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by openrisk 2y ago
People obviously "care", as in: we are social animals. We survived and thrived through coexistence and caring. But how do you scale "caring" to huge and complex societies where vast numbers of individuals pursue a vast n
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The universe does not owe us explainability in terms of everyday intuition. You don't just "find some math that fits the data" the way you would mechanically tune the parameters of a given mathematical model to fit empirica
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With bluesky bursting on the open source (and not yet enshittified) microblogging scene, mastodon needed to regroup and reposition. This organizational change seems aligned and is a good sign that there is ambition and appetite to build fur
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Curious if this overlaps at all with the use cases of the spritely project [1]. Another question is whether esoteric languages are strictly needed for these architectures or simply more convenient. [1] https://spritely.institute&
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Open source public models trained on kosher data are substantially derisking the AI hype. It makes a lot of sense to push this approach as far as it can get. Its similar to SETI at home etc. but potentially with far more impact.
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by openrisk 2y ago
> Supports C, C++, C#, Fortran, Java, (Corba and Microsoft) IDL, Objective-C, Python, PHP, TCL Wondering how Python support stacks up against Sphinx. Would be nice to have a single unified tool.
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When something is used by billions of people its kinda futile to argue about its utility. But then billions are addicted to tobacco, alcohol, drugs, gambling etc. and those benefiting from providing these "services" will do everyt
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by openrisk 2y ago
Are spammers and scammers "communicators"? How about organized misinformation campaigns? In what kind of deeply sick ideological la-la-land is any kind of control of information flow "censorship".
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> the data wasn’t accurate enough to identify what a supplier was actually manufacturing how did the LLM help with that challenge?
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Mastodon and Bluesky and various Discourse forums. Reluctantly on Reddit as the current activitypub alternatives don't feel quite right (emulating the chaos of Reddit). Even more reluctantly on Linkedin, given that there is no real alt
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Interesting and refreshing choice to stick to a pure textual description without the usual torrent of photos. Needs frequent looking up of terms though :-) As for the river walk itself, living in Amsterdam predisposes you to treat the bone-
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Its not obvious to me that what is missing here is another technical protocol rather than more effective 'social protocols'. If you havent noticed, the major issues of today is not the scaling of message passing per-se but the mod
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Which is also the root of the word 'government', so a government agent is doubly cybernetic in a sense
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But will it also compile when printed out on paper?
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To the degree the phrase "a supercomputer in your pocket" stops being an empty marketing term and reflects real empowerment of users I would expect Linux to get ever more exposed to mass markets. But this development is predicated
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Just yesterday the news was Nvidia's personal AI supercomputer (on Linux). Today the news is about gaming and SteamOS. The "cloud" is already for decades overwhelmingly Linux. There are remarkable devices (pun) [1] based on L
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It sort of proves the point that certain technology choices are not the result of some monotonic "progress" towards a theoretical optimal but rather a random walk under stochastic influences in what we might call "conventions
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You'd have to run a server in the background which complicates things but otherwise it would seem to be feasible.
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I enjoyed the film without knowing much about it and then my jaw dropped when I saw Blender in the credits.
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Will there be a healthy "personal AI supercomputer" economy to generate demand for this? (NB: spam generators are only a parasite on any digital economy, viable to the extend they don't kill the host). One can only wish for t
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LA tech entrepreneur nearly misses flight after getting trapped in robotaxi(theguardian.com)
5 points by openrisk 2y ago|4 comments
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Its always an interesting dynamic: assuming a high trust society pays dividends - Python would be nowhere close the success it has been without PyPI. But then success attracts trust abusers and forces raising the fences (which comes with hi
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> Those colleges and universities that figure out how to organize research and teach new foundations and polymathy and prepare their students to understand a world in which every system, at every scale, acts causally on others, will see
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There is a fundamental fallacy here: equating mildly complex algorithms the fundamental workings of which are actually designed and well understood - even if not trivially explainable, to very complex biological and brain processes that are
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Can France become a global AI powerhouse?(ft.com)
4 points by openrisk 2y ago|1 comments
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Cool but this will grow unworkable as the number of entries increases and will require some sort of filtering / searching. Even pure signal can be overwhelming these days when so much good stuff exists. Which brings us to the (as far a
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If you were wondering about fake forks, spoiler alert > counts in Cluster 1 come from merchants that only sell stars, while accounts in Cluster 2 come from merchants selling stars and forks simultaneously
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Brief background: the Net-Zero Banking Alliance launched in 2021 and by now it includes the majority of large European banks [1]. The departure of Morgan Stanley means they are now less than a handful US banks participating (notably sustain
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This relativism applies to some extent to pure entertainment activities. What is worthwhile, trendy, in-group (or whatever) does vary enormously by region, age group etc. But these platforms are now for most people "all-there-is".
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After the history-making success of wikipedia the wiki movement has unfortunately stagnated. Wikinomics [1] is yet another early vision of the digital society that did not come to pass. The reasons as always quite complex: from the general

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