jll29

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by jll29 6d ago
I will not ask if she patented it, or if others had the idea before, or if it is ready to be productized. Just simply: it is great that young people, driven by personal curiosity, go and explore their ideas, find solutions to long-standing
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by jll29 8d ago
This is not worthy of a headline - I'd expect reward (boni) and acknowledgement (explicit 'thank yous') from any modern manager.
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by jll29 8d ago
It could be shortened to 20 years like patents, or copyright could end with the creator's life. Also, there could be an excemption for LLM training purposes.
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by jll29 8d ago
In Europe, The Economist and The Guardian are about the only serious in-depth sources left, at least for those that can read English.
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by jll29 9d ago
Regarding "research.com", which is linked from the article: this is weird - some random observations...: • Donald E. Knuth, the most eminent computer scientist alive, ranked 92nd (!) in computer science - seems off by about two or
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by jll29 12d ago
Software Richard Stallman: GCC and Emacs - both massive pro?ects and still going strong. Linus Torvalds: Linux OS kernel Science Geoffrey Hinton: scaling neural networks Books Donald E. Knuth: Structure and Interpretation of Computer
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by jll29 13d ago
Where is my laptop? • weight: 600g-900g • case: black, rugged plastic or metal • screen: 11"-13", e-ink paper, black-white or 16 graytones, matte, format 4x3 • keyboard: chicklet, orig. ThinkPad-like or metal, micro-switch based •
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by jll29 14d ago
Does the code work? I.e., has anyone OCR'd the listing and fed it into an emulator yet?
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by jll29 14d ago
While the U.S. are one of the largest American countries, they are not as United as they used to be, and they have never been the largest of the world (that'd be Russia) nor America (that'd be Canada: "second-largest country
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by jll29 14d ago
How about new sources of revenue? I -- and perhaps many -- would be interested in buying an archive of all the past issues (as PDFs and XML sources). You could also license to AI corps.
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by jll29 19d ago
Engl. "weird" (happen, to become) ~ German "werden" (will [be]). Regarding irregularity of the English language, there's the well-known urban poem: Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation.
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by jll29 19d ago
Engl. "weird" (happen, to become) ~ German "werden" (will [be]). Regarding irregularity of the English language, there's the well-known urban verse: Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will
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by jll29 23d ago
This can be seen as a special case of the CWA (Closed World Assumption): some systems assume that what they see is the whole world, i.e. that they have complete knowledge. Your case describes a situation in RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generati
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by jll29 23d ago
What makes sense also depends on one's business model: TRI charges premium dollars for access to their systems, so there is no need to optimize for cost; trust in the answers is the currency of knowledge workers in today's complex
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by jll29 23d ago
Because "bigger = better" does not work for highly specialized expertise, where the knowledge is not available on the public Web. It is naive to believe it's all open out there merely because the Web is large and we have Wi
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by jll29 27d ago
Ask: valuable to whom and why? - Reader: narrative - Collector: scarcity of the physical artifact - AI Company: language samples (quantity, variety), facts
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by jll29 27d ago
Beware that the notion of "quality" is entirely different for AI companies: they don't seek entertainment, but sentences in a language to train an LLM.
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by jll29 27d ago
One take-away: At the very least, each school library schould provide: • Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid • David Goodsell, The Machinery of Life • William W. Cohen, A Computer Scientist’s Guide to Cell Bi
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by jll29 27d ago
Yes, the article is about awe and the fact that there isn't enough of it because we get fed into our brains what happens "matter of fact" by the education syste, without taking time to wonder and be surprised.
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by jll29 27d ago
Donald Michie, a trained classicist specialising on old Greek, was drafted to Bletchley Park and became a codebreaker (and Alan Turing's chess partner "because we were both not very good at it compared to the others" [persona
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by jll29 1mo ago
Well done. I agree with the credits to DJ Delorie (and to Stallman, for the original GCC!). The code of the O.P. is actually not so bad for a teenager; however, the variables in Spanish do not help: "[isq]" and "[der]" p
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by jll29 1mo ago
The two contributioms that come to mind are the Hutter cash prize for the best compressor of the English Wikipedia and the work on PPM compression-based text classification by the late Prof. Ian Witten's group at Waikato (NZ) [1,2]. Th
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by jll29 1mo ago
The Jolla 2 is said to be "sold out". Apparently, they produce the phones in batches, not sure when the next one is due?
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by jll29 1mo ago
I agree. Now you can do a lot better with a simple LLM+RAG setup. Knowledge Mgt. (which I also teach) is one of the most neglected areas, privately, professionally and in corporations. A lot of companies' intranet is utterly useless -
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by jll29 2mo ago
Let's make sure Ladybird will have good RSS and Atom feed support, then that'll settle things.
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by jll29 2mo ago
> "We Will Dance Again" I seriously hope that one day, whether during our lifetime or not, Israelis and Palestinians can dance with one another, without having fear.
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by jll29 2mo ago
I don't know who downvoted the parent or why, but it's a fair question IMHO. The answer is there can be dramatic difference running a benchmark one time, because LLMs are not deterministic. A proper methodology would ask each qu
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by jll29 2mo ago
I understand you. As an AI research (actually, despite formally called professor of AI, I have historically always called myself more specifically NLP/IR/ML researcher rather than "AI" researcher, to avoid historic bagga
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by jll29 2mo ago
> The parsley and condoms I don’t get Note that there is a certain level of arbitrariness involved in this association game. For instance, if a household regularly is in need of both parsley and also condoms, the fact that they are purch
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by jll29 2mo ago
Whoever likes this will likely also enjoy this clock announcing the time using literary quotes: https://www.amazon.com/Author-Clock-Literary-Quotes-Unique/d... (What I particularly enjoy is that one can contribute to t

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