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robotsliketeaon How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving

I'd never heard of him and this was very helpful context, thanks!

robotsliketeaon How we measured AI writing across arXiv, and where the measurement breaks

It seems that LLMs often insert new ideas even when asked only to polish writing without changing it: https://bsky.app/profile/tomerullman.bsky.social/post/3mq33c...

I don't think this is surprising. Good technical writing is very precise. If you're starting from non-technical writing, I suspect that in most cases you can't make it "sound scientific" without adding new claims or changing the meaning. (Maybe you are being more careful, but this is something that worries me in general.)

robotsliketeaon Ask HN: Is there a way to get notified when my cat has seizures?

Someone has indeed solved this problem before! Your comment reminded me that a project triangulating a cat via BLE was posted to HN a few years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26024049 https://github.com/filipsPL/cat-localizer

robotsliketeaon Electricity Maps

This is super cool! For California, my understanding (from PG&E materials) was that highest demand and carbon intensity was around 3pm to 9pm. The graph here seems to show that even though demand/supply is smaller at night, we have very little non-solar renewables so that carbon intensity is pretty bad all night as well... If that's true, I'm curious why PG&E makes it sound like electricity use at night is not as bad. Do they anticipate bringing more wind online and are trying to get ahead with the messaging to the public?