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abracos··on Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin
it's hard to understand for me what you liked in Le Guin's books, but maybe Children Of Time?
abracos··on Vouch
Isn't it extremely difficult problem? It's very easy to game, vouch 1 entity that will invite lots of bad actors
abracos··on Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin
Agree on "I, robot", but foundation series is still very good (probably because it's not really character-focused)
abracos··on Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin
Yes, but now it doesn't make sense to read it anymore right? It reads outdated and there are better books nowadays
abracos··on Five disciplines discovered the same math independently
Is the main goal to see if LLM can do this sort of research and cross-pollination?
abracos··on Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin
Why do people rate "The Left Hand of Darkness" so much? Is it because it was good at the time of writing? All concepts there are very shallow and mainstream now

edit: honest question, don't want to flame

abracos··on GitHub Agentic Workflows
Link to github.com: https://github.github.com/gh-aw/
abracos··on Sergey Brin's Unretirement
It's about scale, when you built something as grand as google you don't want to spend time building a garden
abracos··on Nested Learning: A new ML paradigm for continual learning
Someone's trying to reproduce it in open https://github.com/kmccleary3301/nested_learning
abracos··on Show HN: Interactive research papers (a big step up from ArXiv HTML)
Cool project, the space is very crowded: https://x.com/JeffDean/status/1991053401061536027 and http://semanticscholar.org/ come to mind
abracos··on Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure
For context: The website is called Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish and naturalised-German Marxist theorist and revolutionary. A very biased source
abracos··on Leaving Meta and PyTorch
it's https://ai.meta.com/research/
abracos··on Show HN: TabPFN-2.5 – SOTA foundation model for tabular data
how does it compare to automl tools?