euxarist

Introducing Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, designed to tackle the most daunting technical challenges. They’re capable collaborators on ambitious projects in many fields, and show improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, and vision.

wtf claude code just discovered 22 islands in the Philippines that does not exist in the public map! The official count went from 7,107 to 7,641 islands after NAMRIA re-mapped the country with radar. So I wondered if there still islands nobody has put on the map What we did (me + Claude Code): • pulled the 12 clearest Sentinel-2 images of every area in Tawi-Tawi and southern Sulu • kept only land that stays dry across the dates, so tides, clouds and boats drop out • compared it with every coastline, island and building on OpenStreetMap • checked all 77 hits by eye in high-res imagery Result: 22 islets and sand cays that aren't on OpenStreetMap. 8 of them have no named place nearby in OSM or GeoNames either. The best one is a sand cay south of Tawi-Tawi at 4.8899° N, 119.9160° E. It shows up as dry land in 106 of 109 clear satellite images since 2017, and the nearest named island is 2 km away. Did I "discover" it? Not really. The fishermen who sail past it have probably known it forever. But it's not on the map. Now I submitted an email to Philippine government for the naming of the islands.