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by jeroenvlek 3y ago
Had a similar experience. Asked Bard to generate a Firefox plugin and it responded that it was a text-based assistant and couldn't comply [1] whereas ChatGPT just did it. It didn't work, but it still generated it. [1] https:&#x2F
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by jeroenvlek 3y ago
I knew this was Sabine Hossenfelder before clicking the link and not having seen the video before (I like her, fwiw)
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Agent GPT Beta Assemble, Configure, and Deploy Autonomous AI Agents(agentgpt.reworkd.ai)
3 points by jeroenvlek 4y ago|0 comments
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by jeroenvlek 4y ago
Not just the solar system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
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A Guide to Listing Files and Directories with Spark, or How to Summon the Beast(perceptivebits.com)
1 points by jeroenvlek 4y ago|0 comments
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by jeroenvlek 4y ago
Huggingface is a lot more than just a tokenizer.
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by jeroenvlek 4y ago
Please don't call Orphx EDM. They make techno and ambient. Slightly related: Saw them at Labyrinth 2015 in Japan. Amazing performance.
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by jeroenvlek 4y ago
Can confirm that ravers have known this for decades :)
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Kanye “Ye” West Buys Parler(bbc.com)
30 points by jeroenvlek 4y ago|31 comments
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by jeroenvlek 4y ago
No, this was at a less famous institute in Leiden, The Netherlands
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by jeroenvlek 4y ago
My mom used to work at an institute for Vitality and Aging and the leading professor there liked to say that "the first person that will reach a 1000 years of age has already been born"
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by jeroenvlek 4y ago
Wow, that Bird of Prey plane is gorgeous.
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by jeroenvlek 4y ago
I listen to DJ sets on Soundcloud, then I'll try to Shazam any tracks I like (50% chance in my type of music, underground electronic) or ask in the comments for "ID Please?". Then I usually add it to my YouTube playlist [0] (
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by jeroenvlek 4y ago
Everything in software (and life) is a trade-off and should be balanced and rebalanced. Something we just continuously fail to absorb in our true/false programmer brains, since everyone is always looking for those golden laws that alwa
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by jeroenvlek 4y ago
Living in The Hague, The Netherlands, my wife and I decided to indefinitely postpone owning a car for our two young kids (4 and 2) and buy a Gazelle Makki [0] and I must say I absolutely love it so far. My oldest can already ride her bike,
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by jeroenvlek 4y ago
But even if this is true (and I definitely believe there is merit to f2f interactions), it will come down to the labor market in every respective sector. Software engineers, for example, are in short demand, so if they prefer WFH, they will
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by jeroenvlek 4y ago
Agreed, although that is actually my own phrasing, so I'm probably to blame here :)
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by jeroenvlek 4y ago
Interestingly I see some startup founders (e.g. Delian from Varda Space) and some SF VC types on Twitter lobbying against WFH, so I wonder how long startups will be different from BigCo's. At the mean time my current client (a large Du
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by jeroenvlek 4y ago
So we're on the road to creating "droplets"? (Dark Forest reference) Offtopic: Can we please bury the phrase "only time will tell" already?
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by jeroenvlek 4y ago
Ahhh, my first lines of code were BASIC <3 Btw, slightly related, if you want to do some BASIC from a Scala context, check this out: https://github.com/tpolecat/basic-dsl
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by jeroenvlek 4y ago
RIP Martin Kersten. I took his undergraduate course at the University of Amsterdam. MonetDB was his professional baby. Nice guy.
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by jeroenvlek 4y ago
You are unemployed, so I cannot judge your financial means, but I keep seeing this pop up in my feeds and it might be cool for you and your daughter to build together: https://www.kiwico.com/
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by jeroenvlek 5y ago
Yes! Also a legend. Saw him live and it was, of course, amazing
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by jeroenvlek 5y ago
I've loved Legowelt since Discoroute. As other people pointed out he's very prolific. His dj sets are a treat too. Check out his SoundCloud!
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by jeroenvlek 5y ago
As an electronic music fan I never thought I'd discover a new artist on HN. Those first two tracks are massive. Thanks for sharing.
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by jeroenvlek 5y ago
Interesting, I thought some of his articles were well put together. Do you have a source for that gossip? Would love get both sides of the story.
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by jeroenvlek 5y ago
This article details some solutions to programming interrupts in Rust on the Arduino Un
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Arduino Uno Interrupts with Rust(perceptivebits.com)
2 points by jeroenvlek 5y ago|1 comments
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by jeroenvlek 5y ago
You filled in a lot of gaps in my GIL knowledge. Today I learned something new. Thank you for writing it!
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by jeroenvlek 5y ago
That sounds a lot like Rubber Duck Debugging [0]. I do it all the time and in my first full-time job, my colleagues gave me an actual rubber duck. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

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