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New comment by vixen99 in "I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era"

vixen99 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:28:55 +0000

lose!

Can LLMs bring the Berkshire Hathaway web site into the 21st century?

vixen99 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 13:10:41 +0000

Article URL: https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2026/02/06/can-llms-bring-the-berkshire-hathaway-web-site-into-the-21st-century-ai-and-css-html/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47562858

Points: 3

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New comment by vixen99 in "Willingness to look stupid"

vixen99 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:55:36 +0000

Two folk who set the direction of the modern world - Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin.

https://historycollection.com/16-examples-of-the-madness-of-... https://www.science.org/content/article/origin-darwins-anxie...

Can't vouch for the accuracy of these descriptions but they don't suggest lack of neuroticism however brought on. Bodily dysfunction of whatever kind can be causative of course.

New comment by vixen99 in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"

vixen99 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:29:16 +0000

At the very very least there are more productive ways of spending time.

New comment by vixen99 in "The influence of anxiety: Harold Bloom and literary inheritance"

vixen99 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 13:09:54 +0000

You don't have to agree with Bloom's 'The Western Canon' but one's appreciation (either way) of the authors he mentions will likely be enhanced.

New comment by vixen99 in "The influence of anxiety: Harold Bloom and literary inheritance"

vixen99 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 13:06:47 +0000

For sure!

New comment by vixen99 in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

vixen99 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:57:52 +0000

What is the effect of the new climate initiatives? Undoubtedly $trillions have been spent on what might be termed 'fighting climate change' by all means possible. Looking at the Mauna Loa data on C02, can anyone see any effect at all? https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/. I merely present this as an observation. In other words, your comment is spot on at least with respect to the EU.

New comment by vixen99 in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

vixen99 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:44:16 +0000

And this? https://ourworldindata.org/profile/co2/china

New comment by vixen99 in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

vixen99 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:38:43 +0000

Would someone like to explain why the Chinese (if as you say produce 30-35% of global emissions) don't appear to see a problem or at least if alluding to it as they do, fail to do much about it as major contributors of emissions? And then of course there are the countries proud of a relative lack of emissions who are merely exporting the problem to somewhere else, often enough, China.

New comment by vixen99 in "A ternary plot of citrus geneology"

vixen99 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:10:31 +0000

Fascinating. Look forward to your update.

New comment by vixen99 in "Anna's Archive Loses .LI Domain as Legal Pressure Mounts"

vixen99 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:25:01 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by vixen99 in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

vixen99 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:09:32 +0000

Never mind people in the US, there are plenty of people elsewhere happy to work with their governments who are doubtless developing such autonomous entities.

New comment by vixen99 in "Khamenei Dead"

vixen99 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:28:33 +0000

If the 86-year old leader is still alive one would imagine that he would want to offer reassurance and & encouragement to his supporters by making some kind of appearance.

New comment by vixen99 in "Khamenei Dead"

vixen99 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:21:09 +0000

Do you think the estimated 6,221 men and women protesting against the regime who were killed on orders from that head of state should get a vote here?

New comment by vixen99 in "Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems"

vixen99 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:15:14 +0000

'I live in a country where guaranteed health care is part of the constitution.'

In the light of ' Almost half of the 6 million people needing treatment from the NHS in England have had no further care at all since joining a hospital waiting list, new data reveals. Previously unseen NHS England figures show that 2.99 million of the 6.23 million patients (48%) awaiting care have not had either their first appointment with a specialist or a diagnostic test since being referred by a GP.'

- Assuming it's successful in its goal, can your country tell Britain how to do it? Please!

New comment by vixen99 in "Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]"

vixen99 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:03:40 +0000

Tangential but am reminded of Churchill's comments" "And when in after years my school-fellows who had won prizes and distinction for writing such beautiful Latin poetry and pithy Greek epigrams had to come down again to common English, to earn their living or make their way, I did not feel myself at any disadvantage." and

"“However, by being so long in the lowest form I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. They all went on to learn Latin and Greek and splendid things like that. But I was taught English. We were considered such dunces that we could learn only English. Mr. Somervell—a most delightful man, to whom my debt is great—was charged with the duty of teaching the stupidest boys the most disregarded thing—namely, to write mere English. He knew how to do it. He taught it as no one else has ever taught it. Not only did we learn English parsing thoroughly, but we also practised continually English analysis."

Even better if you can do both!

New comment by vixen99 in "The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else"

vixen99 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:37:03 +0000

Is this actually true? Anyone care to comment on the claim (from some quarters) that offering free access to ChatGPT allows OpenAI to 'collect a gold mine of real-world interaction data to improve the underlying language model. Every conversation users have with ChatGPT – every question asked and every task requested – provides valuable training data for refining' the model.

If false, I'm thinking - there's me, thinking I'm doing my bit to help . . .

New comment by vixen99 in "Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50%"

vixen99 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:53:29 +0000

Given the opportunity, one wonders what you'd like to do with 'old people consuming resources without adding anything and supposedly 'holding back societies'. Earlier in the 20th century a significant cohort of intellectuals had decided ideas on this and the earlier generations.

Related somewhat to this: 'The Intellectuals and the Masses' by John Carey makes for truly shocking reading.

Who? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/14/john-carey-obi...

New comment by vixen99 in "Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50%"

vixen99 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:43:54 +0000

Lot of people think it's a niche exercise activity and it shouldn't be - for all ages including those in their 80s and 90s according to reports.

New comment by vixen99 in "Microplastics found in rural woodland at higher levels than in city centers"

vixen99 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:23:02 +0000

More likely to be absorbed and sequestered in plant & soil matter.