jlaporte

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by jlaporte 2mo ago
Beautiful!
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by jlaporte 5mo ago
Treating protein as calories is a category error. Fat and carbs are energy, properly treated as calories. Protein is not (in a non-starving person) used for energy, and it should be measured in grams not calories. The input calories weren&#
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by jlaporte 11mo ago
I think the motivation is Ladybird [1] coming on the scene with lots of awareness and sponsorship [1] https://ladybird.org/#about
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by jlaporte 1y ago
> it moves the responsibility for name resolution from the operating system to each application Browsers only took on DoH implementation directly because they were solving the cold-start problem for a new protocol. Nothing to do with the
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The Truth about AI and copyright that nobody will say out loud(roadtoartificia.com)
2 points by jlaporte 1y ago|2 comments
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by jlaporte 1y ago
No opinion on this particular package. But on the naming, "Apache" ECharts... It's long since time that Apache foundation projects stop using the Apache name. Apache is a license, a foundation, a webserver. Apache supported p
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by jlaporte 1y ago
Counterpoint: the product vision that is already on display here is going in a great direction, and colocating a spreadsheet with your accounting app is a great idea. I love the idea of being freed from having to use excel for particular as
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Why AI is progressing so quickly in 2025, and why we know the pace will continue(roadtoartificia.com)
2 points by jlaporte 2y ago|1 comments
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by jlaporte 2y ago
"...the chatter in the legacy media about AI being in a hype cycle or bubble is simply wrong, and why understanding just a little bit about where the advances in AI capabilities are coming from shows why. Continued AI acceleration in t
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LLM Hallucination Leaderboard(github.com)
2 points by jlaporte 2y ago|0 comments
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by jlaporte 2y ago
And not a word of protest was uttered.
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by jlaporte 2y ago
Macron has been advocating for a European Army for around a decade. With the recent EU defence spending announcements the idea of a unified command structure in Europe is becoming likely. The French offer to extend their nuclear umbrella se
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by jlaporte 2y ago
Actually this is addressed in the article. Unique signing keys per capture or per short rotation period.
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Time for smartphone makers to ship verified video capture(roadtoartificia.com)
4 points by jlaporte 2y ago|4 comments
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by jlaporte 2y ago
"Democracy depends on free speech, separation of powers, and smartphone camera design. [...] These technologies are tied together in a chain of trust, such that each layer verifies the next. In iOS systems, this chain begins with the B
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by jlaporte 2y ago
I sympathize with the operators of these forums of course -- the UK Online Safety Act is poorly conceived. HOWEVER. Deleting their forums? "The act will require a vast amount of work to be done on behalf of the Forums and there is no
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The DeepSeek episode: separating fact and fiction(roadtoartificia.com)
2 points by jlaporte 2y ago|1 comments
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by jlaporte 2y ago
"Throughout the last week, DeepSeek’s legend grew, with each new thread on X seemingly competing to explain a new way that DeepSeek’s R1 means the end of the line for OpenAI, Nvidia, Meta, Anthropic, the U.S. AI industry in general, an
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In the era of AI agents, Apple keeps agency for itself(roadtoartificia.com)
1 points by jlaporte 2y ago|1 comments
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by jlaporte 2y ago
"AI agents are the new apps. But with Apple Intelligence, devs are just data donors and task runners - locked out of the agent layer entirely."
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by jlaporte 2y ago
"Building in the post-AI world means learning how to consume vast amounts of zero-marginal cost intelligence"
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Our Future of Abundant Intelligence(roadtoartificia.com)
12 points by jlaporte 2y ago|4 comments
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by jlaporte 2y ago
> The Five Eyes may cooperate. Maybe. On this point - check out Matthew Pines on his view that over the next year the US will force allies to convert treasuries and gold to US century bonds, with the stick being a threat of being left ou
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Why the next leaps towards AGI may be "born secret"(roadtoartificia.com)
23 points by jlaporte 2y ago|13 comments
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by jlaporte 2y ago
This week a major US AI development flew under the radar - a US congressional commission, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) presented their annual report to congress. Their number one recommendation was that Cong
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by jlaporte 2y ago
This is an example of the "No true Scotsman" fallacy. These arguments for communism have been refuted thousands of times before, no need to waste electrons doing it here again. Communism is always and everywhere a violent ideology
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by jlaporte 2y ago
addressed in the piece
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by jlaporte 2y ago
Hey yesbut The possibility of "humans to spend their free time in true leisure" is actually cited and specifically not rejected in the piece. It's addressing a very specific, and very dangerous, failure mode of a post-AI soci
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by jlaporte 2y ago
Either one :-) I'm not inclined to run the communism experiment again, I think we've got enough data. "20th Century Democide" https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.TAB1.2.GIF from: https:/&#x2
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by jlaporte 2y ago
btw I also agree that pure PageRank on the endorsement links might benefit from tweaking, although some of the common failure cases for PR on the web don't apply here - you can't generate piles of extra humans to endorse-link to y

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