This made me realize that the movie really glossed over the development and testing of the capture and containment system for the ghosts.

Amazing that we can create such particles.

I always round Pi once I get to 100 trillion digits.

This is 3.14 times too much.

Claude Cowork does exactly this (accessing the internet is inherent, it can install and then use Stable Diffusion and other open source LLMs).

Yesterday I used Claude Code to incorporate changes to a working document (Word/DOCX) based on a meeting transcript. It added new sections and reorganized the DOCX document, creating a new copy, retaining formatting.

Claude Cowork has direct integrations into PowerPoint and Excel (specific installers), but it doesn't have such for Word documents.

So instead, it uses tools. I just asked it to make the changes, which it did (4 times perfectly, I recorded it for internal purposes and messed up the recording a few times).

Here are the tools it used along with the explanations:

Here's what I used to complete the work:

Document manipulation followed the DOCX skill's unpack/edit/repack workflow. I unpacked the .docx file (which is really a ZIP archive) into its raw XML components, directly edited the word/document.xml file, then repacked everything back into a valid .docx. This preserves all original formatting â" styles, fonts, table layouts, numbering, bookmarks â" because you're working with the same XML the document was built from.

Key tools and techniques:

The Read tool let me examine the source files (transcript, XXXX, process use cases) and read the DOCX skill instructions. Since document.xml was too large to read in one pass, I used offset/limit parameters to read it in sections.

Pandoc converted the .docx to markdown so I could get a readable overview of the full document structure without wrestling with raw XML. I used this both before editing (to understand the layout) and after (to verify the result).

Grep helped me find specific line numbers in the XML â" locating exact insertion points for each edit by searching for heading text, table boundaries, and style markers.

The Edit tool made targeted changes to the XML, inserting new paragraphs, table rows, and sections while matching the surrounding style patterns (w:pStyle, w:rPr, w:numPr, w:cnfStyle attributes) copied from adjacent elements.

Bash handled the unpack/repack scripts (Python-based, provided by the DOCX skill), directory navigation, and the pandoc conversions.

The repack script ran its own validation â" checking paragraph counts and XML well-formedness â" which confirmed everything passed before producing the final .docx.

And a douche bag of a president who drops bombs next to schools and kills 135 kids . Should resign on the spot for that.

Look up "human shields", the practice of siting military targets among (or in or under) large collections of non-military civilians, in order to deter strikes against them or produce propaganda claims of atrocities when they're attacked anyhow.

In such situations the fault for the "collateral damage" is assigned to the side that set up the arrangement, not the side that hit it.

Nevertheless, it should be noted that the US has been trying very hard to use precision munitions and extreme military intelligence to take out military targets with as little harm to the innocents they're embedded among as possible, with impressive success. Compare the amount of collateral damage in this war to any of those conducted in the 20th century.

He's doing the bare minimum sniff test of verifying that *you* are the guy whose name is on the bookings and not someone sneaking in on someone else's name who can't even pronounce the name on your fake id.

At least in the case of people claiming to be returning citizens I've been told that they're comparing your accent to your claimed residence (or residence history).

Different words are acquired at different ages, and many are pronounced with regional variations. An expert can talk to you for a few minutes and come up with a pretty good age-map of where you lived as you grew up. An agent with a modicum of training can detect a mismatch between how you pronounce certain words and your claimed residence and pass you through quickly or keep you around and drill more deeply. (If you now live in an area with a regional accent wildly different from where you grew up it can help to answer a where-do-you-reside question with "Footown, but I grew up in Barstate".)

I presume they are doing something similar, though no doubt with lower resolution, on the world-wide level for visitors from other countries.

Consider the timeframes.

Start with Galileo reading and making notes in a book in the 15th century. That

But the book is a REPRINT of a 2ND CENTURY book by Ptolemy. He's look at it 1,300 years after "publication"!

And he's writing in it!

And here we are, hundreds of years later, finding it.

This does sound like a breach of a contract for profit. And that's outside of my comment below, but related.

If an organization creates bets on single individual's decision (this wasn't the case in this case, but it is in many cases...), they should EXPECT that individual to mess with the situation. And that is not insider trading, even if it is wagering with a guarantee to win (it's an investment at that point, not a wager, an investment in one's self through action).

Related question to that.

Should a boxer be able to wager the he/she wins a fight? I would think so, they are wagering on their skill, putting it on the line.

Or make it $1,000. Or higher (I'd say higher, $2.5k, it's commercial, make it hurt and pay).

If a company a "abandoning" 30k+ assets in public areas, it should be retrieving them. It is THEIR problem.

If a tow action is needed, but a human is not there to manage the transaction, the fee hits.

Any commercial vehicle, doesn't have to be autonomous.

Done.

OK, first wife is frozen, that's where it starts.

Man finds 2nd wife, and they both choose to be frozen upon death.

Time passes, until such technology allows the revival of all three.

The love triangle story ensues!

It will be great-great-great-great grandfathered in.

This is an article that makes sense in a mechanical engineering journal. Otherwise, no.

"Oh noes! The finish around the camera bevel on my phone might get scratched!"

I join to watch the 24 Hours of Lemans, over several days. During that month I may binge a show or watch some movies, then done.

Same with Peacock, I join for July to watch the Tour de France. Their other programming is tremendously terrible (and commercial laden), and who has time for that when the tour is 4-6 hours a day... (great background noise)

It's been recovering.

https://www.fishing.news/news/...

I'm sure there won't be knock-off impacts of things like this (the example provided is heating the Seine to 30C from 27C).

Aquatic life has to love a good hot bath as much as I do!

The oceans appear to have a new average high area the last three years:
https://climatereanalyzer.org/...

The meta-of-this reminds me of the Onion article about Starbucks opening up a Starbucks in the bathroom of a Starbucks.

https://theonion.com/new-starb... (1998, I recall reading this in the print edition...)