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bananaflag commented on A Community-Curated Nancy Drew Collection blog.openlibrary.org/2026... · Posted by u/sohkamyung

bananaflag · a day ago

I discovered Nancy Drew last week. I knew about it vaguely for years, but now I watched They Cloned Tyrone, which has a character who is a big fan, which I found endearing, so I read the first 4 books (which are now in the public domain).

I am not going to read more because I don't like that she never ages. If you want a normally-aging female detective series, check out Judy Bolton.

bananaflag commented on Where did all the starships go? datawrapper.de/blog/scien... · Posted by u/speckx

WalterBright · 2 days ago

> There are a lot of ethical issues surrounding Neuralink and how it would be used

Like what? (There are always ethical issues with new medical technology.)

> It might be good for certain medical stuff

Yes, like giving sight to the blind! What a monster Musk is!

P.S. two of my largest medical fears are becoming paralyzed or going blind. Neuralink has promise in making these treatable. I'm all for it!

bananaflag · 2 days ago

> Like what? (There are always ethical issues with new medical technology.)

Like mind control, thought surveillance, neural torture (the last one would be easiest).

I think these are inevitable technologies, I don't blame Neuralink in particular.

bananaflag commented on Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980) newworker.org/ncptrory/19... · Posted by u/doruk101

bananaflag · 4 days ago

I love Asimov for the same reason I love Orwell, namely clear 1940s-style writing (which I've also seen in Lassie Come Home by Eric Knight), so I find it funny and sad that one is criticizing the other.

bananaflag commented on Claude is a space to think anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

dmbche · 5 days ago

What an awful take

bananaflag · 5 days ago

Why? Give me the awesome take

bananaflag commented on Claude is a space to think anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

seydor · 5 days ago

They made an ad to say that they won't have ads, i dont know if they are aware of the irony.

https://x.com/ns123abc/status/2019074628191142065

In any case, they draw undue attention to openAI rather than themselves. Not good advertising

Both openAI and Anthropic should start selling compute devices instead. There is nothing stoping open-source LLMs from eating their lunch mid-term

bananaflag · 5 days ago

Ads as a concept are not evil. There have been ads since prehistory.

Littering a potentially quality product with ads which one cannot easily separate is what the evil is.

bananaflag commented on Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules? · Posted by u/blenderob

bananaflag · 6 days ago

Obligatory Asimov quote:

"The Analytical Rule might be considered a distant relation – as a skyscraper is to a shack – of that kindergarten toy, the logarithmic Slide Rule. Darell used it with the wristflip of long practice. He made freehand drawings of the result and, as Anthor stated, there were featureless plateaus in frontal lobe regions where strong swings should have been expected."

I'd really love an Analytical Rule, this hoverboard of the early atomic era.

bananaflag commented on Julia borretti.me/fiction/julia... · Posted by u/ashergill

n4r9 · 6 days ago

Funny how that page spends so much of the introduction comparing Julia to Fatou, but the page for Fatou only mentions Julia in passing.

bananaflag · 6 days ago

There should only be one article for what is essentially one concept.

bananaflag commented on Why do people still talk about AGI? · Posted by u/cermicelli

bananaflag · 7 days ago

Ten years ago I believed we'll have AGI/end-of-the-world/Singularity circa 2040, and meanwhile in the 2020s we will chill out in a futuristic, booming world of un-smart innovations like 3D printing, VR and the Metaverse.

Then, in March 2023, with GPT-4, I said that we'll have AGI only ten years later, and the progress in the last few years (multimodal stuff, reasoning, coding agents) hasn't changed this view.

bananaflag commented on Anciente map of Fairyland. Places from nursery rhymes, fairy tales etc. collections.leventhalmap.... · Posted by u/speckx

bananaflag · 8 days ago

To anyone who is a fan of Lord Dunsany or Susanna Clarke and who wants to read the most recent iteration of scholarly fae fantasy, I recommend "Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries" by Heather Fawcett.

bananaflag commented on Pre-Steal This Book (2008) seths.blog/2008/12/pre-st... · Posted by u/herbertl

bananaflag · 8 days ago

I personally know someone who was writing a thriller about "the Jesus bloodline" just before Dan Brown.

(In retrospect, I think that author had more respect for historical facts, but he wasn't so adept at writing a page-turner.)

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