AlanYx

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by AlanYx 5d ago
I'm aware of that language in the terms, but I think most of us were under the (likely mistaken) impression that the safety review flagging focused on harmful content and safety (e.g., individuals discussing threatened real-world viole
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by AlanYx 6d ago
The open question here is how is Anthropic retaining these exchanges? If Moonshot is using the API, normally Anthropic would not retain the exchanges, at least that's the promise. If Anthropic is consistently retaining all exchanges fr
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by AlanYx 7d ago
>he specifically notes that they used the paid subscriptions, iirc. Where are you seeing that? He only says "We used several LLMs throughout: Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s Codex, especially with GPT-5.6 Sol and, more recently, Astra.
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by AlanYx 29d ago
>there’s really nowhere in the world except China that offers consumers as much choice and availability as the U.S. does. This is true, although I find it interesting that so many people then gravitate to Costco, where consumer choice in
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by AlanYx 1mo ago
>Gardasil 9 seems to be the best available HPV vaccine. Only in high income countries. The 4-valent version is still the dominant version available worldwide.
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by AlanYx 1mo ago
Not just gut flora. High levels of circulating xylitol (and erythritol for that matter) have been shown in both mouse models and humans to be associated with increased platelet reactivity and elevated 3-year risk of major cardiovascular eve
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by AlanYx 1mo ago
You could, but getting it from pigments in a chitinous matrix produced by genetically engineered brewer's yeast is just a little bit cooler.
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by AlanYx 1mo ago
The mushroom smell isn't from either the substrate or respiration. That distinct odor is 1-octen-3-ol. Biochemists call it "mushroom alcohol." It's caused by enzymatic breakdown of their cell walls, and it thought to be
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by AlanYx 1mo ago
The claim in the article that saccharomyces cerevisiae (brewer's yeast) naturally produced the deep blue color in the butterfly example is not actually true, although it's a gorgeous effect. These are genetically engineered varian
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by AlanYx 1mo ago
>Now in turn people are worried that the Apple TV adaptation of Neuromancer will feel derivative because so many subsequent works are its hereditary kin. Neuromancer is particularly vulnerable to this because so much of the original Matr
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by AlanYx 2mo ago
Literally "wine-faced" or "wine-eyed", yes. The problem with the literal wine-faced/wine-eyed is it doesn't convey luminosity/depth to readers, so it kind of misses the point. The missing context is that a
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by AlanYx 2mo ago
"wine dark sea" is the best example of this. It's a poetic/literary leap by Chapman and Pope that then became a functional convention in most subsequent translations. The alternative translations aren't any better t
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by AlanYx 2mo ago
>Civil breach of contract. Anthropic's TOS explicitly say you can't do what Kimi is alleged to have done. This is true, but Kimi also has a variety of defenses. Kimi can't raise unclean hands if Anthropic systematically vi
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by AlanYx 2mo ago
>Cohere (HQd in Toronto) Cohere keeps changing their story about where they're headquartered. From 2019-2020 they were HQed in Toronto. Then from early 2020 to 2026 they billed themselves as dual-headquartered in Toronto and San Fra
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by AlanYx 2mo ago
I disagree with this being flagged. I'd be interested in seeing more data of this type, despite how "preposterous" it is from a tech perspective. I've long speculated that in Canada we're at about a 3:1 ratio for bu
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by AlanYx 3mo ago
Did the parents grow up with Lego? The "each set stays in its own bag" thing was what my wife wanted to do for the longest time, not having grown up with the beautiful chaos of a giant tub of pieces, and the oddly reassuring sound
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by AlanYx 3mo ago
There were also two 20-in-1 sets recently, both very reasonably priced. Those were huge hits in my house.
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by AlanYx 4mo ago
That's presumably why so many professors are banding together for this letter. 600 professors is a fairly significant chunk of the faculty.
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by AlanYx 4mo ago
Most of the soul ideas that eventually made their way into Judaism (and many years later becoming heavily influential in sects like the one founded by Baal Shem Tov) originally came from diaspora Hellenic Jews who were familiar with Platoni
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by AlanYx 4mo ago
Antigravity CLI was only announced yesterday, so pretty much no one realizes it's different from Antigravity IDE yet, but I agree with your overall point. This kind of branding is toxic for individual product awareness. I'm not su
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by AlanYx 4mo ago
>he claims that the concept of "soul" is something that the wasn't really present in the Jewish worldview of Jesus' time That's a broadly accepted take among religious historians, although it's off by a half
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by AlanYx 4mo ago
C3P is not staffed by parents who have lost their kids. I've had some professional interactions with one person who works for the org, and she came across in a very negative way. I don't want to use pejoratives, and perhaps it&#x2
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by AlanYx 4mo ago
I'm in the middle. I have some sympathy for the Canadian intelligence community's perspective here; in recent years, much intelligence potentially preventing major criminal public safety incidents has had to come through five eyes
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by AlanYx 4mo ago
It's a confluence of two things: (i) Canada's government policy community tends to be heavily influenced by legislative trends in the UK/Aus/NZ; this particular one is almost a direct import from the UK's ill-advise
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by AlanYx 4mo ago
It's not yet easy to buy BYD vehicles in Canada either. The first quota of 49,000 vehicles was only recently announced, and that's to be shared across all Chinese vendors.
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by AlanYx 5mo ago
Unfortunately CIE standards like the JTC22 (D8/D1) work here tend not to be released for free. Eventually the mathematical curves should be adopted by open source implementations. Hopefully this isn't encumbered by patents.
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by AlanYx 5mo ago
Does anyone have link to a deeper technical dive on the limitations of CIE 1931 that Apple CMF tries to address? The CIE's JTC22 (D8/D1): Optimized Colour Matching Functions for Display Colour Consistency documents seem to be behi
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by AlanYx 5mo ago
New York's definition is one of the most detailed. The Australian definition on the other hand probably includes Hacker News because it includes both "a logged-in feature" and "endless feed" and the fact that posts
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by AlanYx 5mo ago
In the US, yes, but Huawei has been gaining ground selling its SuperPod/Ascend turnkey solutions internationally, with some major recent wins in Thailand, Brazil, Egypt and Morocco.
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by AlanYx 6mo ago
No. They're a decent playground for prototyping hybrid algorithms but even that is limited. No one has yet published a hybrid algorithm on a rentable QC provider that has better benchmark performance than a modern CPU/GPU implemen

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