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> Talk to a computer scientist, and they might tell you that a tensor is an array of numbers that stores important data The conflicting definitions of tensors have precedent in lower dimensions: vectors were already being used in compu
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Indeed, discovering all the goodness people have built on top of OSM is not particularly easy, especially for non-technical users. A long list of OSM based services is available in the OSM wiki [0]. A useful collection of links for non-tech
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I think it was Gauss who proved that any convex cow would work equally well. But we need to assume an infinitesimally thin and infinitely long tail as boundary condition.
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Self-Organizing Systems: What, How, and Why?(preprints.org)
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> Customer concentration Interesting that oligopsony beats oligopoly :-)
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The more important modern question: was it designed to survive a software update?
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Management consultants are the main group profiting from AI(ft.com)
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What would be cool++ (and potentially very impactful) is if somebody builds a python/htmx native "wordpress" on top of this. The Python ecosystem offers django/wagtail and some other CMS like options but imho they have n
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by openrisk 2y ago
> You are raising the alarm like the changes are going to happen over night when the models forecast the changes to be gradual over the next 100 years You are Exhibit 1 of what our collective sustainability problem is about: setting too
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What is remarkable is the near-complete lack of fear as to what we might be "engineering" with our ever expanding environmental footprint. On the one hand there is a systemic underappreciation of the impact we have, a behavioral r
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You are assuming a causal relation direct link between underlying factors and outcomes. It may well be that if Gottingen didn't exist some other place would have been the epicenter of a scientific revolution that was ripe to happen. On
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Alas, you didn't need a global incident of this scope to draw those (perfectly valid) conclusions. The hallmark of intelligence is to observe a situation and the structure of a system, reason about it, draw analogies with past experien
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Ownership is such an empowering concept it is a bit of puzzle why there aren't larger numbers of employeed-owned companies. There is definitely a historical / cultural aspect to this: Exhibit 1: In agricultural societies land owne
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Open source "AI" is a proxy for democratising and making (much) more widely useful the goodies of high performance computing (HPC). The HPC domain (data and compute intensive applications that typically need vector, parallel or ot
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TeX/LaTex have a bit of a C/C++ relation. Instead of replacing TeX one could imagine an alternative higher level abstraction.
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It is deeply ironic that the modern technological era provided both the means for destroying the planet and monitoring that destruction to minute detail.
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> So I am not convinced that there need to be "at least ten alternatives" to be fail safe as society. The required number "N for safety" is a good discussion to have. Risk-Return, Cost-Benefit etc are essential consid
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The details (the particular companies / systems etc) of this global incident don't really matter. When the entire society and economy are being digitized AND that digitisation is controlled and passes through a handful of choke po
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FOSS funding vanishes from EU's 2025 Horizon program plans(theregister.com)
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Its a most remarkable story but how would one "scale" this type of behavior to make a difference? If you zero-in on his state of mind during the incident: > the influences on his decision included that he had been told a U.S. s
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While interesting (and a somewhat expected trend), what would be more helpful is the dual analysis and factcheck of "Who Saved the World". I.e., if the world avoided the worst, how did it happen? Was it magical thinking or somethi
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For me LLM's are on a different page of the tech book (the models/algorithms side). The Web as such being literally about computer networks, interconnectedness of people and machines and sharing information [1]. It is possible tho
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The web needs a genuine "Web 3", a new era of decentralized creativity that will be brimming with possibility and attracting developers passion as it did in the past. It does not look like such a rejuvenating phase is coming anyti
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> there’s this new class of people who don’t grow the food and just take stuff Pretty good summary of the latest "tech" business models as well :-) The question is: why does this happen? Why do the many typically fail to limit
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Scratch seems to be reasonably successful in teaching kids to code [1]. But a large visual blocks program is as incomprehensible, if not more, than a pure textual representation. Whether text or visual, the challenge for IDE's is the a
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I'd hazard a guess that one key reason PWA apps are not more popular is the lack of an app develepment framework that would enable more sophisticated offline behavior.
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pytorch is still rather narrow in the range of applications / tasks it supports (deep learning algorithms and the related workflows). It does illustrate what it takes to address a subdomain comprehensively (supporting different hardwar
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Python and HPC is something receiving quite some attention. The reasoning is that the combination can unlock user productivity,the way it did for data science / machine learning with the use of standardized and (relatively) user-friend
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> I think the problem is more that the trend over the last 5-7 decades has been to privatise things. The private/public border is volatile and heavily contested and by all accounts will forever be a topic of political debate. But no
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Q: How many people are using a web browser on a daily basis worldwide as their main window to the collective infosphere? A: Billions. Q: What fraction of the corresponding GDP would it take to fund a serious browser-as-public-good initiativ

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