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by carschno 1mo ago
Maybe it should be called 'ambiguity' problem then. An issue that famously emerges from trying to use natural language for instructing computers: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx&#x2F
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by carschno 2mo ago
Anyone trying to express intelligence in a single dimension has already failed to understand the topic.
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by carschno 2mo ago
Nuclear family is indeed a recent development and started with industrialization and modern capitalism. While we use the same term, 'family', to refer to (pre-)historic forms of family, too, those family types had little or nothin
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by carschno 2mo ago
People interested in this: if you are ever in Amsterdam, I recommend to visit the Micropia museum: https://www.artis.nl/en/artis-micropia Among many stunning things, they have a shelf full of foods and drinks (behind g
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by carschno 3mo ago
Stating the obvious, but you can of course see it as: there are more than enough workers that need the extra money so urgently that they are happy to screw up their health and social life. Whether they really "need" the money is
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by carschno 3mo ago
Apologies for being nit-picky, but there is no etymological sense. The output of your LLM has the same etymological root, but a different meaning. In terms of translation, it is therefore plain wrong. Honestly, I was triggered to correct th
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Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty(ucl.ac.uk)
2 points by carschno 4mo ago|0 comments
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by carschno 5mo ago
Don't _ads in search_ account for 100% of their search revenue? Does Google Search offer any other paid services?
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by carschno 5mo ago
I don't know, and I think there is no easy answer. The point is: the investors don't know how to measure traction either, so they just measure GitHub activity instead, even at the very moment in which it becomes obvious that it do
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by carschno 5mo ago
> It's especially sensitive for a VC-backed startup that is measured thoroughly by GitHub activity, but we have to pull the trigger: This sentence also illustrates the absurdity of this investment model. It imposes a trade-off betwe
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by carschno 5mo ago
In literally must have missed that. When did Microsoft ever encourage energy saving? Is this related to power saving for extending laptop battery runtime? But then I don't get the link to renewable energy. Anyway, I agree with the not
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by carschno 6mo ago
You could abstract speech or other audio as a series of sounds, where time is indeed a factor. Speech, however, has patterns that are more similar to written language than to seasonal patterns that are typically assumed in time series. Whil
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by carschno 6mo ago
> On top of that, I exported my location timeline from Google Maps, my Uber trips, my bank transactions, and Shazam history. I would ask Claude Code to start with the photos and then gradually give it access to the different data exports
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A Call for Meaningful Work at a Slower Pace(jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com)
4 points by carschno 7mo ago|1 comments
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by carschno 7mo ago
There are various technical corrections, with arguable pros and cons. However, they do not match the underlying problem stated above: > the rise of business types in tech company leadership
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EU MEPs let Chat Control fail(heise.de)
7 points by carschno 7mo ago|0 comments
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by carschno 7mo ago
The page seems to be a copy from the original Mozilla press release from February 2nd: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-controls/ It was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by carschno 8mo ago
Here is the paper on which the article is based: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11269-025-04484-0
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by carschno 9mo ago
On the one hand, this exercise probably reflects a realistic task. Daily engineering work comprises a lot of reverse engineering and debugging of messy code. On the other hand, this does not seem very suitable as an isolated assignment. The
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by carschno 9mo ago
Essentially, the LNM turns out to be unsuitable for various diagnostics it has been applied for: > Our findings reveal a foundational limitation: at its core, LNM involves a repetitive sampling of one and the same FC matrix. As a result,
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Investigating the methodological foundation of lesion network mapping(nature.com)
1 points by carschno 9mo ago|1 comments
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by carschno 9mo ago
The last addition was made in 2020.
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by carschno 10mo ago
I suppose you are right about the history of firearms. However, the novel was written in 1844, more than 200 years after the time in which it is set. Which makes me wonder if the author (Alexandre Dumas) knew and cared about the historic f
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by carschno 10mo ago
Good point, also to illustrate that open-source is not a panacea. It merely holds a higher potential for certain issues to be fixed/improved than.
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by carschno 10mo ago
It is concerning that GitHub hosts the majority of open-source software, while actively locking its users into a platform that is based on closed source for eerything except Git itself. This issue with Actions shows how maintaining propriet
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by carschno 1y ago
Technically not OCR, but HTR (hand-written text/transcript recognition) is still difficult. LLMs have increased accuracy, but their mistakes are very hard to identify because they just 'hallucinate' text they cannot digitize.
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by carschno 1y ago
I think the actual question was: why would a mail provider develop their own an email client?
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by carschno 1y ago
> I am having a really hard time communicating this problem to executives When you hit such a wall, you might not be failing to communicate, nor them failing to understand. In reality, said executives have probably chosen to ignore the i
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by carschno 1y ago
Nice explanations! A (more advanced) aspect which I find missing would be the difference between encoder-decoder transformer models (BERT) and "decoder-only", generative models, with respect to the embeddings.
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by carschno 1y ago
> I mean, you probably didn't mean that Correct, I think you've read too much into it. Grassroots marketing is not a pejorative term, either. Its strategy is to trigger positive reviews about your product, ideally by independen

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