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Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @05:45PM (#50281376)
My humble theory on naming: Argon-Carbon = ArC

Next: Silver, then Iodine

Slowly spelling out ARC-AGI

Re:How Strong Is the Strong Force? on Saturday October 10, 2026 @07:13PM (#50038090)
I don't really have the time to learn the math to really understand this stuff myself, and I'm not entirely sure I could learn it even if I had the time.

But I love to read about it and marvel that we as a species even managed to figure out this much about something so tiny and complex

You think pond water is the worst thing an $80 motel room has seen?
Re:Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance on Thursday September 24, 2026 @06:57PM (#49837928)
Love it
I can imagine truly horrifying images coming out of this. Many people who have spent a lot of time online have come across unfortunate gore images that they may have seen for only a fraction of a second that they wish they could unsee. One can imagine the brain is able to see much worse.
The diagrams definitely look like LLM output as well
Re:I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph on Sunday May 24, 2026 @06:37PM (#48261704)
I absolutely love the graphs that were used in old medical physiology papers. Something about the hand-drawn nature makes you appreciate both the underlying concept the graph is trying to convey as well as the work that went into it. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge techie. I love computers and computer graphics, but sometimes a hand-drawn graph just takes the cake.
Re:Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer on Thursday April 09, 2026 @08:03PM (#47711917)
I'm not dyslexic, but this is what I imagine dyslexic hell is.
Damn, that case took a long time to resolve. You know what they say about justice delayed...
Re:How to run Qwen 3.5 locally on Sunday March 08, 2026 @05:57AM (#47295979)
For roughly equivalent memory sizes, how does one choose between the bit depth and the model size?
Re:The Contagious Taste of Cancer on Sunday February 08, 2026 @12:22PM (#46936399)
Some infections cause cancer-like growths or masses though they're not actually cancer. Though off the top of my head none that I would suspect would survive a trip through stomach acid.
Would there be liability lawsuits for this happening on public land? Might it be more a matter of them not wanting to do body clean up once a week?
Re:We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler on Thursday February 05, 2026 @02:34PM (#46903989)
Interesting how the concept of a clean room implementation changes when the agent has been trained on the entire internet already
"...the requested warrants would permit law enforcement personnel to (1) press or swipe the fingers (including thumbs) of the subject to the fingerprint scanner of the devices..."
What do you think warrants are? You think they get a warrant and they say, "Can you put your finger on the device?" You say, "No," and that's it? If all they wanted to do was ask you, they would just ask you without the warrant.
Re:Usenet Personality on Thursday January 29, 2026 @02:08PM (#46814946)
B1FF sounds like he would have been right at home on weird Twitter
Re:Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines on Saturday January 10, 2026 @02:19PM (#46568984)
Presumably they'd be doing inspections for the power company, who probably don't care if some minuscule amounts of power are consumed directly during operations.
Re:ChatGPT Health Is a Marketplace, Guess Who Is the Product? on Saturday January 10, 2026 @09:52AM (#46566180)
Well, I've really love being protected from cookies. Has done wonders for my experience on the web.
Re:ChatGPT Health Is a Marketplace, Guess Who Is the Product? on Saturday January 10, 2026 @09:25AM (#46565958)
If you lived in the US and you didn't like this product, you can just choose to not use it. What benefit do you as a citizen of Europe derive from having this withheld from you?
Re:ChatGPT Health on Friday January 09, 2026 @07:52PM (#46561483)
You came in, you told a doctor that she ate a specific food and immediately got a rash and GI upset and the ED doctor did not diagnose anaphylaxis?
Re:ChatGPT Health on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @05:35PM (#46534134)
> Most doctor advice boil down to drink some water and take a painkiller

Forgive my brusqueness here, but this could only be written by someone who has not yet been seriously ill.

Re:Eat Real Food on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @05:29PM (#46534066)
The most important dietary intervention most people need is just eating less. The content of what they eat is secondary. It's not unimportant, it just matters less when you are still wildly overweight.
Re:A spider web unlike any seen before on Monday January 05, 2026 @06:54PM (#46506938)
This is the first anti-fly paper take I've ever seen on the basis of morality.
Re:A spider web unlike any seen before on Monday January 05, 2026 @06:31AM (#46497584)
I've never really understood the "spiders protect you from pests" argument. Yeah, sure they eat flies. But I'd much rather have a fly buzz past me and get stuck to some fly paper than have a spider drop from the door frame on an invisible silk thread and slam into my face, or run across my pillow. Maybe I have arachnophobia, but they're freaky little creatures that I don't want in my living space.
Re:We "solved" C10K years ago yet we keep reinventing it on Sunday December 28, 2025 @01:22PM (#46413219)
I personally think it's more of a https://c25k.com/ time of year.
Re:DARPA GO: Generative Optogenetics on Sunday December 14, 2025 @10:34PM (#46270146)
This is cool but why is DARPA funding it?
They have hundreds of new voices in their library
Re:A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool on Saturday October 25, 2025 @10:11PM (#45708592)
Not a good place to be a klutz!
Re:A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool on Saturday October 25, 2025 @09:51PM (#45708475)
Interesting page overall. Didn't realize reactors get scrammed that often.

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