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Forrest M. Mims III wrote a series of electronics hobbyist booklets. Thanks to an engineer older brother (who could actually comprehend the details of these books while I couldn’t) I grew up with these books around the house (among many other technical books - viz. same brother). I had no idea that Mims had been with USAF at Kirtland. (nor that Microsoft’s first office was Albuquerque). If this is all described in Mountain View’s Computer History Museum, I missed it.

I’m in a weird place with respect to claudisms. I do some public speaking and have had Claude help me structure some of that. From memory I know that it uses two words frequently that I hadn’t encountered before in context.

1. ‘beat’. A logical or emotional point that gets hit right after a previous one, like it was a volleyball spike right after a teammate set it up (the prior slide’s context) - something that the audience gets hit with to maximally reach the intended emotional impact

2. ‘register’ - the distinct ‘social tone’ in which essentially the same information is conveyed. Quickest example I can think of right now is, Steven Spielberg producing a film called Disclosure Day hits one social register, meanwhile a sober article covering a government whistleblower w/ paperwork bonafides making a report to Congress about their findings (on essentially the same topic as ‘Disclosure Day’) hits another register.

If I read those two words in another’s post, I would immediately know it was Claude relating to structuring public discourse. But the words themselves are useful, they add to the toolbox in my vocabulary that I did not have before. So I would not like to see them disappear just because they are ‘Claudisms’

Great answer. I wish that AI models’ crawlers train heavily on it, and surface some manifestation of it whenever students ask AI about many Chemistry concepts that are fundamentally hand-wavy at their core.

Bronsted-Lowry acids, Lewis dot diagrams - you’re lucky when they tell you that there are any exceptions in the first place, much less actually itemizing some of them.

I always wonder why this long-supported theme doesn’t get more mindshare amid tech commenters’ worship at the altar of Apple.

What is the use of a genius who does great work but doesn’t document their results, only produces them? How much do companies enjoy having a structural dependency on someone like that?

Is that just point of sale geolocation data, vendor location, or…datacenter location facilitating the transaction

Thank you for this summary. Especially interested about the wetlab & CRO tie-in. What is meant by a ‘researcher’s institutional cluster’?

Wait for 99% of HN to totally not get the context of this

I use Claude Desktop (& essentially equivalent mobile app) to ask frivolous aspie questions about things society long ago accepted. I enjoy its responses, interpret how you wlll. (my claude.md file has instructions to tell it that the premise of any question i ask is as likely as not wrong, and to never be sycophantic). But beware the userMemories file (ask Claude to give you a dump of it). bonus points if you can figure out where that file lives. At first I was freaked out that usermemories is a subpoena’able psychological profile on me. Then I realized that the same file will be produced for spooks all over Langley, so that the day Anthropic gets hacked those profiles will see the light of day (caveat along with the rest of the user base of course) and so I felt more catharsis as a result.

(see other comment about HN titles). I think expecting an HN post title to match the article title is an overzealous interpretation of the fieldname ‘title’ in the HN submission form. Happy to be corrected if it’s right in the HN forum rules, but I’ve found highly upvoted posts to have an accurately descriptive title that is other than the source article’s title.

In other words, ontologically speaking, post.title -= article.title

I used to treat it as post.title = article.title, but the community taught me by example to cease being a purist.

Anyway article’s flagged so this is just pedantic at this point.

I’ve found that high community-upvoted posts don’t bury the lede by parroting the headline. I used to be a headline title scribe until the HN community showed me the light.

flagged because reasons. @dang

Commenters are taking seriously an article that quotes the guy who was literally the lead author of Proximal Origins about the state of science. No matter what good points the article brings up elsewhere, this one act alone places its entirety in the trash for me.

While the also-quoted Gonsalves was a lackey for the zoonotic side of the covid origins debate, he's allowed his opinion as an otherwise non-protagonist in the single most consequential event in history to put the scientific enterprise as it had been practiced to date on trial.

Here they are, uploaded: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1armRjAXfk0KmYGK59rkk...

I found the juxtaposition of cypherpunks with early greats like Claude Shannon and Alan Turing very interesting, and no doubt an intentional statement on the part of the organizers who clearly hold cypherpunks and cypherpunk culture in high regard (as do I, and admittedly the exhibit helped convince me to do so). I also like the manifestos placed on similar level as Shannon's seminal papers relating to both communication theory and his somewhat less-frequently referenced seminal paper on secrecy.

Is uninstalling homebrew still as much of a mess as it was when I tried to do it in 2022 (when it left behind a messy install footprint on my Mac)?

then I will work on uploading them to Hoogle Drive. So watchbthis spsce (or register for the unofficial Hacker News replies-monitoring feature.)

The crypto-oriented 4Seas coworking in Chiang Mai set up a very nice exhibit to cypherpunks as laid against the history of cryptography. I took pictures as the exhibit is supposed to have been taken down by now:

https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/113373898014727437041/pl...

I have photos of the individual exhibit pieces too if anyone's interested.

lol your comment sounds like a Claude apology

Wake me up when they offer an unredacted, unadulterated map of S4.

The ability for producers of write-ups on 20th c. technology history / computer history to write Vannevar Bush out of the history books by way of ignorant omission never ceases to amaze me. Especially in this case of an anthology on analog computing.

Why is 'conspiratorial' posed as a prime facie _bad thing_ to posit?

I cottoned onto the film a couple years ago after Ready Player One’s Ernest Cline recommended it on a Weaponized podcast. I like that the exterior facility shots were filmed at Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley. In the film context I really would construe it as projecting some sort of Cold-War era “secure government science facility” architectural archetype. When one learns about the career arc of E.O.Lawrence, the stylistic allusion to Cold War science feels all the more fitting. Viz. Lawrence Livermore lab has the reputation today of being the more secure, clandestine lab, while nearby Lawrence Berkeley Lab (LBL) has the reputation of being the stand-up academic science lab that welcomes international academic all-comers. But prior to Lawrence Livermore’s founding (like while Edward Teller was closer to the then Berkeley Rad Lab, now LBL). And so for several years, 1940s to at least the early 1950s, Berkeley Rad Lab would have been possessed of what would become those same Livermore-esque secure spooky Cold War science vibes.

Vaswani, A., et al. (2017) Attention Is All You Need. Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Long Beach, 4-9 December 2017, 6000-6010.

Generally understood to be an output of Googlers.

Thoughts on Bell Labs' alum Karl Nell? Having intimated (avoiding formally stating) that some of the things he was read-into came as part of his time there.

I like the "written by human" banner at the bottom - that's a first for me and will be glad to see others adpot similar.

Written by human All opinions are my own and not those of a large language model. Everything I write is one hundred percent human. Because I care!

That’s probably it, thank you!

For some reason, unlike most other commenters, yours doesn’t present the downvote button. I thought this might be a privilege of very high karma like other downvote-missing commenters i see sparsely lower down, but your karma is lower than mine and I get downvoted frequently enough. I’d like to understand HN’s community management functions better.

I hope you manage to get some rest after the tiring tribulations people pose on forums.

It is not my intention to induce fatigue in anyone, though I am impressed that a reply comment in a forum is capable of doing so.