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by stared 7mo ago
> Please - tell us. No need of sarcasm here. Or going the route of a false dichotomy. Again, not all dependencies can be eliminated. But it is better to have less dependencies. Closing nuclear plants in Germany was a disaster, and here w
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by stared 7mo ago
See a wider perspective on how energy sources shape geopolitics: "The pivot" by Charlie Stross https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45621074 . And yes, solar energy is not only greener (less CO2, less PM2.5), but a
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Brazen Head(en.wikipedia.org)
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by stared 7mo ago
> arXiv fulfills its function better the less power it has as an institution It is an interesting instance of the rule of least power, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_least_power .
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Have Fungi Hacked Us?(thesporereport.com)
4 points by stared 7mo ago|0 comments
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AI Unicorn ElevenLabs Is Making a $1B Effort to Restore 1M Voices(forbes.com)
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by stared 7mo ago
It is a masterpiece! Each time I give an introduction to machine learning, I use this explorable explanation. There is a collection of a few more here: https://p.migdal.pl/interactive-machine-learning-list/
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by stared 7mo ago
> The main problem is that you were raised in a school system where if you show up, study and do your assignments you are pretty much guaranteed to succeed sooner or later. A PhD is not like that. It was not my case and bold of you to as
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The Lord of the Rings: an allegory of the PhD? (2003)(danny.oz.au)
1 points by stared 7mo ago|0 comments
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by stared 7mo ago
I would love to see on this list some (any) benchmark. "I can run a model" is mildly interesting. I can run OSS-20B on my M1 Pro. It works, I tried it, just I don't find any application.
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by stared 7mo ago
These pieces of advice are useful. However, they don't touch the bottleneck: mental health. And no, it is not "like any other demanding job". A PhD hits on two fronts - one is "all or nothing". If you spend years an
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by stared 7mo ago
I spend much more time refactoring that creating features (though, it is getting better with each model). My go-to approach is to use Claude Code Opus 4.6 for writing and Gemini 3.1 Pro for cleaning up. I feel that doing it just one-stage i
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Calvin Seibert Builds Architectural Sandcastles(greyscape.com)
2 points by stared 7mo ago|0 comments
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by stared 7mo ago
It is good to hear that! So, as always, the problem is not with gaming, but Apple gaming.
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by stared 7mo ago
I would add that I love emails when they are written as emails (i.e. at least one coherent paragraph). Email, as a medium, prompts us to think (at least for a few seconds), not "generate human tokens". Sure, we may feel being &quo
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by stared 7mo ago
RSS is just one element of the ecosystem - the input. I envision that the filtering mechanism CAN use any rules - hand-written, heuristics, old-school machine learning, LLMs. Just with a key difference - you are the one controlling it. No h
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by stared 7mo ago
One take is that we made human brain cells to live in hell. On the flip side, we gave them a super shotgun.
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by stared 7mo ago
I wasn't aware it existed - and thanks for saving! And wow, this code is beautiful.
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by stared 7mo ago
When dealing with binaries, Gemini 3.1 Pro is in the same tier as Opus 4.6, https://quesma.com/benchmarks/binaryaudit/ . Here are the results without humans in the loop, fully end-to-end. For any practical developm
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Show HN: Reviving a 20-year-old puzzle game Chromatron with Ghidra and AI(quesma.com)
28 points by stared 7mo ago|9 comments
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by stared 7mo ago
It is interesting that now to pretend you are a human, you need to play dumb. Vide superstimuli for AI (maths and philosophy) and humans (clickbaits and scams) https://x.com/repligate/status/1830331774875893925 or
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by stared 7mo ago
Does it use https://www.gdeltproject.org/ ?
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by stared 7mo ago
If civil society is not concerned by the tribute-based Board of Peace that gladly invited Putin, an attack on another country without authorization by Congress, a threat to seize the land of an ally, and the killing of its own citizens by t
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by stared 7mo ago
And then it would be finally time to send "thoughts and prayers".
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by stared 7mo ago
Should it be officially marked as the date of transition from liberal democracy to illiberal democracy? Such tampering with companies is a smoking gun. Let's wait until there is another decision seizing this (or others') company a
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by stared 7mo ago
Also M1 Pro owner, and it was the biggest leap ever. 2.5x speedup for build times over the last Intel Silicon, paired with 2x or so longer battery life, and better design in general (keyboard, ports). What is tricky is not even CPU/GPU
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Foods destroying rainforests, in one simple chart(vox.com)
27 points by stared 7mo ago|33 comments
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by stared 7mo ago
The notebooks were THE thing of Mathematica, at least to me. 12 years ago, as I was finishing my PhD in quantum optics, I wanted to migrate to the stack used in industry - and picked Python. Also, that way I was an early adopter of Jupyter
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by stared 7mo ago
And the White House, quoting Donald Trump: https://xcancel.com/WhiteHouse/status/2027497719678255148 "THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL NEVER ALLOW A RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY TO DICTATE HOW OUR GREAT MILITA
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Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week(newscientist.com)
11 points by stared 7mo ago|0 comments

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