Which one do you recommend?
Roll your own
Readit Newsjebus989 commented on Show HN: Mcp2cli – One CLI for every API, 96-99% fewer tokens than native MCP github.com/knowsuchagency... · Posted by u/knowsuchagency
No.
Computer use (to anthropic, as in the article) is an LLM controlling a computer via a video feed of the display, and controlling it with the mouse and keyboard.
Even simpler it just takes screenshots (or at least that's what it was doing last time I used it)
jebus989 commented on Why a cancer scare around aspartame is mostly unfounded economist.com/the-economi... · Posted by u/marban
And this is an example of "where is the evidence" logical fallacy. In complex systems, such as the human body, the only evidence of safety is time -- a very long time. The Stevia plant (though not the same as extract) has been used for centuries. Aspartame was (accidentally) created in the lab in 1965.
If you are going to mess with complex systems, such as feed yourself aspartame, vape, give pregnant women a synthetic sedative and medication for morning sickness etc., you do it for a high potential gain that offsets potentially huge downsides. Benefits of aspartame are close to nil; if anything it probably makes things worse because people think they can consume more ultra processed foods sweetened with it because such foods have "fewer calories".
> In complex systems, such as the human body, the only evidence of safety is time -- a very long time. The Stevia plant (though not the same as extract) has been used for centuries. Aspartame was (accidentally) created in the lab in 1965.
Time is not evidence of safety, that is an odd claim (see smoking tobacco), thankfully we have the scientific method to investigate hypotheses like "x is bad for you".
jebus989 commented on Why a cancer scare around aspartame is mostly unfounded economist.com/the-economi... · Posted by u/marban
To people like me, it doesn't matter how unfounded it is. I'm sure there are people in this world who can benefit from sugar replacements, but in my mind there is absolutely no reason at all to start feeding myself artificial sweeteners when there is enough sweeteners in nature.
On a related note, I'm kinda happy to note that steviol is much in use here in southern europe, where I'm currently residing. They don't even make a big deal out of it, regular sodas, vitamin powders, you read the ingredients and there it is.
Steviol is a sweetener based on a natural plant Stevia. I've so far seen it in both Hungary and Croatia.
I come from Sweden and it used to be that Stevia products were in a bin on their own, marketed specifically as stevia products. But down here they don't even mention it on the marketing side of the label. It's buried in the ingredients.
This is an example of the "appeal to nature" logical fallacy. You may be able to make a case that Stevia is healthier than Aspartame, but it should be based on evidence to that effect rather than because you like the idea that it has ingredients derived from organic material.
In the bioinformatics sphere there is this MIT-licensed Stack Exchange clone: https://github.com/ialbert/biostar-central
jebus989 commented on Ask HN: What are examples of common beliefs conclusively invalidated by data? · Posted by u/flappyeagle
Correct, these are papers on monocultures vs non monocultures. But GMOs are inclined to be grown in monocultures.
All crops are inclined to be grown in monocultures. That's because even if you'd get more yield pairing with other species — as in these studies — pragmatically the time and cost of sowing, harvesting and separating multiple species outweighs the theoretical yield gain per unit area of a monocrop.
jebus989 commented on Ask HN: What are examples of common beliefs conclusively invalidated by data? · Posted by u/flappyeagle
Biodiversity effects on yield and unsown species invasion in a temperate forage ecosystem (2009)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2707887/
Grass-legume mixtures sustain strong yield advantage over monocultures under cool maritime growing conditions over a period of 5 years
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29790908/
Biodiversity loss in Latin American coffee landscapes: review of the evidence on ants, birds, and trees (2008)
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18759777/
Temporal changes in genetic diversity and forage yield of perennial ryegrass in monoculture and in combination with red clover in swards (2018)
These are indeed links but quite random ones. Mostly they are reporting that growing two things together in a field can give higher yields than growing a single thing. None seem to be related to GMOs, which could obviously also be grown with complimentary species to increase yield.
jebus989 commented on Ask HN: What are examples of common beliefs conclusively invalidated by data? · Posted by u/flappyeagle
I think the parent's point was providing evidence that the lack of biodiversity causes harm. To put this plainly - if every banana that is harvested in a farm and consumed by a human is identical, then so what? It doesn't mean bananas that aren't harvested by humans also will share that same DNA.
Even then, if every banana in the world was genetically identical what harmful effect would this have? I can probably speculate, but I'm genuinely curious what the science says.
I'm not sure if this was an unfortunate accident but almost every banana worldwide is essentially genetically identical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_banana
jebus989 commented on Ask HN: What are examples of common beliefs conclusively invalidated by data? · Posted by u/flappyeagle
On the local level, yes. But I pointed out that the issue is with "wide-scale" adoption. GMO manufacturers make it so that the same, e.g, rice or carrots or tomatoes are grown in different parts of the world.
To re-iterate: there is no biodiversity in agriculture. As an example, "non-GMO" bananas are cloned from a single species the world over. If you'd be concerned about a single disease destroying genetically-identical crops worldwide, that happened with the Gros Michel cultivar in the 20th century. Competing GMO banana products would introduce more diversity than exists today.
jebus989 commented on Ask HN: What are examples of common beliefs conclusively invalidated by data? · Posted by u/flappyeagle
What links do you need?! By definition, GMO crops all come from the same genetic seeds.
There is no biodiversity in agriculture. Whether or not the seeds you purchased have been edited to add drought resistance or high vitamin A content or other fantastic benefits to humankind you are still growing a monoculture, just as you were with non-GMO crops.