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by openrisk 2y ago
For some purposes a decentrally trained, open source LLM could be just fine? E.g. you want a stochastic parrot that is trained on a large, general purpose corpus of genuine public domain / creative commons content. Having such a tool w
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> the restricted nature of the small screen Android is not restricted to small screens. With modern responsive UI designs one can address any screen size with a little extra effort. Ofcourse current Android apps are typically designed
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by openrisk 2y ago
Obligatory joke that the year of the linux desktop may finally come as the android desktop. I wonder how usable/peformant such as setup would be. But conceivably it could incentivise more native linux app development along the lines of
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by openrisk 2y ago
I tried to like wagtail the way I love django but the chemistry didn't work out :-). Indeed I think its more suited for serious publishers that can dedicate the resource to build something major.
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"used in production" is not the same as being a serious wordpress alternative. Would bet that none of those production deployments are without some non-negligible developer time investment. On top of that (assuming that extra inve
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by openrisk 2y ago
Yes, I agree there is the popularity / network effects barrier. But when the advantage offered by technology is irresistible these barriers can be overcome. Tiktok is case in point and arguably it has become a pretty serious youtube co
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by openrisk 2y ago
what the world really needs is a robobicycle and according to this video we are nearly there :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F1H1V5MxtY
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by openrisk 2y ago
wagtail is really not ready for prime time, maybe by design. in some respects its easier to use the django admin...
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by openrisk 2y ago
Its telling about the stagnation of Web technology that there isnt a real Wordpress alternative. You'd think that after all those decades there would be a modern, open source solution that offers the same and more functionality (not...
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The difference is that we are not talking about advertising as a sandboxed economic activity, but digital advertising on a common internet platform that is evolving into the only platform for practically everything that happens. Old style
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by openrisk 2y ago
It is challenging to forecast how client-server architectures would evolve on the basis of technical merit, even if we restrict to "web architectures" (this itself being a bundle of multiple options). Massive scaling with minimal
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> but you haven't actually named an alternate economic model they should invest in It is their job to find alternate models, their glory and ongoing relevance if they do. Otherwise somebody else will do it sooner or later (the statu
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> "stuff you get without money changing hands". That is an extremely powerful energy source Indeed, and this is something we didn't know before the "move fast and break things" phase but now we do, also the side-
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> We can’t just ignore online advertising - it’s a major driver of how the internet works and is funded Sorry no, that thinking is patently false right there. So everything that follows is compromised. Advertising has been made a major
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Hilariously confused. Tech is different from Big Tech, which is yet further different from Big Ad Tech. For the avoidance of doubt, Wintel was Big Tech. The status quo now is Big Ad Tech. The main economically positive thing for the US (and
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It might be useful and fun to setup an open and ongoing competition for the meanest and leanest way of doing web publishing. Its not trivial to set up because the list of desired features must be agreed and there are legitimate variations p
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by openrisk 2y ago
The gatekeeping and manipulation going on in formal scientific publishing is notorious, but that is not the issue here. The fundamental algorithm of advancing physical science has always been: a set of "principles" or proto-concep
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Seems like an appropriate post on a day when the Nobel of Physics was awarded not for Physics discoveries but for computer science... But from Wheeler's "it from bit" to Wolfram's computational universes, the question is
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The pernicious argument of adtech shills has been (for long time) that the pilfering of personal user data is the only way to support the web, news, social media etc. because... people will simply not pay for these services - hence they opt
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> it’s hard to do experiments at the boundaries of what we know this applies primarily to fundamental physics. There are many areas of applied physics (materials, fusion, biophysics, atmospheric physics, etc. etc.) where the main constra
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This does indeed smell of desperation. Which is really, really sad. Advances in _real_ physics are central to the absolutely needed sustainability transition. In a sane society that values its self-preservation you would not need to grasp a
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The digital economy is supposed to benefit from the "long tail" effect, where countless niche operators provide all sorts of diverse products that serve potentially only very small audiences. The long tail concept was conceived be
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The really tough problems require minds that are wired differently and John Wheeler's mind was definitely a thing apart. Its the sort of unique mental fingerprint or aesthetic that characterizes great talents in this space (Feynman and
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Conceptually the fediverse points towards the "right" direction, but imho it still falls way short from being a fully developed and sustainable new proposal. Both on the technical side and (maybe more importantly) on the economic
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Absolutely. But it is disconcerting to realize the inertia of current collective intelligence even when what is at stake is great gains in productivity and welfare and even when formally we "celebrate" the benefits of well governe
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The elephant in the room is the size distribution of "other people's kingdoms". Having oversized kingdoms and overbearing kings is not a god-given parameter, its down to regulation, political and economic choices. Its not for
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There are probably many reasons. The history of technology development teaches us there are a lot of non-core factors that affect the adoption of alternative designs (influential entities and agendas, network effects, business models of tho
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There seems no mention of what they plan to do with the "credit" part of a credit card?
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There was LAMP and then MERN and MEAN etc. and then there was Postgres. Its not quite visible yet, but all this progres by postgres (excuse the pun) on making JSON more deeply integrated with relational principles will surely at some point
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The department store embodies middle-class consumerism of the 20th century. While consumerism is going stronger than ever, the same cannot be said about the middle class. The shopping experience of the department store (pleasant environment

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