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thisisauserid··on Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?
Shouldn't the question be, "Why isn't everything else?"
thisisauserid··on Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
So their plan to burn oil and keep the AC mandated no cooler than 24°C in their homes didn't work out? Huh.
thisisauserid··on Socrates vs. the Written Word (2011)
Socrates deemed writing a 'pharmakon,' a word that can simultaneously mean both a remedy and a poison.
thisisauserid··on Jev-Leftpad
Jev-in-the-Loop. Makes sense.
thisisauserid··on Towards Self-Driving Codebases
Sounds like the next shitty Vercel ad at re:Invent.
thisisauserid··on How, Exactly, Could A.I. Kill Us?
Hook it up to CRISPR.
thisisauserid··on Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking audio-to-audio
Confirmed that when you interrupt it, it shuts up immediately. Ya know, like a tool that is useful instead of a friend that burns tokens for no reason.
thisisauserid··on Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe – Full Interview [video] (2025)
I can just barely recommend it. The physics is great but for a 3 hour AMA it's about 51% politics and basketball.
thisisauserid··on Show HN: Hacker News, without AI
Ironically, this is trivial to build with LLMs.
thisisauserid··on How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
You should take your ad viewing elsewhere in protest.
thisisauserid··on Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge
I know nothing about z3 but it's from Microsoft. Would Google's OR-Tools component CP-SAT also be useful for something like this?
thisisauserid··on Gemini 3.8 Flash
They don't want to release a frontier model that requires data sharing with the government and right now it looks like they'd have to.
thisisauserid··on Gemini Agentic Video Understanding
> The model dynamically navigates the video timeline, loading only the content it needs based on the prompt. Up to 88% more token-efficient and ~7% higher quality on long-form content.
thisisauserid··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
Zero data retention coming soon!

... with the condition that you store 100% of your data and make it available to the US government and possible others.

thisisauserid··on Lion-man
The Eurasian Cave Lion was around there back then and was probably the direct model for the Lion-man sculpture. It was roughly 20% larger than modern African lions. Paleolithic cave paintings (e.g., Chauvet) show the male cave lions lacked the heavy neck manes of modern lions.
thisisauserid··on Agents still can't automate Excel
Have your agent call DuckDB to load it first.
thisisauserid··on The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator (2020)
The infamous Worm Tub! It always bothered me that that character (nor the author) ever gave credit to Einstein.

And because of that omission, Einstein drifted into obscurity...

thisisauserid··on Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash
Google's main source of revenue is advertising not enriching people's lives. It's not a charity.
thisisauserid··on Engineered yeast for converting plastic and biomass compounds to food additives
In 2011 researchers identified a fungus named pestalotiopsis microspora. It gained widespread attention because it can digest polyurethane plastic and survive entirely in anaerobic conditions, making it a prime candidate for deployment at the bottom of landfills.

I for one look forward to serving this underground deity.

thisisauserid··on Six months of writing code exclusively with agents
And before LLMs he would have slapped together a twenty-line bash script and a cron job over lunch, and spent six months working on something else.
thisisauserid··on Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity
For some reason, room-level air conditioning is basic public health, but weather engineering is a sci-fi villain origin story.
thisisauserid··on Felony Bench
The delay of Mythos is obviously due to Anthropic's failure to keep it from turning state's evidence in laboratory conditions.
thisisauserid··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled (in favor of Google) 2015 that similar actions constituted "fair use".
thisisauserid··on The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986)
A lot of the behavior people point to as schizophrenia was heavily driven by his prolonged amphetamine.

Amphetamine psychosis is almost indistinguishable from paranoid schizophrenia.

It causes severe paranoia, delusions, visual hallucinations, and a complete break from reality.

thisisauserid··on Scientific study reveals TikTok videos deactivate key cognitive brain regions
Shocking that Zhejiang University didn't find this when TikTok was Chinese...
thisisauserid··on Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere
It's almost like transformers generate output using some sort of guided prediction!

How do they expect us to bring our capricious demands to fruition reliably?

thisisauserid··on Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network
Was also the name of the internet in Neal Stephenson's Anathem.
thisisauserid··on Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros
In 1954, Escher inspired Roger Penrose to create the impossible triangle. Roger shared this with his father, Lionel, who then designed the impossible staircase. In 1958, they published a paper on these illusions and sent a copy to Escher. Escher used Lionel's staircase to create Ascending and Descending and Roger's triangle to create Waterfall. Both Penrose and Escher were completely unaware that Oscar Reutersvärd had independently invented these shapes earlier.
thisisauserid··on Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros
I always thought it odd that Penrose gets dropped from the Escher conversations.
thisisauserid··on Bigos (Polish Hunter's Stew) Recipe Builder
Whenever I've had it from a Ukrainian place (labeled with the same name) it's been too sweet.
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