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by zkmon 11mo ago
It surprising to see how the currency exchange rates and capitalism created the non-state monsters that can dictate the governments and direct the populations into a cess pool. The Pied Piper monsters.
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by zkmon 11mo ago
Having a lot to deal with is same as having nothing. Having 10,000 applicants for a job is same as not having any, if a human need to process all of them. Human attention and processing breaks down. Filters will be used, to cut the volume d
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by zkmon 11mo ago
Though the argument is technically correct, it is unnecessary at this point of time. Same as renaming cities and countries to "correct" history.
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by zkmon 11mo ago
This is just scratch on the surface. * Enter quaternions; things get more profound. * Investigate why multiplicative inverse of i is same as its additive inverse. * Experiment with (1+i)/(1-i). * Explore why i^i is real number. * Ask w
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Give it enough time, every declarative language becomes a programming language. This is happening with all config files, markup languages, data formats. The distinction between code, config and data is being erased. Everything is a soup now
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I hope 3-D printing becomes obsolete when robots can achieve the same efficiency with using the standard construction materials. That should take away all benefits of 3-D printing over regular builds.
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>> The Information notes that much of Microsoft’s AI revenue comes from AI companies themselves renting cloud infrastructure rather than from traditional enterprises adopting AI tools for their own operations. And MS spends on buying
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Then, who or what has the goal that is driving the cell division?
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by zkmon 11mo ago
A proof (visual or otherwise) shows "how" some statement is true, as in how it is built by the preceding truths. But I always wanted to know "why" something is true. For example, a biological cell grows and division happ
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Inter-communal trust sucks only when you consider well-being of a larger community which swallowed up smaller communities. You just created a larger community, which still has the same inter-communal trust issues with other large communitie
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It's about enforcing single-minded-ness across masses, similar to soldier training. But this is not new. The very goal of a nation is to dismantle inner structures, independent thought, communal groups etc across population and and ing
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by zkmon 11mo ago
In 1995, I received an email from someone named Conway asking me for more details about some silly thing I wrote in sci.math usenet group. Later I came to know more abut him as John Conway. Sadly I lost access to those emails. Now, I'm
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The views quoted are just as cryptic as modern mathematics. Did mathematicians lose the ability to convey stuff tin plain simple ways? Probably they are trying to romanticize something that may not sound good if told plainly. Face it. Mathe
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It's painful to see that beautiful hand-writing of the past is now pretty much extinct. For me, handwriting of a person speaks a lot about them, not just their mind, but physical state as well.
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So, is the napkin math wrong, or you are just going by the company history?
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Ownership of things by humans is never a settled question. There is no ideal or correct model for ownership, as ownership itself is unnatural. People went through many models over centuries - famliy/community owneship, monarchies, soci
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Vibe coding can only affect companies that depend on slow-coding.
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To give an example, we consider that binary search requires less work than a linear search. But there are costs and usecase considerations involved. Insertion of new recod need to use binary search to keep the data sorted. Also if the numbe
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Overall complexity (work required) is a conserved quantity. You can move it around and claim that a new algorithm has reduced the complexity, but in essence it has shifted the complexity elsewhere. Also, whether some problem has polynomial
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Not quite. The core capability of extracting a meaning out of unstructured text and media, and the reverse of it, would remain as a bedrock. Anything else built around it (agents etc) might be challenged by the realities.
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Every place in the world is a mix of two things - the background and the foreground. The background is the natural stuff (terrain, greenery, water bodies, climate etc) and the foreground is the areas where people settled. The people areas (
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by zkmon 11mo ago
>> the next step is to contact Apple Support Did you ever check Apple support forums? The issue reports just go into blackhole without response or with useless robotic replies.
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Does this mean visitors to India would also get this app installed on their phone as soon as they land in India?
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Most of college courses and school books haven't changed in decades. Some reputed college keep courses for Pascal and Fortran instead of Python or Java, just because, it might affect their reputation of being classical or pure or to ma
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Education in modern times is only about training and certifying workforce so that employers can easily filter the prospective employees. If that training and certification can be made available via other easier means, that's the end of
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One thing to note is, when we say that civilization vanished, it sounds drastic. A lot of ancient events such as fall of Roman empire etc also sound like it happened over a few years. However, the current changes happening worldwide are muc
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Eating one's own dog food? The foremost affected species would be the ones who helped create this monster and standing close to it - programmers, researchers, universities - the knowledge-worker or knowledge-business species.
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If you take out LLM (text/img/voice processing) from all the models, I'm curious to know, what else is left that can be called as AI today?
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This should go to all CEOs. They should realize that the real problem AI solves is handling of text and unstructured data. That is the core ability. But I don't blame them. Process optimization is hard. If a new tool promises more spee
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Seems the page is down. So, yes, Reality is where money is. For money to reach you, you need to setup the pipelines, or poke a hole in an existing pipeline. Maybe that's old-school. Youngsters seem to argue that they don't need to

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