jstrebel

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by jstrebel 25d ago
Although I read that this web site was made using AI, I still feel entertained by it. The topic requires precise language and that's something that an LLM is surely excelling at. Yet I feel that the concepts in the text are a bit repe
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by jstrebel 1mo ago
Consent-O-Matic is a bit of an edge case because their last update was more than a year ago and their Github repo looks pretty dead. This makes me not really trust it anymore.
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by jstrebel 1mo ago
Why did you buy such a card in the 90s? Of course you wanted to play Doom or Duke3D with your buddies!
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by jstrebel 1mo ago
What do you think all those IT engineers who were made redundant in the last months are doing? Some of them might prefer founding a start-up to joblessness. It's not the first time that a job market crisis increases the rate of start-u
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by jstrebel 1mo ago
I really appreciate how Mars Incorporated is actively weaning people off sugar ;)
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by jstrebel 1mo ago
I haven't lost faith in my career and I've been an IT specialist all my life. AI will elevate my game to a new level. I see zero evidence that it will make me redundant in any way. I guess the role of IT will shift - specialized t
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by jstrebel 3mo ago
It's always good to see improvements around WSL2, but especially this one is not so relevant IMHO, since it only affects WLS2 file access to Windows file system. If you store your dev environment in WSL2 anyway, this won't help yo
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by jstrebel 4mo ago
AI is like TV in that old saying: AI makes the smart ones smarter and the dumb ones dumber. LLMs can both help you advance your knowledge and do your homework (preventing you from learning).
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by jstrebel 4mo ago
I am trying to build a simulation that lets a simulated organism come up with its own small language, purely learned from sensory input: https://github.com/JoergStrebel/VirtualZoo/blob/main/compute... I
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by jstrebel 4mo ago
Banking apps are the deal-breaker for me. I only do business with banks that offer alternative ways of securing transactions e.g. eTan / ChipTAN / PhotoTAN with a separate reader / generator (see https://www.bsi.bu
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by jstrebel 5mo ago
But you would already have to have shell access to the system to execute those commands, right?
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by jstrebel 6mo ago
An adult is a person who managed to leave childhood behind, especially in his thoughts. It's the independence of and emancipation from childhood.
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by jstrebel 6mo ago
I also love it. Finally, I am no longer constrained by syntax errors or forgotten API details. I can focus on the feature. It's like taking programming to a higher level - programming in English (instead of Java).
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by jstrebel 6mo ago
How does your framework compare to spec-driven development e.g. https://github.com/github/spec-kit ? In my experience, spec-kit produces a lot of markdown files and little source code.
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by jstrebel 6mo ago
Death will soon realize that he messed with the wrong man.
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by jstrebel 7mo ago
Well, in a world of finite resources, I think I would need a better reason to invest time into this topic than just "for the challenge". I mean I just think that I have ample opportunities to do something more sensible with my tim
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by jstrebel 7mo ago
A very nice video. It shows that computer games are glamorous on the outside, but once you look behind the scenes, they just look like normal software. I was also surprised to hear that the team did not only rely on computer graphics textbo
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by jstrebel 8mo ago
Ok, impressive, but - why? No current computer has a floppy disk drive anymore. The Web Page claims building such a disk is a learning exercise, but the knowledge offered is pretty arcane, even for regular Linux users. Is this pure nostalgi
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by jstrebel 9mo ago
Hmm, no, I don't think I want to tell OpenAI my banking details and transactions. (sorry, Google and Microsoft, you need to stay out, too)
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by jstrebel 9mo ago
Lefties sympathizing with criminals, sharing their wealth distribution fantasies, agitating against competing political views. You've come a long way, CCC! The initial ideas was political, but with a clear focus on freedom of informati
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by jstrebel 9mo ago
In all fairness: human senior devs see AI-written source code with some disdain, as it usually does not match their stylistic and idiomatic preferences (although being correct and fully working). I don't think that untested code is th
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by jstrebel 9mo ago
I am certain that LLMs can help you with judgment calls as well. I spent the last month tinkering with spec-driven development of a new Web app and I must say, the LLM was very helpful in identifying design issues in my requirements documen
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by jstrebel 11mo ago
The publicly funded media (radio, TV) obviously use this finding to claim that they need more money and/or a tighter regulation of AI companies' products. Sounds a bit self-serving to me...
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by jstrebel 1y ago
If you want to do research, usually the first thing to do is refine your research question up to a point where it becomes relatable to the scientific state of the art and where it becomes clear how to test / evaluate it. I don't
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by jstrebel 1y ago
I think this "argument" has always been flawed. I don't need to justify what information I would like to share especially with state agencies. In Germany, this is even encoded in a legal principle called "Informationelle
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by jstrebel 1y ago
Impressive setup, but I would assume it to be very operations-intensive because of the high number of deployed components and their complex configuration. Plus, if you are serious about self-hosting, you would need the facilities and infras
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by jstrebel 1y ago
I think there is a misunderstanding - the whole point of my comment was that LLMs are lacking sensory input which could link the neural activations to real-world objects and thus provide a grounding of their computations. I agree with you t
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by jstrebel 1y ago
I absolutely love this paper and it's a shame that this research does not receive more attention. Everybody is raving about LLMs, but also everybody is ignoring the shaky foundations on which they are built (just think of training data
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by jstrebel 1y ago
I played it yesterday, and IMHO, the visual appearance looks a bit inconsistent. On the one hand, you have the satellite, high-detail top-down landscape view and on the other hand, you have the very basic, geometric, small and uni-color sha
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by jstrebel 2y ago
Well that's right, but only the currently elected parliament is allowed to stay during war times, not the president. So you cannot have elections, but the president cannot simply stay in power without them.

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