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In your experience, can you take the tech debt riddled code, and ask claude to come up with an entirely new version that fixes the tech debt/design issues you've identified? Presum…

Would you mind expanding on what you do for anticorruption? It has been something ive been thinking about and wanting to get into lately. It seems like complete poison to democracy…

generally there is a "temperature" parameter that can be used to add some randomness or variety to the LLMs outputs by changing the likelihood of the next word being selected. This…

I have been using search for engines for 30 years, my queries are not vague, i put as many keywords and "inurl"s and whatnot in as i can manage. I dont use kagi blocklists. Google …

I haven't found quoting helps much. I also feel like i shouldnt have to craft search queries with a lot of inurl or other tags or quoting. Kagi just seems to work better. Its worth…

I have used kagi for quite a while now, and i use it pretty much exclusively. I was unhappy with google ignoring many terms in my search queries and giving me results that I genera…

are you at all confident that this isn't hallucinated? I'd never trust an answer like this from an LLM

You need to break down the lignin without damaging the cellulose. Boiling and mashing doesnt do this very well, you still get bundles of fibres sticking together, you really need t…

Of course there has been 'climate change' and 'global warming' before, caused by things like large volcanic eruptions (deccan traps) or meteorites. But they have pretty universally…

Australian houses aren't bought with american dollars though. If this were the case wouldnt we see a big correlation between house prices and USD exchange rates? Why wouldn't the c…

What is the coconut coir for? How did you stick everything together? Does it all go in a bag of some sort? How does price compare to retail mattresses? Hoe comfortable is it?

I haven't tried on ios, but brave browser has an inbuilt ad blocker. Might be worth a try. I am quite happy with brave and kagi on android.

Disorganised theft, damage, mislaid, lost

If a 'superintelligence' achieves the same outcomes as humans without engaging in the same class of intellectual tasks that humans do, wouldnt it still be a superitelligence? Deep …

The title "you wont survive as human capital" sounds interesting, but beyond the first paragraph, i cant quite connect the content to the title, it seems to mostly talk about the s…

Humans are currently on track for around 4 degrees of warming by 2100 assuming we hit all our current emission reduction targets (i.e. reaching net zero when governments have said …

This whole 'undesireable side reactions' thing is completely overblown for basalts. The effects to soil of volcanic ash from eruptions is quite well studied, not to mention crushed…

The fourier transform converts between time domain and frequency domain. The fourier transform is linear, which means it can be implemented as multiplying your time domain signal b…

The fourier domain is just a linear transform of the time domain, i.e. just a matrix multiply away!

Youd expect much bigger increases in atmospheric methane if that were the case i think: https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends_ch4/

Etymologically there are 3 and 4 way couplings... latin copula just means 'joined', nothing about 2.

Im australian, and a "couple of things" is some small number, like 2-4. Using it for exactly 2 seems like people are confusing it with 2 things that are coupled. Why not just say 2…

That is a completely different usage of the word as far as I'm concerned, like confusing nut ( and bolt) with nut (from a tree), in this case 'a couple' like two people in a relati…

you mention climate being a waste, but one of the only extinction events bigger than KT was the permian triassic, and that was caused by high atmospheric CO2. We're already on trac…

This is in the voluntary carbon markets, quite separate to regulated carbon markets. It is unfortunate that so many may be junk, but in the end 380 billion T of carbon needs to be …