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New comment by prox in "The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models"

prox — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:22:47 +0000

Wait it uses “blast radius” ? In what context?

New comment by prox in "My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page"

prox — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:04:39 +0000

That sounds horrible. I got an old PI4, would it make for a decent router, if at all possible?

New comment by prox in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

prox — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:52:59 +0000

What is a “knowledge cutoff” ?

—Ah, got it, it knows more about recent times.

New comment by prox in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

prox — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:10:55 +0000

What does this line mean “ the web at a rapid rate and build corpora.” , what are they trying to do? Suck up data for training AI or something else?

New comment by prox in "Vāgdhenu: A Sanskrit Chanting TTS System"

prox — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 05:43:24 +0000

Luckily a lot of research has gone into Vedic recitation from an academic perspective if someone would take up the mantle.

New comment by prox in "Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners"

prox — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:43:25 +0000

Yes, I think agree with what you say. I think the future is still wide open, and I feel we must start thinking of what creates better results in the long run.

New comment by prox in "Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners"

prox — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:39:10 +0000

I think the sibling comment shares some good examples. Maybe future drone armies is another one.

That you don’t see anything scary that’s your prerogative of course.

New comment by prox in "Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners"

prox — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:08:59 +0000

Your perspective is a short arc. “Look what I can do now and look it made me way more productive.” I have no doubt it is true, you are on the up right now.

However thinking of the long arc is important to, even though it has no consequence for you right now. AI is a force multiplayer and scarily dangerous in the wrong hands. We can already see by these discussions how uncertain things are.

Just food for thought.

New comment by prox in "Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows"

prox — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:51:22 +0000

I really want to read more about this. It’s fascinating but also very difficult to wrap your head around. I did enjoy the Feynman talks.

New comment by prox in "Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows"

prox — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:52:39 +0000

I think I recently learned that the Higgs is actually not that much part of imparting mass for atomic particles. I thought it imparted all mass.

New comment by prox in "Fable is not a useful model"

prox — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:29:11 +0000

We need? Do we?

New comment by prox in "Connections in Math: the two kinds of random"

prox — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 08:11:26 +0000

I think this is what we are going to see more and more, so people get exposed to the writing style and start to (un)consciously copy it.

New comment by prox in "Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep"

prox — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 11:12:14 +0000

Isn’t it annoying to have Airpods in your ears when sleeping?

New comment by prox in "Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep"

prox — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 11:10:02 +0000

If noise keeps you awake (loud neighborhood) then a white noise blanket could work. I downloaded a 10 hour beachwaves sound and played it to cover the noise. Two small speakers left and right made it feel like I was there with the stereo. It took a little bit to get used to, but it did the trick.

New comment by prox in "The last Romans are still around"

prox — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:34:29 +0000

Thanks a lot for talking me through the experience of Roman living history you could say. I read a part of “Ad urbe condita” by Livy and amazing how direct the book is on its history.

New comment by prox in "The last Romans are still around"

prox — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:18:14 +0000

Since the first word means Senate, does any of the Roman municipal bodies consider them to be a Senate like body?

As a Roman, how do you relate to the far past? I mean you must have grown up with so many reminders of the Roman legacy in day to day affairs.

New comment by prox in "The last Romans are still around"

prox — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:15:23 +0000

I think PolyMathy on YouTube went into this topic, and it is part of Greek.

It was probably this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5CUiP5oiH0

New comment by prox in "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

prox — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:01:04 +0000

Amazing stuff!

New comment by prox in "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

prox — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:55:51 +0000

What other type of stuff gets scanned? I can’t imagine a whole industry waiting to x-ray something?

New comment by prox in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"

prox — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:38:13 +0000

You pretty much described why I quit “social” media wholesale. It’s a turf war and nothing goods comes from it that cannot be got elsewhere at a vastly higher quality.