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I am saying that the 100 photos presented did not look especially austere to me. As some one growing up in similar times in a middle class (more rural) area these pictures just loo…

Maybe, I do not know how the number of neurons in a child's brain and the connections compare to Claude and its training but I would think it is comparable. Also, while a child mig…

And Claude is even younger.

Yes, I have heard a lot about the austerity of life in the USSR growing up in the 1980s. Comparing life in the world of today to what was available , even in the US, is going to lo…

I think maybe the old world (having seen about half a century) is always dying. For me it was a strange article (but worth the read). The good old days were not all bad and progres…

Pics in video.

So, tfa does not really cover this in great depth but it looks like it is mostly over in terms of new cases, at least just looking at the graph. Maybe though it is just a time dela…

Might make an ok short story. Astronauts find a body in space dresses in a white lab coat, tie, and horn rimmed glasses. Turns out to be reclusive scientist not seen in years.

I am constantly impressed by what I hear about the Amish. It is not that I know lots about them (I do not) but stories like this make me think there is a bunch of thoughtful Amish.…

A couple previous posts with some discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35509132 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36733488

One of the problems (as a non math trained person) papers heavy in math is running into greek letters. Sometimes is a greek letter stands for a well known function that I do not re…

Who would want to pass up the opportunity to have a picture of a frowning old man on their passport for 10 years.

Not trying to delving into a deep philosophical question here but... I asked chatgpt to write a poem about my mothers dog a while back. It spit out a poem that my mother likes and …

Should we be handing out Fields medal to I don't know, maybe. I would not put Clankers on the same level (or category / level of importance) as people but if they produce the work …

Depending on lots of things I tend to believe that individual consumers would be the last to see any benefit. Profit will go to the producers first and then the distributors and th…

News: Hacker News AP News The Guardian Weather: Goes=19 (Southern Planes https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/sector_band.php?sat=G16&sector=sp&band=GEOCOLOR&length=24) NWS Foreca…

So, googleplex is useful after all.

in the form of a highly cinematic video. It looks "highly cinematic".

I have seen both stars and satellites from suburbs and some urban areas. They are not very remote. There is a lot to see if you look. I do not like the light pollution but as it st…

I am wondering the same thing. I was reading a paper yesterday, High-yield, green and scalable methods for producing MOF-303 for water harvesting from desert air https://yaghi.berk…

When I see something about seven segment displays I think about one of my favorite YouTube videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTB5XhjbgZA&t=18s

An interesting related discussion: Will We Ever Find Alien Civilizations? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48860916 I listened to the podcast version (and was awake for much of…

Interesting take on things but I think some of them are being young and not the smartphone or lack of.