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by fernly 20d ago
Can we request animations? I want to see #27 working: https://507movements.com/mm_027.html
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by fernly 1mo ago
This article has a striking absence, that being the name "John Atanasoff"[0], whose electronic digital calculator was seen and examined by Mauchly in 1941, and who spoke to Mauchly multiple times during the years when ENIAC was be
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by fernly 1mo ago
With that experience, why have you stayed with that provider? It would seem to be no harder, and quite satisfying, to open new accounts with another provider for you and your wife, and then cancel these accounts.
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by fernly 1mo ago
It says, "involving chewing gum made from lablab beans (bean gum)". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lablab -- Taiwanese researchers found that a carbohydrate-binding protein (i.e. a legume lectin) from lablab b
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by fernly 2mo ago
Relevant: A San Francisco company is advertising humanoid robot housecleaning services[1]. However those 'bots require local supervision and a human controller watching through its video feed. Presumably that company could use the Gemi
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by fernly 2mo ago
I've done, and still do, regular blogging. I have a domain, and everything I post is mine. However it can't be "indieweb" because I used Wordpress. Hence my current blog is dependent on a corporation, as were a couple of
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by fernly 3mo ago
Says, not inflation-adjusted. With reason; adjusting those 1960-1980 prices for inflation would make the graph a lot taller. Pricing "per GB" before 1990 is unrealistic, though; nobody thought in GB or purchased GB quantities, or
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by fernly 3mo ago
Per Wikipedia, it "is a colorless, odorless, non-flammable, and non-toxic gas." When used as a contrast agent for ultrasound, it "has been used to examine the vascularity of tumours" -- which would be similar to its use
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by fernly 5mo ago
Ken Shirrif recently published a survey of the "system/4 pi" family of which this is a member: https://www.righto.com/2026/03/ibm-4-pi-computer-history.htm...
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by fernly 6mo ago
From the Conclusion section of the PDF[1], "Multimodal AI systems are increasingly deployed on the assumption that their benchmark performance reflects genuine visual understanding. Our results fundamentally challenge these assumptions
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by fernly 6mo ago
HTML/CSS components were not available to Guido in 1988. It was in 1989 that Tim Berners-Lee defined the first version of HTML[0] and CSS was proposed five years later[1]. In 1988 Guido would have known about the Mac (1984) which he ci
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by fernly 7mo ago
Not that hard if you are in young to middle years and have any job experience. I asked Perplexity "If an American citizen, a trained engineer with some experience, desired to work abroad in the EU or an English-first nation, what are s
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by fernly 8mo ago
Set aside the effect within Wikipedia and consider the larger picture, millions of people generating text with LLMs and at least some of that text being accepted as correct by millions of readers. The WikiEdu article clearly demonstrates wh
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by fernly 9mo ago
wotsit do?
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by fernly 9mo ago
Actually more fun is the "henge near me" page[1] which lets you test alignment on a map of a chosen city. Very nice interactive use of Google Maps, flipping red alignment bars on and off as the date changes. On March 12, 2026, all
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by fernly 10mo ago
agree, I feel dumb but don't see subtle issue. Also when copy/pasting into Python to try it, I got an error because \“ is in fact U+201C not an ASCII quote. (Surely that's not the subtle issue?)
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by fernly 11mo ago
Questions while watching the video. Calendar is central, but I use a Google calendar which is important to me. Connect it? Seems like a "dlog" is a calendar entry. So is my "journal" broken up into separate pages, not a
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by fernly 11mo ago
None of the sliders sound anything at all like my tinnitus, which is a very high complex hiss, maybe up around 6-9Khz? and steady, or varying slowly in volume. But no beeps or boops like this system.
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by fernly 11mo ago
Another nice quote, > The next logical step is to invent a way to scale linearly with the number of constraints. “That is the North Star for all this research,” she said. But it would require a completely new strategy. “We are not at ris
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by fernly 11mo ago
Some quite random claims here, can anyone provide citations? > GPT-5 can do things no other A.I. can do. It can hack into a web server. It can design novel forms of life. It can even build its own A.I. (albeit a much simpler one) from sc
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by fernly 1y ago
> three Scottish brothers have set a new world record by completing the first and fastest unsupported row across the Pacific Ocean... > The previous record of 159 days had been set in 2014 by Russian rower Fedor Konyukhov. Um, if the
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by fernly 1y ago
Refer to David Brooks' opinion piece in today's NYT, about Republican Nihilism. He claims there is a spirit of "burn it all down". Seems to be seconded by several comments in this thread.
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by fernly 1y ago
Based only on the headings and titles of the charts on the first few pages? I smell an AI writing. I mean, do these titles sound like an intelligent human wrote them? "Charts paint thousands of words..." "Leading USA-Based LL
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by fernly 1y ago
The address given for the Byte Shop, "1063 El Camino Real in Mountain View", is ambiguous. It needs to specify either 1063 EAST El Camino Real or 1063 WEST El Camino Real, two quite different locations. Neither of those matches th
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by fernly 1y ago
Well I just had to try it on Claude 4.0, I mean somebody has to, right? and it did a clean, if rather terse, breakdown, concluding with: Caesar's last breath: ~0.5 liters (typical final exhale) Total atmospheric volume: Earth's at
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by fernly 1y ago
Compare to Claude Projects? https://www.anthropic.com/news/projects
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Lessons from Agentforce Customer Conversations(salesforce.com)
1 points by fernly 1y ago|0 comments
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Claude and I write a utility program(blog.plover.com)
3 points by fernly 1y ago|0 comments
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by fernly 1y ago
Running spellcheck is a standard step on every page of proofreading. There's a "wordcheck" button in proofing UI.
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by fernly 1y ago
Perplexity had no problem with the question, replying in part, "Paul Newman is known to have struggled with alcohol throughout his life, as revealed in various accounts, including his own memoir and documentaries about his life....&quo

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