yavor-atanasov

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by yavor-atanasov 7mo ago
Gen Z definitely didn’t invent cheating, but LLMs brought qualitative difference and scale. That changes the properties of the system. During my university most courses had a good mixture of take-home assignments/projects and in-class
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by yavor-atanasov 7mo ago
This thread made me think of education (as in schools). To paraphrase: “Don’t post generated/AI-edited assignments. School is for conversation between humans” AI can be a great tool for learning, but also can pollute or completely hija
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by yavor-atanasov 2y ago
Recently upgraded my iPhone 11 to 16 (mostly because battery was not great anymore). I've turned off all of the gen AI stuff and enjoy the longer battery life and a better camera. I'm not an gen AI skeptic - I use it in other cont
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by yavor-atanasov 2y ago
We like creating decentralised technologies to then graviate around centralised services built on top. The Internet was meant to be decentralised (it still is in terms of the protocols that make it work), but then we ended up consuming very
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by yavor-atanasov 3y ago
Reminds me of this "We can't send mail more than 500 miles" story - https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
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5G: The Outsourced Elephant in the Room(berthub.eu)
3 points by yavor-atanasov 6y ago|0 comments
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by yavor-atanasov 8y ago
At the BBC a few years ago we completely replaced our Chaos Monkey setup with a "chaos-lambda". It's extremely simple to setup and saves us a chunk of cash in terms of compute and maintenance. I'm sure Chaos Monkey is mo
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Testing disks: Lessons from our odyssey selecting replacement SSDs(bbc.co.uk)
131 points by yavor-atanasov 9y ago|76 comments
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by yavor-atanasov 12y ago
Here's a similar thing I did 5 years ago (yes, I know it is in actionscript :) ): http://yavkata.co.uk/weblog/actionscript_3/bezier-curve-inte...
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CloudFormation, HTML and virtual infrastructure(yavkata.svbtle.com)
2 points by yavor-atanasov 12y ago|0 comments