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New comment by bgilroy26 in "Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity"

bgilroy26 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:12:10 +0000

Does the atmosphere stay attached to the earth due to the bending of time?

New comment by bgilroy26 in "Expanding Project Glasswing"

bgilroy26 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:59:23 +0000

It seems like there is a genuine communication breakdown between management and engineering. Engineers know that there are vulnerabilities all over the place and that there have been for ages and that where the rubber hits the road every vulnerability does not represent a successful exploit by some nefarious actor.

Management can often treat cybersecurity like a black box that represents millions upon millions in liability. If Mythos represents an opportunity to bring management's understanding of the amount of "security vulnerability debt" everyone carries into the real world, it might be a good thing

New comment by bgilroy26 in "What physical ‘life force’ turns biology’s wheels?"

bgilroy26 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:07:33 +0000

For those who remember, the flagellum was a major site of the Intelligent Design debate that gave us Christopher Rufo (via the Discovery Institute)

The general idea was that there were specific examples of "irreducible complexity" that proved that there was an intelligent designer. The project on the part of certain Christian political factions was to add a veneer of hypothesis testing to creationism. The god of the gaps retreats further

CSAIL makes corpus of Olympiad problems publicly available

bgilroy26 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:32:06 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-04-world-largest-olympiad-math-problems.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867447

Points: 4

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New comment by bgilroy26 in "Naples' 1790s civil war was intensified by moral panic over Real Analysis (2023)"

bgilroy26 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:15:26 +0000

>Therefore, there was a certain tendency to RETVRN to the golden age of geometry

Echoed in the LaRouchians of the 2000s. I don't know what they're up to now

New comment by bgilroy26 in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

bgilroy26 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:02:01 +0000

There really ought to be a class of professionals like forensic accountants who can show up in a corrupted organization and do a post mortem on their management of technical debt

New comment by bgilroy26 in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

bgilroy26 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 07:35:18 +0000

This ignores the career of Rush Limbaugh

New comment by bgilroy26 in "Moving Scratch generation to Python on browser"

bgilroy26 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 02:13:54 +0000

I have loved Scratch for many years. This looks cool! Thank you for sharing!

New comment by bgilroy26 in "The Monks in the Casino"

bgilroy26 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:34:42 +0000

Society is kinetic and disparate because of social media

We're all on top of one another, and different cross tabs feel different ways about the same thing. So there is room for empathy and antipathy to coexist

If you read the New York Times and The Atlantic there is lots of empathy for the male loneliness crisis

I am in between the age of you and your son it seems. As a man who has not missed any of the "misandry", I think the overly online conservative young men are an embarrassment and I hope they grow out of it

New comment by bgilroy26 in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

bgilroy26 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:38:36 +0000

I have a lot of fun creating stories with Gemini and Claude. It feels like what Tom Hanks character imagined comic books could be in Big (1988)

I play once or twice a week and it's definitely worth $20/mo to me

New comment by bgilroy26 in "URLs are state containers"

bgilroy26 — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 14:19:11 +0000

To save the url length, why not hash all possible states and have the value of the variable in the query string refer to that?

Newton for Ladies (1737) – Newtonianism vs. Cartesianism

bgilroy26 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 17:24:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.whipplelib.hps.cam.ac.uk/special/exhibitions-and-displays/exhibitions-archive/newton-and-newtonianism/ladies

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292404

Points: 20

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New comment by bgilroy26 in "Becoming the person who does the thing"

bgilroy26 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:38:35 +0000

I keep the principles of days at the gym rather than time at the gym close to time in the market vs timing the market in my mind

New comment by bgilroy26 in "Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5 (2024)"

bgilroy26 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 17:56:00 +0000

The situation you're describing is circular. Perspective taking and prioritization are executive functioning skills and executive functioning skills are precisely what are lacking in a person who has ADHD

New comment by bgilroy26 in "Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5 (2024)"

bgilroy26 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:48:28 +0000

>I bet if you knew your house would burn down if you didn't do "normal" things you would have done them no problem

Getting yourself to do things in a boring situation that you might only do in an exciting situation is a big challenge in ADHD management

If everything was a "house on fire" level emergency, many ADHDers would get more done but would eventually collapse from running around on adrenaline for days

These problems are not easily solved

New comment by bgilroy26 in "DeepSeek-v3.1"

bgilroy26 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:26:00 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by bgilroy26 in "DeepSeek-v3.1"

bgilroy26 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:14:27 +0000

I should have said, I am looking for posted chat logs where the prompts are shared as well. I really enjoy the process of making stories with AI and I am curious to see how others do the same thing.

New comment by bgilroy26 in "DeepSeek-v3.1"

bgilroy26 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 15:12:06 +0000

Where would you go to find people posting their AI generated fiction? I haven't been able to find it on Reddit

New comment by bgilroy26 in "Seeking AI chat-driven fiction community"

bgilroy26 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 21:25:14 +0000

Silly stories like these

https://g.co/gemini/share/34111d74b6dc

I am looking for a forum online like fan fiction has.

Seeking AI chat-driven fiction community

bgilroy26 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 21:23:59 +0000

I have been getting a lot of enjoyment out of interactive storytelling using AI, but I cannot find an online community of "authors" to swap chats with.

Am I missing somewhere obvious or does this activity not have critical mass?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44565514

Points: 2

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