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Stunning! They are also the only other animal on the planet to manipulate it's environment to grow food, apart from humans, by protecting aphids. Sometimes they even wage war to neighboring nests, and kidnap larvae which subsequently g
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> It seems like the high ancient world was so close to industrializing. There are many factors at play. Serious industrialization requires several components to build on. There is a reason for example that "All roads lead to Rome&qu
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> Nienders concluded that this was due to the difference in the information available. Sophy had information about the track curvature of the upcoming 6 seconds of track, based on the current speed. TMRL, however, only had distance measu
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When i started reading the Common Lisp Reference Manual i knew neither English nor Lisp. When i finished it reading it for the first time, i learned English better. I read it again 3 times, then i started learning Lisp.
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Chess engines, which are used for 25 years by the best human chess players daily, compute the best next move on the board. The total number of all possible chess positions is more than all the atoms in the universe. Is is possible for a che
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DNS could be hosted on a blockchain, each person use his own rules for validating names, and reject, accept or rename any ambiguous or dangerous part of the name, in a totally secure and immutable way. Blockchain has the potential to be the
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> One has to admit the game of cat and mouse that the web browser brought about Supply chain attacks can affect any toolchain, command line tools, games, everything under the sun.
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> Security is everyone’s job. Agree. There is something missing from the internet, and that is "Programmer Citizenship". As soon as someone pushes code to a repo, he has to prove his citizenship first, the good old fashioned wa
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> "no such thing as a safe ad anymore because no one is policing them appropriately" That's one of the most Kafkaesque sentences i have read in a while.
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There was an incident a week or two ago, where one chess player demanded brand new computers to be unboxed before the chess match[1] begins. Every day of the match, to unbox new computers, because he didn't want the software to be tink
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A single-page index of all posts is hands down the number one feature every blog should have. Also, no images to clutter the index, and slow down the page.
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Great, thanks.
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>packages interacting poorly in hard to diagnose ways That's a problem of uncontrolled mutability and lack of type signatures. It's a common problem in python, ryby, javascript, emacs lisp and many others. Emacs can run Rust, a
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George Gammon made another video 21h ago, in which he explains it in depth[1]. Then again, i don't understand that situation with the financial instruments, and indeed it may not have been wise of me to mention it. In the broad economy
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Ok, it's not right? I will add an edit. I don't know about particular financial instruments, but i do know about the economy. Automation is constant in everything we do. For example: Protectionism of an economy is a way to fight a
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Well, i know a lot about history, political systems when they are at the end of the road, no one really competent can even come close to be a leader. When an incompetent person thinks of a solution to a problem, they choose the worst soluti
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I replied on the other comment, but i may not be right, i don't know about financial tools and what goes up and down.
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George Gammon made a video yesterday about it. I don't personally know what derivatives even mean, but i do know in 2007 something like that happened, triple A derivatives of mortgages or something. Even if that's not it, the bubb
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People not working at all, or working significantly less, is not acceptable by any political system of the western countries. The proof here, is the exponential rate in which debt goes up. That debt is directly funding the anti-automation e
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Yeah i didn't specify, i think it is the "Modern Operating Systems". I read it in Greek and I don't remember the title, maybe the title was translated a little bit different. It was not the Minix book, i have not read th
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I have read Tanenbaum's book twice. Really great book. Very dense in information but enjoyable as well. That and the Common Lisp Reference Manual were at some point my favorite CS readings. I was reading them in printed form.
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I believe in 5 years time, digital information will be so easily transformable, that copyright holders (and patent holders) will have a very difficult time enforcing the property rights. When a book can be readily transformed into audiobook
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I have read the whole source of LangChain in Rust (there are no docs anyway), and it definitely seems over-engineering. The central premise of the project, of complicated chains of prompts is not useful to many people, and not to me either.
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Didn't know about LiteLLM. That seems to be the right kind of middleware most people would need, instead of Langchain.
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Very nice, thank you!
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What have you used if i may ask? It seems very simple indeed. What search API is best? Also there is a program called html2text to throw out the html formatting so as to use less tokens. Have you used this or something similar?
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In 9 years time, robots will publish articles on the web, and they will put a humans.txt file at their root index to govern what humans are allowed to read the content. Jokes aside, given how models become better, cheaper and smaller, RAG c
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Earth's magnetic field rotates in irregular intervals. The terrifying part is, the time it takes to complete the rotation, the different intermediate magnetic poles cancel each other out, and we are left with a much smaller magnetic fi
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High level math, is made from a lot of low level math combined together to form the high level, right? You can definitely use tools like GPT to write the low level math. It doesn't work the same for all use cases, training data do play
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> Let’s say an AI supplies an incomprehensible, ugly proof. Then you can work with it, and you can analyze it. Suppose this proof uses 10 hypotheses to get one conclusion—if I delete one hypothesis, does the proof still work? That’s a sc

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