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New comment by tessellated in "Wolfram Language and Mathematica version 15"

tessellated — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:01:16 +0000

Talking Bullshyt. See: https://anathem.fandom.com/wiki/Bulshytt

New comment by tessellated in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

tessellated — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:00:31 +0000

I could start teaching bittorrent and adblocking in the local pub!

New comment by tessellated in "Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash"

tessellated — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:21:42 +0000

No not that scene, I just failed at the joke. The commercial music scene was formulaic in the 80's and earlier already. Popular culture porn.

New comment by tessellated in "Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash"

tessellated — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:58:59 +0000

Fascinating! The last sentence could also talk about the famous book.

New comment by tessellated in "My favorite cult sci-fi and fantasy books you may not have heard of before"

tessellated — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 18:01:36 +0000

I also didn't like Consider Phlebas.

Space Opera's not really my genre but I enjoyed Commonwealth Saga by Peter F. Hamilton some years ago.

Read by myself and the rest in audiobook read by boring John Lee walking the dog. But I finished it and several conceptes have stayed with me since.

New comment by tessellated in "IQ tests results for AI"

tessellated — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 13:13:34 +0000

Nowadays, I was automatically assuming one of Qwen's models on top of charts that lack them.

But that's the first IQ test.

New comment by tessellated in "I do not remember my life and it's fine"

tessellated — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 13:06:49 +0000

This happened to me yesterday. Sorry Wolfgang.

New comment by tessellated in "Show HN: My LLM CLI tool can run tools now, from Python code or plugins"

tessellated — Wed, 28 May 2025 11:23:59 +0000

I don't need belief or faith to get use and entertainment out of the transformers. As Simon said, good enough.

New comment by tessellated in "AI's energy footprint"

tessellated — Wed, 21 May 2025 11:49:50 +0000

top joke!

New comment by tessellated in "Why Pale Blue Dot generates feelings of cosmic insignificance"

tessellated — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 19:11:38 +0000

> not just stars but full galaxies

https://esahubble.org/images/heic0611b/

Take in this picture for cosmic insignificance, and then check out what JWST did a couple of years ago.

No, the stars you see are all in our galaxy. The most visible galaxy (to the unaided eye) is Andromeda.

New comment by tessellated in "Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet"

tessellated — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:03:43 +0000

or:

John Michael Godier's Event Horizon: JWST May Have Just Detected Alien Life at Exoplanet K2-18b

Episode webpage: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-michael-godier/...

Media file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO8659624232.mp3

New comment by tessellated in "Nintendo unveils Switch 2 ahead of June 5 launch"

tessellated — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 16:35:23 +0000

I had luck with WD-40. Bought Switch ca. 1 year after Zelda, small drift was mitigatable through whiggling the joys a long time. Then, Witcher, I had enough of it and sprayed a tiny amount into both. Working like a Charm since then. YMMV

New comment by tessellated in "I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs"

tessellated — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 11:13:56 +0000

Same as reading books, Internet, Wikipedia, working towards/keeping your health and fitness, etc...

The quote about books being a mirror reflecting genius or idiocy seems to apply.

I see LLMs a kind of hyper-keyboard. Speeding up typing AND structuring content, completing thoughts, and inspiring ideas.

Unlike a regular keyboard, an LLM transforms input contextually. One no longer merely types but orchestrates concepts and modulates language, almost like music.

Yet mastery is key. Just as a pianist turns keystrokes into a symphony through skill, a true virtuoso wields LLMs not as a crutch but as an amplifier of thought.

New comment by tessellated in "Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown (2013)"

tessellated — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 11:36:25 +0000

For 44 years my misunderstanding of 'character actors' was that they are good at acting like other characters.

New comment by tessellated in "Recent results show that LLMs struggle with compositional tasks"

tessellated — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 15:58:13 +0000

Some "academia" types I meet seem to be struck in this "skeptic vs enthusiast" discussion.

How do we harness LLMs’ potential while rigorously mitigating harm?

New comment by tessellated in "I've acquired a new superpower"

tessellated — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 21:03:50 +0000

That's how I used to help my grandmother when I was a little child. She always used to remark that the last one (5th) was the most difficult to find.

New comment by tessellated in "VLC tops 6B downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles"

tessellated — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:57:49 +0000

interesting for comparison, tweaking, analysis,..

New comment by tessellated in "Republishing my Simpsons fan site, twenty years later"

tessellated — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:05:25 +0000

I was there, when it was still in creation.

jms is such a treasure. Listening to his autobiography, narrated by Peter Jurasik, is wholeheartedly recommended.

New comment by tessellated in "Can LLMs accurately recall the Bible?"

tessellated — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 15:37:11 +0000

I understand the down vote, but it was an interesting prompt to test different models with.

New comment by tessellated in "Ghostty 1.0"

tessellated — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 00:58:52 +0000

I just tried, "tmux bind -n S-Left prev"... works. Thank you, good idea. I now have 'S-Up switch-client -n' and 'S-Down last'