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by estebarb 1y ago
It is particularly annoying with Google. They recently forced results translations, which are of extremely bad quality. So, even if I'm searching for computer science topics or machine learning (where I'm only interested in Englis
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by estebarb 1y ago
It feels like enforcing that everything must be written in Ada. And then relaxing the requirement... history always repeats itself, it seems.
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by estebarb 1y ago
Thousands of years ago there was a breakthrough discovery that shaped humanity forever: living in society. Do we need to explain that one of the perks of society is pushing others forward with a tacit expectation that it will come back for
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by estebarb 1y ago
In the post-truth era, with fascism gaining adepts all across the world... who would want to give a government editorial powers on generative AI? I'm deeply pessimistic.
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by estebarb 1y ago
You know that in most countries the taxes must be shown explicitly and be added in the final price? USA is the only exception.
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by estebarb 1y ago
Without fair trial there is no proof they are associated with gangs and violence. Thousands of innocents are jailed in there. https://www.rfi.fr/es/programas/noticias-de-am%C3%A9rica/202...
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by estebarb 1y ago
There are already words for that: banished, disappeared, forced exiled, concentration camp victim... just reuse terms already used to describe crimes done by nazis and other fascist goverments.
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by estebarb 1y ago
The default where? In Windows the default is Edge, in Mac is Safari and in Linux distros usually is Firefox. And somehow people prefer to download Chrome.
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by estebarb 2y ago
By hardwiring the allocator you may end up with binaries that load two different allocators. It is too fun to debug a program that is using jemalloc free to release memory allocated by glibc. Unless you know what you are doing, it is better
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by estebarb 2y ago
I think we would have preferred continuing with .NET, as no one is Rust expert on the team. But binary size and lack of some SIMD instructions moved the balance to Rust. And then, the PoC had big memory usage improvements, so...
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by estebarb 2y ago
Sadly yes, we have data. We are migrating our C# SDK to Rust in part because customers want a much smaller dependency. And the AoT compiler didn't trimmed as much as we wanted.
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by estebarb 2y ago
I have no idea about EBM, but I have researched a bit on the language modelling side. And let's be honest, GPT is not the best learner we can create right now (ourselves). GPT needs far more data and energy than a human, so clearly the
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by estebarb 2y ago
The problem is exactly that: the probability distribution. The network has no way to say: 0% everyone, this is non sense, backtrack everything. Other architectures, like energy based models or bayesian ones can assess uncertainty. Transfor
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by estebarb 2y ago
C# AOT filesizes are huge compared to Go.
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by estebarb 2y ago
I believe that it is related with important conferences opening papers reception soon. Some disallow publishing in preprint for some weeks before the paper reception, so people may have been rushing uploading stuff.
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by estebarb 2y ago
I'm not sure about it makes sense to apply Gödel's theorem to AI. Personally, I prefer to think about it in terms of basic computability theory: We think, that is a fact. Therefore, there is a function capable of transforming info
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by estebarb 2y ago
Actually, "hiper-something" trend started with Hipermas, created by a bigger local supermarket chain (Corporación Supermercados Unidos, which owned others like: Más x Menos [More for less] and Pali). They were bought by and rename
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by estebarb 2y ago
So, we will see "America Mexicana" in Google Maps?
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by estebarb 2y ago
There are tricks: if you need to find uniformly distributed data it is unbeatable: guaranteed to work in 5 hops or less. After 5 hops, is better to use binary search. If data is not uniformly distributed one trick is to sort by hash of the
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by estebarb 2y ago
Sure, but those developers will create functionality that will require advanced GPUs and people will want that functionality. Eventually OS will expect it and it will became default everywhere. So, it is an important step that will push nvi
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by estebarb 2y ago
Recently I tried to optimize a set implementation and found that interpolation search works quite well, being competitive with HashSet in C# (both single digit ns for my use case), with zero memory overhead. Unfortunately, it only works wel
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by estebarb 2y ago
Clearly it is Big Compiler propaganda! </bazinga>
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by estebarb 2y ago
The problem is private insurance companies + private hospitals. They shouldn't exist. Healthcare is an inelastic service: people will pay everything to get it. So private hospitals in a free market are pushed to bill their services as
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by estebarb 2y ago
At the university squirrels regularly stole our pizzas ( see https://imgur.com/gallery/HBLFoNA ). At my house, they also took avocados.
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by estebarb 2y ago
Yes, exactly. So, this is a huge security gap. As an attacker, instead of DDoSing a service we could just upload a bunch of NSFW text so Google kills their infra for us. Other providers, like OpenAI, at least provide a free moderation API.
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by estebarb 2y ago
I asked Gemini about banning risks, and it answered: Gemini: Yes, there is a potential risk of your Google account being suspended if your SaaS is used to process inappropriate content, even if you use Gemini to reject the request. While Ge
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by estebarb 2y ago
For me that is a reason for not touching anything from Google for building stuff. I can afford lossing my Amazon account, but Google's one would be too much. At least they should be clear in their terms that getting banned at cloud doe
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by estebarb 2y ago
Kids born in "native english" change the language too. For example, treat irregular verbs like regular ones. Languages evolve with time, regardless of non-native speakers using it.
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by estebarb 2y ago
For those scenarios would be helpful a draft generation mode: 16 colors, 320x200...
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by estebarb 2y ago
Except that it is not. If you want to use this for tasks like navigation then it is useless. Practically, it is the same as using chatgpt to generate a realistic scenery based on a text description.

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