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bfuller··on Two ways to crack a walnut, per Grothendieck (2025)
It is a mixed metaphor, he refers to the problem as a "nut" but says after soaking the nut should open "like a ripe avocado"
bfuller··on CIA Star Gate Project: An Overview (1993) [pdf]
What would be the price of revealing this information advantage?
bfuller··on OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
Anthropic has less users, but I think their value per user is higher due to claude mostly producing code. I know my shop is just gonna keep paying for $200 max subscriptions until one of these open source clients with a chinese LLM can beat sonnet 4.5 (which may be now, but not worth it for me to explore until its solid enough for my uses)
bfuller··on Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts
Conceivably someone has said this at some point in every generation.
bfuller··on Why RDF is the natural knowledge layer for AI systems
>This is a non-trivial exercise. How does one transform knowledge into a knowledge graph using RDF?

by using the mcp memory knowledge graph tool, which just worked out of the box for my application of turning forum posts into code implementations.

bfuller··on Engineer restores pay phones for free public use
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
bfuller··on GPT-5
my knowledge graph mcp disagrees
bfuller··on Yupana: The Fibonacci number grid-based calculator of the Incas (2019)
I guess you are in some category yourself because you seemingly haven't read the large amount of literature about a global shamanistic culture, and archaeologically there is plenty of evidence that divination came before games.

Its natural, because games based on chance give us the feeling of being "hot" or "cold" ie able or unable to predict entropy.

MMI is a burgeoning science but if you're curious there is a group out there with access to QRNGs that practice influencing probabilities. And there is a small, but measurable effect size. And even not so small in some experiments I have personally seen, but being funded by Rockefellers means keeping your nose pointed away from the control grid.

bfuller··on Please don't mention AI again
A garotte is a device or weapon used for strangulation. It typically consists of a cord or wire, sometimes with handles at each end to provide better grip and leverage. The garotte is used by wrapping it around a person's neck and tightening it, cutting off the air supply and causing asphyxiation. Historically, garottes have been used for execution and assassination due to their silent and deadly nature. In modern contexts, they are often associated with covert or criminal activities.

welp

bfuller··on An intuitive guide to Maxwell's equations (2020)
I am the founder of randonautica, so in short yes I have found that our universe is more than random. Thanks for the answer, sometimes I wish a little more intuition was allowed here rather than only analytics.
bfuller··on Some notes on influenceering
I am more internet infamous, but my one viral success has impacted my life in more ways than I could explain. But that one success took 5 years of my life.
bfuller··on Managing my motivation as a solo dev
One of my professors would always leave his pc set to the last move of klondike so he would return to work every day with a "win"
bfuller··on An intuitive guide to Maxwell's equations (2020)
> I got a window on these as a taxi driver, where I was sent people who helped me figure out things I'd been wondering about.

I'm curious now, would you indulge me? If its woo woo we can just pretend no one is reading :)

bfuller··on Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release?
tell the truth, but don't always be telling it
bfuller··on Are You Smarter Than An LLM? (Quiz based on the most popular LLM benchmark)
Or, upon being pressed, you don't normally immediately fold if you know you are correct.
bfuller··on American Airlines demonstrated contrail-reducing technology
https://www.stopabductions.com/
bfuller··on Coding Addiction: How Programming Affects Your Brain
If I don't solve some problems in a day, my brain creates problems for me to solve.
bfuller··on Copying Angry Birds with nothing but AI
it has such a completionist fetish, I have found it works much better when you basically tell it to pick a side and not go out of its way to be balanced.
bfuller··on European Airline Adds Child Free Zones for $49
I took a flight from east coast USA to austria where two children on leashes kept poking me in the eyes. I would pay every time.
bfuller··on LangChain Agent Simulation – Multi-Player Dungeons and Dragons
This was the answer for myself as well, pretty cool that we are still at the level where if you have an idea you can build a proof extremely quickly and easily.
bfuller··on LangChain Agent Simulation – Multi-Player Dungeons and Dragons
As an AI language model, I cannot help your rogue kill that goblin in the cave. Instead, you can try things like: capitalism, finance, technology.

I joke but it is terribly jarring when the API is working perfectly and then starts apologizing that it cannot do something, like access personal information, when it is internally prompted that it should only use information it receives in the prompt.

bfuller··on How to Get ChatGPT to Stop Apologizing?
Have you tried copilot? I have had success with gpt until recently it seems to have a short term memory and (more annoyingly) will seemingly hit the context window limit before it even responds, even for what I would guess are short answers, forcing me to start an entirely new conversation, making me look towards copilot or claude.
bfuller··on The LSD Museum (2021)
yep, reading bears pseudoanonymous posts about experimenting with satisfying his ice cream cravings with various sugar free heavy cream based frozen concoctions are some of my favorite hidden gems that exist on the internet.
bfuller··on The LSD Museum (2021)
He was a prolific poster on a carnivore-diet type forum way before it was popular. He was genuinely interesting person, he wasnt just a sound engineer, the deads wall of sound was a profound design.
bfuller··on Threads Surpasses 30M Signups
It couldn't be any bigger of a threat to twitter than twitter itself
bfuller··on LLama.cpp now has a web interface
My view is you get so many people blatantly ripping off your code to try and pass it off as their own that you actually appreciate when you come across someone doing something novel or interesting that users like. That was my view anyway.
bfuller··on Heat Pumps – The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs
Heat pumps are expensive to operate, and a nightmare to fix. There is a big movement to build whole subdivisions without using natural gas at all, electric ranges and heat pumps. I don't know why it upsets me so much but it does.
bfuller··on Heat Pumps – The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs
Heat pumps require more specialized techs to work on them too.
bfuller··on Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became a societal sin
Julia Mossbridge
bfuller··on Brains on Drugs: How tinkering with consciousness became a societal sin
There are even better loopholes than that.
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