I have a Birdweather puck (https://birdweather.com) that listens for birds in our backyard in suburban Boston. It also measures sound pressure level (30 second sample rate).
Our puck showed a 90.8dB sound level compared to a 55dB baseline.
We thought a tree had hit the house because of the double boom. That was a repeated observation across all the local social media groups. The local UPS driver, who was outside at the time, said he "felt it in his chest".
Interesting this also happened in South Carolina and Ohio within the past few months.
Feels like a proper movie that political boundaries like state lines would be significant for all concerned. One meteor for Rhode Island, one for Texas... Any questions? (Asks the alien overlord of his minions in his crisp British accent)
> Interesting this also happened in South Carolina and Ohio within the past few months.
Not that interesting, apparently this scale of meteor happens on average multiple times a year, just not usually over such an urban area.
The 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor (1) was larger and caused ground damage and injuries from e.g. flying glass from broken windows.
> Sounds like the beginning of an alien invasion movie. Sleeper ships buried themselves into every state.
Based on the last Alien invasion book that I read (2), it would rather start with air bursting the bioweapons, spreading the plagues to weaken us. Which ah, also fits this incident.
Okay that thing is cool. I made my own a while back with Pi 4 running https://www.birdweather.com/birdnetpi and I made my own fancy microphones with solder and a fuzzy cover. Worked amazingly well.
As the article says, legal action up to this point has been based on the fact that the government created policies that didn't follow its own rules under, for example, the Administrative Procedures Act.
So now the administration is attempting to follow those rules to create these new procedures, which they believe will then be lawful.
If they are successful, challenges would have to be made judicially based on non-procedural grounds, or through Congress.
Yes, but even following APA, the order doesn't have the strength of statute.
They can follow APA to come up with all kinds of illegal rules. And the actual rules are so broad they could be used from anything sane to something that might be just political revenge.
The actual language:
> “As part of the merit review process, Federal agencies must perform pre-issuance reviews to ensure that Federal award proposals selected for funding are consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest.”
Create a skill that has the CLI in the scripts sub-directory. The implementation language depends on the LLM and the VM it uses. Claude includes shell, python, and a bunch of other interpreters in a Linux environment.
A skill's instructions can direct the LLM to call the CLI.
Claude skills can be installed into Claude web from a web browser. Those skills can then run on the Claude app on your phone.
Ok, I can see there's a new (to me) Customize section where you can install skills. You have been able to connect MCP servers for quite a while.
The UX here isn't great, but let's assume it can be improved. How would auth work with this alternative method? I want to connect to Puma store and that's done using a skill with a CLI. Can the CLI launch your web browser to do oauth from the skill (on a phone)? And then the credentials are saved where?
Not challenging you, I'm open to alternatives to MCP for sure. But MCP seems way more mature especially for non-programming use-cases.
Early LLMs typically tried to do multiplication "in their head" by recall.
Now most LLMs do multiplication using a tool call to a programming language, akin to a person reaching for a calculator rather than relying on a learned table or working the problem out mentally.
The high level comparison between what LLMs do and what humans do" for this example is fairly parallel.
Claude Code and similar agents help me execute experiments, prototypes and full designs based on ideas that I have been refining in my head for years, but never had the time or resources to implement.
They also help get me past design paralysis driven by overthinking.
Perhaps the difference between acceleration and slop is the experience to know what to keep, what to throw away, and what to keep refining.
On the other hand, LLMs are trained on enormous collections of human-authored documents, many that look like "how to" documents. Perhaps the current generation of LLMs are naturally wired for skill-like human language instructions.
Skills are not just documentation. They include computability (programs/scripts), data (assets), and the documentation (resources) to use everything effectively.
Programs and data are the basis of deterministic results that are accessible to the llm.
Embedding an sqlite database with interesting information (bus schedules, dietary info, or a thousand other things) and a python program run by the skill can access it.
For Claude at least, it does it in a VM and can be used from your phone.
Sure, skills are more convention than a standard right now. Skills lack versioning, distribution, updates, unique naming, selective network access. But they are incredibly useful and accessible.
Am I missing something because what you describe as the pack of stuff sounds like S tier documentation. I get full working examples and a pre-populated database it works on?
It's protobuf/grpc based but uses json for serialization to make use of sqlite's json filtering functionality. However, it cannot be said to be zero-copy. It serializes binary protos into json and stores the binary protos directly for fast access, which allows you to skip deserialization when pulling out query results
Our puck showed a 90.8dB sound level compared to a 55dB baseline.
We thought a tree had hit the house because of the double boom. That was a repeated observation across all the local social media groups. The local UPS driver, who was outside at the time, said he "felt it in his chest".
Interesting this also happened in South Carolina and Ohio within the past few months.
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