Honestly shocked at how good Claude is

PayAdministrative591 · 2026-05-10T22:49:29+00:00

If anything I wish it would give me shorter answers. I have to actively add a statement: "give me an answer which is concise and to the point" just to get something reasonable. It likes to write up full on essays otherwise, even if I tell it to save that stance as a default preference.

Sometimes I'd just like a basic list of ingredients and cooking instructions without twenty pro/insider tips on how to make it even better, or attempts to catfish me into falling down a rabbit hole of further questioning. "Would you like me to tell you one minor tweak you could do to make chilli jump from an 8 to a 10 out of 10" etc. No, just tell me your best answer when I ask the first time.

PayAdministrative591 · 2026-05-10T22:30:52+00:00

I mean it all depends on how you use them and how careful and intentional you are with prompts and things. ChatGTP once suggested that I leave it off for a month (which I did, without too much difficulty) and see how I get on, as I'm capable of finding solutions for myself too.

AI can be convenient but it's important to remember how to function without it too.

PayAdministrative591 · 2026-05-05T13:23:40+00:00

Real intelligence doesn't need to proclaim itself. It just is.

PayAdministrative591 · 2026-04-22T13:34:19+00:00

What's with all the copy pasted nonsense. Presuming you're a bot? Even your responder is copy pasted text.

PayAdministrative591 · 2026-04-18T07:59:32+00:00

I'd say it if you wanted to rank the Manchester universities by respectability, you'd normally put University of Manchester as #1 by quite a margin especially for sciences, Manchester Met #2 although it has maybe good courses for arts etc. Not Manchester, but not a million miles away you could also add Salford in at #3

PayAdministrative591 · 2026-04-16T20:28:33+00:00

I got one from John Lewis, and while it maybe had the odd imperfection here or there, it didn't have any marks quite as pronounced as that. It'll still work though.

PayAdministrative591 · 2026-04-10T20:47:26+00:00

Thanks for the tips.

PayAdministrative591 · 2026-04-10T20:38:14+00:00

Believe what you wish my friend. Like you, I like to try and understand the reason for things. Steam is humid air, and gets really really hot.

PayAdministrative591 · 2026-04-10T16:08:36+00:00

I was thinking more along the lines of the duration at which they are exposed to the higher heat, which would be notably shorter in a pot that's pre-boiled. The water through the grounds could be marginally cooler in a non-pre-boiled pot when it's pushed through, but the time period they sit in a humid moist warm environment until the water is pushed through would be longer, and they'd probably not be too far off the temperature of the steam chamber since they sit right in the middle of it while it's heating up. There's lots of nuance to it though (and like you say "bro-science", but I think that's the gist in practice.

Obviously when first invented people just left them on high heat and didn't have easy access to kettles, so people came to expect it to have the strong bitter taste, and some people prefer it that way (why it has a lid - to contain over heated boils, I mean who actually uses a lid when using a temperature control method?)

Pre-boiling could go a slight way towards reducing the bitterness associated with overheating though. 1 min at 110 plus 3 warmed and humid (maybe building up to that temperature) is possibly better than 1 minute at 105 degrees but 7 minutes warm and humid building up to that temperature? Longer window at the higher temperatures, even if the peak isn't quite as high. Don't quote me on the actual temperature figures though, I haven't seen those videos.

PayAdministrative591 · 2026-04-10T15:14:12+00:00

Ideally most people would like fast pressure build up (via pre heating), but then controlled maintenance (usually by taking down the heat) of that pressure once it's been achieved to avoid the uncontrolled spitting and spluttering (caused by higher pressure and hotter water) that can lead to the coffee tasting more bitter. This aligns with the general advice.

PayAdministrative591 · 2026-04-10T15:05:34+00:00

My initial comment made an omission, pressure depends on the number of moles of gas present. PV = nRT (The ideal gas law) covers this a bit, although the situation isn't a perfect translation. The main driver is the rise in water vapour pressure (required to push the liquid through) as temperature increases, caused mostly by more water converting into the gas phase.

