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This resonates with my experience. At Morph we use gemini for well specified point coding tasks, and it does very well across millions of lines of code every day. We also use claude code as an engineering tool for our own codebase and it does better at being adaptive and for working on open ended issues.

Understood. I am looking for a side-by-side comparison focused on your feature set, not Github's. You answered it partially by calling out your focus areas. Github API reliability has been iffy for us, so it would be good to quantify the difference we can expect to get with you.

It would be nice to see a side-by-side comparison with Github on pricing and features. We are using github and creating hundreds of repos everyday without any issues (except for the occassional API outages that Github has). Curious to see your take on where Pierre is better.

This is very nicely done. We have seen the same issue at a higher level of getting separators right when generating multiple files in a single inference call.

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Nice ! Curious what your prompt was.

These are large coal seams with significant exposure to the atmosphere. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jharia_coalfield for an example. That excavator in the picture is not trying to put out the fire, it is just mining coal that happens to be burning. Spray some water, put out the fire and ship it off to customers.

The system prompt in this experiment limits the solution to always spell out the concrete moves verbally. A human solving the Tower of Hanoi gives up around N=4 and goes off to invent a recursive solution instead. Prompted differently, the LLM would solve these puzzles just fine.

Here is my complete review/analysis of the paper: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/art-abstraction-human-advanta...

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Gary Taubes has written multiple scholarly books on the subject. He has won the Science in Society Journalism Award of the National Association of Science Writers three times. I think a training in one scientific field does qualify a person to go spend their time digging into other fields. How well they do is a matter of personal ability and effort and one would have to read their output and judge for oneself. I have read many of Taubes's book and many of the papers cited in his books and have concluded that he is a well qualified expert in the field.

For people with mobility challenges, or those with communication challenges, being able to look at a map of the airport and plan in advance is useful.

"Yunnani" medicine comes from the region of Yunnan [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yunnan ] and is unrelated to Yunan.

It depends. Sometimes you don't know that a solution exists for your problem.

I am in the middle of listening to Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson and would highly recommend this biography to anyone interested in more.

The State Controller's office publishes detailed reports: https://www.sco.ca.gov/ard_state_acfr.html

Perhaps search for a library that has it. https://www.worldcat.org/title/last-empire-of-iran/oclc/1138...

I think two mirrors at an angle would provide an opportunity to get much better precision in estimating the location on the screen being touched. Wondering if you have tried that.

This is indeed the right way to leverage TCP flow control, and works well at the layer that knows exactly what is coming over the socket. The pitfall here is if semantically independent data is being multiplexed over the same TCP connection then suspending reads may cause collateral damage and in the worst case livelock situations. Examples of multiplexing include separate streams and control frames in HTTP/2, in-band health checks and keepalives in various protocols, etc.

Even more incredible since the article points out that "Unlike albatross or other long-flying seabirds, godwits are active flyers, not gliders—their wings are moving the whole time." I wonder if they can use the active-flying equivalent of regenerative braking in favorable wind conditions to actually generate energy while flapping their wings. Not sure if any animals can generate energy while walking downhill.

The original paper by Burton H. Bloom is only 5 pages and very readable. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/362686.362692

This stopped being true during the 2008 financial crisis. See https://www.marcus.com/us/en .

This article completely misses context behind the name Indra for a group attacking Iran.

In Vedic Hindu texts, and in Zoroastrian texts, a great battle among Devas[1] and Asuras (Ahuras)[2] is described. In the Vedic Hindu version, the Devas won, but for some reason decided to emigrate to India. In the Zoroastrian version, the Asuras won and kicked the Devas out of Persia.

Indra was the king of the Devas. The word Deva eventually came to mean God in Sanskrit and Indra became the King of gods and God of thunder and rain.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra#Origins [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahura_Mazda

Pick something controversial on the subject, explore alternate viewpoints and dig deep enough to form your own opinion. For example, when learning about nutrition, whether Keto works or not is a good controversy. One might start with Gary Taub's book, read its reviews and criticisms, read the source material that is cited by the proponents and detractors, read papers cited by those papers, until one is comfortable forming their own opinion.

Controversies are found at the cutting edge of most fields and analyzing arguments that take the "settled" knowledge in the field and still reach contradictory conclusions provides a lot of insight into the body of knowledge in the field and how much of it is really settled.

Art of Problem Solving is great - I think they take credit for the US Math olympiad team's performance. I use books from the same organization at elementary school level and find them very good and fun to teach. I would recommend going a level lower among the books published by them [1] to see if that is a good starting point for your child. Their website also has some placement tests etc. to evaluate the right level for a student.

[1]https://artofproblemsolving.com/

He added the suffix mritak - meaning "the late" - to his name, becoming "the late Lal Bihari", .... But it wasn't enough to change his situation.

I really liked this man's sense of humor.

Almost exactly 25 years ago, the Taliban captured Kabul for the first time. I still remember the sense of foreboding while following the coverage in the Times of India in Aug-Sep 1996. We all know how that played out.

The situation is very different now, and there will be much less violence this time, at least initially when Kabul falls. But it is difficult to imagine how this round plays out in a fundamentally different way. History may judge Biden very harshly for this withdrawal.

Electrical activity in plants has been known to science for a long time: https://www.thebetterindia.com/76587/jagdish-chandra-bose-in...

Gary Taubes has done a pretty comprehensive takedown of the Nurese Health study[http://garytaubes.com/science-pseudoscience-nutritional-epid...] and all the wrong conclusions the good folks at Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health have managed to torture out of it.

Or Face Mites.

Giving people cash unconditionally would be much better than requiring them to not have any job . The former encourages recipients to retain their jobs or even look for higher paying jobs, and handles corner cases better(single mom working two jobs ineligible for unemployment on losing one).

The pricing for water in California is highly asymmetric, with urban users paying significantly more (one to two orders of magnitude more) for water than agricultural users. If agricultural users are charged a higher rate (or equivalently the state cuts back on their subsidies ) and "free' rights to water are regulated and distributed more evenly across the population then wasteful use of water will immediately become uneconomical. That is the right long term solution to aligning resource usage with available supply.