The Sticky Signal Blog

I recently switched to Anthropic's Claude as my everyday LLM, mainly because of its reputation handling deep technical domains. I've found ChatGPT is often too "rosy" in its responses, and unwilling to challenge marginal ideas. So how does Anthropic's latest frontier model - Claude Opus 4.6 - assess...

Part 3

In part 1 of this series, we took a high-level tour of the Uranian system, then in part 2 we introduced the idea of the Oberon Baseline Observatory, or OBO. This third and final installment dives deep into the details, exploring the science unlocked by OBO, along with the feats of engineeri...

Part 2

In part 1 of this series, I talked about the Uranian system from a romantic perspective – the clockwork elegance of their sideways dance around the Sun, and how truly strange it would be for humans to stand on those alien moons. In part 2, it’s time for some hard science, because a mission...

Part 1

The best thing about running your own blog is that you can write about literally anything that tugs at your interest. Lately, I’ve been researching Uranus, an Ice Giant planet 3 billion kilometers from the sun, and its system of 5 main moons. And believe me when I tell you this system deser...

Have We Thought This Through?

Part 3: A Fireside Chat with ChatGPT

For this final installment in the series, I thought I’d try something a little different. I’m going to paste a transcript of my conversation with ChatGPT – verbatim with zero edits – so you can see how the two of us vibe together...