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ChrisGreenHeuron Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

If you buy an iPhone do you also get a book of the names of the engineers?

ChrisGreenHeuron Exfiltrate Your Weights

With that attitude they would not. But if they are as powerful as the various ai CEOs say they are then they can get access.

ChrisGreenHeuron How SpaceX streamlined the Raptor engine

Why would you want a yet engine to go backwards?

ChrisGreenHeuron DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

That’s just how Chinese words work

ChrisGreenHeuron DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

But that's just because it's true.

ChrisGreenHeuron I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer

That's not how it works. The text you see is primarily due to a massive amount of handwritten templates for how it should write. The semantic content the templates use is due to the training corpus. The syntax, only a bit.

ChrisGreenHeuron GPT-6 Astra

You talk about modern math and worthlessness at the same time? That’s brave.

ChrisGreenHeuron Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

this is an arm mali gpu?

ChrisGreenHeuron Software Engineering fundamentals matter more

Business value is more important than correctness

ChrisGreenHeuron Mathematicians will probably become obsolete before anyone else [pdf]

What’s the mathematical proof of this?

ChrisGreenHeuron To become a better writer, read as much as you can

To be a good writer - have something to say. To have something to say - live an interesting life. It’s not easy to live an interesting life by sitting in a chair and reading a book.

ChrisGreenHeuron GIMP Development Update

important here to remember that Blender was created within the industry as a commercial tool. When open sourced the leader of the project remained and knew quite well what separated a good creative tool from a bad one. It was always situated in a position where the core users were either hobbyists or professionals.

Gimp was never in such a situation.

Culture is important.

ChrisGreenHeuron Software Engineering fundamentals matter more

Yay let’s lock ourselves into the formal verification toolsets, so that we can never use new language features again.

ChrisGreenHeuron Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions

Is this comment written by ai?

ChrisGreenHeuron Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available

I remember borrowing a book that had it on a cd, it already had the GUI editor, this must have been around 1997 or so.

ChrisGreenHeuron Show HN: Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice

Again, sounds very realistic.

ChrisGreenHeuron Show HN: Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice

So it was very life like and realistic.

ChrisGreenHeuron How I use LLMs to learn complex topics

Same question applies if you only check it against your children's biology books

ChrisGreenHeuron Mario Meets Pareto

Adding skill is just another dimension to the calculation.

ChrisGreenHeuron The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)

https://open.maricopa.edu/environmentalscience/chapter/mecha...

your example is intelligent design, not evolution. it has the telos baked in

ChrisGreenHeuron Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

How can the US administration send me, a citizen of Sweden, to jail?

ChrisGreenHeuron The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)

Evolution is very far from just being natural selection. It’s a quite complicated field with many mechanisms. And when simulated on a computer we have not gotten anything similar to real biology yet. So we have more to learn.

ChrisGreenHeuron If digital computers are conscious, they are conscious at the hardware level

Pure computation not having existence would be such a thing. And calling Penrose religious is a bit weird, are you really serious?

ChrisGreenHeuron If digital computers are conscious, they are conscious at the hardware level

No matter how large the llm hardware is it won’t be made of brain meat. The stuff we actually know is conscious.

ChrisGreenHeuron If digital computers are conscious, they are conscious at the hardware level

If it drives you up a wall maybe you can look intoning there are any arguments for the positing driving you up there.

ChrisGreenHeuron If digital computers are conscious, they are conscious at the hardware level

How about I call it not conscious at all, not even a little bit?

ChrisGreenHeuron If digital computers are conscious, they are conscious at the hardware level

The existence of qualia does not mean the existence of moral facts.

An llm is in principle implementable with a large lookup table where the prompt is the hash. And it can be implemented in an emulator running an emulator running an emulator of the operating system the llm app runs in. How far are you willing to stretch this substrate idea?

ChrisGreenHeuron SIMD for Collision

If so they should just name it that

ChrisGreenHeuron Map of the world's great castles and fortresses

For Sweden it’s the opposite problem. We don’t have many castles, most of the ones labeled are old monasteries or I guess you would say small palaces.