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by sega_sai 11mo ago
Reading the comments -- it is amazing how quick it takes to from allegedly a democracy governed by a rule of law to a corrupt oligarchy. I personally understand the reasons, but it's a bit "funny" given all the grand-standing
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by sega_sai 11mo ago
Unfortunately I didn't see the recommendation there on what can be done for old papers. I checked, and only my papers after 2022 have an HTML version. I wish they'd make some kind of 'try html' button for those.
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by sega_sai 11mo ago
I don't think Ellison is popular, but he seems to be doing fine with all his billions.
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by sega_sai 11mo ago
I was thinking not just showing the formulas in cells, but have the formulas assembled as a piece of code, referring to variables.
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by sega_sai 11mo ago
After reading the post, my personal takeaway (not being expert) is that there are simply so many moving parts/configuration options that the complexity of the whole system is too high. I think without some sort of formal validation&#x2
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by sega_sai 11mo ago
On one hand it is good that the maybe the streaming will be split into less subscriptions, but on other hand, I think the only way forward is to simply prohibit exclusive streaming rights. I.e. any movie streaming rights should be sold to a
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by sega_sai 11mo ago
That is an interesting take on spreadsheets. I wonder if it is possible to establish some way to switch back and forth between 'programming view' vs 'spreadsheet view'.
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by sega_sai 11mo ago
Given the increasing wealth inequality, it is unclear if costs are really a factor here, as amounts like 1M$ is nothing when you have 1B$.
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by sega_sai 11mo ago
I am sure UK universities cannot go without Microsoft. I believe the absolute majority rely on it. And I can see how they rely more and more on it, by stopping using non-Microsoft/local solutions and switching to Microsoft's ones.
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by sega_sai 11mo ago
This have been covered by FT a while ago: https://archive.ph/zs7ul ( https://www.ft.com/content/d0344253-b0a2-4c6d-8b97-520243678... )
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by sega_sai 11mo ago
I am just not sure that the whole concept of consciousness is useful. If something like that is that difficult to define/measure, maybe we should rely on that characteristic. I.e. reading the Box 1 in the paper for consciousness defini
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by sega_sai 11mo ago
I wanted to like it as a Gemini Pro subscriber who does not want to also pay for Claude Code, but after running Antigravity for ~ 10 minutes, and a few back and forward exchanges I got the 'Model quota limit exceeded' message with
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by sega_sai 11mo ago
There is a somewhat similar idea behind "Ponder This" by IBM https://research.ibm.com/haifa/ponderthis/index.shtml They post a problem every month and in the end post a solution. I used to spend a bit t
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by sega_sai 11mo ago
It is strange. On the first photo of the article I actually don't see a single Soviet-made car.
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by sega_sai 1y ago
I switched from pytorch to jax just before triton appeared. Does anyone know how jax compares to this autotuning machinery in pytorch ? I know jax does jit, but i don't have a good intuition if jit is better than this type of autotunin
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by sega_sai 1y ago
He clearly was an exceptional scientist, but also likely an a*hole. Also unfortunately when people get older, many people's negative qualities are amplified. That seem to have happened with Watson and has tarnished his legacy.
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by sega_sai 1y ago
I don't know if that can be implemented, but to me it seems the main problem is the algorithmic feed. I think I would be okay with kids having access to social media, but only if they can't get personalized feed, but can see their
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by sega_sai 1y ago
I agree, writing some software requires learning and understanding. But sometimes, one just needs something done (if one's job is not software engineer) and then LLMs are indispensable. Also in some software projects (at least in my p
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by sega_sai 1y ago
I found the physicist definition of a tensor is actually more confusing, because you are faced with these definitions how to transform these objects, but you never are really explained where does it all come from. While the mathematical def
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by sega_sai 1y ago
That gives 3 pixels per resolution element (assuming diffraction limit for 1cm diameter pupil). That sounds about right (see Nyquist frequency).
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by sega_sai 1y ago
There is a surprising level of technical details on how the diskette works and how it was manufactured. You don't see that nowadays.
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by sega_sai 1y ago
I don't know. The last problem I tried was a complex one -- migration of some scientific code from CPU to GPU. Gemini was useless there, but Claude proposed realistic solutions and was able to explore and test those.
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by sega_sai 1y ago
A project doesn't quite work for my course, as we teaching different techniques and would like knowledge of each of them. But yes we currently allow students to use AI provided their solution works and they can explain it. We just disc
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by sega_sai 1y ago
I get that even with the 2.5 pro
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by sega_sai 1y ago
I am teaching a coding class, and we had to switch to in person interview/viva assessment about the code written by students, to deal with AI written code. It works, but it requires a lot of extra effort on our side. I don't know
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by sega_sai 1y ago
I share the same opinion on Gemini cli. Other than for simplest tasks it is just not usable, it gets stuck in loops, ignores instructions, fails to edit files. Plus it just has a plenty of bugs in the cli that you occasionally hit. I wish
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by sega_sai 1y ago
I guess instead of a separate application, maybe some of these programs would benefit from having 'dumb' mode where only basic/most used functionality is available. I.e. when I run gimp, I most often just use it rescale the i
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by sega_sai 1y ago
If I had to guess (I don't know) the absolute majority of people considering suicide never go to a therapist. Thus while I absolutely agree that therapist is better than AI, but the question is whether 95% of people not doing therapy +
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by sega_sai 1y ago
Great job from PSF ! Taking the stand rather them submitting themselves to dictatorial/thought-policing terms.
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by sega_sai 1y ago
Anything that is not measurable (i.e. awareness, consciousness) is not very useful in practice as a metric. I don't think there is even an agreed definition what consciousness is, partially because it is not really observable outside o

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