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by zkmon 5mo ago
I write an email with extensive detail, but none of the recipients read a single line. They expect a call invite from me to read it out to them. People find it easier to hear things from other than read the same, if the option os hearing ou
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This is not a isolated phenomenon. Security measures for software products, for example, kept increasing making good old working software to be highly vulnerable in today's world. There are some islands that have un-contacted tribes. T
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I do not endorse this change in anyway, as it means breaking promises and assumptions which drove thousands to the shores of USA in the recent past. Having said that, most commentators here, including me, might not have the full picture of
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It "looks" amazing. But you know, the real hard work is always done by the rag-looking, worn-out dirty, dented, scratched, faded-out, weak tools and work-benches. Not the shiny or rugged ones. Just like some notebooks that were us
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My experience is, Claude Code burns way more tokens compared to other agents, probably to ensure high levels of perceived quality, which is, most of the times not worth the bloat for the user. The bloat works for Anthropic as an advertiseme
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Just curious - What exactly are you using that rig for? I see that you said research work. Are you building a product or training models? I ask because whether something is worth it or not depends largely on what you get out oof it and how
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I ditched VSCode for Sublime Text long back and don't feel missing anything. If any, my productivity and control over things has only improved.
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> I never want to have a conversation with a website that is geared towards advertising me products. The advertisements fed the content, which fed the AI, which in turn feeds your AI workflows. AI is still not trusted unless it's ou
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Internet search should remain internet search. If I want to use AI, it should be an option, not a replacement of internet search. Time to switch to old style search engines which still return the 10 blue links, with an AI option.
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First, the cloud providers would invest into anything that will increase their revenues. It's not really about AI. For Microsoft. Azure and Cpilot arr the revenue channels. They are just investing on these channels. What if the things,
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What real world problem is closely linked to the skill of drawing a pelican riding a bicycle?
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Still, what premium features of the Plus service are needed for a citizen?
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How are the input images generated?
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You misunderstood. When I say privacy I was referring to hiding things from authorities, not from other citizens. Every power that authorities are entrusted with, is direct result forfeiting of privacy or freedom by citizens. That's th
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Consider deepseek as well. About 50 cents per 1M tokens, for >1T model
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USA entities tend to think that terms like "privacy", "security" have same meanings and assumptions across the globe, and that the USA laws are universal. Maybe they also think that entire world is just as dumb or dumber
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ChatGPt is not a facts/news service. It's output is canned by it's system prompt. Infact it's cut-off dates far more into the past compared to other AI services. So the "news" it dishes could be outdated unless
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I asked ChatGPT about corruption levels in Malta and whether the technology companies pay bribes to officials to get contracts. It was honest in its response and said Malta has serious corruption levels by EU standards. That answers my wond
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The curve is a smoothed step curve (y=1 if x>1 otherwise 0). Nature doesn't allow any change to happen instantly at any degree of rate of change. The curveis just a manifestation a change with exponential smoothening of the sharp co
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"Best LLM" doesn't really depend on hardware alone. It actually depends more on your needs - type of workload, context length needed etc.
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Winamp! My first experience of listening to serious music from computer.
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Anything that is being built today, based on the assumptions about the future that extend into multiple years, is bound to fade away. Because the "future no longer what it used be". What's the envisaged future context and pur
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The purpose should also be defined. It should answer the question why. Also, what's broken with scripting and what alternatives are proposed? What's the end state (with an example usage of the new web).
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>> but it was definitely a non-trivial extension of those ideas, and for a PhD student to find that extension it would be necessary to invest quite a bit of time digesting Isaac’s paper The "non-trivial" is for human abiliti
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An issue I have been noticing with claude is, for simple tasks, it gives extremely bloated code and artifacts, which sometime does not even work. Gemini balances it quite well, by giving a working solution with the exact amount of code and
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Going by that logic, they shouldn't be selling your data to their premium users. Either way, LinkedIn is on the wrong footing.
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3 Mangoes brand from the 70's, is very familiar to me.
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Profit is the main goal of all economic activity. Economy is an activity of making and moving money around, which is only possible if you make profit.
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If you are a manager, you desire that your team should work like it is a team-sport, but at your peer level you would compete with your peers. The same happens at every level.

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