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by Lucent 4d ago
You're in luck. I just moved a lot more motion to the compositor. Cladogram got a big upgrade too in speed. Most annoying bug is that Chromium will not allow any SVG on the compositor if your devicePixelRatio isn't 1, which is pra
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by Lucent 9d ago
This is vernacular picked up from Wikimedia commons for Homo rhodesiensis and its WikiData. It could be vandalism. I'll post to the Talk: and if it reverts, I'll reingest that source. https://commons.wikimedia.org/
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by Lucent 9d ago
I reproduced this bug and will have a fix out in an hour.
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by Lucent 9d ago
This is the highest compliment, and I see why no other projects have tried to join all the different trees of life together or attach and reconcile traits. This was the majority of the project. However, the unique "roll-up" visual
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by Lucent 9d ago
OneZoom is a great museum piece. Very engaging visualization that invites large touchscreen interaction. Impressive code behind it too for pruning offscreen vectors so the zoom stays smooth. On desktop however, perhaps due to my age, it giv
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by Lucent 9d ago
The gutter fold is entirely custom and took a month to get right. Try a link like this to see how the lines fold around each other in the gutter so hierarchy is preserved. https://ptree.org/#GBIF/Nutrition/42&v
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by Lucent 9d ago
The problem with rolling up 2.2 million species into 7 kingdoms is it surfaces data quality issues loudly. Ranking photos by popularity means one node mismatch in millions due to a homonym will send that up from 10 levels deep. As I find th
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by Lucent 12d ago
Absolutely agree with the underlying UX point. "Incertae sedis" shouldn't leave you unable to tell what broad kind of organism you're looking at. I do filter structural junk per backbone, but only from evidence that back
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Show HN: Interactive Tree of Life(ptree.org)
115 points by Lucent 13d ago|27 comments
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What Bitcoin sextortion emails actually earned(claude.ai)
2 points by Lucent 1mo ago|0 comments
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by Lucent 2mo ago
For some reason the floor price is $5 a month when given the complexity of the app and the benefit to my life, the price should be between a few cents and a dollar at the high end.
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You're Coming Back with Me(lucent.substack.com)
3 points by Lucent 4mo ago|0 comments
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by Lucent 4mo ago
This is why land use and nuisance laws exist in municipalities. People clamor for deregulation when it prevents them from shooting off fireworks or guns or burning trash and move to unincorporated areas. Then, a datacenter comes along, effe
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by Lucent 4mo ago
Costco's gimmick is relieving you of choice and price shopping. They find the best stuff and don't mark it up. If Consumer is your identity yet you fear executing its labors, let Costco step in and become your denomination of cons
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by Lucent 5mo ago
Mom brain is also a thing. Large scale, consistent, structural changes in the postpartum brain that is uncorrelated with PPD. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab463
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by Lucent 5mo ago
I suspect the "alpine divorce" phenomenon is the same desire to test influence dangerously attempted in a higher stakes environment. "No, let's go to this restaurant" becomes "Let's take this path" or
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by Lucent 5mo ago
I am shocked it resonated with readers here so universally. It was well-presented visually, but genuinely miserable to read with all the worst tells of AI writing. It contained two or three actual sentences of content with intense repetitio
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Backers suspect clamshell PC Kickstarters are headless with videos hiding cables(notebookcheck.net)
2 points by Lucent 7mo ago|1 comments
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by Lucent 7mo ago
Two Kickstarters, one with the "Projects We Love" badge from the platform itself, have raised $1M+ by promising a clamshell PC with mechanical keyboard while demo videos show a known AliExpress headless keyboard/touchscreen (
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by Lucent 7mo ago
When it flags something as high confidence, 3.1 is very reliable. Human-authored text I saw scoring ~70 with 3.0 now scores ~15. With scores above 90, the false positive rate looks to be about zero. https://www.pangram.com/b
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by Lucent 7mo ago
Turns out my blog is actually a newsletter? Seems like a distinction without a difference.
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by Lucent 8mo ago
https://www.pangram.com/history/89da46c7-113e-4a27-8f3f-dbc8...
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by Lucent 9mo ago
It's easy to be a text maximalist now we're in the LLM era, but I disagree that ideas are a separate, nonphysical realm that cannot otherwise be described. https://lucent.substack.com/p/one-map-hypothesis
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by Lucent 1y ago
Rather than "hurting America," Crossfire was the highest form of political debate America could suffer before retreating into info bubbles.
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by Lucent 2y ago
I chose the Sony 1000XM4 because the RTINGS graph showed the strongest cancellation in the 60Hz range. All my tormentors are in the AC-powered machine noise range. https://www.rtings.com/discussions/adsg5oN7w-9Dgb3O&#x2
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by Lucent 2y ago
I don't doubt these bring awful externalities, but children requiring cochlear implants due to hearing loss from a nearby datacenter?
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by Lucent 2y ago
Regret-centric advice always follows the implicit model of: had I taken Action, best case I add Good Result to this timeline, worst case I revert to this timeline. No, failure can have a cost that wipes out this timeline completely, leaving
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by Lucent 2y ago
https://ptable.com/#Electrons/HOAO Shows the highest occupied atomic orbital in full 3D you can rotate. Select any slot in the Hund diagram to see that orbital instead.
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by Lucent 2y ago
This is an incredible relief and should be the final nail in the coffin for safety/alignment/shoggoth arguments. It turns out features are completely scrutable, and when modified, we don't see chaotic, schizo non-sequiturs, b
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by Lucent 2y ago
This is how I now see biology, and more so with each reframing. Cells being squishy, floppy bags no longer counts as a point against them being "tech" or "robotic." That's deliberate engineering—a complex scaffold o

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