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by bertil 3y ago
The only way this would make sense is if there’s more to it than what Snowden has revealed. A minister involuntarily confirming something that already leaked is grounds for a stern telling off in private by the Prime minister, but not this.
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by bertil 3y ago
Did they ever resolve the question about how it’s supposed to be pronounced? O-mee-GLE, O-mI-gl’, Om-hi-GLE?
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by bertil 3y ago
People are learning a lot of important lessons today. I’ve got friends who have started an incident management company. They are awesome. It feels crass to advertise for them now, but it also feels like the best time to do it.
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by bertil 3y ago
Very much so: technically, they are big independent ISPs. In practice, it is the keystone in the very ambitious investment strategy of Xavier Niel, France's most influential internet entrepreneur. It is a key reason why internet access
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by bertil 3y ago
No, of course – Galicia famously doesn’t, but they still have tall buildings and courtyards to shelter from the unspeakable wind.
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by bertil 3y ago
Powers are comparable, but people’s expectations are dramatically different for many reasons: * Climate: a shaded courtyard is pretty much necessary given the weather, for instance; * History: not only most city centers in Spain were built
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by bertil 3y ago
I’m tempted to think that the author saw those two examples (and Monaco) as cities more than countries, which, for an analysis of urban density makes sense. That would be like excluding the Vatican from an analysis of immigration.
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by bertil 3y ago
I agree there's a gap, but I've heard both people dramatically insist it's one way, and the other. I don't have a good model of why that might be (other than a coordinated campaign at least one way).
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by bertil 3y ago
A better task would be to ask the LLM what information they need to check to have a better guess and offer constraints like publicly available information or information that doesn’t cost more than a certain amount to get. A real expert isn
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by bertil 3y ago
I would ask it to justify its decisions in detail and ask an expert to judge the reasoning. I'm still routinely disappointed by LLMs failing basic reasoning tasks. Most LLMs fail easy tests like "A is faster than B, B is faster th
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by bertil 3y ago
I vehemently agree with your impression that a lot of that is pushed by misinformed interest, trying to hawk one more century of steam-reforming and other polluting ideas. However, a couple of processes do need hydrogen, chief among them is
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by bertil 3y ago
> Teslas haven't been very reliable at all and have had to have their drive motors replaced That's news to me. Actually, I was impressed, given how new Tesla was as a company: several car executives have dismissed them as unlik
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by bertil 3y ago
The best equivalent in this case would be the engineers working on Photoshop for Adobe: they write Rube-Goldbergian code to detect shapes, colors, and let artists click once to detour, cast shadows, adjust palette, etc.
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by bertil 3y ago
The concept of "agent of intent" definitely empowers the person using a GenAI too
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by bertil 3y ago
Being infected with toxoplasmosis could be an interesting thing to control for, for all subjects, but their samples are already relatively small, so I am not sure any observation would be significant…
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by bertil 3y ago
You are not missing anything: you are asking the key question in that process. We don’t have an answer. As a society, we agree that you, a human, copying art you’ve seen is original (or at least derivative enough that it warrants a new copy
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by bertil 3y ago
> Aren’t there visual art in the public domain? Yes, photos taken by people working for the government for example, and anything shared with Wikipedia should have a license for free use (typically CC0) [0] That’s an important, valuable p
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by bertil 3y ago
Family can't work in the US…
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by bertil 3y ago
Does anyone know if the AI granted credit to everyone at the very last minute or everyone except the five people who already had some ? Because otherwise, that would be granting them twice within minutes. It felt like an excellent example
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by bertil 3y ago
He did show his screen. It was too small to read the message, but something grayish was there, popping up. I believe that you could see someone else controlling the bottom of the screen typing the same message 10 seconds earlier, which made
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by bertil 3y ago
What are the tasks that you envision are key to maintenance? - bug finding and fixing - parsing logs to find optimisation options - refactoring (after several local changes) - given new features, recommending a refactoring? I feel like code
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by bertil 3y ago
What is your impression of how respectful of their ecosystem this was? I saw many “OpenAI killed my start-up”-type reactions. Still, it feels like they are trying to handle obvious use cases in the ecosystem and make things easier to integr
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by bertil 3y ago
It’s not much brighter than usual, but it’s UVC, a higher frequency/shorter wavelength than what we are used to on the surface of the Earth. UVC reacts with (di-)oxygen to make ozone, so it’s blocked by the ozone layer. The smell is ve
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by bertil 3y ago
Yes, and it’s apparently not the first time it happens in Hong-Kong. Easy access to electronics, no real control.
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by bertil 3y ago
He’s the only one who is an engineer first, and an entertainer… maybe? There are a handful who I haven’t mentioned with the same personality—mostly around niche topics, like RC vehicles, though. I’m curious what you’d think of Jay from the
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by bertil 3y ago
YouTubers have not made the most informed decisions about who they accept sponsor from, but compared to traditional media, they have proven very responsive to campaign from their fans accusing them of shilling the wrong brand. They pick wid
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by bertil 3y ago
100% with you. Shane Wighton (Stuff Made Here) might be the cynic you want. He makes some cringy self-referential jokes, but he’s genuinely that one magical engineer everyone wants on his team.
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by bertil 3y ago
> I would watch a quieter, more humble Mark Rober. There is definitely too much Californian energy there… but I have to work with guys like that, so I try to get myself used to the unjustifiable yelling and gratuitous positivity. I’ve me
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by bertil 3y ago
Oh, his latest videos and the package-thieves are way less entertaining than his previous ones. There are interesting hesitations when he ponders the ethics and legality, but it’s otherwise (unfunny) schadenfreude. I think that’s the influe
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by bertil 3y ago
This is product thinking. Let’s get deep: Story time! I initially liked the guy but grew a bit tired of him using what could be veiled racism for views — I’m not accusing him of anything; it just felt cringy-er than I like my YouTube. The

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