I was able to read this from Spain! A few days ago archive.ph/archive.is were blocked but now they're not somehow.

Kellin Pelrine already beat KataGo in 2022 (https://www.reddit.com/r/baduk/comments/13at6s5/how_many_bli...). Why is this different? Is it meaningful that Shin is also extremely good at beating professional humans?

That kind of blind spot is pretty brilliant but more of a technical hack from a Go perspective. Shin is world #1 and won “the normal way”, i.e. playing good moves

Super cool! I just learned about 'incertae sedis' from here—though I think these things should at least be in their kingdom (e.g. Naldaviricetes are clearly viruses no?)

Absolutely agree with the underlying UX point. "Incertae sedis" shouldn't leave you unable to tell what broad kind of organism you're looking at.

I do filter structural junk per backbone, but only from evidence that backbone itself supplies: synonym/accepted status, "not-a-taxon", environmental, hidden, unplaced flags. I also insert neutral buckets such as "classes (no phylum)" where ranks are skipped, so thousands of taxa don't spill into one flat level.

What I deliberately don't do is move a taxon to the parent that I think makes more biological sense. Ptree (Ptable gets the same kind of requests to classify metalloids) is downstream of academic taxonomic authorities operating under something like Wikipedia's "no original research" policy. It can expose disagreement among authorities, but it shouldn't quietly become another undocumented taxonomy.

Naldaviricetes is a good example. It is unquestionably a class of viruses, but "Viruses" is not necessarily its formal kingdom. ICTV currently leaves it unassigned to a realm, kingdom, or phylum so Ptree's ICTV backbone places it directly beneath a display root called Viruses. NCBI places it beneath "Viruses incertae sedis," while GBIF supplies it without that viral higher lineage, producing the confusing placement you found.

I can't figure out why this font is better than DejaVu Mono, or Monaco (mac). They all look basically the same to me. I actually would love someone to explain what the difference/improvement is, in other parts of life I know subtle changes add up.

Yes. That's why you should use Doom Emacs.

Doom emacs might as well be a completely different editor—it completely changes the keybindings.

Thank you, this was fun, I sang notes for a bit :)

Thank you for saving me a skim

No RSS? I want to subscribe :'(

“Who cares about RSS, no one uses it any more”

There’s dozens of us! By the way, totally unaffiliated, but I have used fetchrss for those websites that have no feed.

Possible! But fixing this seems easier than re-writing in Rust with reasonable expectation that the software behaves the same?

It depends. There's a lot of code out there old enough that reproducing is effectively lost knowledge. But also, there is some evidence that bugs are more common in new code, so rewriting that is a good idea.

Most Linux CVEs are memory corruption bugs. Previously I argued that we should compile C to be memory-safe rather than translating all C to Rust, to avoid introducing logic bugs.

Here, I argue that several parts of the kernel can also be compiled in a memory-safe way.