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by aprilfoo 7mo ago
The case is not money, it's clear: > The move comes at a time of growing concern within European administrations over their heavy dependency on US software for day-to-day work amid increasingly unreliable transatlantic relations
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by aprilfoo 7mo ago
Of course comparing open source and AI is like comparing apples and oranges, but the question makes a lot of sense. Just the first thing that comes to mind: open source is about transparency whereas LLMs are opaque by nature. This is a radi
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by aprilfoo 8mo ago
> It was always naive to think 3.5% of the population could force the other 96.5% This makes 100%, right. But how many actually care and act, what are the dynamics? Regarding the end of centralized broadcasting, one could argue that soci
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by aprilfoo 8mo ago
That's really interesting, but i'm wondering if this is as rational as it looks. > we are going to be kinda of obsolete in what defined us, as a profession: the ability to write code Is it a fact, really? I don't think &qu
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by aprilfoo 8mo ago
With all those fantastic claims defining "the future", it feels more like PR hunt for venture capital in those start-ups than a serious article.
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by aprilfoo 9mo ago
The second video shows the head of the CNIL (~ the "regulator") mostly repeating platitudes about various topics, but nothing about age restriction for social networks. Did i miss anything?
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by aprilfoo 9mo ago
> It seems to me that Claude's error here (which is not unique to it) is self-sycophancy. The model is too eager to convince itself it did a good job. It seems this applies to the whole AI industry, not just LLMs.
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by aprilfoo 11mo ago
Posts inviting language/frameworks flame wars are clickbaits... and i fell for it, again.
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by aprilfoo 11mo ago
Fantastique ! Let's create "Piaf" to see la vie en rose, the French à la https://codewithrockstar.com/ .
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by aprilfoo 11mo ago
The EU's DMA team replied to a previous inquiry: > [...] the Digital Markets Act (‘DMA’) obliges gatekeepers like Google to effectively allow the distribution of apps on their operating system through third party app stores or the w
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by aprilfoo 11mo ago
Filling forms is a terribly artificial activity in essence. They are also very culturally biased, but that fits well with the material the NNs have been trained with. So, surely those IQ-related tests might be acceptable rating tools for ma
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by aprilfoo 1y ago
Surely "intelligence" is a broad field... i might not be so that great at it, but i hope that's ok. "[LLMs] reason using the same type of associative abstract thinking as humans do": do you have a reference for this
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by aprilfoo 1y ago
"AI" is too much of a broad umbrella term of competing ideas, from symbolic logic (FOL, expert systems) to statistical operations (NNs). It's clear today that the latter has won the race, but ignoring this history doesn'
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by aprilfoo 1y ago
I think it's about showing that different models are possible for people who do care and are willing to reflect and change the way they operate. The big majority goes with the comfort of the mainstream, almost by definition.
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by aprilfoo 1y ago
Signal is doing a great job fighting for its survival as a public platform. It's obvious that "chat-control" cannot be effective in its official purpose: there are already and will be many ways to evade surveillance like CSS
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by aprilfoo 1y ago
That could be true in a perfect world, where people and systems executing the surveillance are perfectly capable, respectful, honest and accountable, forever. But in a perfect world surveillance is not necessary anyway: that kind of stateme
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by aprilfoo 1y ago
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_European_Union , "legal acts include regulations, which are automatically enforceable in all member states": any move by national parliaments would be over
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by aprilfoo 1y ago
I'm happily using podman only. Lightweight, secure by design, sweet integration with systemd as an orchestrator: a perfect middle ground when the complexity of k8s isn't needed. Sadly "docker" is just a synonym for &quot
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by aprilfoo 1y ago
Security is always a cat and mouse game, solutions already exist and more will come soon anyway. It's just technology after all. The problem now is not for the mice, it's a matter of defending basic human rights.
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by aprilfoo 1y ago
In short: everything and everyone is suspect and need to approved by technocratic superior authorities and zealot private organizations. Yesterday China, USA, Russia, UK, India etc and today the EU aligning with North Korean style of contro
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by aprilfoo 1y ago
I learned that the core of science and engineering is the ability to understand and control the systems that we build. This obviously involves complex tools, that need to be mastered too. Modern AI seems to be able to achieve results bypass
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by aprilfoo 1y ago
Can you please elaborate? What docker compose offers that a quadlet based deployment cannot match?
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by aprilfoo 1y ago
I'm happily using quadlets as a lightweight container orchestration tool for few months now and i also think it deserves more attention. RH is doing a great integration job pushing the systemd ecosystem. As many projects still only men
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by aprilfoo 2y ago
It seems still possible to avoid being tracked (protections, filters, degoogle, etc), and the business is not very interested in the minority willing to trade off functionality, practicality and ease for privacy. For how long?
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by aprilfoo 2y ago
The current AI mega-buzz, fueled by fascinating technologies, finance and even geopolitics makes it difficult to have a serious analyze beyond opinions and reactions. But the shock waves of that announcement by a small tech company are quit
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by aprilfoo 2y ago
"Most people" is not something easy to grasp: can we even know if we belong to this group? Beside, i'm not sure if this idea of necessarily mediocre majority is actually relevant. Take competitive businesses, sports, or even
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by aprilfoo 2y ago
Investors value OpenAI more than $150bn, but it just reported $5bn loss on $3.7bn revenue: the financial pressure is tremendous and that cannot last long. It's the same kind of situation as with Google vs. Yahoo in the early days, when
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by aprilfoo 2y ago
Processing beyond simple DB data retrieval or io dependent processes can be time consuming and fully justify a cache. Eg, geographic processing that goes beyond geoDB capabilities with millions of rows, eventually involving retrieval of dat
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by aprilfoo 2y ago
"Application server" is an umbrella term and the documentation doesn't really help identifying what the perimeter is. Beside, it states that it is so fast that there's no need for cache, and supports SQLite only. So it s
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by aprilfoo 2y ago
> OF COURSE it was popular with communists A long story short: it wasn't. Tarkovsky suffered from censorship and lack of support for the production of non propaganda movies, like many others. > Edit: just started reading the movi

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