pfortuny

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by pfortuny 4mo ago
No, I am not saying he has sold out: but he has the money and the contacts to see the insider-only version. Just that. Tell my Uni to pay me 200€/month for tokens. They are just going to laugh it out.
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by pfortuny 4mo ago
Ah but you can disable it completely.
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by pfortuny 4mo ago
"Beauty" is something I cannot define. "Elegance", as I use it, is the use of tools as precisely as possible. It is a technical term, whereas "beauty" I cannot define. Of course, that is my view of it.
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by pfortuny 4mo ago
I do not know about this but, to be honest, he (or his Dpt, or whatever) has the money and connections to try the hidden-behind-closed-doors stuff. We mere mortals (I am a prof. of Maths at Uni) do not.
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by pfortuny 4mo ago
Much (most?) of math consists in transmission of it (according to Thurston [1]), a 1000-page proof with no possibility of transmission is mostly useless. The proof of Fermat's last Theorem is important in itself, and adds much more t
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by pfortuny 4mo ago
They are bad actors with a worse script. Just that.
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by pfortuny 4mo ago
Try quicksilver
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by pfortuny 4mo ago
So true!
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by pfortuny 4mo ago
I guess it is mostly (by default): a) real pseudonymity b) no photos/videos c) no infinite scroll d) no notifications e) very specific (mildly speaking) topic range f) very very good ranking and filtering algo ....
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by pfortuny 5mo ago
These are very common in Spain too.
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by pfortuny 5mo ago
Snarky morning: "spiritual souls" as opposed to "mere animal souls". Sorry, could not control myself.
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by pfortuny 5mo ago
Also: you cannot pretend to be "physically realistic" on a computer screen. The simplest thing: if there is more ambient light, your pupils decrease and your sight is different. You cannot simulate "true light" unless yo
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by pfortuny 5mo ago
What about the right of not being determined by others? Say, the 10% who vote no.
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by pfortuny 5mo ago
No: at least in my 2023 Corolla, in order to power off it must be in Park, and then, when you power off, the lid on the shift-stick is blocked. You can leave it in neutral and exit the car, obviously, but the car is started.
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by pfortuny 5mo ago
Honest question: what do you mean?
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by pfortuny 5mo ago
Screams of "COME ON DO SOMETHING WE NEED THE STUDENTS TO NOT BUY MACs!" Built for Gemini?? No thanks.
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by pfortuny 5mo ago
OK. But those can be "Zukerberg" promises?
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by pfortuny 5mo ago
Ok, thank you.
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by pfortuny 5mo ago
Honest question: Do these systems not share data with the AI servers? Or are they all local (on-site, not on-computer)? I am totally baffled by the trust people put on these systems, sharing with them the most obviously private data.
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by pfortuny 5mo ago
An elliptical wheel, at most. A square one without an axle, most probably.
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by pfortuny 5mo ago
European students are preparing for their finals.
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by pfortuny 5mo ago
My students are essentially forced to use MS services. So... there is that. So am I, come to think of it.
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by pfortuny 5mo ago
Spain here. Most of our public Universities have their IT stack on MS... I cannot fathom how much of our national budget goes to their pockets. Thankfully, I store my teaching materials on my personal non-uni webpage, and the student's
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by pfortuny 5mo ago
IIRC it also depends on the CPU's storage and capabilities.
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by pfortuny 5mo ago
Think historical records of, say, share values for past years. You might have a single db for 1900-2000, for instance. Things like that. Not everything needs to be real-time updated.
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by pfortuny 5mo ago
This project appears here from time to time and each and every time I am amazed. Thanks for sharing it.
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by pfortuny 5mo ago
Tesla has been sued for a similar reason "full self-driving". AI companies are selling their products as "perfect" ("better than humans..."). I agree in part with you but I also agree that they are selling a ha
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by pfortuny 5mo ago
We are still in the "ether" times of dark matter. We have still not had a Michelson-Morley experiment. That's it. Not that I am saying it does not exist. Only that we do not have the means of falsifying it if it is false.
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by pfortuny 6mo ago
That's a piruleta. The spherical ones are chupa-chups.
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by pfortuny 6mo ago
Well, say a frame per second. Also: how many of these are there today? You can discard them after tagging+using them for learning.

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