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by xtracto 4mo ago
This, and distributed LLM inference. We are at a point where no single person can setup a rig to run a SOTA model, it is just too expensive. So we must build and adopt frameworks that allow individuals to share resources to run SOTA models
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by xtracto 4mo ago
Likewise, but for different reasons: We had a [pirated] copy of the game, and thus didn't have the manual. Down here in my city in Mexico that's basically how everyone played it, so most of us played only the first level. At some
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by xtracto 4mo ago
I probably will be burned for this, but with the help of an LLM I wrote a tiny program that captures video from a browser screen (Xbox live online FPS game), passes the video images through a small trained NN that recognizes people forms an
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by xtracto 4mo ago
My wife took on building the plant inspired lego sets several months ago. They are OK in that they don't look that ugly scattered around the house. I like it because it is a hobby she enjoys a lot and it makes it easier for me to buy &
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by xtracto 4mo ago
And the pain of the procurement process, specially when you follow a certification such as iso27001, soc2 or similar.
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by xtracto 4mo ago
It is tge fact that Health care consuming demand is inelastic. Most "for profit" systems have elastic supply and demand. But "suppliers" know that demand has bo choice but swallow the prices and services. Kind of like &q
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by xtracto 4mo ago
All this happening with Mobile phones, and now AI reminds me of "Solarians" in Isaac Asimov universe: https://asimov.fandom.com/wiki/Solaria They were a race of humans that hated contact with other people. Ea
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by xtracto 4mo ago
Someone way more eloquent than me should write a column titled "Why do we read?" Way back in the past (around 30 years ago) I remember reading an article on "how to read a book" or a similar subject. They argued that, yo
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by xtracto 4mo ago
> people had to wait overnight to continue vibe coding because vendors blocked further API calls for many hours at a time Tangential but this is funny. Back in the early 90s, I did a lot of BASIC programming in the family computer, this
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by xtracto 5mo ago
I recently at around 42yo learned how to darn/mend my socks. My mom taught me how to do it. I have enough money that I could just throw my socks with holes to throw trash and buy new ones inconsequentialy, but mending them by hand giv
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by xtracto 5mo ago
Within a couple of years, LLMs or equivalent AI engines will have the ability to generate factual knowledge themselves using their "outdated" knowledge and their reasoning mechanisms. For example, one of the classical requests fro
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by xtracto 5mo ago
Ha! Years ago i downloaded your page and stored it in some usb disks along with my kdb keepass database and a share of my password. I gave that to some members of my family and instruct them to give them to my wife in case I die. Thanks a l
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by xtracto 5mo ago
My country is not in the list (Mexico, not that we need to... Americans hate us), but I just cannot comprehend why people would go through all the pain for the immigration process in the US. Actually, it kind of make sense why only the mos
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by xtracto 5mo ago
Im more into buying Shovels. NVIDIA is arguably one of them, and I already have some. But I recently added POET, CBRS and similar. I think whatever happens, "shovel sellers" will be the main winners in this bubble.
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by xtracto 5mo ago
Pure love from me to Vivaldi. The only browser that allows me to tile 3,4,5... pages in the same view. Or to group pages into "stacks" or many other small but useful perks.
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by xtracto 5mo ago
I've got a Nissan Epower Kicks. I bought it exactly because the technology was different than standard Hybrid cars. Here in Mexico there's no infra for fully electric cars, and they are still way too expensive. The Nissan setup is
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by xtracto 5mo ago
Younger people would never understand how amazing the internet was back in the 90s. Particularly before ads and SEO became an industry. Also Flash, most people don't realize what we lost with Flash. The amount of non-professional multi
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by xtracto 5mo ago
You forgot the Open Core trap: Company wants to get customers so it lures them into an almost-useful "open source" application that happens to be unisable when wanting to do anything serious.
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by xtracto 5mo ago
In this day and age, and extensión is the thing is ask my local AI to do for me. They are very simple, self contained code that can be crappy as I'll run it locally. Browser extensions have been a great playground for me.
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by xtracto 5mo ago
I've always found JetBrain products interesting . I started my dev career using Borland C++ builder ans VB5. I went through most IDEs, including the infamous NetBeans and Eclipse (which made their own "non-swing" ui for &quot
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by xtracto 5mo ago
I just saw a screenshot of someone pasting I think the US bill of rights to one of those AI write detectors; the site concluded that the text was written by AI.
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by xtracto 5mo ago
This... I wonder why isn't there a market in Tijuana, Juarez and other border towns for fixing broken electronics and similar appliances. Here in Mexico there are plenty of "unofficial" laptops/mobile (Apple, Windows, An
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by xtracto 5mo ago
I understand, but what if you establish a 10/20 year increasing taxation scheme. Plus some decreasing tax incentive to sell residential property. You tell people: You have 20 years to sell your second/third residential propertie
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by xtracto 5mo ago
I wholeheartedly agree with this. My opinion is that governments should tax 2nd, 3rd and further housing so as to prevent people from accumulating residential buildings. If you want to live of your rents, buy a commercial or industrial buil
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by xtracto 5mo ago
Oh man... I like go because it is compiled, performant, strong and statically typed. But "fun" is not something I would say about it. The ergonomics of error handling, lack of ternary operator and other stuff that compiled 30yo la
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by xtracto 5mo ago
We are experiencing what Civil Engineers experienced going from slide rules to calculators. Or electrical engineers going from manual circuit path drawing to CAD tools. The interesting thing to me is that, Software Engineering will have to
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by xtracto 5mo ago
>Pretty soon you won't even be able to use your Linux. Everything will be attested. I want to rescue this snippet. Few of us remember the "fight" and discussions that happened when Firefox first pondered the idea of allow
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by xtracto 5mo ago
This takes me to the famous FizzBuzz High performance codegolf answer [1]. If we could implement optimizations like that for the inferences, maybe we could increase the speeds 10x or more. [1] https://codegolf.stackexchange.com&#
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by xtracto 5mo ago
They are not doing Science, they are just bragging.
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by xtracto 5mo ago
Location: UTC-6 (Americas) Remote: Yes, strongly preferred. Willing to relocate: Only for the absolutely right opportunity. Technologies: Python, TypeScript (Nest.js for API, React for mobile or web front), Ruby, AWS (Architect, DevOps, AI&

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