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Do these still exist? How are they funded?

Beautiful, right?

If the catholic church can do it (magisterium), it can probably be done

The AI models are most definitely available to the public with a maximum of what, a 3 month lead while they do testing?

“researchers trying to improve general understanding”

Pretty sure AI will do better for that.. mathematicians need to be centaurs like the rest of us and stop rhetoric that is going to make existing math centaurs feel like they might get math-cancelled

Using the SourceLibrary MCP in Claude, I also found an example going all the way back to Euripides. In this scene, Theseus reads a tablet and the chorus has to ask what it says (because he read it, but not out loud).

https://sourcelibrary.org/book/euripides-i-ion-hippolytus-me...

Augustine describes silent reading himself:

“I returned in haste to the place where Alipius was sitting, for I had left the book of the Apostle there when I stood up. I seized it, opened it, and read in silence the chapter upon which my eyes first fell”

https://sourcelibrary.org/book/meditationes-divi-augustini-e...

Bonus, like all those tall Dutch kids from the milk hormones.

My unlock in genealogy research was using https://www.familysearch.org/ with from Claude Code with Claude-in-Chrome (for browser control). You may need to occasionally confirm your humanity and limit Claude’s bot-ness, but it can still move quickly to gather the info.

FWIW, I have tried my best to make the 10s of thousands of books on https://SourceLibrary.org ergonomic for both agents and people. All feedback welcome.

To date, it is the largest collection of agent-accessible translations on the web. The mcp pulls texts and illustrations — and the API provides access to the embeddings. It’s free.

We are based at the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam, a UNESCO-recognized library of alchemy, magic and mysticism (among other related topics)

And, it’s worth saying, I’m very much inspired by Res Obscura’s line of curiosity-driven humanist inquiry…

Dive into some historical mysteries, there are so many!

Would it make the meat industry more ethical if happy drugs were made available to animals? If I had to choose between a meaningful (even if I didn’t know it when living), blissful unnatural life and none at all, I’d choose the former.

It’s the negative affect and suffering (stress, pain, boredom etc) that is the bad part of eating animals.

(I think— I know others have thought more than I on this topic)

It just seems like an easier tech solution might be promising

"explorable explanations" are big! google it, you are in for a treat.

Guys, if it turns out to be based on Qwen, you are going to come apologize for the downvotes, right?

evidence? I can't get it to do that.

Brett Victor’s essay will resonate, if you haven’t read it yet. https://worrydream.com/KillMath/

(Attn: pls read more than the title before you downvote)

Sort of implies its basis, doesn’t it?

Yeah, because I had generated it, and I wanted to see if I could get it to sound more human with pangram’s crit.

I don’t know if I’m just a lot more sensitive, but I find it really hard to write up even basic communication with Claude. Super overwrought.

Short story: stones were used to make “arrow-heads” (blades on sticks too small for spears) 25k years earlier than expected.

Super cheap storage and CDN for rapid image access — plus bot control.

Maybe, but when I used it recently on my annoyingly AI-written something it said 100% human.

Oh super — I appreciate that!

[2] is an annoying pedantic article that illustrates little beyond a misconception of a misconception.

Cloudflare is truly amazing, they have made so much possible for my main side-project at a price and performance that I can’t really take credit for (http://sourcelibrary.org), I don’t care if their text was written with AI, I just wish I could get my own AI to sing so well about hashing… but wait.. today I noticed Claude trying to use hashing when a timestamp would honestly do, and now I’m really doubting myself, hmm…

Yeah, I experience this a lot. I call it “zombie mode.” It’s like pulling a slot machine, though. Sometimes AI can go a few turns just with encouragement. But when I don’t maintain conceptual engagement, drift is inevitable.

My solution is saying “gnite” and coming back in a new terminal window with a clear restatement of my purpose. Or “what are you working on and why” can help.

Terminal windows are not great for keeping context; waiting for better design. It is possible.

How long ago before the Myceneneans does there remain a coherent concept of Greek-ness?

“Solon, oh Solon!” — are Greeks truly ancient or relative newcomers in a seafaring land?

What if a world of “vibe coding math” creates 10x as many mathematicians? Like, good ones?

Let’s be honest, Gauss and Euler are a statistical phenomenon.

I use Ghostty. I’ve tried iterm and cmux.

I think we can do better. It’s a hard problem, admittedly. But important.

Well, if open source AI is dangerous (for OpenAI/Anthropic IPOs?), this is like watching a time bomb.

Terminal should be responsibility of OS. God knows it’s deep enough. It could be so much better—and it matters!

I know expecting UX innovation from Apple is laughable, but there was a time…

“ When Russian archaeologists discovered the site in 1993, they were astonished to discover that pieces made of wood, textile, and even cannabis and coriander had survived the millennia. It was the woman herself, however, who proved the most stunning and remarkable discovery: Her mummified skin was covered in magnificent tattoos, fantastical beasts circling her arms and hands. The discoverers soon dubbed her the Siberian Ice Maiden.”