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New comment by pseudocoup in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"

pseudocoup — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:36:20 +0000

I think they mean: I feel like using [Sonnet/Opus/Fable] in the name [URL] is a mistake, who knows how long that model will be around

New comment by pseudocoup in "NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers"

pseudocoup — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 03:37:39 +0000

> Computer chips that cram billions of electronic devices into a few square inches have powered the digital economy and transformed the world.

Much power so chip

New comment by pseudocoup in "Woman who had sex with identical twins told it is 'not possible' to identify dad"

pseudocoup — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:13:05 +0000

From reading it appears all parties are invested in the outcome of children. So this becomes interesting for other reasons.

What is the current state of the art in this type of testing? Why is a definitive result too far off but also too expensive?

New comment by pseudocoup in "A new AI winter is coming?"

pseudocoup — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 05:58:07 +0000

i may be a wallflower here, but please do more with your account than leave this one comment. think about posting! show us what interests you. spread some karma around.

New comment by pseudocoup in "Your Manager Is Not Your Best Friend"

pseudocoup — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 03:27:48 +0000

I’d say that ‘commiserate’ is a euphemism for complain. How do you understand it?

New comment by pseudocoup in "Mystery 'Disease X' outbreak widens as WHO sends rapid response team to DR Congo"

pseudocoup — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 03:58:29 +0000

Is SCMP a reputable, or otherwise trustworthy news source?

New comment by pseudocoup in "Ask HN: What will change in the next administration?"

pseudocoup — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 17:26:26 +0000

Elon Musk becomes the world’s first trillionaire.

Will we ever get fusion power?

pseudocoup — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 12:06:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/will-we-ever-get-fusion-power

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40799006

Points: 251

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New comment by pseudocoup in "Armor-plating a cat feeder (2016)"

pseudocoup — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 02:22:18 +0000

your thoughts are echoed in the comments, which are SO much fun. check em out.

my favorite might be the guy explaining how he subscribed to all comments, that he misses inbox zero, and that he needs help unsubscribing. poor guy

New comment by pseudocoup in "Space travel via tether between asteroids"

pseudocoup — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 01:04:40 +0000

that’s some tough SF…http://toughsf.blogspot.com/2020/07/tethers-all-way.html

New comment by pseudocoup in "Scientists Use ML to Read Mouse’s Brain and Reconstruct Movie Clip It’s Watching"

pseudocoup — Thu, 04 May 2023 01:21:26 +0000

the ai is not reconstructing sight. it’s guessing which frame of a video the mouse is currently watching. based on training data created by recording the lit up brains of other mice watching the same video

New comment by pseudocoup in "This word does not exist"

pseudocoup — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 03:37:38 +0000

Might be an extreme example, but I thought you’re not allowed to use the word in the definition:

https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/extremology/eyJ3IjogI...

New comment by pseudocoup in "The Data Colleges Collect on Applicants"

pseudocoup — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 04:47:02 +0000

Although the software mentioned is pretty good at scoring, a fair percentage of applicants to any university have had no prior interaction with that institution ("stealth applicants"). Moreover the jobs of admin staff are literally dependent on a high volume of qualified applicants. I doubt any admissions operation would use the absence of a score to preclude or penalize otherwise qualified applicants.

New comment by pseudocoup in "The Data Colleges Collect on Applicants"

pseudocoup — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 04:37:34 +0000

I work in higher ed admissions, using Slate, which is also used by at least 3 of the 4 schools mentioned. Fortunately or not admissions operations no longer rely on spreadsheets and mailchimp to collate data and score applicants (interest, merit or otherwise), and the software supporting them is getting pretty advanced.

While I agree this tidbit is newsworthy and icky, what's more disturbing to me is the lack of interest demonstrated by those responsible for educating students...faculty. Any university admin can attest to this. The people most qualified to judge an applicant's merits are surprisingly unwilling to do so in a fair, objective and consistent way. Anecdotal evidence, but I've gotten requests from professors of engineering (including CS faculty) not only to print application PDFs but sort spreadsheets by GPA. As if they can't figure out how to do that themselves.

I believe part of this trend is actually a response to that: admin staff look for more tools/metrics to inform admissions decisions. Misguided or not it's a sign of the times.

New comment by pseudocoup in "Nasa to host major press conference on 'discovery beyond our solar system'"

pseudocoup — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 21:07:22 +0000

The participants (less Nasa leadership) are all researchers with expertise in: atmospheres of exoplanets and biosignatures.

I wager the announcement will be about TRAPPIST-1b and/or c having atmospheres capable of supporting life.

My moonshot bet is that they'll announce the discovery of evidence of biosignatures.