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Re:Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin on Sunday February 08, 2026 @01:18PM (#46936953)
it's hard to understand for me what you liked in Le Guin's books, but maybe Children Of Time?
Re:Vouch on Sunday February 08, 2026 @12:42PM (#46936626)
Isn't it extremely difficult problem? It's very easy to game, vouch 1 entity that will invite lots of bad actors
Re:Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin on Sunday February 08, 2026 @12:18PM (#46936356)
Agree on "I, robot", but foundation series is still very good (probably because it's not really character-focused)
Re:Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin on Sunday February 08, 2026 @12:17PM (#46936345)
Yes, but now it doesn't make sense to read it anymore right? It reads outdated and there are better books nowadays
Is the main goal to see if LLM can do this sort of research and cross-pollination?
Re:Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin on Sunday February 08, 2026 @12:01PM (#46936164)
Why do people rate "The Left Hand of Darkness" so much? Is it because it was good at the time of writing? All concepts there are very shallow and mainstream now

edit: honest question, don't want to flame

Re:GitHub Agentic Workflows on Sunday February 08, 2026 @10:28AM (#46935100)
It's about scale, when you built something as grand as google you don't want to spend time building a garden
Re:Nested Learning: A new ML paradigm for continual learning on Sunday December 07, 2025 @03:58PM (#46185107)
Someone's trying to reproduce it in open https://github.com/kmccleary3301/nested_learning
Cool project, the space is very crowded: https://x.com/JeffDean/status/1991053401061536027 and http://semanticscholar.org/ come to mind
Re:Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure on Thursday November 13, 2025 @09:20AM (#45915201)
For context: The website is called Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish and naturalised-German Marxist theorist and revolutionary. A very biased source
Re:Leaving Meta and PyTorch on Friday November 07, 2025 @06:04AM (#45845299)
how does it compare to automl tools?