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taylorius··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
Man, I must be so basic when it comes to such designs. They all looked fine to me lol.
taylorius··on An OpenAI Strategist Says AI Labs Should Rival Government Power
Sounds like someone has a call with Howard Lutnick in their future.
taylorius··on Samsung reveals Galaxy Z Fold 8 that will compete with the iPhone Ultra
Man, they are cool, but I need at least a decade of clearly reliable functioning in the real world before I believe that those foldable screens aren't going to just break.
taylorius··on How to Write English Prose
I think Baroque is the wrong descriptor for those passages actually. The constructions employed in both are very varied, its true, and the vocabulary is wide, not to mention archaic to our modern ears - but all the words are performing a useful function in conveying what the author wanted to say. There is not much pointless ornamentation.
taylorius··on Grok 4.5
You're not voting it into office (yet, anyway. Haha). Aren't we all just using these models to write code?
taylorius··on Show HN: Follow London Trains in 3D
Is it not that certain train lines are somewhat deep underground? The Piccadilly line swims with respect to the ground in the centre of town, when it is below ground. Further out where lines are at the surface the routes stick to the ground correctly.
taylorius··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
"and other countries" - kind of a short list, that.
taylorius··on A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned
I think you mean hsoows hsoows
taylorius··on Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed
As the saying goes - "Alcohol is an excellent servant, but a terrible master." The same could be said for Metrics. So much is measurable these days, and we love to watch the chart go up or down. If it hasn't been measured, it doesn't exist. And the bureaucrats conjure reality with nothing but a spreadsheet and the flourish of a rubber stamp.
taylorius··on Software never had a soul
Like someone who saw U2 in a small club in Dublin in the 1970s noting that they're not the same anymore. The internet used to be a Sub Culture. Now its the whole world.
taylorius··on IXI's autofocusing lenses are almost ready to replace multifocal glasses
pretty cool. I wonder if they could add a zoom lens feature, like if you squint a bit, the lens could form into a magnifier.
taylorius··on Ask HN: Is anyone here also developing "perpetual AI psychosis" like Karpathy?
100% yes. As you say, Psychosis is an exaggeration but frazzled captures it. And it's definitely a feeling that "this is such an opportunity, but the window will close - got to make the most of it somehow". Very stressful in a diffuse kind of way.
taylorius··on The Ugliest Airplane: An Appreciation
And I shall raise you the Stipa Caproni

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/05/13/the-strange-barrel...

taylorius··on Ask HN: Is Claude down again?
Forte of the gaps :-) I'm exactly the same.
taylorius··on Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years
Heredity is only one of many flavours of cronyism.
taylorius··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
I'm working on a native code backtester that compiles pinescript strategies, and (hopefully) runs them super fast. Also a parameter optimiser with different scoring methods.
taylorius··on Claude's Cycles [pdf]
I thought Claude Monet - Impressionist techniques applied to coding.
taylorius··on Uncovering insiders and alpha on Polymarket with AI
"the dumb money"
taylorius··on Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
maybe different preparatory "system" prompts?
taylorius··on A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
On the contrary - the LLM has had it's own version of "skin in the game" through the whole of it's training. Reinforcement learning is nothing but that. Why is that less real than putting a person in prison. Is it because of the LLM itself, or because you don't trust the people selling it to you?
taylorius··on A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
Why can LLMs not be responsible for things? (genuine question - I'm not certain myself).
taylorius··on Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data?
I think the linear least squares is like a shear, whereas the eigenvector is a rotation.
taylorius··on Functional Flocking Quadtree in ClojureScript
This title is like an optical illusion, but for swearing.
taylorius··on Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach
No need for a formal command structure when everyone's interests point in the same direction. Self organisation will occur readily enough.
taylorius··on OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
Just out of interest, why do you want to move? What's wrong with Claude and Anthropic in your view? (I use it, and it works really well.)
taylorius··on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
I sense a great disturbance in the force - millions of teens muttering "for fuck's sake" and tossing their phones onto the sofa.
taylorius··on Why I'm Learning Sumerian
Clearly summoning Zuul.
taylorius··on You will own nothing and be (un)happy
I don't think that's it. I imagine op would be willing to pay to upgrade to Goodnotes 6, at which point he would own that for ever, just like Goodnotes 5. But there is no option to do that.
taylorius··on Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year
It's enough to make a man consider Linux...
taylorius··on [dead]
Corporations coming for your soul.
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