mentor.eth 🇪🇺

Biologist turned programmer. I like writing code and words.

Code: @actuallymentor
Words: focus: Bittensor @SN65_TPN, @taofuxyz.

[mentor.eth 🇪🇺 @ActuallyMentor]

I'm torn about whether I should pour money into SO2 balloons.

Also curious what's stopping a Musk, Besos, or even a @beffjezos from raising some money and saying "lfg, try to stop me".

[Tomas Pueyo @tomaspueyo]

Global warming is accelerating
There's only one thing we can do today to delay it before we burn, enough to solve the pbm: SO2 injection

Some ppl are squeamish about it but they shouldn't be. SO2 is so obviously the right solution that we should do it now. Here's why:

[mentor.eth 🇪🇺 @ActuallyMentor]

@WangWangli97448 @TPN_Labs @SkaleNetwork I don't know who you contacted but it was definitely not support

[mentor.eth 🇪🇺 @ActuallyMentor]

@AukeHoekstra It distorts the price because consumers act asymmetrically.

Price from 0.3 to 0.15 >> weak behaviour change

Price from 0.15 to 0 >> strong behaviour change.

Because sub 0 prices cause curtailing and with 0.15ct you need -0.15 to get to 0, you never reach the high impact zone

[mentor.eth 🇪🇺 @ActuallyMentor]

Wink to @ezraklein's Harari episode: this doesn't mean power is the structuring force

It means force is required to defend guiding principles

It's not about forcing everyones actions. It's about rewarding cooperation and punishing selfish game theory actions

Civilisation

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

The world is not a safe space.

The liberal world order didn’t survive because everyone agreed with it. It survived because the West was strong enough to defend it.

Meanwhile, the Europeans are busy debating whether free speech is too offensive while China, Russia and the rest of the world are playing for power.

Weakness is not a virtue. It’s an invitation.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Eli Lilly has done it.

They've gone and made what seems to be a powerful, permanent gene therapy for LDL cholesterol.

That means they'll be able to effectively prevent most heart disease with a single infusion!

[Benjamin Todd @ben_j_todd]

Still the world's most underrated chart:

People think the best charities save 50% more lives than average.

The data and experts say it's 10,000%.

[mentor.eth 🇪🇺 @ActuallyMentor]

@BM_Visser Als we dit nou combineren met de energiebelasting een percentage maken (ipv vast bedrag) dan hebben we eindelijk fatsoenlijke prijsprikkels die gedrag sturen.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

The adoption of cellphones by Keralan fishermen is, I believe, the most stunning example of the contribution of information technology to market performance.

Take a look at this graph for background: in three different regions of Kerala, phones were adopted at different times.
Kozhikode got cellphones before Kannur, who got them before Kasaragod. Adoption by fishermen was fast when phones were finally introduced:
Now look at what happened to the price of fish after phones entered the scene:
The dispersion in prices virtually disappeared! The author of the study wrote about this that:

"Before any region had mobile phones, the degree of price dispersion across markets within a region on any given day is high, and there are many cases where the price is zero (i.e., waste). However, within a few weeks of mobile phones being introduced in Region I, there is a sharp and striking reduction in price dispersion. Prices across markets in the region rarely differ by more than a few rupees per kilogram on any day, compared to cases of as much as 10 Rs/kg prior to the introduction of mobile phones. In addition, the prices in the various markets rise and fall together and the week-to-week variability within each market is much smaller, since catchment zone-specific quantity shocks are now spread across markets via arbitrage. Further, there are no cases of waste in this region after phones are introduced.

"By contrast, price behavior in regions II and III appears largely unchanged after phones are introduced in region I. However, after mobile phones are introduced in region II, prices again become much less dispersed across markets on any given day, less variable within markets over time, and waste is ultimately eliminated, whereas region III again remains unchanged. Finally, the same pattern holds once region III adds phones."

Efficient information transmission enables efficient markets. It's amazing what technology can do.

Read the study here: https://t.co/JcgGQp3G0C

[mentor.eth 🇪🇺 @ActuallyMentor]

@ElgatoSupport @elgato Front page. Chromium based browser (Helium, desktop)

[mentor.eth 🇪🇺 @ActuallyMentor]

@elgato @ElgatoSupport, your website crashes out. Maybe ask your devs to do some robustness checks.

(Amongst other things don't let adblocks make your website explode).

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Thread of some surprising things that are older than other things

Notre Dame predates the Maori settlement of New Zealand

[mentor.eth 🇪🇺 @ActuallyMentor]

@trq212 For what it's worth: a disproportionate push factor making me reach for codex over CC is that CC makes me re-login multiple times a day.

Model and harness quality aside, the least I expect from my tools is that they don't feel like they are actively hostile.

[mentor.eth 🇪🇺 @ActuallyMentor]

@levelsio Decentrale balansventilatie.

Als je niet naar buiten wil kan je hem intern installeren bij wijze.

[mentor.eth 🇪🇺 @ActuallyMentor]

Voor mijn mede nerds: zorg in @home_assistant voor een automation die je zonne-inverters uitzet bij negatieve EPEX.

Kan via de HA "generic turn off" action.

[Martien Visser @BM_Visser]

Zojuist was ik op NPO-radio1 over de extreem negatieve stroomprijzen vanmiddag in Europa: van FR tot Polen, van NL tot Oostenrijk. In NL krijgen huishoudens met dynamisch contract voor elke verbruikte kWh 47 €ct cadeau!
Ook huishoudens met vaste prijs profiteren, want negatieve prijzen, inmiddels al vele honderden uren per jaar, stellen leveranciers in staat een extra scherp aanbod te doen dat 15-20% lager ligt, dan je anders zou verwachten.
#grafiekvandedag

[mentor.eth 🇪🇺 @ActuallyMentor]

Deplorable. Everyone ignore this.

Maybe bookmark it so you can repeatedly ignore it in fact.

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Sci-Hub is an evil website that pirated 85M+ research papers and made them freely available

And now they've added AI to their database to make Sci-Bot.

It answers your questions using latest, full-text articles.

But DO NOT use it. We should all try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer.

I'm putting the link below so you know how to avoid it.

[David Shor @davidshor]

To close out red/blue button discourse, we polled ~14k people and crosstabbed survey responses by 204 commonly used psychometric questions.

The top four personality questions most predictive of button choice are displayed below

[mentor.eth 🇪🇺 @ActuallyMentor]

Hey @urbansportsclub, please make a cancellation reason mandatory for cancelled bookings.

It's very frustrating to get a last minute cancellation and not know why.

This is my first booking EVER on your platform and my first experience sucks.

[mentor.eth 🇪🇺 @ActuallyMentor]

The comments on this are so funny.

They pulled the "raise the price and then give a discount next week" bullshit.

And every developer knows it.

The amount of trust they lost with this is, eh, Mythic.

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable Opus model yet.

It handles long-running tasks with more rigor, follows instructions more precisely, and verifies its own outputs before reporting back.

You can hand off your hardest work with less supervision.

[mentor.eth 🇪🇺 @ActuallyMentor]

I thought @theo was exaggerating but holy shit I literally have to tell it "run the post work checklist" instead of it doing what it has been doing for months now.

[mentor.eth 🇪🇺 @ActuallyMentor]

Claude code stopped using my custom instructions this week. Opus 4.6/high.

Downright stopped doing the post work checklists I defined in my *.md files.