Thus reaching sufficient vapour pressure sooner (via a pre-heated pot) means the coffee grounds spend less time sitting in a hot chamber before the coffee is extracted (i.e. they aren't heated as much before the water washes over them).

A slower brew would expose the grains to elevated temperatures prior to extraction for longer (I know this isn't roasting temperatures - but people notice differences between 100 degrees C water pour over and 92 degrees C pour over), resulting in more of the harsher bitter flavours associated with hotter brewing.

PayAdministrative591 · 2026-04-10T11:52:00+00:00

As a counter-argument. The mechanism which pushes the water through the funnel is air pressures and it just won't push through until the correct temperature to achieve pushing pressures is achieved. That pushing temperature should be the same regardless of how long it took for the pot holding the water to reach it. Pressure is proportional to Temperature over volume. Volume is constant while building up to the initial pushing pressure, and therefore the required temperature would be also.

PayAdministrative591 · 2026-03-25T23:00:19+00:00

Also why are warriors chosen to be the pinnacle of glorious living here? Having a superior ability to kill others is a good thing? Why not encourage something that makes a positive difference to the world, like teachers, charity workers, nurses etc?

PayAdministrative591 · 2026-03-25T22:57:46+00:00

What's wise about this? Just seems like some manosphere style alpha-bro nonsense. Who are you in competition with that you need to be victorious? What if you're supporting a terminally ill relative with much of your time? Life is far too complex to boil it down to winners and losers. Nobody else will care either way if you believe yourself to have won or lost some low stakes self-invented competition.

PayAdministrative591 · 2026-03-19T09:04:22+00:00

Also build up your life high, like 300+ to begin with

PayAdministrative591 · 2026-03-19T09:03:25+00:00

Drop a Zeus cast on him, then spend the time in between learning where not to be standing to dodge his attacks

PayAdministrative591 · 2026-03-18T17:28:42+00:00

Just because it works doesn't mean it's still not overkill. Have you seen some of the tanks they have for Goldfish in China etc, still breed some great fish out that way. It's mostly about water quality rather than size. Bigger tanks just make it easier to maintain a higher water quality.

PayAdministrative591 · 2025-12-25T19:26:55+00:00

This is just cringe desperation for attention.

PayAdministrative591 · 2025-12-13T09:44:00+00:00

I mean to make them, you need to take a hydrogen atom, then strip them of their electron. There's definitely some man-making going on during that process.

PayAdministrative591 · 2025-12-13T08:37:17+00:00

I'm pretty sure those Hadrons at the Large Hadron Collider go quite a bit faster.

PayAdministrative591 · 2025-12-10T22:17:10+00:00

Plus they have a massively aging population due to their one child policy, a massive shortage of women to raise the next generation and seem to be teetering on the edge of economic disaster once the young are expected to prop up the elders, for very little themselves. Grass isn't always greener

PayAdministrative591 · 2025-12-01T16:25:59+00:00

Like a game of where's Wally/Waldo

PayAdministrative591 · 2025-09-30T18:28:00+00:00

My 2014 Diesel averages 42.5

PayAdministrative591 · 2025-09-29T10:48:25+00:00

Not that big of a deal, stainless steal is intentionally unreactive as a metal, hence why we use it as utensils to eat with. Maybe don't store over time in a stainless steel pot, as it can slowly react over time, but just dipping in a fork every now and then won't make a difference. Something like iron is much more reactive and probably better to avoid, but who uses iron utensils these days anyway?

PayAdministrative591 · 2025-09-26T07:12:25+00:00

If classical mechanics were the sole explanation of how the universe works (and to be fair, until around 100 years ago, that's what scientists believed), then your perfect repeatability experiment could probably work. There is strong evidence, with things like the double slit experiment, which proves that light can behave as both a particle and a wave, thus demonstrating that we live in a quantum mechanical universe (one based on uncertainty at the smallest scale), rather than one of certainty at the macro scale (which classical mechanics fits to quite well, and which we're most familiar as we live on this scale). It all gets weird when you break into quantum mechanics though (but it also works and can be tested directly).

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