Hey, that's unfair. I'm working through the backlog as fast as I can!

Blame I.T. - they keep resetting my password and I'm not allowed to write it down on a Post-It like back in the old days...

Something about the look of quantum computers takes me right back to the ENIAC.

At the rate this field is accelerating maybe this IS staggering

They were made entirely of meat.

We are nothing, if not needlessly complex!

Excellent work as always, Kojima

They're saving a memory so this can't happen again.

Nothing another .md file can't fix

I made Claude write noöp instead of no-op and it's still amusing a couple of days later :P

> I made Claude write noöp

Tangentially related [1]:

> The billboard ad, located next to the Ikea Tempe store in Sydney, says 'NÖFNIDEA? No tools, no worries’.

[1] https://www.adnews.com.au/news/koala-mattresses-takes-swipe-...

It's a fascinating emergent behaviour but also one that could have been predicted?

I'd imagine that our brains have become similarly biased towards generating such a generalised symbolic structure over hundreds of millions of years of evolution?

I'm thinking how certain regions of the brain reliably represent things like motor skills, speech, abstract thought.

I agree. In retrospect, this seems almost inevitable. And our own minds at least to do some form of symbolic reasoning — literally language, which you are apparently capable of, dear reader, as a lower bound. There might be more symbolic reasoning in the conscious, unconscious, and subliminal parts of the mental workspace. I always hesitate to infer similarities between the brain/mind and LLMs, but I certainly track the comparison here.

Back in school I learned the acronym:

My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets

And it was so convenient! Does anyone know a good alternate now that the P is gone?

> Does anyone know a good alternate now that the P is gone?

My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming

And fitting; since by means of a vote we messed up the definition of planet, we omit from the acronym the claim that we are naming planets.

I just remember the 4 inner rocky planets which is pretty easy, and then the giant outer planets spell JSUN.

Asteroid belt in between and the second asteroid belt (the Kuiper belt) on the outside.

Then the Oort cloud surrounding the whole thing as a shield to protect the system from alien incursion.

I think of them more as by properties: Mercury hasn't even an atmosphere, it's too close to the sun; Venus is a hot earth so it sits closer than us; then comes its sister planet Earth; Mars is cool by comparison and sits further away than we do. Jupiter and Saturn are harder but sit before the ice giants Uranus and Neptune, again making logical sense. Whether Jupiter or Saturn comes first, I guess there's some memorisation, with or without some sentence about it

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