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There’s an anecdote in Jerome K. Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat (1889) about taking cheese on a train: https://archive.org/details/threemeninboatto00jerorich/page/...

Yeah, that post really sounded like Claude to me, too. I use Claude for various projects of my own, so I read its prose a lot. Its writing style seems to be becoming increasingly i…

In parts of Kumamoto Prefecture, it registered 7 on the Japanese shindo (seismic intensity) scale, which reflects the amount of ground shaking at a particular location. The shindo …

Some other museums to visit while you’re in Tokyo: JCII Camera Museum https://www.jcii-cameramuseum.jp/top-e/ Small Worlds Miniature Museum https://smallworlds.jp/en/ Button Museum…

When I moved to Japan in 1983, not much was computerized and I was able to use my preferred short version of my name--eight letters or five katakana, surname last in both cases--fo…

Now that Fable is back, I had it create two more browser-based music generators. For the first, I had Fable in chat write a full prompt based on the same metaprompt as above. Here …

That occurred to me, too, when I posted that metaprompt above. But that was only the second or third prompt I gave to Fable during the couple of days I had access to it, and I used…

Just for reference, here is the metaprompt I first gave to Opus: “I want to ask Claude Code to write a browser-based synthesizer for me. Please prepare a prompt for it that I can g…

My Fable example is not nearly as cool but still (to me) impressive. Last year, I would occasionally test the latest models by vibe-coding in-browser music generators using only HT…

As it happens, the current number-two article on HN is about a similar consequence of Chinese export controls--a car manufacturer developing electric motors that do not use rare ea…

As a former freelance translator (1986 to 2005, Japanese to English), I have much sympathy for the writer. But I wouldn’t be so confident that AI cannot do professional-level trans…

My first came in late 2016, when Google Translate switched from statistical machine translation to a neural-network-based system. I had worked as a Japanese-English translator and …

The focus of the course wasn't writing criticism or particular authors. It was on how writing teachers can teach current and future researchers how to write research papers. A narr…

> There is danger in evaluating for language patterns over its content I agree, but it’s worth noting that that has been done since long before LLMs. Fifteen years ago, I used to t…

Quite token-intensive. I pay for the Max plan, and the regular dictionary runs consume maybe 20 percent of my weekly quota.

Very, very nice. Since January, I’ve been having Claude build a static Japanese-English dictionary in which all of the kanji and jukugo can be displayed either with or without furi…

I was curious whether the distribution would vary from model to model. Here are the results for 1,000 queries each for smaller models in the Gemini, Mistral, Qwen, DeepSeek, and GL…

I really like working from home myself, but I am starting to suspect that the organizations that thrive in the years ahead will be those with lots of face-to-face interaction. If m…

His LLM-wiki framework has been very useful for me for some personal research and knowledge-building projects I've been working on recently. When I get an idea for a new project, I…

I’m teaching a class at a university in Japan (on AI-related issues, as it happens). I’ve been teaching for more than 40 years, but at 106 registered students this is by far the la…

I created a poster for Japan, where I live: https://www.gally.net/temp/20260518-japan-transmission-grid/... The image produced by the program seemed unbalanced because Japan’s sout…

Like what? Are you accusing me of being a bot?

Same here. Presumably it will be possible to adjust that behavior with settings, the system prompt, etc. Not that most users will make such adjustments, though. I'm currently teach…