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mattkrause commented on Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class   nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us... · Posted by u/signa11
smelendez · 11 hours ago
Is it an aversion to assigning homework?

I remember teachers assigning “read chapters 4-6 by Thursday” and then giving a quiz to make sure people read and remembered the details.

mattkrause · 9 hours ago
Those quizzes are part of the problem. It was so dispiriting to read, even enjoy, the assignment and then get dinged because you couldn’t remember whether the protagonist put on an otherwise irrelevant blue sweater or red jacket.
mattkrause commented on Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?    · Posted by u/embedding-shape
tpxl · 6 days ago
I think they should be banned, if there isnt a contribution besides what the llm answered. It's akin to 'I googled this', which is uninteresting.
mattkrause · 6 days ago
I do find it useful in discussions of LLMs themselves. (Gemini did this; Claude did it too but it used to get tripped up like that).

I do wish people wouldn’t do it when it doesn’t add to the conversation but I would advocate for collective embarrassment over a ham-fisted regex.

mattkrause commented on Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending   finance.yahoo.com/news/ap... · Posted by u/bgwalter
meindnoch · 6 days ago
I don't want AI on my phone.
mattkrause · 6 days ago
I don’t want flaky, in-my-face AI on my phone.

I find a lot of the low-key things helpful: I use an app at the same time and place every day, and it’s nice to have a handy one-tap way to open it. It does a decent job organizing photos and letting me search text in screenshots.

mattkrause commented on General principles for the use of AI at CERN   home.web.cern.ch/news/off... · Posted by u/singiamtel
pu_pe · 21 days ago
I don't see it so bleakly. Using your analogy, it would simply mean that if the program underperforms compared to humans and starts making a large amount of errors, the human who set up the pipeline will be held accountable. If the program is responsible for a critical task (ie the animal will be shot depending on the classification) then yes, a human should validate every output or be held accountable in case of a mistake.
mattkrause · 21 days ago
Exactly.

If some dogs chew up an important component, the CERN dog-catcher won't avoid responsibility just by saying "Well, the computer said there weren't any dogs inside the fence, so I believed it."

Instead, they should be taking proactive steps: testing and evaluating the AI, adding manual patrols, etc.

mattkrause commented on Man who threw sandwich at US border agent not guilty of assault   bbc.com/news/articles/c5y... · Posted by u/onemoresoop
Der_Einzige · a month ago
You May Beat the Wrap, But You Can't Beat The Sub...
mattkrause · a month ago
You can beat the wrap but you can’t beat the rye.
mattkrause commented on Pyrex catalog from from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware [pdf]   exhibitdb.cmog.org/opacim... · Posted by u/speckx
MerrimanInd · 2 months ago
My roommate in college worked at GE's Global Research lab in Schenectady. As a bit of a relic from the heyday of US corporate research they still had an in-house glassblowing department for producing all the necessary glassware for all the labs and chemical/material research!
mattkrause · 2 months ago
This is surprisingly common at big research universities! My classmate even managed to take a course on glassblowing--and have it count for her PhD!
mattkrause commented on Captcha Welcome Mat   captchawelcomemat.com... · Posted by u/axbac
mattkrause · 2 months ago
Keeps robots out but lets vampires in?
mattkrause commented on Daniel Kahneman opted for assisted suicide in Switzerland   bluewin.ch/en/entertainme... · Posted by u/kvam
titanomachy · 2 months ago
"They are given an oil bath and made to drink glasses of coconut water"

I'm surprised that someone can be killed in this way. Is it the electrolyte imbalance? There's a lot of potassium in coconut water.

mattkrause · 2 months ago
Yup—too much potassium.

Apparently you can (almost) do it unintentionally if you play tennis in the heat—though 88oz (2.6L) seems like a lot!

Here’s a case report:

Hakimian, J., Goldbarg, S. H., Park, C. H., & Kerwin, T. C. (2014). Death by Coconut. Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, 7(1), 180–181. https://doi.org/10.1161/circep.113.000941

mattkrause commented on GNU Health   gnuhealth.org/about-us.ht... · Posted by u/smartmic
cyberax · 2 months ago
Vista is ancient, and it's written in MUMPS, an evil twin of COBOL.
mattkrause · 2 months ago
For context, many (most?) other EHRs are too, though they call it M now so it sounds less disease-ridden.
mattkrause commented on New nanotherapy clears amyloid-β, reversing symptoms of Alzheimer's in mice   drugtargetreview.com/news... · Posted by u/self_awareness
BriggyDwiggs42 · 2 months ago
Okay but how exactly should researchers come up with drugs to try on humans then?
mattkrause · 2 months ago
There are other animal models, some of which even seem to develop dementia-like symptoms spontaneously.

Mice have absolutely dominated research because they're relatively cheap, lots of powerful genetic tools are available, and the PR is more tractable. However, that doesn't mean they're the right choice for every experiment.

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