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by falaki 13d ago
They couldn't pick a more sinister headline for such an awesome technological development.
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by falaki 1mo ago
Fun to read this in light of this other post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49279627
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by falaki 2mo ago
Yes exactly.
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by falaki 2mo ago
Also they suggest every company should build their own benchmark and repeat these tests with new models instead of relying on the SWE bench.
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by falaki 2mo ago
1) Many models are now competitive at the top tier, including open source. 2) GLM 5.2 in particular was a major step forward in open source coding agent performance, 3) Harnesses make a huge difference in cost-performance. 4) Cheaper per-t
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by falaki 3mo ago
The paper has some insights that may apply to AI coding: 1. The first companies that benefitted from the Dynamo were electrical light manufacturers. They were more intimately aware of the potential benefits and since they were new, they bui
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by falaki 5mo ago
Absolutely worth reading.
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by falaki 7mo ago
I worked at Siri (post acquisition) 13 years ago as one of the early data scientists. Let's just say I am not a bit surprised.
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by falaki 8mo ago
There are a lot of Iranian-Americans in Silicon valley, and the broader tech. These people have family and relatives in Iran and not being able to contact has been extremely hard on them. If you have an Iranian colleague, please understand
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by falaki 8mo ago
Some personal observations as I am in touch with a few folks inside Iran through Starlink. 1. The jamming/disruption is local to large cities most notably the capital, Tehran. 2. Even in Tehran it is not complete and my friends are abl
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by falaki 8mo ago
Some personal observations as I am in touch with a few folks inside Iran through Starlink. 1. The jamming/disruption is local to large cities most notably the capital, Tehran. 2. Even in Tehran it is not complete and my friends are abl
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by falaki 8mo ago
I left the comment on starlink on that thread. I should note some personal observations as I am in touch with a few folks inside Iran through Starlink. 1. The jamming/disruption is local to large cities most notably the capital, Tehran
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by falaki 8mo ago
Except that in the common law system of the United States, a judge can throw out the regulation.
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by falaki 8mo ago
Yes, there are NGOs and organizations that sponsor these and pay for them. Here is an example: https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2024/12/18/inside-...
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by falaki 8mo ago
I hear after the Ukraine war, Starlink became very good at thwarting jamming. I am confident the Iranians are not as sophisticated as the Russians in than front.
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by falaki 8mo ago
Fortunately, the government cannot enforce complete blackout because thousands of startlink terminals are active inside the country. They have been complaining about it [1] to no avail. Using these terminals activists and journalists contin
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by falaki 8mo ago
In recent years they have been trying to build a nation-wide Intranet that can function while international gateways are blocked. It is not perfect and every time they block the Internet, many issues happen but for the most port critical ne
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by falaki 9mo ago
Alcohol, tobacco and many other products have age restrictions, so do cars and many other products of the modern society. Social media can and should have age restrictions.
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by falaki 9mo ago
I really hope other nations, including the United States, copy this. Australia proved that it is possible. I think the results will be so overwhelmingly positive that others will take notice. Good job Australia! Reading "Anxious Genera
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by falaki 1y ago
Every government program should have an expiration date attached to it when signed into law.
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The Etymology of "Farvahar"(medium.com)
2 points by falaki 1y ago|1 comments
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by falaki 1y ago
Many in the west wrongly assume the symbol they know as Farvahar is a representation of Aura Mazda, the Zoroastrian great god. Some even call the symbol Ahura Mazda. The real story is much more fascinating.
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by falaki 1y ago
When I was hired at Apple/siri more than 10 years ago as a Data Scientist, I was SHOCKED to find that the system beyond speech recognization was rule-based. My team and I attempted multiple times to introduce statistical learning model
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by falaki 2y ago
This article's confusion is where it states "half the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya." He thinks because half of the world population speaks an Indo-European language, and because the original speaker
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by falaki 2y ago
And interestingly Iranians are mostly not the descendants of the so-called Indo-Iranian steppe nomads (genetically). But they speak various Iranian languages.
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by falaki 2y ago
This article is conflating language and ancestry. The seed of the confusion is in Reich’s research but the WSJ journalist blows it up to preposterous levels. Take India as an example. Most of the population is speaking some variant of an In
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by falaki 2y ago
How much money does Google make in Mexico?
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by falaki 2y ago
I haven't read the papers in detail, but can someone explain how genetics can be used to trace spread of languages? For context, you don't need population movements for a language to spread (it is similar to religion). See this ar
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by falaki 2y ago
"The Collapse of the Eastern Mediterranean" by Ronnie Ellenblum, whom I believe was a student of Richard Bulliet covers this topic as well.
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by falaki 2y ago
Late Mary Boyce attributes lower outbreaks of pandemics among Zoroastrian communities to the strict purity laws and practices. For example, it was unacceptable to pollute water, considered one of the sacred creations of Ahuramazda. To avoid

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