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melagonster··on The handmade beauty of Machine Age data visualizations
It is nice to watch old beautiful figure.
melagonster··on Vegetative Patients May Be More Aware Than We Knew
please take a look at the video in the article. This man can keep his eyes open and even move his mouth (maybe just randomly behavior). That’s clearly much more responsive than most people who lie in bed with no reaction at all.
melagonster··on Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years
The Inca Empire had crazy plant breeding techniques.
melagonster··on False claims in a widely-cited paper
This is just for reference: last time someone tried to address this issue, they found that no one was willing to vote for them again...
melagonster··on Long overlooked as crucial to life, fungi start to get their due
We have better DNA sequencing technology today, so we can detect how many species living in sample (soil/water/...) and guess something. But if someone want to "descripting" these fungi, they should plant the fungus species in lab and detect its feartures; this is more expensive, harder and usually impossible.
melagonster··on We should revisit literate programming in the agent era
This is a good opinion. Maybe humans do not really know how to teach this skill of reading code. We do not have a good, exact protocol because people rely on their personal heuristic methods.
melagonster··on We should revisit literate programming in the agent era
Because only a human writer can explain why he did the resolution. But nobody wants to update comments each time.
melagonster··on LibreOffice: Request to the European Commission to adhere to its own guidances
In another way, LibreCalc is a better old Excel file reader than Office 365...
melagonster··on I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supported
There are too few ads. I cannot even notice any big Google ads in the first view. I trust that the number of ads will fit the content farms today.
melagonster··on The happiest I've ever been
If you do not know yet. Artists had been destroyed first.
melagonster··on AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says
You are right, but many people trust it.

P.S., hope your cat have nice day.

melagonster··on I'm helping my dog vibe code games
This makes sense! Many people trust that the functions of a human worker are asking questions and clicking ok. What if AI become better so we just a dog?
melagonster··on AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says
>LLMs will become sentient or conscious.

People who declare that AGI is coming.

melagonster··on FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me
I do not know why people do not just add GPL license to their generated code.
melagonster··on Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)
Thank you, I can understand. Sorry, I should understand more details in your opinion.
melagonster··on Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)
His work is not misogynistic. So I really cannot understand this type of criticism.
melagonster··on Invention of DNA "page numbers" opens up possibilities for the bioeconomy
If you do not know, the current effort is focused on reducing the budget of NIH. These experiments are performed for cancer or other disease research.
melagonster··on Invention of DNA "page numbers" opens up possibilities for the bioeconomy
And save human life at the same time? Experiments are not just about torturing animals; people spend a lot of time optimizing for experiment design.
melagonster··on Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)
>Nor did he foresee any difference in the role of women or any weakening of the feminine stereotype of 1949.

This is funny for me. The most common type of criticize for Asimov's work is that people complain Asimov did not add enough women in his book. The world is changing so quickly.

melagonster··on Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher tha human drivers
At least some jury [1].

1. https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...

melagonster··on Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
Notepad++ is close to a personal project. The author can add any message he wants. Usually, he just wrote something in the updating log; most people do not read it anymore.
melagonster··on Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher tha human drivers
But this is why people bought Tesla. Musk promised that the car is automatic.
melagonster··on Prism
Prism is a famous software before OpenAI use this name: https://www.graphpad.com/features
melagonster··on When employees feel slighted, they work less
If you’ve read some Carnegie, you'll find that he just discusses a lot of well-worn idoms: such as that sincere praise is better and the importance of treating people kindly... His work built the foundations of management. I guess from the moment middle managers existed, humans have generally been poor at managing others.
melagonster··on Draig, a Welsh Programming Language
Nope, they just add huge Chinese comments.
melagonster··on Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale
>when I’m still hovering around stages 4-6 in Yegge’s 8 levels of automation

Maybe Yegge’s 8 levels of automation will be more important than his Gas town.

melagonster··on GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers
If they can write a whole draft in their first language, they can easily read the translated English version and correct it. The errors described by gp/op were generated when authors directly required LLM to generate a full paragraph of text. Look at my terrible English; I really have the experience of the full process from draft to English version before :)
melagonster··on Profession by Isaac Asimov (1957)
This is what people hope the AGI will replace.
melagonster··on “Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016)
It probably is perl or Python.
melagonster··on Reading Without Limits or Expectations
It gives me a pleasure satisfactory that just comes from reading about how a person formulates their reading list.
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