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New comment by jostmey in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

jostmey — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 03:14:09 +0000

I'm surprised there isn't more effort to create hybrids in reverse--an electric car with optional gas generator. The gas generator could run at constant speed, never changing RMP, while the battery handles constant changes in acceleration. The idea is not mine. I've heard about it in China

New comment by jostmey in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

jostmey — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:49:01 +0000

The tax system in Texas is a better system. Sure, Texas has lots of problems. That doesn't mean there is nothing to learn from Texas.

I live in Texas. I don't like the restrictive laws. Texas could learn a lot for California, just not in the areas of taxation

New comment by jostmey in "What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x"

jostmey — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:05:10 +0000

And why won’t the frontier models continue to become better? The open models are getting better but so are the frontier models. The frontier models might remain in a constant race to remain ahead

New comment by jostmey in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

jostmey — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:02:36 +0000

I cancelled my ChatGPT account for the restrictions placed on my account, inappropriately flagging about 10% of my queries as unsafe (I was writing grants in immunology). I haven't looked back. I will do the same if with Claude if Anthropic doesn't reverse course soon. What could I use instead? I find Grok very powerful and useful. Also, Google's Gemini, while also have some of the same restrictions, were at least sensible and not blindly blocking my prompts. So Grok and Gemini may be my go to AI's going forward

New comment by jostmey in "GPT‑Rosalind for life sciences research"

jostmey — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:33:50 +0000

The real issue isn’t finding therapies but getting them tested in clinical trials

New comment by jostmey in "Claude Code is locking people out for hours"

jostmey — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:02:36 +0000

15000 milliseconds! Makes me laugh. I've had the same issue! Usually happens in the morning

New comment by jostmey in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

jostmey — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:10:09 +0000

I’ve noticed regression and it’s performance too

New comment by jostmey in "R3 Bio pitched “brainless clones” to serve the role of backup human bodies"

jostmey — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:03:48 +0000

I am assuming the proposal is to knockout the gene Lim1, which in other animals, creates a brainless phenotype. You won't be able to swap a brain into this headless body (assuming it can fully develop), but this approach could be used for medical research and potentially solve the problem of organ donors, assuming it is ethical

Also, just because Lem1 creates a headless mouse doesn't mean it will do the same in Humans. But I suppose that's what the primate testing will reveal

New comment by jostmey in "90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars"

jostmey — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:58:16 +0000

Claude is only as good as the prompts it’s given

New comment by jostmey in "Attractive students no longer receive better results as classes moved online"

jostmey — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:32:19 +0000

It could still be more fair than no standardized testing

New comment by jostmey in "Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT"

jostmey — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:03:38 +0000

I personally find Claude the best at coding, but it’s usefulness doesn’t seem to extend to scientific research and writing

New comment by jostmey in "Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT"

jostmey — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:01:14 +0000

I noticed how ChatGPT got progressively worse at helping me with my research. I gave up on ChatGPT 5 and just switched Grok and Gemini. I couldn’t be happier that I switched.

New comment by jostmey in "ChatGPT Health"

jostmey — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:01:34 +0000

The old chat gpt models scanning the nih pub med repositories with proper prompting (e.g. …backed by randomized control trial data) was an amazing health care tool. The stripped down cheaper versions today are junk and I’ve had to start relying on grok :-( I’m not convinced OpenAI can make this work

New comment by jostmey in "Eat Real Food"

jostmey — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:27:37 +0000

Makes sense to me! And poor diet is probably one of the biggest problems in the United States

New comment by jostmey in "Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead with Ads in Maps App"

jostmey — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 14:03:10 +0000

The single reason I use apple maps instead of google maps is because of the lack of ads. For me, it is really the only competitive advantage offered by apple maps

New comment by jostmey in "Sodium-ion batteries have started to appear in cars and home storage"

jostmey — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 04:35:19 +0000

Phone and laptop batteries probably make up a tiny fraction of the battery market. My EV battery is almost 5000 times the size of my iphone.

Sodium batteries, if the technology works, would replace EV batteries and provide support to the electrical grid, and would be purchased at thousands of times the volume of iphone ad laptop batteries

New comment by jostmey in "Extreme weather caused more than $100B in damage by June"

jostmey — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 17:29:26 +0000

A small bush fire is not supposed to cause 60 billion in damage. Also, innocent until proven guilty. The evidence against the guy seems weak… like generating images on ChatGPT

New comment by jostmey in "The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy and four times subprime"

jostmey — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 17:52:06 +0000

But what if AI succeeds and it’s the rest of the economy that implodes? Long-term, I’m sure AI will lead to massive productivity gains. Short-term, I think it’s going to be chaotic. I don't know which will implode, AI or repetitive white collar work or something else

New comment by jostmey in "NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant"

jostmey — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 12:10:29 +0000

Rejected is not the same as suspended. Top scientist and mathematicians sometimes submit grants that are rejected. But suspended is another matter

New comment by jostmey in "The Lumina Probiotic May Cause Blindness in the Same Way as Methanol"

jostmey — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 04:35:27 +0000

I wonder how much variability there is in the product from batch-to-batch. Could one batch be producing unwanted by products at a much higher quantity than another batch?