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Comment · 12 days ago
You should be using two (or even three) different LLMs. For example: Claude to do the coding, and Codex to do an adversarial review. This can go back and forth for several iterations before converging on an acceptably "correct" version of the code...
Occasionally, Claude may not be able to fix the issue – and it may turn out that Codex can, because it has a different approach.
Either way, at least two LLMs is the only way to get (mostly) reliable code.
Comment · 15 days ago
Nutritionist Adelle Davis warned about this way back in the 1950s, in her book Let's Eat Right To Keep Fit. Along with a proper diet, she championed soil health, regenerative farming, and sensible food preparation.
Sad to see how little progress the world has made in the last 70 years.
Comment · 1 month ago
I don't understand why this should be such a mystery.
Show it to a biologist or naturalist (and without the horrendous dark blue background behind the black head – didn't anyone look at the article before it was published?!), and the first response would probably be: "aardvark!" (or possibly "anteater!").
The aardvark's range covers much of the African continent; conceivably, it could have extended to Egypt, several thousand years ago.
Comment · 3 months ago
Also: the classic essay by H P Lovecraft: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/essays/shil.aspx
(The last line is especially memorable!)
Comment · 3 months ago
This dithering could also be an interesting variation: https://dead.garden/blog/how-my-images-are-dithered.html
(Featured few days ago on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49006096)
Comment · 3 months ago
An alternative vector: "cloud seeding" (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2004/sep/09/science.rese...)
Charles Fort collected numerous data for his famous "The Book of the Damned" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Damned
Comment · 3 months ago
On the contrary, the video gives an excellent analysis of Putin's options, and it's definitely worth watching.
You're right that Putin believes he's infallible, and the Nielsen makes the point that Putin often picks the most stupid option. But it also emphasizes that Europe needs to be ready to act if Putin decides to escalate, and if the US chooses to abandon NATO.
Comment · 3 months ago
russia's invasion of Ukraine is absolutely solvable. It's just a disgrace that Ukraine is left to do it alone, with huge casualties (civilian as well as military), and inconceivable destruction.
Comment · 3 months ago
Color Out of Space (2019) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5073642/)
Evolution (2001) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251075/)
Both fun movies, in completely different ways!
Comment · 3 months ago
"Our cameras in Northford, Connecticut, and Douglassville, Pennsylvania, as well as a doorbell camera in Wayne, New Jersey, captured the meteor, and from that we measured its trajectory... The path traced back to low in the asteroid belt."
I don't doubt it, but that's an astounding trajectory estimation...
Comment · 3 months ago
And here's the original, in the mid-Dec 1989 issue of Analog Science Fact & Fiction magazine (at the bottom of the page) on the unparalleled Luminist Archives website:
https://readitfree.org/SF/AN_2.htm
(Luminist is one of the jewels of the internet, right up there with Archive and Wikipedia. Support them!)
Comment · 3 months ago
Aranet detectors are superb, and – best of all! – made in Latvia.
Support European!
Comment · 4 months ago
Precedent: A 1944 science fiction story accurately described an atomic bomb – so much so that it prompted a visit from the FBI to the NY office of Astounding Science Fiction. Definitely a point of pride for editor John W Campbell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadline_(science_fiction_stor...