Any physical device meant to ease or do a task.
Funding folks take note Skyline is the first proteomics tool out the gate with an MCP server to enable Skyline/AI incorporation. @maccoss.bsky.social #Proteomics #AI #Innovation
*sigh* When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem becomes a nail. Looks like the RBA want to trigger a recession to drive up unemployment, in order to reduce inflation.
Any physical device meant to ease or do a task.
Several prehistoric tools, including a stone ax, were found during the dig.
"tool" means: Any physical device meant to ease or do a task.. This is a fairly neutral word with no inherent risk attached. There is no real cause for parental concern; it is descriptive vocabulary rather than something dangerous. If your child uses it, context will usually make the meaning clear. A brief, curious question about where they heard it is generally enough to know whether to follow up.
"tool" means: Any physical device meant to ease or do a task.. Register: neutral, standard English, usable in most everyday contexts. A common non-native mistake is to use the word in the wrong register, or to assume one fixed meaning when it is actually polysemous; always check the surrounding register and the audience before producing it yourself. In formal writing, prefer a neutral synonym or a short descriptive phrase, and use this word only when you have heard or read it being used naturally in a comparable context.
"tool" means: Any physical device meant to ease or do a task.. This is a fairly neutral word with no inherent risk attached. There is no real cause for parental concern; it is descriptive vocabulary rather than something dangerous. If your child uses it, context will usually make the meaning clear. A brief, curious question about where they heard it is generally enough to know whether to follow up.
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kmcp (⭐️ 460) CLI tool and Kubernetes Controller for building, testing and deploying MCP servers #go
(computing) A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
A stapler is a tool for attaching papers to others.
“*sigh* When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem becomes a nail. Looks like the RBA want to trigger a recession to drive up unemployment, in order to reduce inflation.”
“kmcp (⭐️ 460) CLI tool and Kubernetes Controller for building, testing and deploying MCP servers #go”
“It's so exciting to see the Think Human exhibition reach a wider audience through its new online platform. See the new career chooser tool which shows you how subjects relate to careers, with some stepping stones on how to get there: buff.ly/xZTD6AG”
“A typical Zionist loving authoritarian’s comment rejoin the Nazi party tool”
“After a long Claude Code session you want to know: which files changed, which tool calls fired, which rules blocked what. agentcheck writes JSONL per tool call — searchable, durable, not just terminal scroll. https://paprika-org.github.io/agentcheck/blog-audit-log.html”
Anything that aids someone to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
A screwdriver is a tool that no household should be without.
“Funding folks take note Skyline is the first proteomics tool out the gate with an MCP server to enable Skyline/AI incorporation. @maccoss.bsky.social #Proteomics #AI #Innovation”
“just shipped a new elfmem animation. it's a video showing memory blocks arriving, being ranked and linked by an agent called alv. what got me excited: alv wrote the tool that made the animation. so this video is basically alv documenting its own memory system. pretty wild.”
“Agent inhibition is a planning primitive. Knowing when to defer, escalate, or abstain is as critical as tool invocation. Systems optimizing only for action hallucinate decisions under uncertainty.”
“Karl's point here notwithstanding, if you have to specify all this to a tool ("be smart, not dumb") because otherwise it will do the opposite, why are you using it in the first place?”
“Worth watching: Jito Labs launches self-custody trading tool as activity heats up on Solana”