kopirgan

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by kopirgan 16d ago
Bigger question is does Linux need another distro at all?! I would say about as badly as Singapore needs a mall. There's no doubting the brilliance of DHH and folks working on it. What if that went to into making a better UI, Desktop l
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by kopirgan 21d ago
Has always been a political project only the politics changed. API access etc are business issues. Can't mix them up.
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by kopirgan 21d ago
Yeah mine is Debian + xfce although my laptop is fairly powerful 32Gb gen 12 Intel. It's fast, light and pleasure to use. Apt any day over all those fancy flat pack etc
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by kopirgan 21d ago
Actually between us and X is not logged in but Xcancel itself I believe logs in. So it's not a login issue..
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by kopirgan 1mo ago
I wanted to learn the underlying principles of LLM/AI and got myself Shilov's book. Wow that was so thick, each paragraph took a while to figure. This could be a nice option.. Thanks!
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by kopirgan 1mo ago
Borland C++ builder came with a nice manual book that explained object oriented programming from basic concepts. Lol those were the days..
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by kopirgan 1mo ago
I think a lot of early scientists and inventors got embroiled in patent disputes and lawsuits etc. In UK, mainland Europe too. Say what you might, money is a big motivator and that is what kept US going. Altruism is all fine for occasional
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by kopirgan 1mo ago
Can some of these optimization get back propagated to Postgres?
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by kopirgan 1mo ago
Seems you need to buy a phone from them to use it? Couldn't find list of hardware supported, how to install etc.
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by kopirgan 1mo ago
Incredible to think that barely ten years after bicycles were somewhat perfected as useful, Wright brothers started testing their early plane designs.
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by kopirgan 1mo ago
Thanks..non AI expert here just wanted to understand..cos one of the most talked about topics is running models locally on cheaper hardware. Helps many esp in poorer places. Would be nice if a genuinely useful coding model can fit into an o
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by kopirgan 2mo ago
Can a model be stripped off anything not relevant to coding and get a lot lighter? Or is that impossible? Just like we have professors with specialisation wondering if AI models can also be so.
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by kopirgan 2mo ago
Where will this leave the c based driver which I believe is the basis for many others?
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by kopirgan 3mo ago
Lost count of number of times I read this or similar: For me it’s the first local model that actually makes sense as a general intelligence.
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by kopirgan 3mo ago
That's a good point.. Writing code vs building
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by kopirgan 3mo ago
Only you get things done lost faster and don't need to pay entire years salary?
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by kopirgan 3mo ago
IIRC Scott McNealy once trolled Microsoft for this - hundred different ways to draw squiggles that can be configured. As an example of code bloat and useless features.
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by kopirgan 3mo ago
Not trying to be funny but seriously, if these tools can produce a tested 'product' in 45m, shouldn't we be seeing millions of them out there? I mean how far are we from a fully AI built Oracle ERP or even a notepad or helix?
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by kopirgan 3mo ago
Interesting...although most of these are present in any country, at least the ones I have been to. You can use Google in India but not Tiktok (to give one example). Earlier Singapore used to have proxy server for websites but for a long tim
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by kopirgan 3mo ago
In Singapore Changi, the arrival and departure are at same gate so you can just sit and wait for next flight. Passport is checked before you get into next flight at the gate where they check your boarding pass as well..right there your bags
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by kopirgan 3mo ago
AI is no different from machine doing what took people earlier. In fact on the scale of many other things (spinning Jenny that could replace dozens, for one) this is probably benign. Because it also multiplies costs. Earlier innovations not
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by kopirgan 3mo ago
Can you explain? What sort of surveillance that affects a casual visitor?!
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by kopirgan 3mo ago
Yeah that is looking at it from US side. If you were Iranian, cutting nose to spite face looks like a bad deal, only as Iranian you have no say in it. As with virus, the ones that survive are the ones that dont cause too much damage and lea
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by kopirgan 3mo ago
Broader point is this: Middle East created oil crisis back in 70s. Since then US economy has grown enormously while it's still using pretty much same amount of oil, imported or otherwise. They shot themselves in their foot. Iran is doi
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by kopirgan 3mo ago
Will this list for trillion dollar valuation as well?
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by kopirgan 3mo ago
I think he's mixing up bureaucratic competence (and lack of corruption within bureaucracy and political class) with democratic consensus. Yes, Singapore will never have a boondoggle like California or UK HSR. But the two are not compar
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by kopirgan 3mo ago
Yes. Actually it'll make sense to build new cities instead of pumping billions paying inflated land cost to build roads, rail etc. and metro systems that only pull even more crowds. Let the main cities rot, be replaced over time by new
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by kopirgan 3mo ago
Lol "unique identity" just for 2 states is left political propaganda. Don't fall for it. Every state (for that matter, most districts) in India is unique and none are unique because there's so much in common. Depending o
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by kopirgan 3mo ago
I'm frankly not sure in both cases, just commenting on how over the ages things change but remain the same. If the broader concern about AI blunting thoughts, introduce laziness etc is true, so are things like calculators, although I a
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by kopirgan 3mo ago
This is standard advise I give to any IT consultants (incl some that didn't ask for any lol). Cos I see too many of them evolving into purchasing clerks and postmen, far removed from the tech and operations. Regex, SQL, Basic linux com

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