kaon_2

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by kaon_2 11d ago
Sad to see so many people here in the comments jump the gun and think of Russia. Some local context: Today is "prinsjesdag" when the budget is announced. Protests are common, particularly when sensitive decisions are made. There a
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by kaon_2 11d ago
Ockham's razor may be? Big protests are common on Prinsjesdag, particularly when sensitive decisions or policies are made. A local protest organisation is therefore significantly more likely than an organized foreign sabotage. If I wer
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by kaon_2 23d ago
Yeah it was more as a figure of speech. I actually wanted to say even Hitler didn't steal gold medals during the olympics, but I felt that only weakened my point.
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by kaon_2 24d ago
It may be quirky for Americans to hear this, but one pivotal moment when it truly dawned on the average european citizen how corrupt the US has become, was when Trump phoned Infantino to drop a red card during the world cup. Blatant corrupt
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by kaon_2 26d ago
Indeed go ask anybody in China, India, North-Africa, or Eastern Europe. I am sure they will tell you things were better back then. Oh wait. Seems like the author never read Hans Rosling's Factfulness. Big recommendation for anyone out
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by kaon_2 29d ago
You are right and yet I continue to be impressed by a court system that can deliver judgment in 3 months whereas in the Netherlands nothing happens in under a year and complex cases always last more than five.
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by kaon_2 1mo ago
Yes we've tried. It works. But jargon is hard. RAG with embeddings works all the same. The LLM doesn't mind receiving sources in Italian, french and German, and then outputting the answer in Japanese while providing the verbatim G
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by kaon_2 1mo ago
Can you elaborate? We have technicians searching in different languages. Also our knowledge base is often in different languages. I just don't see how full text search can work? Maybe in a problem space like a wiki where people always
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by kaon_2 1mo ago
And yet present day hunter gatherer societies tend to have extremely strict gender roles. For example the idea of a woman going on a hunt is not taboo, but simply unthinkable, maybe similar to what we would think about a man taking lactose
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by kaon_2 1mo ago
Yes. Had one kid mid thirties. And now I realize I want nine of them too. Or four maybe. We started too late and I doubt we will make it. Biggest mistake of my life. In my environment I see people delaying kids because they think 33, 34 is
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by kaon_2 1mo ago
Yes. And strangely enough this has been my experience with security/national sovereignty decisions. Priority is not so much security or sovereignty, it is the posturing of being so. Ergo, saying "everything is hosted in Germany an
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by kaon_2 2mo ago
I am not sure in what neighbourhood you live, but in my village there are hundreds of businesses with strong morals. From the local baker, to the electrician and the construction company. Many keep employees past their prime, they all inves
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by kaon_2 2mo ago
I giggled when reading "Educating the mind without the heart is no education at all". Hehe that must have failed when he taught Alexander the "Great" who would start wars, raze cities and murder whole populations. Or may
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by kaon_2 2mo ago
Yes for sure! But we joined when all architecture was already finished, which was many years ago. With a future-neighbour we are looking into porting it all into unreal. Maybe that is just a prompt away but i don't have the time. Thoug
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by kaon_2 2mo ago
We're building a small village of 23 households. During Easter I gave the plan to Opus and asked it to make a threejs rendition. After five or six prompts he really had it down. Then I asked him to add an Easter egg hunting game. Every
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by kaon_2 2mo ago
Yes of course but the Nvidia CEO is hardly an unbiased observer. He wants to sell to China and is looking for arguments to build his case. Similarly to how Dario isn't an unbiased observer either. So who is? And who has the knowledge t
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by kaon_2 3mo ago
As much as I sympathize with the message I don't like the way it was brought. I cannot help but feel that this "indignation journalism" hurts more than does good. Everybody knows the UN is imperfect, and yet the people that w
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by kaon_2 4mo ago
I don't want to come across as the China pisser because most big countries do scumbag things of have done them ( cough colonialism). But some more of China's vices that are out of sight: - Keep the war going in Myanmar with terri
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by kaon_2 4mo ago
Poland is doing fine. Southern Europe is doing very well. Greece is growing superfast. Switzerland is still one the richest and successful countries in the world. Denmark is amazing. Germany and the UK are the sick men of Europe. France is
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by kaon_2 4mo ago
Why would Anthropic margin's be negative? Inference is practically free for them, so what costs do they have for an additional subscription?
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by kaon_2 4mo ago
Does it make sense to talk about "the government" in this age? It probably misguides us more than informs us. I've always felt the perception of government at the time is closer to our perception of the captain of the local f
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by kaon_2 4mo ago
"Distinguishing hype from reality is not easy. But recent developments mean that ambitious promises could be fulfilled. " Just like AI is changing the world before our eyes, this may be just such a technology. Maybe I will come to
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by kaon_2 5mo ago
Yes. It is both a little funny, and true. Often departments don't even want to start a software project if it is being perceived as "legal and IT are going to have all kinds of opinions on this". When we say everything runs i
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by kaon_2 5mo ago
Matt Lakeman writes in one of his blogs that wherever he goes, people tend to love the USA. Except in Europe where he faces a constant storm of criticism. And that was before February. Just like you cannot explain the taste of chocolate to
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by kaon_2 5mo ago
Of course. But then again, it was the US that threatened the EU with military invasion, so if you want your service to continue uninterrupted, it helps being prepared.
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by kaon_2 5mo ago
Amazing to read through the list. I had no idea about Orkut. To kill an application with 300m users seems insane. Anyone here knows why MSN was ever killed? The brand was so strong. I am sure usage was still there. You'd think Microsof
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by kaon_2 6mo ago
True. And yet, as an organization when you buy OP's training, you don't buy the material. You buy the feeling that you make your organization becomes more productive. You buy the signal to your boss that you are innovative and wor
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by kaon_2 7mo ago
Agreed. Actually - maybe no? Maybe the hourly wage is the problem. It's been too low for too long so there was no pressure to innovate. Denmark and Switzerland are big manufacturers with high wages that are continuously innovating. May
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by kaon_2 7mo ago
I am hearing rumors that B2B sales is rebounding back to more in-person meetings. Cold emails don't work anymore. I've heard similar tales of current teens early-twenties that there is a trend of doing things in real life again. B
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by kaon_2 7mo ago
Sure those are impressive. But they weren't sudden. It was already there before I was born and slowly evolved. If I look at the most useful technologies around me, then Google Maps ranks high. But it wasn't sudden. It was on the d

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