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JupyterLab Desktop Application(github.com)
4 points by dtquad 2y ago|2 comments
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by dtquad 2y ago
One undervalued aspect of Go is that it is the simplest concurrent language that can be thrown at Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Ruby devs when they hit a wall caused by their primary language's lack of good concurrency.
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by dtquad 2y ago
Try the Gemini webapp. It has a powerful reasoning model with Google Search and Maps integration.
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by dtquad 2y ago
>Frontend development is a nightmare world of Kafkaesque awfulness I no longer enjoy As a backend/systems engineer I recently had to look at a React + Typescript + MobX app from 2019/2020. It is true that that some things, espe
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by dtquad 2y ago
That used to be true in the pre-Tinder age. Tinder and other mobile dating apps have somehow normalized dating among both the highly social and the good looking.
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by dtquad 2y ago
>I literally do not know how the electrical and firmware engineers will do their jobs now if we cannot receive packages from China As a software engineer who works closely with electrical and firmware engineers I know what you are saying
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by dtquad 2y ago
The de facto Linux game development workflow is now literally just to develop a Windows/DirectX game and making sure it works with Proton on Linux.
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by dtquad 2y ago
He was wrong about Microsoft's death but correct about how AJAX making web apps feel more desktop-like would remove Microsoft's dominance in many categories and niches.
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by dtquad 2y ago
Many high-ranking Chinese officials, including Xi Jinping (Chemical Engineering) and his predecessors like Hu Jintao (Hydraulic Engineering) and Jiang Zemin (Electrical Engineering), are trained engineers. They also like economics and finan
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by dtquad 2y ago
Why is this not being discussed? I don't know if Musk is right but he is more or less 2nd in charge of the US government right now.
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by dtquad 2y ago
Meta was sending LLaMA 1 to anyone with an .edu email. It was always meant to be publicly released.
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by dtquad 2y ago
Yeah, I am going to blame American/Western companies more than the American/Western governments. For marketing reasons alone Meta (US) and Mistral (French) should have launched and promoted standalone apps just like DeepSeek did f
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by dtquad 2y ago
A decade ago, before the 2017-2022 transformer/LLM revolution, China was ahead in some AI subfields like computer vision and facial recognition. Top Western AI researchers like Dario Amodei, founder and CEO of Anthropic, used to work f
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Notes on OpenAI o3-mini(simonwillison.net)
211 points by dtquad 2y ago|76 comments
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by dtquad 2y ago
Right now the Swedish prime minister is on TV talking about the many explosions that have been in Sweden.
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Salwan Momika: Man who burned Quran killed in Sweden(dw.com)
3 points by dtquad 2y ago|1 comments
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by dtquad 2y ago
>Dario certainly had no qualms about working with authoritarian regimes when he worked for Baidu Maybe it's worth listening to a Western AI researcher who worked for a Chinese company and came to the conclusion "China must not
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by dtquad 2y ago
Yes, last time we had a "multipolar world" it was absolutely terrible.
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by dtquad 2y ago
>DeepSeek shows how these tech oligarchs greatly overplayed their hand and along with the president, bamboozled the taxpayer to enrich each other. How much taxpayer money has gone to OpenAI and Anthropic? They are the two big sinners in
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by dtquad 2y ago
>It's reasonably likely that a lot of people linked to the federal government want to ban DeepSeek. It took them years and years to move forward with the ban ok Tiktok and it still hasn't been banned yet. There is no way they a
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Ask HN: What programming paradigms/patterns might see a comeback with LLMs?
5 points by dtquad 2y ago|1 comments
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by dtquad 2y ago
China is the completely dominant industrial superpower in the world. I would be more worried about what will happen to non-Chinese entities that wrong China that will happen to Chinese entities that trigger a readjustment of the US stock ma
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by dtquad 2y ago
DeepSeek has humiliated the entire US tech sector. I wonder if they will learn from this, fire their useless middle management and product managers with sociology degrees, and actually pivot to being technology companies?
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by dtquad 2y ago
DeepSeek and their quant/algotrading parent company have years of experience in raw C/C++ CUDA programming and low-level CUDA optimization. That is one of the main reasons they could do model training and serve inference so effect
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by dtquad 2y ago
>We should be more upset that projects get acquired, shut down, and never see the light of day again because these massive companies must continue to expand at all costs. >Stop treating mega corporations like they've done you a f
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by dtquad 2y ago
Big Tech companies acquired and acqu-hired many unsustainable small and medium sized businesses in the past 16 years. Most people don't know that because seller doesn't want to admit they were a bad unsustainable business and buye
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by dtquad 2y ago
Being from Denmark I have always been puzzled by how US/UK media portray us as neo-Hitlers for being slightly more critical of MENA immigration than our neighbors. Meanwhile Switzerland has been doing what almost amounts to white-only
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China Prepares One Trillion Yuan ($138B) AI Plan to Rival $500B US AI Project(techpowerup.com)
12 points by dtquad 2y ago|3 comments
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by dtquad 2y ago
Why lie? I have asked ChatGPT some Gaza questions several times and it's actually surprisingly critical of Israel and the US.
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by dtquad 2y ago
Sigh, I don't understand why they had to do the $500 billion announcement with the president. So many people now wrongly think Trump just gave OpenAI $500 billion of the taxpayers' money.

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