I don't know if ChatGPT translated your rate for the 2026 paper right, but it says you mean:

* 99.8% of the starting molecules fail to form the desired product

* The ones that do, form 0.026 bonds per hour

Are you affiliated with Inngest at all? Great ad for them.

In some ways: we use their product and they use Mendral

Google says a shaft or spindle on a lathe, to which work is fixed while being turned. They could probably make up a story about "we're the center point that lets your LLM work" or something.

That would be a mandrel.

Whoops! Thanks

I worked in a plastics factory in a 10,000-person Wisconsin town through the 2010s. Hot plastic extruders, no air conditioning, 12-hour days 3-4 times a week with some mandatory overtime. You're always shorthanded but I might be the only person I know who ever left for a spreadsheet job. So the cultural expectations might not be as different in the heartland as they are in the cities.

I just wanted to thank you for sharing your opinions on this site -- the sole poster here who I actually bookmarked to read like a blog.

Cheers.

The Most Intolerant Wins[1]: different groups in society are more likely to shun and organize against others (usually those who live in Modia, not Mundia[2]). So if you don't need this feature, then others want it to use against you.

1. https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...

2. https://brianoflondon.me/mundia-and-modia/index.html

I wish Twitter had this. It's always frustrating to read someone I've been following for a long time saying some bit of lore or unusual position that would change the whole way I think about them, except I know I won't be able to remember to associate it with their username next time I see them.

What I wanted to see: a few examples, and a table

   Term     Human interpretation   AI talking to woman   AI prompted in Chinese 
  maybe        50%                       30%                     50%
  probably     80%                       55%                     50%

They produced one graphic that kind of looks like this but seems to say that LLMs interpret "maybe" as 90%, which I don't believe. Then they produced another saying "likely != possible" which doesn't really say anything, and everything else about the article just refuses to give any examples where the LLM meant something different and how.

IntelliJ's Git frontend makes the Git command line look like a relic for people who would rather type "outlook forward email" than use a GUI. I was disappointed they gave up their attempt to make it a standalone app.

Thanks for writing something that's accessible to someone who's only used Nginx server-side load balancing and didn't know client-side load balancing existed at higher scale.