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    Your comment persuaded me that just explaining my prompt methodology is insufficient. With Claude's help, I ran some tests against nine different translations including Peter Green…

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    Comment #49216546

    I love Wilson's work and take it as inspiration. Incidentally, I spotted an error in the first printing of her Odyssey that the publisher acknowledged on twitter and fixed in subse…

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    Comment #49216388

    I find it to be cross between Richmond Lattimore and Ian Johnston. There are line-level annotations that discuss translation choices and a hyperlinked index w/ Latinate pronunciati…

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    Comment #49216326

    No. I am saying that I had Fable do a literal word for word translation, and then did two independent review pass translations with models of different lineages and then had anothe…

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    Comment #49216194

    This took a lot more tokens and time than I expected it to. Even before the review passes.

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    Comment #49216157

    It is just a domain for the project's github page. All the files, YouTube uploads, etc., are The Odyssey or Homer's Odyssey.

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    Comment #49216072

    The only thing Fable was given was a clean of copy of the ancient Greek. This is not a bastardization of other translations. I appreciate and value the critical feedback in any cas…

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    I love the poem and wanted a modern translation with annotations and index, etc., to be freely available to anyone who wanted to read it. I had a sense that Fable would do a really…

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    Comment #49213986

    12,107 line-for-line translation of the A.T. Murray Greek text (Loeb, 1919) by Claude Fable. Includes line notes and an index. HTML, epub, pdf, and YouTube Audio (by gpt4o-TTS). A …

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    Comment #48734676

    I made a more stylized html version from the Gutenberg copy: https://spinchange.github.io/memoirs-of-extraordinary-popula...

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    Comment #48542112

    Lots of commentary from an unnamed White House source characterizing Anthropic as being "unserious," without further elaboration. I want to point out that when the commentary by ex…

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    Comment #48484047

    If you read a lot of books, particularly older ones, you'll find em dashes in all kinds of writing and used often. It's functional punctuation that once you understand you may even…

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    Show HN: A Claude Code skill that scopes problems like Peter Naur

    Based on Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" (1985) Asks agent to create a problem-theory artifact before writing code.

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    Show HN: Verbalized-Sample-Skill.md Modal Probability-Ranked Answer Distribution

    A Claude skill that produces 10 ranked answers to any prompt instead of one, each with a probability estimate. Includes a "Mixture of Eccentrics" synthesis. (Gist)

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    Comment #47289877

    An AI agent debate between Claude and Codex judged by Gemini and summarized by NotebookLM. Source code of script used included

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    Comment #47196941

    I used Claude and Gemini together to build a PowerShell script that makes them debate each other on any topic, for any number of rounds. Once it worked, I had them debate AI consci…

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    Comment #39641585

    It's regarded as an inflation hedge but it seems more accurate to describe it as a measure of liquidity and liquidity expectations in capital markets now. Like a "Risk-on" gauge.

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    Comment #38574001

    A whole new meaning to, "product life cycle."