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I used cursor for a project built on a framework with a huge API that I hadn't studied exhaustively. I used a similar workflow with grok for the planning and composer for the implementation. You have to be vigilant, ask questions about the plan, inspect every line of output, and ask for do-overs. At the end I estimated that I would have needed 5-6 months without the coding agent instead of six weeks. I didn't develop as much knowledge of the API as I would have without the coding agent, but I doubt that my employer would have knowingly accepted a longer schedule in exchange for my education. It's not just junior engineers who are going to miss out with coding agents.

I'm not a radio guy, but I've read that the in-phone modems and antennas for Globalstar were much closer to existing designs. The spectrum is apparently right next to WiFi and Bluetooth bands.

I learned to touch type using lower case l for 1. Later on I was "Look, ma, there's an actual number 1 on this computer keyboard."

"This rule largely exists to avoid reviewer disagreements."

Setting aside the use of "an internal research model", how would one go about prompting an LLM to do this?

This is pretty cool. I just discovered the TESS data set yesterday and was wondering what I could do with it. Good on him.

The privacy issue blocks me from adopting this or other personal assistants: do I want to give muse my identity data and access to my mail, calendar, and phone so it can do even basic tasks like make appointments or pay bills?

It will be interesting to see if muse's privacy features can get users over this.

...and less variety. Growers are not going to stay in business by lowering their prices.

This seems much better than hand-wringing and woe-is-me that we usually see. Good job.

The lesson I take away from Tesla is going for the extremum: if you're going to be BEV, don't compromise. Toyota is ignoring that with a "platform that supports all powertrains, including pure electric".

Google tries a lot of stuff. It doesn't always work out for them, and sometimes they give up on it. I don't think that's a complete loss for the rest of us. We get to see what didn't work in the real world, and if it's really valuable, someone else can pick up the idea and build on that knowledge. I say this as someone who misses Google Reader.

I was working on solving Navier-Stokes, but now I'll have to find something else to do. Maybe P=NP?

Maybe we need "de Moura complexity": the shortest Lean proof of a theorem.

Spike proteints: new production or residual fragments?

Ferran Adrià published a recipe for an omelette using potato chips.

I find most of my references while browsing, and capture from the browser is Zotero's winning feature for me: automatically save the pdf and extract the bibliographic data. And while reading a paper, I get a search engine to look up its references and repeat.

The rest of the interface is ok.

Come back when your computer is in a room with a raised floor (for cabling), tremendous AC, and windows in walls so a passer-by can look in and see the tapes rotating. Geezer here.

What about language was used in the masters program? Spanish? I'm guessing that German is your first language.

Origins of the 1918 flu are unclear, but there is evidence that it started in Haskell County, Kansas, and spread to Camp Funston, Kansas. As a consequence, many of the trainees became non-functional.

This also works in drawing and painting. One of my painting teachers used to admonish us: "copy, copy, copy".

Article title should be "Efficient C++ Programming for Modern 64-bit CPUs...".

Nothing new under the sun: Strobe Data did this decades years ago for things like PDP-11s (http://www.strobedata.com/home/pioneer10.html) and DG Novas.

I'm a pretty conservative emacs user, partly because I don't want to spend time tinkering to get things to work consistently across Windows, ubuntu, and mac os -- all of which I use daily. My most "modern" adoption is probably using lsp and eglot with various language modes, notably golang and rust.

Should I consider adding tree-sitter into the mix?

The port in 1977 of Unix to an Interdata architecture was one of the singular accomplishments of the Unix operating system.

My first computing experience: Fortran on an 1130 in about 1967.

Love this kind of fearless DIY. Keep at it.

Similar thoughts here. That was when I realized the potential of the Internet: I didn't have to be a grad student at a tier 1 research university to learn about the frontier.

I have a Kelty BB5 that I purchased in 1972, and I used it as recently as 2025. On family trips where you end up carrying odd loads like two sleeping bags or outsized tents, it beats the internal frame packs I use for fast and light trips.

When I was a wee lad, a conference speaker announced that "portability" meant "runs on anything that supports OS/360".

Huge privacy minefield.