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Qualcomm Completes Acquisition of Modular(modular.com)
2 points by samuell 2mo ago|0 comments
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by samuell 2mo ago
I don't know ... I actually think I'm quite aware of a lot of how complicated many things can be. Perhaps it is because I was really curious as a kid about how things work, peeked into things, really tried to understand how it wor
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by samuell 2mo ago
I think it is simply designed that way. In my experience sparks are generally generated when quite small metal surfaces get in contact at high speeds, meaning they can generate a lot of friction in a very small point, and thus not have enou
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by samuell 3mo ago
I'll second the rec for Brave search. Been a happy user for at least 1-2 years now. Its AI summaries are great and, I have the feeling it works a little better than DuckDuckGo for some reason.
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by samuell 3mo ago
This was/is not a controlled scientific experiment. It is a blog post.
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by samuell 3mo ago
Well, I was referring to "value" here in a very pragmatic sense, in terms of the ability to come with "novel" thoughts and ideas. And I argue that the notion of AI models having overtaken the human mind in practically al
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by samuell 3mo ago
While I understand this is a PR talk for a startup, I think the text itself contains a number of interesting observations. Regarding the idea of distributed models communicating with each other, I have also been thinking (and writing [1]) a
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by samuell 3mo ago
> Anthropic is actively campaigning to end software engineering While this may be slightly overstated, my take on this is that AI progress should have us upgrade our view of the human brain rather than the opposite. Wrote about it the ot
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AI progress should upgrade our view of the human brain – not devalue it(livingsystems.substack.com)
2 points by samuell 3mo ago|0 comments
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by samuell 3mo ago
As much as I'm put away by the dependency horror I've seen in many Rust projects, this is an interesting observation.
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by samuell 3mo ago
Steve Francia (author of Hugo and a bunch of other top Go projects) wrote up some thoughts of Go's fit in the agentic era: https://spf13.com/p/go-the-agentic-language/
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by samuell 3mo ago
Quite thought-provoking, and connecting it to a related field it seems the (relative) success of LLMs and the likes are indications that enough data can at least learn you something without always needing to interfere with the world first(?
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by samuell 3mo ago
Is this the same guy behind https://iwantosequencemygenomeathome.com/ ? [Edit: Apparently no. That link is by Seth Howes, who also shared the OP post though: https://x.com/SethSHowes/status/2074231
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by samuell 3mo ago
As someone who has spent some time in sub-saharan Africa, I can tell you that there is lots that can be done if just seeing the possibilities. Not everyone everywhere are "engineering oriented", and having people with the skills a
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by samuell 3mo ago
Glad to see more languages adopt true goroutines [edit: lightweight threads or fibers] with M:N scheduling. Surprised more haven't. Among compiled language I'm only aware of Go and Crystal off the top of my mind.
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by samuell 4mo ago
No, this was pure speculation based on what seems like a popular view on where Mojo ended up, where the initial Python-focus don't seem to help it that much anymore.
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by samuell 4mo ago
As a meta comment, I'm surprised such a news is not reaching the frontpage already.
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by samuell 4mo ago
Maybe Chris was a little unhappy about where Mojo ended up, and sees this as an opportunity to start anew on a properly designed language from scratch :D
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by samuell 4mo ago
I'm actually mostly worried about the future of Mojo at this time. Though hopefully it will be fully released open source still, but I feel there are question marks around whether it will be a priority to continue to develop by Qualcom
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by samuell 4mo ago
Found this previous thread about Lisette: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47646843
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by samuell 4mo ago
I'll second looking at KdenLive. You might want to stay away from very recent major versions for stability, but it is a very capable editor that is also much more robust and performant than openshot. I haven't compared with Blende
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by samuell 4mo ago
Wanted to expand on the animation part, so will check this up for sure, thank you.
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by samuell 4mo ago
Great to hear.
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by samuell 4mo ago
Stability sounds interesting. While KdenLive has worked OKish for me, certain versions have broken my projects, and there are some long-standing bugs, like subtitles disappearing if I do a specific operation in the wrong moment. While the l
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by samuell 4mo ago
For people using Resolve, would you recommend someone already quite well-versed in KDenLive to switch, for some non-profit work on cutting together educational content with some animations, some talks etc? Will it allow me to drastically im
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by samuell 4mo ago
My main issue with this is I expect Mojo to become the go to tinkering language for me.
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by samuell 4mo ago
I grew up in a christian home, so got my initial belief from there. Had a kind of pivot moment when I moved out from home though, where I immediately realized my parents will not be there forever, and the inner me needs to reach for my ulti
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by samuell 4mo ago
Optimizing for local-first checking is 100% the way to go, and should be used much more widely I think. I have done a similar thing using simple makefiles though, collecting more complex chains of tasks into a "meta rule" in Make
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by samuell 4mo ago
You might try sequencing your DNA at home :) https://iwantosequencemygenomeathome.com/ (Well, the guy offers to do it for you too, delivering the data on an USB stick).
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by samuell 4mo ago
> So it seems "Rosalind" is at least very appropriate as a name for a genomics tool such as this. Indeed. The only argument against it might be that Rosalind is already a pretty well-known website for doing bioinformatics exerc

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