preserves sp…

I think the version hosted on the book's website would work fine on smaller screens (and also seems to have been updated more recently): https://www.sscardapane.it/assets/alice/Ali…

I remembered once, in Japan, having been to see the Gold Pavilion Temple in Kyoto and being mildly surprised at quite how well it had weathered the passage of time since it was fir…

When framed like this, it's quite unsurprising that LLMs struggle to emulate reasoning through programming problems: there's just not that much signal out there. We tend to commit …

Because 'solar' seems to many like a generic descriptor, not specifically related to our star, Sol.

The relevant research field is known as mechanistic interpretability. See: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14082 https://www.anthropic.com/research/mapping-mind-language-mod...

https://archive.ph/4MEnQ