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by lccerina 8mo ago
not OP, but sometimes I add the ebook version to my library even if I never use them. To find it again and fix it, sometimes I need to scroll through the years of read books to spot the tiny icon that distinguishes the version of the book.
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by lccerina 8mo ago
Before everyone jumps on CodeBerg, please remember it runs on donations! It doesn't have Micro$lop money behind. Please donate to projects like this :)
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by lccerina 8mo ago
Everyone: things suck, better move my stuff on a small home server. The hyper-scaler mafia: NOT ON MY WATCH! The only silver lining is that newer devices will have to scale down memory, so developers will have to ditch memory-sucking framew
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by lccerina 8mo ago
"Oh no, I am using a thing that no one is forcing me to use, and now I am sad". Just don't use AI. The idea that you have ship ship ship 10X ship is an illusion and a fraud. We don't really need more software
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by lccerina 9mo ago
Not like having a portable number, but I was able to do it kinda okay with DuckDuckGo @duck mail forwarding, at least for newsletters and other semi-spammy emails. It is used to remove trackers from emails, but then I was able to just chang
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by lccerina 10mo ago
An interesting perspective on this is why Facebook kept the Sun's microsystems sign in their Palo Alto HQ. Nothing in tech is inevitable, nothing in tech is irreplaceable, nothing in tech is permanent. Shout out to the Juicero example,
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by lccerina 10mo ago
Most likely, and probably inferring the structure on texts with "similar" writing forms. Tried with my handwriting (in italian) and the performance wasn't that stellar. More annoyingly, it is still a LLM and not a "pure&
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by lccerina 10mo ago
I call out the Lindy effect. Handwriting survived printed characters, typewriters, and the last 50-70 years of computers and keyboards, it will survive this too.
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by lccerina 11mo ago
And who designed backpropagation? It is not a magical property of artificial neurons or some law of nature or god's miracle. A bunch of mathematicians banged their head on the problem of backpropagation, tossed it to a computer, and vo
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by lccerina 11mo ago
Still designed by humans. The loss function, backpropagation and all other mechanisms didn't just appear magically in the neural network. Someone decided which loss function to use, which architecture or which optimization techniques.
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by lccerina 11mo ago
"not designed by humans"? Since when? Unless you count cortical organoids /wetware (grown in some instrumented petri dish) every artificial neural network, doesn't matter how complicated, it is designed by humans. With e
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by lccerina 11mo ago
Utter disrespect for using the term "biology" relating to LLM. No one would call the analysis of a mechanical engine "car biology". It's an artificial system, call it system analysis.
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by lccerina 1y ago
I have a framework: don't use it, if you never used it don't start using it, public shame people, stop talking about it. Slow down. Think long and deep about your problems. Write less code. There is NOTHING inevitable about this s
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by lccerina 1y ago
"This will be a big business" No. It shouldn't be a "business", it should be laws that are enforced fast, education, public shaming of companies putting poison in their products. Volatile Organic compounds in paint
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by lccerina 1y ago
Damage from lead. The 'obsession' here is that the right level of lead in any product should be ZERO. There should be international pacts, like what was done for gases destroying the ozone layer, to remove lead entirely from produ
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by lccerina 1y ago
The growing product is something that bolts in the worst of current internet (affiliation links). Hopefully it will fail too
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by lccerina 2y ago
The error was to buy a second one after "the first one was just poor manufacturing". I never saw manufacturing quality improve over time from car companies.
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by lccerina 2y ago
Sumatra has also a portable version. Doesn't that work for you?
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by lccerina 2y ago
There are distros slightly optimized for games (e.g. Garuda is based on Arch) and the support from Valve and Proton is quite good at the moment. Problems appear only for games launcher that insist on being Windows-only (anything from EA and
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by lccerina 2y ago
Not a single woman? No Barbara Liskov - Programming with abstract data types? No Grace Hopper - The education of a computer? No Frances Allen - Program optimization?
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by lccerina 2y ago
The problem is that the PR machine of caltech then spits out articles like https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-12-brain-paradox-quantif... or https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/the-information-e
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by lccerina 2y ago
Thank you for explaining what an abstract is... The fact that those number come from a citation doesn't make them true. This is a badly written paper that a decent researcher wouldn't have written (and I know that the author has
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by lccerina 2y ago
This is such a bad paper. Almost all calculations and equations look like some back of envelope calculation. A decent researcher would have provided some tests to their hypotheses.
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by lccerina 2y ago
It bums so much that the "solution" to people suffering sleep deprivation is always trying to find something to sell them and not remove the causal problems: noise and light pollution, limited opportunities for proper nutrition an
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by lccerina 2y ago
This! Other comments imply some kind of strategy from YC, but it's likely a VC bias and/or a lack of communication inside YC.
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by lccerina 2y ago
Flying taxis are a solution to a problem that no one has. It's ridiculous anyone is financing this stuff.
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by lccerina 2y ago
"Open source will finally die" said on a website likely running on some linux-based server, with some JS frontend, some open source/commercially licensed DB, and communicating with protocols regulated by a non-profit organiza
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by lccerina 2y ago
They are "difficult/thorny" questions only if you want them to be like that. "Health insurance companies make difficult decisions all the time" a.k.a. do we screw up our clients manually or through AI?
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by lccerina 2y ago
"Very intense people" -> Borderline evil sociopaths. "Things in category 3 needs to exist" mmmmh no, and reading from a "philosophy grad, rationalist heavy" that those are "morally thorny" question
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by lccerina 2y ago
"MNC don't force you to pay taxes", well 30% fee on products bought, sorry "licensed", on their app stores seem like a tax to me

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