it is unlikely that other mosquitos (that don’t carry disease) will fail to fill the niche

thinking about how to communicate it in a clear way. “the control knobs of what actually makes us different from one another” — you don’t expect one of your kids to be quadripedal. otoh this doesn’t really capture the precise notion either.

The Electronic Harpsichord, same year. must have been an interesting time.

LLM API endpoint does do compaction. OpenAI definitely does support serverside compaction, both explicit and automatic, and this is different than what could be implemented purely clientside: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/compaction (and there was rumors a few months ago on HN about how activation-preserving/latent it is, vs just summarization). Anthropic as well, in beta (new to me): https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/compac...

and soon from space? radio engineering breakdown of starlink radar capabilities, it’s a pretty impressive bird if you were designing it only for that: https://youtu.be/jbp3kdJZ1_A

four figures these days. fits in your hand. nanopore is a revolution. https://nanoporetech.com/products/sequence/minion

there’s youtubers that have videos about doing this in a home wetlab. very achievable. some amateur soil biologists using this to try and sample microdiversity as the planet… humanifies.

Ex-Nanopore employee here. One interesting thing we heard about internally was that OceanX[0] has one of our GridION[1] devices (slightly larger, and built-in compute) that they were using to track whales in the ocean by sequencing DNA found in seawater. Really cool.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OceanX

[1] https://nanoporetech.com/products/sequence/gridion

huge if true had an episode about this recently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HlLwG2xN_c

I have a mol bio home lab, and decided against it because while the devices themselves are reasonably priced, the flow cells are an expensive disposable.

I use Plasmidsaurus instead: Pay them $15/sample online, drop off the tubes in a styrophoam box labeled with a dinosaur in a nearby university building; get the results next morning. They use Oxford Nanopore, but are loading your sample along with many other samples to maximize flow cell use.

not suprised. the website seemed to indicate to me (a layman in this area) that it expired based on time, not use- so Seqiencing As A Service (ha!) makes financial sense for most people.

Do you have links to these youtubers? Sounds interesting

Not OP, but The Thought Emporium is a personal favourite. Their name belies the hands-on nature of their videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0_q-fD_lyU

i think of them as tiers of expertise— need to master the basics of structure and form before the robot has the learned representations to competently model user interactions with more fluid instantiations (by downprojecting into the overlearned fixed-semantics)

claude-opus-4-7

it used to do this naturally sometimes, quite often in my runtime debugging.