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melagonster··on How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
>He doesn't count February 1-10, counts March 1-10 twice, counts August 21-October 21 as one month instead of two, and doesn't count October 21-November 1.

Seriously, I expected more slight wrong before I read the article. Why do people trust someone who can't add numbers correctly to make predictions?

melagonster··on The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
Codex always try Libreoffice first on my computer.
melagonster··on How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
The end of white collar work mean that company can finish all jobs by new model.
melagonster··on Understanding ChatGPT Work
Yes! This is because work mode can store information in a local file then reuse them later.
melagonster··on A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome
We also have the connectome of Nematode (Caenorhabditis elegans), but researchers lack funding to determine the weights, too.
melagonster··on A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome
We only know which neurons are connected, not the weights.
melagonster··on Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't
They just use any name can be spelled by Latin characters.
melagonster··on Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
Wow, so this is the end of science :(
melagonster··on Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample
I’m curious whether we could get the same results by gathering a large number of PhD students and having Terence Tao treat them as an AI.
melagonster··on So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021)
I find it is impossible to fetch any skill can applied in real world.
melagonster··on Using precision editing to study human embryo development shows master gene
Unfortunately, we found that there are not so many differences. Scientists have simply decided not to cross that line.
melagonster··on Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience
Thank you for your reply. it is a good reading experience, too. :)
melagonster··on Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter
I hope people at least know that they should not create Skynet.
melagonster··on Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience
I do not notice that the time of posts is reversed haha. I am confused whether you had build it.

Thank you, it's cool!

melagonster··on Blogging can just be stating the obvious
Maybe society just rewards the first penguin to jump into the sea.
melagonster··on What color is your function? (2015)
Maybe author do not want to hide the complexity in functions?
melagonster··on An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
In my memory, it was OpenAI o1. OpenAI o1 was released in September 2024. It seems the difference came from the difference between benchmark performance and propagation.
melagonster··on An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
They said that their specific version of model had has this ability one year ago.
melagonster··on An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
So finally they reach a part of PhDs level. Current version rely human to integrate results from they model and writting the papper. If LLMs/AIs can do all thing above, we can exactly get a PhDs level model.
melagonster··on Google changes its search box
In past, people can trust Google. Now we should teach children don't trust "search result" from Google.
melagonster··on Multi-Species Canopy Latrines in Costa Rican Cloud Forests
You can search microbiome and the name of animal which you want to know about it. DNA sequencing is applying to any biology region.
melagonster··on Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app
Switching to GPT 5.4-mini can increase the number of requests we can use freely.
melagonster··on Local AI needs to be the norm
Programmers won't be allow to exist in future. Vibe coding is the final resolution people can apply.
melagonster··on Lost in translation: The linguistic challenges facing N. Korean defectors (2025)
My first language is Chinese. I found that even the order of sentence leaks information, too.
melagonster··on OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors
Doctors will apply AI sooner than patient, and they can check these results with confidence.
melagonster··on Quirks of Human Anatomy
They have a complex system to mantain the specific temperature. Huaman and other smaller animal do not have enough space to it inside.
melagonster··on What physical ‘life force’ turns biology’s wheels?
Scientists collect many examples of different type of flagellum. So we can understand how it change during the evolution process. This article introduces the finding of organism structure.
melagonster··on What physical ‘life force’ turns biology’s wheels?
Our mitochondria was bacteria.
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.
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