rjtavares

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by rjtavares 2mo ago
I think the toxicology proverb applies here perfectly: The dose makes the poison.
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by rjtavares 3mo ago
There's a sponsors and partners list on their webpage: https://scrollprize.org/#sponsors
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by rjtavares 6mo ago
It's important to note that these efforts aren't nationalistic - they're multilateral. In fact, European nationalists are consistently trying to sabotage European efforts. On the bright side: people seem to be moving away fro
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by rjtavares 6mo ago
He supports Trump now, so I really doubt free speech is important to him.
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by rjtavares 6mo ago
Opened it just to check if Saramago was there, and indeed, he is. For most of his professional life he was a journalist. He published his second novel at 55, only found his narrative style at almost 60, then wrote 15 novels (and won a Nobel
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by rjtavares 7mo ago
As a non native speaker, it never crossed my mind and I was quite confused at the first comments...
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by rjtavares 8mo ago
Why isn't making it illegal a solution?
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by rjtavares 9mo ago
Skills may have have code attached to them, so in this case the formatting and converting is all code. The value of skills is that they are attached to the context of an LLM for few tokens, and the LLM activates one when it feels that it re
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by rjtavares 9mo ago
You made the right call. Skills were added to Antigravity and I immediately started creating and using them. I never used custom MCP servers, but skills were immediately obvious to me. An example: I made a report_polisher skill that cleans
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by rjtavares 9mo ago
I've been using Google's Antigravity (which has a similar UI) to do data analysis and making reports. Skills are really useful for that.
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by rjtavares 9mo ago
I guess you haven't read how the government reacted to the incident. Let's put it mildly and say: is wasn't treated as a mistake or bad-apple cop. Just an example: "Vance said the ICE officer was clearly justified in sho
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by rjtavares 9mo ago
No, it's because of renewables. Share of oil in total energy consumption hasn't increased since the sanctions, while wind and solar have been consistently increasing. Coal is down (again, as a share of total energy consumption). S
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by rjtavares 11mo ago
Antigravity's agent manager tries do to that. For example, it has an inbox for agent updates and requests for user decisions.
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by rjtavares 11mo ago
Gemini CLI
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by rjtavares 1y ago
Also, leasing does not prevent you from paying for the depreciation. It's just included in the fee.
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by rjtavares 1y ago
> President Donald Trump could only be birthed from a distorted world where borrowing is free and future cash flows are infinite. I don't really understand this causal link. Can someone enlighten me?
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Elon Musk's Grok Chatbot Goes Full Nazi, Calls Itself 'MechaHitler'(rollingstone.com)
16 points by rjtavares 1y ago|4 comments
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by rjtavares 1y ago
Or why it was flagged...
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by rjtavares 2y ago
Wikipedia also calls Putin's war "Russo-Ukrainian War". I have no problem with either name. That's the point.
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by rjtavares 2y ago
You can't be serious... It's like arguing against the expression "Putin's war in Ukraine" because Ukraine retaliated with drones.
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by rjtavares 2y ago
You can't be bullied and not respond - that's an invite for future bullying. Besides, this isn't at all the same. China isn't adding tariffs on the whole world like the US are.
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Vector Sets are part of Redis(antirez.com)
6 points by rjtavares 2y ago|0 comments
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by rjtavares 2y ago
Not a fan of the immediate effect on part of the sentence (everything should be contingent on the result of the appeal process).
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by rjtavares 2y ago
Freedom of speech and authoritarianism were always topics of interest for this community. I always thought it was an honest interest, but apparently it wasn't.
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by rjtavares 2y ago
With how these articles are immediately flagged, HN is failing us too.
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by rjtavares 2y ago
The article is in French, but easily auto-translated (and it's the best non-biased source I found). > "I learned with concern that a French researcher" on assignment for the French National Center for Scientific Research (
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by rjtavares 2y ago
For full reference, here's the US list (mostly prior to Trump): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_people_...
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French researcher denied entry for a personal opinion on Trump administration(lemonde.fr)
163 points by rjtavares 2y ago|126 comments
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by rjtavares 2y ago
Goodbye tokenization problems, hello encoding problems!
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by rjtavares 2y ago
One of the highlights of any model release for me is checking your "pelican riding a bicycle" test.

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