Because it's the opposite of shabby

Basque Country also has an interesting language which doesn't seem related to other European languages. Basque language (or Euskara).

Seems as though it could have been an enclave of neanderthals who eventually integrated with humans.

This is a much-discussed topic. All we know of the Basque language is that it is pre-Indo-European.

The last time I looked in to this, the consensus was that it was most likely a version of otherwise-extinct ancient Celtic.

Now that doesn’t mean that the Basques don’t have a potentially outsized Neanderthal genetic influence, but the odds of their language being so ancient as to pre-exist modern humans entirely is unlikely.

If it has any relation to Celtic languages, then it's Indo-European by definition.

We can tell how much neanderthal ancestry someone has, more or less. Basque people have no more than others. Despite their odd language, they are much like other Europeans genetically: a similar mix of European hunter gatherers, Anatolian farmers and the bronze age invaders which we believe brought the IE languages to Europe.

Oh! Sorry- I meant to refer to the hypothetical proto-Celtic language!

This is what vibe-commenting from memory gets me.

The proto-Celtic that is Indo-European? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Celtic_language

Proto-Celtic is also an Indo-European language...

I'm just an armchair wikipedia browser, but it's an interesting read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Basque_language

This article talks about the Basque language from before contact with the Romans, 5-1 centuries BCE. It also references a "pre-proto-basque" language, that would have been the one before the Celtic invasion of Iberia (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtiberians).

The rabbit hole kind of ends there, as not much linguistic artifacts or history remain from BC unfortunately. But one can imagine the Basque society would live in relative isolation for a long time before that.

mood

I figured they would do this when SoftBank acquired them.

SB likes 10x buys.

It's HD and ai and 5G and and that

Happens in Canada too. Calling them out can be dangerous, people have been injured.

Big "Kill them with kindness" energy.

I have my own harness I wrap Claude CLI in, I wonder if I'm breaking the rules...

If you're not paying full-fat API prices, then probably.

From what I've heard, the metrics used by Anthropic to detect unauthorized clients is pretty easy to sidestep if you look at the existing solutions out there. Better than getting your account banned.

No, they specifically said it’s only if you’re trying to build a whole other product for public consumption on top of it

If you’re just essentially calling claude -p you’re fine

Neither was either of mine, but I don't advertise them and specifically don't post them on social media

I think that's a cool project, though I found the results to be less relevant than Google.

Whether the results are less relevant or not depends massively on what you searched and whether the best results even exist in the Marginalia search index or not.

If Google is ranking small web results better than Marginalia, that’s actionable.

If the best result isn’t in the index and it should be, that’s actionable.

Well to be fair, Marginalia is also developed by 1 guy (me), and Google has like 10K people and infinite compute they can throw at the problem. There has been definite improvements, and will be more improvements still, but Google's still got hands.

Hey Marginalia, cheers. Imo fewer hands can also be an advantage.

There are no PMs breathing down your neck to inject more ads in the search results, you don’t depend on any broken internal bespoke tools that you can’t fix yourself, and you don’t need anybody’s permission to deploy a new ranking strategy if you want to.

I've used Marginalia to search for technical documentation before, unironically. Whatever it does find is pretty much guaranteed to be non-slop.