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Comment #49222068
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Comment #49221578
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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Comment #49214523
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."