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by nologic01 3y ago
I love this friendly two-way race between beeware and kivy for a new cross-platform python GUI framework. If they ever manage to break the android stranglehold and become first-class citizens on mobile this could be huge. For a wide range o
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by nologic01 3y ago
This looks like its has been made with mathematica? Would be cool to have 1) a javascript differential geometry vizualization lib that would allow interactive learning in the browser and 2) a python / notebook version that would allow
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by nologic01 3y ago
Somehow the "AI defense" (namely that it is not possible to "prove" anything was used illegally) will open Pandora's box in terms of providing viable channels for whitewashing explicit theft activity. Steal anything
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by nologic01 3y ago
Is there a truly open source effort in the LLM space? Like a collaborative, crowd-sourced effort (possibly with academic institutions playing a major role) that relies on creative commons licensed or otherwise open data and produces a publi
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by nologic01 3y ago
I don't see this working in the long-term. It assumes that one can win "once-and-for-all", whereas the splintering in competing factions and the pursuit of group objectives with violent means seems a recurrent pattern. Histor
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by nologic01 3y ago
I agree its not a sharp example, there are lots of interacting effects and factors. But to me at least the statistics seem rather overwhelming. Social structure and rules and enforcement seem more tailored to mop up aberrations rather than
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by nologic01 3y ago
There is something mysterious about homo sapiens' organized violence behavior: How much of it is genetically driven (nature) versus culturally determined (nurture)? Random individual violence does not seem to be innate except as an a
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by nologic01 3y ago
The idea is that shipping is a proxy for the "real economy" but given how much cyclical speculation these actors undertake with the ordering and scrapping of ships and the associated "costs" of personnel, I wonder to wha
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by nologic01 3y ago
Could this become an alternative way to publish webview type apps?
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by nologic01 3y ago
I think the answer depends what kind of site you are targeting. For a clean and simple text blog it may actually be optimal to build something from scratch using building blocks you know well. But for a larger site that might evolve and get
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by nologic01 3y ago
Hey techcrunch, its not "consumers", its people . Lets stop this ugly, supposedly business savvy but just lazy and wrong, consumerization of humanity. On the main point, the fediverse is the future irrespective what Mozilla does
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by nologic01 3y ago
An important factor seems to be whether the underlying good or service is of the satiating variety [1] and how quickly does such satiation kick-in. E.g. producing cheap and plentiful food will increase demand up to a point, but once everybo
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by nologic01 3y ago
I don't know why you are being downvoted. Its a reasonable view. A hybrid approach is not the simplest (one must develop and support two infrastructures and that adds overhead at all levels). But if we take a step back and ask what is
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by nologic01 3y ago
I am not intimate with the engineering tradeoffs involved but for a long time I have thought that some sort of hybrid car transition period (a couple of decades or so) would be a less bumpy ride. It feels that aiming for an all or nothing 0
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by nologic01 3y ago
This attitude of the commenter is very common on HN. "Humans are just algorithms, prove me wrong". But on the main topic, its quite ironic that in order to fact-check AI hullicinations 1) you likely need to spend serious human tim
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by nologic01 3y ago
If you manage to normalize the unencumbered profiling of people's online behavior (which increasingly spans like 100% of what people do) you wield enormous power which can be monetized in countless ways. So its not just about the type
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by nologic01 3y ago
you are confusing contextual advertising with behavioral, profile based advertising contextual advertising is placing ads in locations, pages, screens etc where people are likely already in a certain mindset (and potentially more likely to
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by nologic01 3y ago
Gimme a break. For starters the EU is not a "government". Digital state surveillance can only be practiced as a "national competency". More importantly though, the real underlying enemy here has always been citizen apath
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by nologic01 3y ago
Blackrock already "owns" society. People get fixated on mindless algorithms when the real deal is always between humans. Software algorithms, no matter how sophisticated, are just another pawn in the human chess. In some very remo
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by nologic01 3y ago
It points out to the continuing digital illiteracy of large parts of society and, unfortunately, decision making centers. Breaking down any complex knowledge domain so that people can make informed decisions is not easy. There is also an en
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by nologic01 3y ago
Its a delightful turn of events. LeCun still works for Meta so his public stance is pressumably sanctioned as congruent with corporate objectives. The precise internal calculus does not immediately matter [1], the outcome is having a moneye
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by nologic01 3y ago
> The remuneration will always go to who owns the means of production. Repeating slogans one does not understand is something to be left to "AI", not functional humans. The means of production in the creative process is the bra
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by nologic01 3y ago
commercial real estate has currently excess vacancies from the shrinking needs of classic corporates so it might be a good time for such member-ownership schemes to develop
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by nologic01 3y ago
Large corporate conglomerates are essentially how power is shared and delegated in any modern oligarchic society with large economic footprint. Details around public sector role vs market structure and function vary, but overall its the sam
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by nologic01 3y ago
"You promised me Moonbases, and instead, I got Facebook" Now fading in the misty passages of the brain, but I think this show was maybe the first scifi saga that had a distinct feel of being real . Loved the Eagles in particular,
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by nologic01 3y ago
These giant facilities are in a sense humanity's artificial "exo-sensors", an augmentation of our ability to perceive and understand the Universe. They are costly in comparison to resources accessible to an indvidual but stil
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by nologic01 3y ago
We probably owe the roots of all science (and thus technology) to the clear dark sky observations of ancient ancestors. Astronomical observatories were common in all early civilizations and it there where some of the roots of mathematical t
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by nologic01 3y ago
> but automation replaced humans in all those industries. So? To the extend that people are still involved, they are typically paid - unless it is slave labor, that is. This is not an automation vs manual labor debate. Creators will use
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by nologic01 3y ago
> is just the real world as it is What? Have you ever paid for a book? a subscription to a publishing medium of any sort, a movie or a piece of music? Have you noticed a copyright sign somewhere? Is that arrangement of recognizing and re
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by nologic01 3y ago
An added bonus of a dark sky is that with a good pair of eyes (and more democratically, with a set of binoculars) you can see all sort of clusters, nebulae, Jupiter's moons and e.g., Andromeda. While not as breathtaking as the panorami

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