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thisisauserid··on Gemini 4 Carbon
They should at least tell us the atomic mass they're using.

If it's based on carbon-14 it will lose half its model weights in 5,730 years; if it's based on carbon-12, it's a stable release.

thisisauserid··on Gemini 4 Carbon
This let's them talk about it on their earnings call in a few hours.
thisisauserid··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
No gorilla glass for gorilla arm?
thisisauserid··on Anthropic S-1
So paying retail (or best case, wholesale) is better for basically the same product?
thisisauserid··on Anthropic S-1
Don't forget that they have to rent chips, Google doesn't.
thisisauserid··on Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time
Publication says that specialty of the publication is booming. Noted.
thisisauserid··on /dev/null: social network for developers
symlinked in.
thisisauserid··on How the Claude Code team does code review
Remind me to invest more in the clouds they are burning those tokens in.
thisisauserid··on Show HN: Timur's Chess – A 14th century chess variant with giraffes
So the giraffe kinda moves like a knight that can't jump. It takes a mandatory diagonal, then must move at least three more squares. But then it can move any number of squares in that direction after those three.

Okay, so not really like a knight at all.

Wait until you find out about the cannon in Chinese chess. It's like a rook that not only can jump one piece, but must.

thisisauserid··on Gemini 4 Argon
Here's how the 1M token output (long decode) works: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/long-decode
thisisauserid··on How to save a life without knowing CPR
Didn't read but bookmarked for later in case something happens and I need it.
thisisauserid··on Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?
Shouldn't the question be, "Why isn't everything else?"
thisisauserid··on Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
So their plan to burn oil and keep the AC mandated no cooler than 24°C in their homes didn't work out? Huh.
thisisauserid··on Socrates vs. the Written Word (2011)
Socrates deemed writing a 'pharmakon,' a word that can simultaneously mean both a remedy and a poison.
thisisauserid··on Jev-Leftpad
Jev-in-the-Loop. Makes sense.
thisisauserid··on Towards Self-Driving Codebases
Sounds like the next shitty Vercel ad at re:Invent.
thisisauserid··on How, Exactly, Could A.I. Kill Us?
Hook it up to CRISPR.
thisisauserid··on Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking audio-to-audio
Confirmed that when you interrupt it, it shuts up immediately. Ya know, like a tool that is useful instead of a friend that burns tokens for no reason.
thisisauserid··on Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe – Full Interview [video] (2025)
I can just barely recommend it. The physics is great but for a 3 hour AMA it's about 51% politics and basketball.
thisisauserid··on Show HN: Hacker News, without AI
Ironically, this is trivial to build with LLMs.
thisisauserid··on How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
You should take your ad viewing elsewhere in protest.
thisisauserid··on Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge
I know nothing about z3 but it's from Microsoft. Would Google's OR-Tools component CP-SAT also be useful for something like this?
thisisauserid··on Gemini 3.8 Flash
They don't want to release a frontier model that requires data sharing with the government and right now it looks like they'd have to.
thisisauserid··on Gemini Agentic Video Understanding
> The model dynamically navigates the video timeline, loading only the content it needs based on the prompt. Up to 88% more token-efficient and ~7% higher quality on long-form content.
thisisauserid··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
Zero data retention coming soon!

... with the condition that you store 100% of your data and make it available to the US government and possible others.

thisisauserid··on Lion-man
The Eurasian Cave Lion was around there back then and was probably the direct model for the Lion-man sculpture. It was roughly 20% larger than modern African lions. Paleolithic cave paintings (e.g., Chauvet) show the male cave lions lacked the heavy neck manes of modern lions.
thisisauserid··on Agents still can't automate Excel
Have your agent call DuckDB to load it first.
thisisauserid··on The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator (2020)
The infamous Worm Tub! It always bothered me that that character (nor the author) ever gave credit to Einstein.

And because of that omission, Einstein drifted into obscurity...

thisisauserid··on Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash
Google's main source of revenue is advertising not enriching people's lives. It's not a charity.
thisisauserid··on Engineered yeast for converting plastic and biomass compounds to food additives
In 2011 researchers identified a fungus named pestalotiopsis microspora. It gained widespread attention because it can digest polyurethane plastic and survive entirely in anaerobic conditions, making it a prime candidate for deployment at the bottom of landfills.

I for one look forward to serving this underground deity.

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