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kakurokokoro.com/sudocube - How few clues can you solve it with?

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cwmoore··on I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities
While reading the book years ago, I did not visualize Isidora as a city with 9 houses, like a children’s book, or a little video game level intro, but so unlike Kublai Khan or Italo Calvino.
cwmoore··on 3D-printing platform rapidly produces complex electric machines
So long aircraft carriers, hello mobile drone assembly supply chains
cwmoore··on How many GPUs is 1M/B/T tokens?
Thank you. For me the hint was: “How many GPUs is 1M/B/T tokens?“

Those units…

Also “is” is load-bearing

cwmoore··on Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is overestimated: study
Almost all economic activity occurs in fields other than economics.
cwmoore··on When oil prices spike, where does the money go?
investments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49902592
cwmoore··on Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery
Pure charity
cwmoore··on Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display
I disagree with sibling comments. You are correct to express the confounding implications of a word choice. And they have only detracted from the point you make.

Of course the design is cool and beautiful, but it is not the thing it is called here.

cwmoore··on 37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it
My county in the US, the level that manages education, is a rectangle.
cwmoore··on People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes
Yes, I am twelve, and so are the people that sold the cigarettes and profit from them.

If we won’t tax the bots for UBI, at least we can still have smoker-subsidized school lunches.

cwmoore··on People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes
I believe you, and think I know why that would be so.
cwmoore··on People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes
Cars, trucks, powerplants, indoor air, are bad for you.
cwmoore··on Deodands put a price on objects that caused death
What is freedom?
cwmoore··on Deodands put a price on objects that caused death
Given the shared source of the legal doctrines, I'd like to see the terms "superstition" and "irrational relic" properly applied to human incarceration as well, although the historical context recedes with every new generation.
cwmoore··on Communication by means of modulated Johnson noise
Now consider the alignments of red blood cells.

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cwmoore··on Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
“…but LLMs can’t” is the unspoken sticking point.
cwmoore··on How big are factorials?
I came across an interesting feature of factorials while making the puzzle books at https://www.kakurokokoro.com

The widest two rows are nine digits across, but while the first can be any of arrangements of the digits 1-9, the second cannot repeat any digits in the same columns, and so it limits allowable permutations to the number of derangements — which is close to 9!/e (where e is Euler’s Constant 2.718…)

No idea what this has to do with the relationship of i and pi.

cwmoore··on LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'
I’d assume Shazam has specific arrangements with rights holders.
cwmoore··on I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea
Save the orangutans? or sell more Oreos? Hmmm
cwmoore··on I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea
Not an expert view, but I have also heard this explanation for the many hundreds of languages in Africa and India.
cwmoore··on Texas judge rules TikTok misled users on child safety feature
Or throw them to the wolves at age ~18
cwmoore··on LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'
Is it within fair use to surreptitiously record copyrighted music?
cwmoore··on Casablanca: How an unproduced play marched into movie history
Technically, maybe there was, when Muybridge was also the greatest director, in 1880:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Horse_in_Motion

cwmoore··on The UN challenges five centuries of cartography
We all knew the UN emblem already has a world map, right? Right?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emblem_of_the_United...

cwmoore··on Okay, Sure, a Folding iPhone
Can it turn off when you turn it off?
cwmoore··on I asked astra to make playable 4D chess
I made 3D sudoku, books on paper called SUDOCUBE, with a coded index for the clues, using Opus 4.7 I think it was, which came up with the algorithm and extended my own pre-LLM Kakuro codebase:

https://www.kakurokokoro.com/sudocube

cwmoore··on GPT-6 Astra on robot arms
here’s a shovel
cwmoore··on Can guitar frets perform multiplication?
citation please, sibling comment links are ~400
cwmoore··on Can guitar frets perform multiplication?
Betteridge’s Law confirmed (no):

“One of the themes of The Lost Art of Logarithms is that many phenomena in our natural and human-made world can be interpreted logarithmically. That includes music but it does not include guitar frets.”

cwmoore··on Can AI design circuit boards yet?
Not OP but “actual exponential complexity” should work, what is really your issue with that comment?
cwmoore··on Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
…the one call that requires a genuine decision from you.
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