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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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:
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