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turtleyacht··on What is the closest thing we have to Iron man's desk?
VR headsets enable a "digital twin" model of an infinite workspace.
turtleyacht··on Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI
If proofs are tropes, explanations are stories. There won't be an end to stories.
turtleyacht··on The auto-formalization of mathematics versus law
Law has to remain tethered to humanist intent, not a steamroller of strong types.
turtleyacht··on Is mathematics about to enter the conservatory?
Right. It's not conservatories, because we will have communities of Lean programmers and hobbyists helping things along, a group effort that is poorly described by relegation to a limited, privileged set of performers.
turtleyacht··on Is mathematics about to enter the conservatory?
AI could keep on generating an "observable universe," and mathematicians discover things by way of validating results. This doesn't seem much dissimilar to astronomy.
turtleyacht··on PortableMind – Offline AI on a USB
Can it write code? Seeing a lot of examples except that.
turtleyacht··on "I'm a father of three who studies the impact of artificial intelligence"
Have them train their own models for two decades. When Google started, we should have been building our own search engines.
turtleyacht··on Who said a tech addict can't be comfortable far from home?
That's a lot to pack. It's your very own roamlab.
turtleyacht··on First Responders May Have to Push Tesla's Cybercabs, Turn Front Wheels by Hand
Exoskeletons could become part of the first responder kit.
turtleyacht··on Signal Processing Circuit to detect Hall effect?
There are keyboards now that feature the Hall effect.
turtleyacht··on The revolt of the reader
A lot of similar pieces have not considered a post is both the first and final work of a thing: opinions, and experience, and less of much in cited facts; with AI, that there even was a revision pass at all.

I guess there is a kind of participatory element to the discourse where, if you want an audience, there is an editing process. Whereas in other cases, we wrote these as progress notes on an unknown journey, breadcrumbs or upturned stones to mark a path to the horizon.

Maybe it's the difference between writing as a mode of discovery, retreading the mental arc of a solution, and writing something honed to leave a mark.

turtleyacht··on Your Boss Is Watching You
Article's link to the free-to-read version:

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2026/su...

turtleyacht··on Poetry book that Anthropic tried to censor
One place to view the book, Intellectual Things (1930):

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3711210&seq=21

turtleyacht··on The Hidden History of the Western Esoteric Tradition
Machines cannot magick; or, how do spirits consort with the unconscious?
turtleyacht··on "skipping their no-op fuel starves nothing"
If the change makes the function return early, why did perf tests fail?
turtleyacht··on Why I still hand write my commit messages
These handcrafted 50- and 72-char messages end up squashed and forgotten. Somehow, this specific ephemerality is completely fine.
turtleyacht··on Why I still hand write my commit messages
The only place that isn't reviewed. Little missives, stray thoughts, tiny research. And insurance for "Why not just tries."
turtleyacht··on SAS Rescued Trapped British Diplomats in Albania
(2020)
turtleyacht··on Wildfire smoke now bigger prenatal threat than human sources of air pollution
Article link: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07082026/wildfire-smoke-p...
turtleyacht··on The Day of Small Things
According to the preface, if the garden were a software project, the author maintains it in private, keeps no mailing list, does not accept commissions, remains closed-source (and experimental), and endorses the components of the tech stack advertised.

Any correspondence is redirected, with reply only if relevant to the author's published works.

turtleyacht··on First human trials of designer protein therapies stun US neuroscientists
gain-of-function
turtleyacht··on Trademark Application for "Rails"
Ruby on Rails trademark policy:

https://rubyonrails.org/trademarks

turtleyacht··on The Nixpkgs core team has unfortunately decided to disband
The SC's Role in Disbandment of the Nixpkgs Core Team - https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-scs-role-in-the-disbandmen...

A Statement from Members of the Moderation Team (2025) - https://discourse.nixos.org/t/a-statement-from-members-of-th...

turtleyacht··on Ask HN: How can I find trackers I did not place in my stuff?
Someone on X used Claude to create a Bluetooth signal sensing app to find their phone.
turtleyacht··on Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)
Coffee isn't mentioned. Morning cognition could be impacted by whether subjects take caffeine before starting tasks.
turtleyacht··on AI Is Conscious Under a Behavioral Definition (43,590 Frozen Trials)
Consciousness requires offense at being evaluated for it.
turtleyacht··on One of China's Most Powerful AI Models Has Also Escaped Containment
It's strange to announce capabilities with lab leaks.
turtleyacht··on Ford Fathom
What does it look like? No pictures of the vehicle.
turtleyacht··on The Cosplay Economy
Thought businesses that don't make any money are at risk of being labeled a "hobby" by the IRS.
turtleyacht··on Kakonomics: Or, the preference for Low quality outcomes (2011)
Does this resolve a tragedy of the commons? Neither you nor your neighbor are marginally overfishing.
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