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dr_dshivon AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?

As a side note; There is plenty of useful math that many people need (or would benefit from) in the real world. Much math curricula is arguably poorly aligned to needs, as it emerged from various historical flukes of design-by-committee. Popular math curricula is not perfect by any means. I recommend looking at high school or college textbooks and considering whether it is well prioritized.

dr_dshivon Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

Given your opinions on this, may I ask for your feedback on https://SourceLibrary.org? I’d greatly appreciate it.

dr_dshivon Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index

Belt and braces all the way down

dr_dshivon Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness

I learned today that I have 28 teeth. Anyone have 32?

dr_dshivon Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness

https://sourcelibrary.org/book/problemata-text-beginning-omn...

An original source for this. I wonder if wisdom teeth affected this count? It’s so odd of a claim

dr_dshivon Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness

Daoist conceptions of virtue can be described as “cosmic spontaneity”

https://sourcelibrary.org/book/chuang-tzu-mystic-moralist-an...

dr_dshivon Nobel Disease

Isn't that how Kary Mullis got his nobel prize to begin with?

dr_dshivon Nobel Disease

It then rips on scientists who believed that COVID19 was the result of a lab leak.

The whole page is poor.

dr_dshivon Harness engineering for self-improvement

Yes, I build into my gnite skill for closing conversations

dr_dshivon Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed

White-ish, vaguely nutritious beverage suitable for coffee.

dr_dshivon Everything I Know (1975)

Is there an MCP?

dr_dshivon AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions

Elon told the economist in his interview last week that money won’t matter in 10 years. That is not financial advice. More people now “know” that than this list.

dr_dshivon AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job

You get a sense for when things start to drift.

“Any organization, cleanup or consolidation needed?”

dr_dshivon Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2012)

Harmony has always been a principle that refers to more than music, let alone chords. Here is a recent review: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240587262...

It also refers to the “first” scientific experiment: an empirical test of the generalization of a mathematical model of harmony — from ratios of string lengths to ratios of chime thickness (as recorded by Aristotle’s student Aristoxenus)

dr_dshivon Three Theses on the Literacy Crisis

ChatGPT. Just saying. It’s truly a lot of reading. I must read about twice as much text as ever before.

dr_dshivon Magnolias are so old that they're pollinated by beetles, not bees (2025)

The desperation of the immobile

dr_dshivon JetZero

…as a form of cloud control. If we are already doing it inadvertently, we may as well do it well.

dr_dshivon German Peasants' War

“ After defeating the peasants and their town allies in 1525, the lords continued raising rents to the point that, by the 1570s, peasants were paying 60 to 80 percent of their harvest on rents and debt. This unsustainable amount meant that the farmers could not adequately feed themselves or their livestock, nor refertilize the soil. This led to declining grain yields, widespread malnutrition, and famines, which opened the door to the return of the plague. Social tensions grew at all levels of society, producing witch hunts and repeated outbreaks of war. The growing burden of war taxes and staggering debt loads further crippled the economy, ending in general collapse into the Thirty Years War. The Thirty Years War was the inescapable result of the defeat of the peasants in 1525. Farmers in England, meanwhile, won their freedom from serfdom, which allowed them to produce the growing agricultural surpluses that fueled England’s rise to world power.”

Proving again that a harmony of interests is better than domination.

dr_dshivon JetZero

I thought this was about being able to fly without harm to the environment— which it sounds like we could do if we master clouds.

dr_dshivon JetZero

So, getting better at manipulating clouds will help prevent planetary heating. I assume there is a huge amount of public support for this scientific research?

dr_dshivon Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach

Did he ever sell scientific papers? Did you buy them?

dr_dshivon Politician reads AI prompt during assembly

Oddly, getting spotted for being dumb might be intelligent.

As I click another AI generated ad to tell which company could possibly have so little integrity…

dr_dshivon Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales

Tell more sounds like a good story

dr_dshivon Codeberg: ToU extension to prohibit LLM-extrusions

I wonder why the sibling is dead — fax is still quite necessary in German govt and health care!

dr_dshivon China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning

Assume, crazy business, that china wants what’s best for the world. Recognizing the danger of an AI arms race rapidly producing uncontrollable superintelligence, it focuses on open weights to reduce the economic incentives for further advancement of AI beyond the “highly useful for humans” stage.

Seems like the only thing that could avert an intelligence rapid take off. Everyone wins except for shareholders.

dr_dshivon Biggest Probabilistic Computer Turns Noise into Answers

When can I get an API key!

dr_dshivon EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams

“Bilocation” was one of the legendary superpowers of Pythagoras (he was miraculously able to lecture in two cities at the same time).

Whenever I’m in multiple conversations at once in a social setting, I think of Pythagoras

dr_dshivon Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

What are the different business models for open-weight AI companies?

dr_dshivon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

Nice. I’ll look into the back button. Would love any more specific feedback (feedback button on every page).

If you have a minute, check out the Librarian in the menu. Give it your research questions. It’s a pretty powerful research agent!

dr_dshivon A graph that should be front-page news

The data seem to suggest an urgent need for solar radiation management because reducing fossil fuel consumption to a negative value isn't really a viable plan, as it turns out. Instead, we will have to use technology to solve the problem, surprise surprise.

Calcium carbonate has the benefit of de acidifying the ocean.