julienchastang

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by julienchastang 14d ago
Ha! I just had a very interesting conversation with ChatGPT about a mushroom that I found in my front lawn. I am 99% sure it was an edible oyster mushroom which included analysis the of the size, growing substrate (dead ash tree root which
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by julienchastang 20d ago
org-mode is a way more powerful literate programming environment which can be exported to many different formats including markdown. In the past, I have collaborated with others with markdown as the sort of interface format. But on the coll
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The Surprising Mental-Health Benefits of Getting Away(wsj.com)
3 points by julienchastang 21d ago|0 comments
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by julienchastang 23d ago
Does anybody else feel like this is the answer to the Fermi paradox? Advanced civilizations simply exploit, consume, and pollute their way of existence.
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by julienchastang 26d ago
This article is about the Economist's summary of a journal article so we have a (AI?) summary of a summary. Not very helpful. Here are a couple of better references: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract
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by julienchastang 29d ago
I am not part of the group being polled (firmly ensconced in middle age), but I feel the opposite. Yes, the AI roll out has been shambolic to say the least, and it can also be annoyingly intrusive. On the plus side, AI is allowing me to tak
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by julienchastang 1mo ago
I actually thought they were talking about the island in the Caribbean since Florida is not mentioned in the article. Anyway, in case you did not know, the reactor in question is in Florida: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by julienchastang 1mo ago
Completely fascinating video on this topic just recently: https://www.wsj.com/video/the-race-to-commercialize-the-worl...
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by julienchastang 1mo ago
> Do you even know? I've wondered about this too. Did Ridley Scott and crew set out to make the greatest movie ever (IMO)? Or did something magical happen? My guess is "auteurs" often set out to create a masterwork but usu
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by julienchastang 1mo ago
The complete opening sequence of Blade Runner is "fucking amazing". The entire movie is "fucking amazing". It is a beautiful, visually stunning masterpiece that I will never tire to look at complimented with a Vangelis s
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by julienchastang 2mo ago
Also the subject of a 2021 Netflix documentary, "14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible " with stunning 4K imagery. Very sad.
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by julienchastang 2mo ago
That's true and when the Netflix DVD service arrived, I thought it was really a situation where the consumer had finally won. (No late fees! Yay!). That said here in Boulder we had the Video Station which was a phenomenal place for bro
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by julienchastang 2mo ago
> I'm intrigued how often the most mundane products and things are in fact multi million dollar industries. Absolutely. https://www.wsj.com/business/making-money-wealth-boring-8cc6...
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by julienchastang 2mo ago
Incorrect. These fires basically create their own weather systems. All that smoke also contains a lot of water in the material that is burning. (That makes sense. They are trees, after all.) When the smoke reaches high enough in the atmosph
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U.S. and China Are Jockeying for Drone Supremacy on Mount Everest(wsj.com)
2 points by julienchastang 2mo ago|0 comments
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by julienchastang 2mo ago
I don’t have the reference on my fingertips, but patients who are involved in their own healthcare have better outcomes. Moreover, for those of us (and there are many of us) who have gotten increasingly frustrated with US healthcare (e.g.,
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by julienchastang 2mo ago
Ummm, yes. Especially for those of us who may have had less than ideal schooling.
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by julienchastang 2mo ago
Extraordinary. Thank you for sharing. If there would ever be the possibility of seeing European Gothic cathedrals in this manner, that would also be really cool.
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DHL Set to Transport Goods on New Wind-Powered Cargo Ships(wsj.com)
134 points by julienchastang 3mo ago|59 comments
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by julienchastang 4mo ago
He was also interviewed on RFI recently [0] (in French). [0] https://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/de-vive-s-voix/20260401-etien...
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by julienchastang 4mo ago
The photography of the bird eyes in the article is stunning especially the 3x3 grid.
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by julienchastang 4mo ago
For those of us who came of age at the start of the web, CNN had a pioneering presence on cnn.com. I still check it pretty regularly due to old habits. (Also https://lite.cnn.com/ ).
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by julienchastang 5mo ago
Having dealt with hackers (not the HN variety unfort) who go to extraordinary lengths to cryptojack pennies, I completely agree. They always use Monero for some reason. In sum, what is this technology good for? 1. Illegality 2. Speculation
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by julienchastang 5mo ago
Related story and wondering if the OP may have been chasing red herrings. I recently noticed an unauthorized charge for a small amount on my credit card (something about FB/Meta). Likely someone probing the card to see if anyone would
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America's New Surveillance Dragnet(wsj.com)
25 points by julienchastang 5mo ago|5 comments
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by julienchastang 5mo ago
TLDR: when humans work with AI as intellectual sparring partners, they perform better than when working without AI or just copy/pasting the results of AI. Interesting article. Here's a gift link: https://www.wsj.com&#x2
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Freak Heat Spikes Pay Big on Polymarket, Rousing Weather Nerds' Suspicion(wsj.com)
1 points by julienchastang 5mo ago|1 comments
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Security releases of JupyterHub, Auth0, LTI authenticators(discourse.jupyter.org)
1 points by julienchastang 6mo ago|0 comments
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by julienchastang 6mo ago
> I deeply wish the democrats had run a better campaign in 2024. The problem is that there was no primary. That really (really) hurt Democrats not only for that election cycle, but for future ones too, where candidates could have made th
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by julienchastang 6mo ago
> best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established The way I am working with AI agents (codex) these days is have the AI generate a spec in a series of MD documents where the AI implementation of each document is a bite sized

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