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eraserj··on Claude Is Not a Compiler
I'll go a step further and say Claude is an Interpreter.

It even has just-in-time compilation: it can directly follow a spec and generate small snippets live.

I'm pretty sure we'll soon see services (admittedly highly inefficient) built on Claude-as-a-backend.

eraserj··on Claude can now search the web
> There's less usage of voice mode on the enterprise and power users side but that will happen eventually. - Anthropic CEO 21 jan. [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/snkOMOjiVOk 01:30

eraserj··on Leaked Documents Show OpenAI Has a Clear Definition of 'AGI'
To others like me who don't know what this represents, $100B profit is approximately Apple.
eraserj··on Too Many Vacant Lots, Not Enough Housing: The U.S. Real-Estate Puzzle
Unless they receive a compensation during this transition to a housing system without land speculation, where the value increase is fixed at a specific point in time and you get it only when you sell.
eraserj··on New insights into why aspirin works so well
Poe's law apply here again.
eraserj··on Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney
In the coming years, the human values taught in these AI children books will be picked by an AI to fix the most pressing current and foreseen issues in society (eg. individualism, environmentalism).

In the following decades, parents might be less relevant in children education, sometimes even harmful.

eraserj··on Quiet Quitting Is a Fake Trend
Orwell rightly warned us of newspeak language perversion.
eraserj··on Lowering the Cost of Insulin Could Be Deadly
So all drugs should equally be cheaper, the point still stands.
eraserj··on 75% of middle-class households say their income is behind the cost of living
Publicly funding a private land is another way of describing renting, as there never was citizen's dividends in the first place.
eraserj··on [dead]
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eraserj··on Google rewrites many page titles
Ironically, they failed to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
eraserj··on Twitter admits bias in algorithm for rightwing politicians and news outlets
How would you enforce, e.g. hate speech, moderation if there are both left and right wing definitions for it?

Or Twitter's content policies could follow the law and reflect the political leaning of the governement, but then how do you enforce moderation on a free/liberal social network which by definition should be free from governement censorship?

eraserj··on Solar is dirt-cheap and about to get even more powerful
We'll probably be able to store actual light in some sort of microresonators and release it slowly at night onto solar panels.
eraserj··on The Importance of Humility in Software Development (2020)
Time spent optimizing is time spent not adding features. /s

The "business value" of software optimization is not well known.

eraserj··on The Importance of Humility in Software Development (2020)
Audio of the mentioned 1972 ACM Turing Award lecture by Edsger W. Dijkstra : https://youtu.be/0dGXRK8FUVg?t=148

Transcript : https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340...

eraserj··on Why are there so many unfinished buildings in Africa?
Ghana and DRC are trying to set up a cadastre using blockchain, let's see how it goes.
eraserj··on Gravity batteries try to beat chemical ones with winches, weights, mine shafts
But again, slowing tidal currents must be drawing energy from somewhere until there is none left.
eraserj··on eBay is port scanning visitors to their website
Just wait until the database of ip and open ports is leaked and hackers start exploiting vulnerabilities of softwares listening to these ports to break into random people devices.
eraserj··on Blue bee feared to be extinct is found in Florida
I hope we are building a statistical model of which one is eating which to map where are the missing pieces of the puzzle and direct our focus of research.
eraserj··on The compelling mathematical challenge of the three-body problem
I found a 2015 post on HN listing some stable n-body choreographies[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8867741

eraserj··on Lobe – Deep Learning Made Simple
Any plans for Human Action Recognition?
eraserj··on Buddhism can be as violent as any other religion
Misleading title. Buddhism, as any other religion, can't be violent. Only ignorant non-practicing people can be. Some rogue monks do not represent a religion, they're just another tool of the Thai junta, just like the Pakistan governement is instrumentalizing muslim leaders into terrorism for political motives.