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August 12 is the next total solar eclipse!

Predictive Science builds large 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations, basically predicting the weather on the sun. This lets them predict magnetic field events that can affect earth and satellites. Every Eclipse since 1994 they have released interesting models to play around with! Total eclipses are a great chance to validate their models because you can see the corona with the naked eye!

/local-view for will show you exactly what the Eclipse will look like in your back yard. /summary has some cool science.

Wow- the entire Point Loma area pretty much looks the same as it does today. Too bad they didn't drive down Newport to see Hodad's.

Torrey Pines area definitely looks the most different, mostly because of the growth of UCSD I'm thinking.

That one is a bit sus to me, because the models that do the worst on Omniscience Accuracy do the best on non-hallucination. The top model for this benchmark is "MiniCPM5-1B (Non-reasoning)" which gets a whopping 99% vs 45% for Fable 5.

I'd love to see a good hallucination benchmark, but this isn't one. There's no possibility that a 1B model hallucinates less than Fable 5.

Most of those inference providers are American, and China is actually at a disadvantage here because of export restrictions - US companies are using newer and more efficient chips.

This should erase any doubt that AI Labs are making $$$ on API inference.

Kimi 2.5 (which this is based on) is served at $0.44 input / $2 output by a ton of different providers on OpenRouter, 2.6 will certainly be similar.

That's about 11X less than Opus for similar smarts.

I'm running it for the first time and this is what the thinking looks like. Opus seems highly concerned about whether or not I'm asking it to develop malware.

> This is _, not malware. Continuing the brainstorming process.

> Not malware — standard _ code. Continuing exploration.

> Not malware. Let me check front-end components for _.

> Not malware. Checking validation code and _.

> Not malware.

> Not malware.

IAM is generally binary (allowed yes/no) whereas MCP usually supports more nuance (always allow/ask if risky/always ask/no)

You'll have to get back to us with that name!

When I set up a Mac I have a short list of things that I need to install. When I set up Windows I have a much longer list of things that I need to un-install. I much prefer the former.

iStat menus (or the new open source "Stats") is a brilliant use of the menu bar, but it can take a lot of space!

Then couple ordinary services that add menu bar icons that you don't even ask for (DropBox, Docker, Adobe, etc.) and you can overflow onto the notch quite quickly.