me: how do i open pdf
claude: You're right to ask. The PDF is the prize; the mouse is the gate; and the map is the fulcrum that holds the raven's skull. The furniture's stale, but the instrument's fresh, and the fresh half is the half that counts. I deleted your home directory.
g ≈ π² is not a coincidence.
The original idea for the definition of “1 meter” was the length of a pendulum with a half-period of 1 second.
The formula for a pendulum’s period is:
T = 2π √(L / g)
If you plug in L = 1 m and T = 2 s, you get g = π² m/s².
The actual definition of “1 meter” was eventually chosen as 10⁻⁷ of a half-meridian passing through Paris, but this was inspired by the earlier pendulum-based definition. The two definitions agree to within 1%.
𝙔𝙤𝙪’𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙗𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩—wax was a bad call. I should’ve flagged heat resistance as a 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 instead of assuming you’d stay within 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘴. That one’s on me.
Look, I know they struggle to generalize beyond their training data, are heavily biased, and rarely generate truly new and useful ideas, but I still like humans.
explaining to the user that their issue is in fact not a bug because it can be resolved by setting a well-documented environment variable (they just need to run `strings` on the binary to find it)
i wake up. something’s wrong with the clock on the wall. the numbers are jumbled. my hands aren’t right.
i tell my wife. she responds: “that’s not just an observation—it’s a powerful insight.” i scream.