ahmedfromtunis

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by ahmedfromtunis 17d ago
I forgot which was it, ChatGPT or Gemini, but one of them insisted on calling Trump "former president" even when discussing decisions he just announced as president. Lol
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by ahmedfromtunis 17d ago
I built a toy news-summarizing agent with Gemma 4, and it was so frustrating, actually, because of the cut-off date. The model wasted over half the token budget, each time, on internal debates over the current date. When generating a World
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by ahmedfromtunis 24d ago
Are you saying that a single data point contains the same amount of information as a dataset of hundreds if not thousands of entries from across the economy?
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by ahmedfromtunis 24d ago
Any price comparison over time should include inflation. Otherwise this is akin to comparing speed of 2 objects in a relativistic setting without stating the frame of reference. Side note: I don't know why, but the existence of a &quot
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by ahmedfromtunis 1mo ago
"Did you know that there _is_ actually a reason behind the blank space at the bottom of every business card? To get the full picture, we need to go back way before the smartphone age, when a bizarre device, known as the rolodex, ruled
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by ahmedfromtunis 3mo ago
As someone who lived under an authoritarian regime for more than 2 decades: that's not even close to be true. Even discussing a taboo topic may cost someone their freedom, if not their life.
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by ahmedfromtunis 3mo ago
Dua Lipa opens, in Portugal, a library for books that are banned and censored (elsewhere).
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by ahmedfromtunis 3mo ago
I always wondered what the model meant when it writes "I'm now considering the architecture of the service" but outputs nothing of the sorts in its CoT. Is the model really "thinking" about that stuff or is just mim
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by ahmedfromtunis 3mo ago
The issue is not the amount; it's the currency. Ours is not convertible. To put it into perspective: even *free* services can be completely inaccessible here if they require payment info for verification purposes. Acquiring hard curren
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by ahmedfromtunis 3mo ago
Thanks, but I don't use e-readers as they are not available here. I've been using MoonReader for many years now and settled on pretty good parameters that make the reading experience very comfortable on both my phone and my tablet
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by ahmedfromtunis 3mo ago
I live in a country where the selection of available books, especially in English, is very limited. Buying online from foreign markets comes with a long list of administrative hurdles and limits. If it were not for Anna's Archive and Z
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by ahmedfromtunis 3mo ago
Thanks for the recommendation. I'm trying to get myself to watch more movies and this looks like the perfect one for a cosy weekend. And yes, science it seems is advancing faster than we might be aware of.
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by ahmedfromtunis 3mo ago
Manufacturing requires micromanaging every aspect of the process, requiring special machinery, trained workforce (human or not), inventory management. Reproduction, once we master its blueprint of course, is much less demanding: just provid
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by ahmedfromtunis 3mo ago
You stumble upon a news article from 2226. You read it to see who, between Google, OpenAI and Anthropic, won the AI race. Instead, your learn about Biotic. It's now the leading polity in the solar system and its environs. It bought Alp
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Ask HN: How do you find new books to read?
5 points by ahmedfromtunis 4mo ago|7 comments
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by ahmedfromtunis 4mo ago
With the World Cup starting in the coming days, this can spiral out of control very fast. Football fans can get infected and spread the virus in their home countries if they get exposed.
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Digg(digg.com)
4 points by ahmedfromtunis 4mo ago|1 comments
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by ahmedfromtunis 4mo ago
> The ListView control? It started out with the more tedious name “modern collection control”, which got shortened to “MoCo.” A missed opportunity to call it "MoCoCo" which, if you ask me, has more flare and personality to it.
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by ahmedfromtunis 4mo ago
I wish the Soviets had focused more on developing an independent computer industry and their own distinct flavors of programming languages. Imagine the thrill of studying languages built to run on completely separate hardware architectures,
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by ahmedfromtunis 4mo ago
This is a different kind of ugly. For previous models, it was the excessive "sportiness" that sometimes made them look like a car from a mecha anime. Luce's is more of an underwhelmed look, especially with the outstanding int
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by ahmedfromtunis 4mo ago
I built life-link almost a year ago for the same purpose: https://github.com/ahmedsaoudi/life_link I even created a generator so people can configure it with their Telegram/Pushover settings and have it generate a
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by ahmedfromtunis 4mo ago
I'd say that that's a feature of modern-ish newspapers with "advanced" layouting techniques from early to mid 20th century. A news sheet from THE olden days (eg Victorian era), looks more like a wall of text, set as tigh
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by ahmedfromtunis 4mo ago
I lived through similar dynamics (though not at Ferrari, of course). The management knows that they need something new and out of their comfort zone. Someone (from within or without) suggests an idea that would never been accepted in the ol
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by ahmedfromtunis 4mo ago
Is this a common thing? Sleeping without any sort of cover during the hot summer months (notably July and August) is the norm here (North Africa) and never heard of anyone who does it (AC or not). Is this an American thing? Do people in war
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by ahmedfromtunis 5mo ago
Can't help noticing how the interface and general mechanics of these old OSes were tightly coupled to the hardware. Both the makers and users of that era seemed to relish that vibe. I know I certainly do. However, that paradigm made co
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by ahmedfromtunis 5mo ago
What make TikTok, well TikTok, is the frictionless experience. When I opened the link, I expected to directly be shown the target content. If there's a login screen or any explanation to do, it should either be postponed or integrated
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by ahmedfromtunis 6mo ago
Thanks a lot for this incredible gem! By the way, it looks like there's a bug where I can't search for articles when already inside one. To do so, I need to go back to home > articles and then search.
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by ahmedfromtunis 6mo ago
No entry on the Great War? Really?!!! Just kidding, of course. This is incredible and surprisingly nostalgic. Reading some of the entries took me right back to being a kid huddled in my room for hours pouring over an encyclopedia or even th
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by ahmedfromtunis 6mo ago
When Cook took over, people expected him to fail. I don't think even Steve Jobs would've been able to imagine that Apple can get this big.
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by ahmedfromtunis 6mo ago
I think it's time for some sort of a safety standard for a sound frequency to be reserved exclusively for alarm/alert use and that ANC systems have to let through. It goes without saying, use of said frequency should be prohibited

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