AnodicElegy

Interesting fellow. He has publicly claimed that he has ESP: https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/wikipedia-wars... https://openpsych.net/forums…

OP here: the title of the thread still links to Derek Lowe's blog post, but the article discussed in the blog post was added to the body of the original post (not by me).

Looks lovely. I wonder if it has good fishing.

Domnauer is overstating the "little people" effect here. Seeing miniaturized people seems to be only one of several manifestations associated with these mushrooms. This Wikipedia article ( h…

I think a lot of people are simply glad to see so much viable competition in the LLM space. Given the oligopolistic outcomes in Big Tech over the past couple decades, it would be nice if Big AI turned…

That reminded me a lot more of Chip's Challenge than of mowing a lawn. Just missing some blocks to push!

That seems like a problem orders of magnitude harder than making a humanoid robot. We haven't even figured out how to make hamburgers without cows at a marketable price yet.

I imagine that the perception might be that a judge will approach the case more rationally and technically, whereas the jury might be swayed by sympathy for the victim, biases, etc. To what extent tha…

For all but minor offences in Canada, you have the right to a jury trial. Here, the accused elected to be tried by a judge. Most people do.

Let's not forget the good old Single Greatest Predictor ( https://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2013/12/the-single-gr... ), which hit an all-time high in Q4 2025 ( ht…

The safety ratios listed in reference [1] are exaggerated, as can be determined by the following qualification: "The majority of published reports of acute lethal toxicity indicate that the deced…

If an LLM is used in the drafting of an article, this should, at least, be disclosed, preferably at the beginning of the article. For example, I recently came across this article ( https://…

It shocks me that we use to go to wave pools like these for elementary school trips. They never even asked us if we could swim or not. I was at least a passable swimmer, but even so, it was so crowded…

Anthropic did the same thing recently: https://www.anthropic.com/research/making-claude-a-chemist I don't know why they think this is okay, any more than it would be to call…

Yeah, it's hard to see exactly what was gained here versus standard, machine-learning-based high-throughput experimentation.

This stuff drives me nuts. Chrome on desktop is another abhorrent example of this. Every time I log in to a Google account within the browser, it nags me to link the account to the browser itself. One…

Out of curiosity, I pasted an article in French I was reading a few minutes before coming across this thread into ChatGPT and asked for a translation into English. It was certainly passable from a fun…

I believe it's a huge advantage to be an avid reader, especially of novels, in childhood. It helps not just with the ability to understand and retain written information, but also with increasing…

I would hope that Fiverr is not a representative example of a typical employment process. I understand you have to show that you're not a laggard when it comes to communication, but being dismiss…

"AI is advancing at a lightning pace—in only four years, AI models have gone from barely being able to write a coherent line of code to writing most of the code at major AI companies. Similar gai…

It's not just due to energy, at least not directly. Core CPI (ex-food and energy) has been increasing monotonically since February: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPILFEN…

There are tons of ways to generate "strong candidates for drug design." This is definitely not the bottleneck in drug discovery and development. The hard problem is vetting and developing th…