bonoboTP

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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
You can make a living, if: you have a way to modify your behavior in a way such that it compels another human being to reciprocate and modify their behavior in a way that you find beneficial for your life. All of money and economics in the
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
More and more apps won't run, again allegedly to keep you safe. You can't run your bank apps on your rooted and custom software. TPMs of desktop, everything needing approval. Yeah you may say tough luck, just use the web. But more
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
You can always find justifications to erode all civil liberties. I think it's a major gap in the way history is being taught that people think that the reasons to remove liberties sound like overt evil mustache-twirling slogans. In rea
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
Hm, why don't you just go do it then? Seems strange to spread this knowledge and create competition for yourself. Theres a reason most people want a white collar job and send their kids to college instead of to such manual jobs.
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
There is infinite amount of software to be made. Desires and wants never get satisfied. There will simply be more software, more features, more supported platforms, more bug checks, more tests, more CI/CD, more docs, more websites, mor
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
They complained about the skill leveling where now lower skilled people can also do what needed higher skill before. You toiled to learn the craft, now there is a fast track to those results. That's what the rug pull is. Yes, producing
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
Currently a kind of rule of thumb is that a PhD student can graduate after approximately 3 papers published in a good peer reviewed venue. If peer review were to go away, this whole academic system would get into a crisis. It's dysfunc
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
Is the problem the storage cost for hosting them, the HDDs? I'm sure they can be offloaded to cold storage because most of that slop won't be opened by anyone. Arxiv doesn't need moderation. Nobody is asking for Arxiv moderat
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
I don't think it's a psychologically positive self identification to see yourself merely as a gatekeeper and toll extractor rent seeker who only makes a living by withholding agency and skill from others. I know many jobs are abou
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
That's a reasonable strategy. I don't think spreading FOMO is good. But pragmatically, I enjoy working with the latest crop of AI models regarding all sorts of computer tasks, including coding but many other sysadmin stuff and kno
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
They built the brand on Firefox then did a bait and switch. How many people who donate to Mozilla know that it's not helping Firefox? But yeah, this is just how it works. Things can't stay good for too long. One must always be on
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
They have to update the software stack, replace usage of deprecated APIs, support new latex packages etc. They could probably minimize these by limiting the scope but just keeping a small, tightly scoped software functional is always boring
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
There are a million other research things to do besides running huge pretraining runs and hyperparam grid search on giant clusters. To see what, you can start with checking out the best paper and similar awards at neurips, cvpr, iccv, iclr,
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
And it is a risk for Arxiv too that once they start to drink the koolaid and start going to the same cocktail parties that these kinds of nonprofit board members and execs go to and will feel the need to prance around with some fancy stuff.
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
Make it an external service then, and leave the thing that's already working great to just be. The reason authors like and use arxiv is that it gives 1) a timestamp, 2) a standardized citable ID, and 3) stable hosting of the pdf. And r
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
For context, in the Eurozone the most valuable coin is 2 EUR, or about 2.30 USD.
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
I thought the X was an allusion to LaTeX.
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
You usually get introduced to it by your academic supervisor or collaborators as a masters or PhD student. If you're a solo researcher who has made a significant contribution on the frontier of science, I'm sure you'll be abl
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
Then drop it and make people upload a pdf and a zip of the latex sources. Most people I talk to hate that pipeline and spend a lot of debug hours on it when Arxiv can't compile what overleaf and your local latex install can.
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
The similarity in style comes from conference and journal templates, not from Arxiv. You can style your paper with latex in any style, Arxiv doesn't care. On Arxiv you mostly see preprints that people submit to conferences and journals
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
Just put out a torrent and people of the sort at r/DataHoarder will keep it alive for longer than bureaucrats.
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
Do you mean that the CPU compute cost of turning latex into pdf/HTML is the main cost?
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
I fear their Mozilla-ification and Wikipedia-ification. Scope creep, various outreach feel-good programs, ballooning costs, lost focus etc. And other types of enshittification. Any change to the basic premise will be a negative step. They s
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
Universities (outside a few) just have much weaker PR machines so you never hear what they do. Also their work is not user facing products so regular people, even tech power users won't see them.
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
Simply anticipating basic push backs from reviewers makes sure that you do a somewhat thorough job. Not 100% thorough and the reviews are sometimes frivolous and lazy and stupid. But just knowing that what you put out there has to pass the
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
A big problem that causes gullible people to follow scammers guidance is that real software with legit and important functionality is often utter crap and requires regularly dismissing various big red warning screens like expired or misconf
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
Exactly. They might give them their Gmail password, the 2fa code, their credit card number and cvc, etc etc.
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
This is based on a view of society that is incompatible with belief in democracy. If people overall can't be trusted to act responsibly and not follow complex sequences of steps dictated by scammers, what hope do they have to figure ou
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
Boiling the frog.
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
Do you think regular desktop computer should be locked down like this too? Scammers can also tell people to run Windows programs. Should that be banned too? I'm fine with an opt-in lock-down feature so people can do it for their parent

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