Theo Sanderson
- opus 4.6 is a significant step up at my openscad benchmarks
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- Reposted by Theo SandersonOOOOH Researchfish Is going extinct 🐡🐟🐠 help.researchfish.com/en_US/resear...
- Finally got around to digging out my old desktop getting it set up with tailscale and dangerclaude. Has definitely been worth the faff to be able to leave claude to do its thing in a relatively safe environment (just w/ screen/tmux mostly)
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- Made a quick thing to generate these test prompts: theosanderson.github.io/wordblanker/ dang impressive ime
- Reposted by Theo SandersonReally excited our paper about how H5N1 rapidly adapted to cattle (and how these adaptations also increased its ability to infect cells from the human respiratory tract) is now published! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- need an aurora app that suppresses notifications when it's cloudy to avoid fomo :/
- Reposted by Theo SandersonThis photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo
- my new job: life coach for llms
- Reposted by Theo SandersonNew post, on how AI is coming for open source software: kucharski.substack.com/p/will-your-...
- Reposted by Theo SandersonWant to get the data out of a PDF figure? As in, the actual data – not a rough trace-along-the-lines version? I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/ It all started a few years ago... 🧵
- gemini deep research is the most pretentious model out there
- A policy @ncsc.gov.uk specifically advise against www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/pr...
- Anyone have a good GHA yaml for making claude's code review more like codex? (Less fluff, less compliments!) The below doesn't seem to have done the trick
- Following accounts like this is probably quite an effective way to convince others to move
- What proportion of new production code for commercial software in 2028 will have been read by a human? 1️⃣ 0-10% 2️⃣ 10-50% 3️⃣ 50%-90% 4️⃣ >90% 📊 Show results
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- "She and Chen sent GISAID three emails in the weeks after, but never received any response. (GISAID says the emails came from Chen, whereas its agreement was with Stadler.)" www.science.org/content/arti...
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- This seems positive?
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- Reposted by Theo SandersonOn the first day of Christmas (in about 2014), @duckswabber.bsky.social gave to me - a partridge in a pear tree. Happy Christmas everyone!
- Bike-couriered by the editor himself. An illustrious publication!
- 'Beer stein icons indicate roughly five-day dosing windows' www.sciencenews.org/article/vacc...
- Reposted by Theo SandersonThis smells distinctly like collider bias and/or selection bias and/or regression to the mean... You simply can't select teen prodigies, and world class athletes rom databases, and go run regressions without serious consideration of the selection process!
- "Most top achievers (Nobel laureates and world-class musicians, athletes, chess players) demonstrated lower performance than many peers during their early years. Across the highest adult performance, peak performance is negatively correlated with early performance" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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- Reposted by Theo SandersonIn light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps: /1
- Supreme confidence that someone else isn't finding something genuinely useful does get my goat
- Reposted by Theo SandersonImagine you lived in the 18th century. Smallpox kills 1 in 3 cases. Yet you can’t culture pathogens, don’t know germ theory, and have no idea what a virus is. How would you invent a vaccine? In a new episode of HARD DRUGS, we trace the history of vaccines!
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- gemini 3 living up to the hype for me
- Another plug for the excellent ourbike.co.uk, which just helped me finish up a move. Cargo bikes across London for £5 per hour.
- Reposted by Theo SandersonI want to spell this out in case the implications aren't clear: This means all public tools/webapps of GISAID data (all the ones you've been used to seeing thru the pandemic, as far as we can tell) are prohibited. The file allowed this. Cut that - cut off all tools the public & others were using.
