Readit Newsopdahl commented on Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold bbc.com/news/articles/c8e... · Posted by u/1659447091
A shame to hear that heritage auctions were the ones to handle this
Why do you say that? I'm unfamiliar with Heritage Auctions.
opdahl commented on Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing marineinsight.com/shippin... · Posted by u/defrost
This ship carries 5300 tonnes of cargo.
The average transoceanic container ship carries around 150,000 to 250,000 tonnes.
Does anyone know how well this scales? I assume it just doesn’t make sense to actually make one of that size when they are testing out the concept.
opdahl commented on OpenAI researcher announced GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened the-decoder.com/leading-o... · Posted by u/Topfi
I wonder whether for a lot of the search & literature review-type use-cases where people are trying to use GPT-5 and similar we'd honestly be much better off with a really powerful semantic search engine? Any time you ask a chatbot to summarize the literature for you or answer your question, there's a risk it will hallucinate and give you an unreliable answer. Using LLM-generated embeddings for documents to retrieve the nearest match, by contrast, doesn't run any risk of hallucination and might be a powerful way to retrieve things that Google / Bing etc. wouldn't be able to find using their current algorithms.
I don't know if something like this already exists and I'm just not aware of it to be fair.
Since you specifically were wondering if something like this exist, I feel okay with mentioning my own tool https://keenious.com since I think it might fit your needs.
Basically we are trying to combine the benefits of chat with normal academic search results using semantic search and keyword search. That way you get the benefit of LLMs but you’re actually engaging with sources like a normal search.
Hope it was what you were looking for!
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opdahl commented on Are there any interesting things to check out where I am? – Claude claude.ai/share/3d53ce2a-... · Posted by u/opdahl
Claude with location access is now an amazing traveling companion. Sharing my experience of using it in Hong Kong in an area I knew nothing about. The best thing is, is that it doesn’t ruin the experience with images etc that in my opinion spoils the locations.
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opdahl commented on DeepWiki: Understand Any Codebase aitidbits.ai/p/deepwiki... · Posted by u/childishnemo
Isn’t this supposed to be a short technical blog? Why does it seem like they’re a salesman and it’s a sales pitch?
> "We are generating more code than ever. With LLMs like Claude already writing most of Anthropic’s code, the challenge is no longer producing code, it is understanding it."
The first sentence already is obviously AI generated, and reading through it it, it is obviously completely written by AI to the point of it being distracting.
I understand the author probably feels that AI is better at writing than they are, but I would heavily recommend they use their own voice.
I’ve personally started to try to think about the points someone prompted an AI to generate some text (the actual thoughts of the author) so that I can more easily skim past the AI generated slop such as: "… you’ll get the env setup, required services, and dependency graph with citations to README, Dockerfile, and scripts, so you can hit the ground running".