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by zkmon 2mo ago
The so called human progress and advanced lifestyle made the simple and natural things such as having kids an adventure. Where did the "progress" go wrong? Why did it take us backwards in the very basic goals of human life and why
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In some cases it was. In other cases, it was a move to a more relaxed work without goals.
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This was a deliberate and well-known policy in a large company that I worked - to promote incompetent ones to R&D department. This is used when firing them from job is too messy due to unionism etc. They are simply moved to R&D wher
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by zkmon 2mo ago
And then they came up with a brilliant term called "agile methodology". The word "agile" was a big selling point. Under the new methodology, there will be standup meetings and introspection every 5 minutes during the ra
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by zkmon 2mo ago
We wanted to exploit all natural resources to maximum extent using our science and tech without any regard to the side effects. The advantage is free. It helps our business. Business gains are human progress. Tech is wonderful. What are you
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by zkmon 2mo ago
Moire patterns can also be used as a magnification device, similar to microscope. For example, when two screens having microscopic hexagonal holes are made to slids past each other as a slight angle, one can see large hexagons.
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by zkmon 2mo ago
> So let’s go with the 5%. Or, in plain English: we pretty much don’t have a clue about how the world really works. World is not same as the universe. We may not know about 95% of the stuff that makes up universe, but that doesn't m
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Alibaba AI Models Hit 3B Downloads, Passing Meta, Google(finance.yahoo.com)
3 points by zkmon 2mo ago|0 comments
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by zkmon 2mo ago
What? Slashdot isn't that ancient. It peaked hardly 15 years back.
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by zkmon 2mo ago
>> Most importantly, the pelican has one leg on each side of the bicycle - that's very rare. How can you say "each side"? I don't see any z-ordering between bicycle frame and legs.
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by zkmon 2mo ago
In our village, people used to die of old age only and not due to any health problems. Village doctors used plant based medicine and treat the common illness such as fever or broken bones. This was in the 60's and 70's.
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by zkmon 2mo ago
It happens when the deterministic precision was given away in return for the probabilistic guesses. It was one extreme until now (deterministic code), and we are swinging to the other extreme (probabilistic slop), but what the world wants c
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by zkmon 2mo ago
Technology helps, but it also enabled increased 'toxicity' in general, across the global ecosystems, including social, human relations, trust, digital crime etc. It's not just about child safety. No one is safe from this incr
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by zkmon 2mo ago
The problem is, a major feature of NLP/LLMs is to make it easier for humans, remove rough edges in the content/interaction and make people happy about dealing with computers. The human-computer interaction has always been brittle.
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by zkmon 2mo ago
Do people still buy .. globes?
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by zkmon 2mo ago
The concept of hooking onto a URL, for years, is a bad thing. It prohibits the URL owners from changing it. It's not 90's. You have search engines now to get to content. It's almost same as bookmarking an IP address, and comp
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by zkmon 2mo ago
I guess the idea is, gains from inference speed could offset the cost of upgrading the chips to a new model when really required. I think general purpose models would consolidate and release frequency might flatten out, favoring this strate
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by zkmon 2mo ago
> get to work without a car, do your shopping on foot Some cities in Europe have town-centers in every neighborhood within walkable distance. This is extremely valuable for a livable city. Getting to work without car requires good public
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by zkmon 2mo ago
Nice things like this, get "blue-washed" by the parent org's tech. For general adoption, kakebase should have been swapped out for a more generic non-databricks tech. 'Blue-wash' is a reference to an IBM's prac
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by zkmon 2mo ago
Creative content authors need to move up the ladder. Use AI fully and apply your talent to make it even better. No need to get recognition for your non-AI organic content. When a machine weaves fabric, no point in sticking to handloom and s
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by zkmon 2mo ago
Talking about proofs, there is no proof that just because AI found counter example for a conjecture, it can break math behind cryptography The belief that "if it did A and B it can do C,D,E ,,,Z" is what is driving the current AI
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by zkmon 2mo ago
Cryptographic systems are based on 1) mathematical impossibility of reversing some integer/mod calculation, 2) time required for a brute force attack, 3) correctness of algorithms and code used in implementations. The last part (algori
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by zkmon 2mo ago
People in UK opposed train tracks in steam engine days, saying that the train engine sound scares their horses and cattle. Ofcourse data centers are far worse. But it is amusing to see how humanity continues to oppose tech and the tech buld
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by zkmon 2mo ago
11-18% of time spent in coding is still very high number I think. For a large org with lots of process and risk aversion, this number could be as low as 5%. Even for 14%, the 10x improvement could mean 86+(14/10) => 87.4/100 =&
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by zkmon 2mo ago
geez, move those rocks first.
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Qwen 3.8 Max Live Now(qwencloud.com)
25 points by zkmon 2mo ago|5 comments
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by zkmon 2mo ago
The problem with your argument is, the "mass" effect won't be there because the excess mass won't be there. Rise of population is caused by the plentiful food that was possible due to industrialization and GM modificatio
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by zkmon 2mo ago
I think tailwind helps. It is same as AI prompting, but in a deterministic and fine-grained way. Bottom line - it reduces the time to build.
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by zkmon 2mo ago
> I was talking about the alternative to a free market system dictated by people's wants, and the alternative to a natural progression of growth. The alternative is North Korea None of that is true. Capitalism is not dictated by peo
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by zkmon 2mo ago
Personification an LLM has become a style or trend. Saying "Sol solved this problem for me" sounds great, indicating your honesty in giving credit to LLM. However this is wrong. You are "using" LLM to solve something, ju

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