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by eirikbakke 3mo ago
Second this! And if the papers are in "logical reading order", it would be very useful if this is stated on top!
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Appraising Artworks with Joins and LLMs (Ultorg Database UI)(ultorg.com)
2 points by eirikbakke 4mo ago|1 comments
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by eirikbakke 4mo ago
Ultorg creator here. Ultorg is a GUI for relational databases that knows how to deal with joins and one-to-many relationships. In this demo, I use the new "Fill with AI" feature to generate appraisals for artwork objects in the Na
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by eirikbakke 5mo ago
The retort is to the statement that the U.S. war in Iran is "pretty cheap compared to all the AI datacenters". People are conflating destructive and productive activities. These are fundamentally different.
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by eirikbakke 5mo ago
I pay $100/month for Claude Max and it's like having a (nearly) free, very competent employee. Value _way_ exceeds $100/months. But there's a datacenter that has to run that.
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by eirikbakke 5mo ago
The data centers are being paid for by customers, who are receiving greater value from the products than they pay for them.
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by eirikbakke 10mo ago
I'd also expect to see a lot more AI-generated PRs on open source projects. (Or at least AI-assisted to the point where the author feels like they should mention it.)
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by eirikbakke 10mo ago
"Larry Ellison has been involved with two philanthropic organizations. First he made a $300M donation to Stanford, in exchange for not admitting wrongdoing in an options backdating scandal. All other philanthropic work is to the Larry
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by eirikbakke 10mo ago
I concur. This was my main experience with WSL1 vs. WSL2. If I'm running Windows, it means that the files and projects that I care about are on the Windows file system. And they need to be there, because my IDE and other GUI apps needs
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by eirikbakke 10mo ago
I suspect the non-standard JSON license was in part a strategy to encourage third-party implementations, so that the format would become a standard. (W3C standards, for example, require "multiple independent implementations to proceed
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by eirikbakke 11mo ago
One day, some bacteria is going to figure out how to digest plastic. Then it will take over the world.
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by eirikbakke 11mo ago
In case anyone needs a minimal CPU implementation in 65 lines of Verilog: https://people.csail.mit.edu/ebakke/fic/ https://people.csail.mit.edu/ebakke/fic/code/Fic.v (I wonder if it
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by eirikbakke 11mo ago
Waving a flag is protected speech under the 1st amendment.
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by eirikbakke 11mo ago
Perhaps a better source (but IANAL): "Judges frequently invoke anti-redundancy principles in the interpretation of legal language, whether it appears in classic private-law documents such as contracts or classic public law-documents su
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by eirikbakke 11mo ago
The "rule against surplusage": Where one reading of a statute would make one or more parts of the statute redundant and another reading would avoid the redundancy, the other reading is preferred. https://en.wikipedia.or
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The Man with the Seven Second Memory [video](youtube.com)
3 points by eirikbakke 11mo ago|0 comments
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by eirikbakke 1y ago
Afterwards, they ship the entire engine, with turkey giblets and all, to a lab where the resulting damage is analyzed. Smells awful, according to the engineer I sat next to at a Thanksgiving dinner once...
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by eirikbakke 1y ago
In Norway, the card terminals usually go into an "accept with signature" mode if they are temporarily offline. So they print a receipt that the customer has to sign. (This is for BankAxept debit cards, which are standard in Norway
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by eirikbakke 1y ago
Spreadsheet formulas have a very simple grammar: expression = reference | exp1 op exp2 | function(exp1, ..., expN) That's it. It's the math notation from high school, plus cell references, which can be inserted by clicking a cell.
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by eirikbakke 1y ago
Nations with high GDP tend to be service economies. Service professions tend to require good reading and writing skills, and often a college-level specialization. (No need for PhDs, though, except for scientists.)
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by eirikbakke 1y ago
No, it's a whole scientific field, with experiments, lit review, publications, peer review and everything. The engineering artifact is just a by-product. More often than not, the code is thrown away or never used again, once the experi
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by eirikbakke 1y ago
CS theory is indeed closer to mathematics. But other areas--database systems, computer architecture, networking, user interface design etc., is in fact evaluated via experiments, which is what makes it "science". For example, if y
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by eirikbakke 1y ago
That is the correct way to do it for PostgreSQL. It does rule out some common SQLite use cases, such as using the database for app persistence. The app would never be able to upgrade the major version of PostgreSQL, unless it bundled Postgr
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by eirikbakke 1y ago
The PostgreSQL data directory format is not very stable or portable. You can't just ZIP it up and move it to a different machine, unless the new machine has the same architecture and "sufficiently" similar PostgreSQL binaries
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by eirikbakke 1y ago
Pages 51-54 contain a list of on-the-record quotes from the government itself. Those, at least, are not in contention.
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by eirikbakke 1y ago
Norway does this. Kindergartens are nearly free ($120/mo), but with a "cash-for-care" benefit for parents who choose to stay at home with the child ($750/mo). https://www.nav.no/kontantstotte/en
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by eirikbakke 1y ago
Microsoft Office has many features. Each feature must be reflected in the file format somehow. (I wonder what the specification-pages-to-man-years ratio is...)
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by eirikbakke 1y ago
Billions of years of evolution, but still limited to the data that is replicated in human genome/DNA, which is about 3 gigabytes (+epigenome).
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by eirikbakke 1y ago
Humans require a _lot_ less training data to become, for instance, fluent in English. If a given AI algorithm needs to be trained on the entire Internet to accomplish the same, then it seems safe to assume that the data has not really been
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by eirikbakke 1y ago
If electronics is involved in the act of voting, the voter has no assurance that the ballot remains secret (even if you're a software engineer!). With paper/envelope/box, by contrast, the voter can see and understand the full

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