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New comment by redwood in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

redwood — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 01:19:50 +0000

Isn't that what their fwd deployed engineering does?

New comment by redwood in "Transit rewards"

redwood — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:06:16 +0000

For completeness isn't there a Muni (streetcar) line that covers this route?

New comment by redwood in "Transit rewards"

redwood — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:05:36 +0000

As a Bay Area native I think this was the first time I've ever seen the accent over the E in "San José"

New comment by redwood in "Jev in 25 Lines of Python"

redwood — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:03:35 +0000

You beat me to it!

New comment by redwood in "How often do you think about the 1893 World's Fair?"

redwood — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:59:20 +0000

This is very interesting considering how much of Budapest was rebuilt or at least restored again most recently in the last couple of decades. It's absolutely incredible how far it has come from the 90s

New comment by redwood in "How often do you think about the 1893 World's Fair?"

redwood — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:58:17 +0000

For anyone interested in this topic I highly recommend the book The Devil in the White City. It definitely includes some very disturbing subject matter (basically the nation's first heavily publicized serial killer) with an incredibly deep history of the fair so it's not for everyone but an amazing read. I love how brilliantly the author builds up the anticipation for how the American architects were going to respond to the magnificence of the Eiffel Tower at Paris's exposition a few years prior. I will not spoil it here and it's best if you don't know it when you read it

New comment by redwood in "Astra for Law"

redwood — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:33:06 +0000

Revealing how they call Harvey and Legora customers instead of partners...

New comment by redwood in "Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter"

redwood — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:37:48 +0000

It's inherently political for so many reasons including the fight for taking action that apparently has no meaning. This very debate in other words. So I disagree. It's like philosophy (or opera) and there's nothing wrong with that.

New comment by redwood in "The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities"

redwood — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:17:26 +0000

It must be valuable if an earlier version of myself bought it kept it found it or stored it

New comment by redwood in "The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve"

redwood — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 01:05:19 +0000

Dumb question but why not pump it back into where it was pulled from.. or just leave it in a a reserve paid for by the gov

New comment by redwood in "How good are frontier models at physics?"

redwood — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:49:40 +0000

I'd have thought the same but this article from yesterday blew my mind https://www.amazon.science/blog/why-dont-machine-learning-re...

As it essential implies that these models compress knowledge well in a way that what remains is what's generalizeable more so than remembering every specific detail... Anyway more understanding necessary but thought provoking

New comment by redwood in "Why Does the Universe Expand?"

redwood — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:40:40 +0000

Wow speaking of asymmetries https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/538/1/76/8019798?logi...

New comment by redwood in "Why Does the Universe Expand?"

redwood — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:35:47 +0000

What stuff about accelerating expansion are you referring to? The author is a physicist not just a barstool talker. He's right as you point out that there are huge interesting and unexplained phenomena that sometimes have pretty little names that discourage further question asking. It's sad to see such negativity instead of engaging with the material a bit

New comment by redwood in "Doing Everyone Else's Job"

redwood — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:31:02 +0000

There are two ways to do this: helpful mentor, always around, always helping... or inartful toe-stepper. Be the former

New comment by redwood in "The Nature of Dance"

redwood — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:16:02 +0000

The first follower makes the lone nut a leader

Source: https://youtu.be/fW8amMCVAJQ?si=h6ZYND15Am0ao3aq

New comment by redwood in "Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age"

redwood — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:04:51 +0000

The irony of the comment you're making is that you are the one drawing from a gender stereotype that is ambiguous with respect to its immutability across time and culture

New comment by redwood in "Backprop Alternative: Augmented Lagrangian Predictive Coding"

redwood — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:36:18 +0000

Reminds of https://www.neurofounders.co/articles/bezos-backed-flourish-...

New comment by redwood in "I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm addicted to information"

redwood — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:19:12 +0000

In this particular case the content is arguably related I mean I think it's essentially a performance art piece

New comment by redwood in "I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea"

redwood — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:52:07 +0000

Great article but there's one bizarre statement that just kind of hangs without a clear connection to the rest of the piece. They describe how bird skins are exported without feet.. yet nowhere do they claim that the yighlanders prized feet ... they prized seashells.

What else am I missing?

New comment by redwood in "Inverse-Square Law"

redwood — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:43:05 +0000

While we're on this... it is arguably even more befuddling to recognize that the information content potential of space apparently correlates with the surface area rather than volume https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle