petilon

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by petilon 3d ago
So kind of like how the US figured out how to test and maintain nuclear weapons without an actual explosion, then sought to ban nuclear testing by explosion.
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by petilon 5d ago
> The threat to mathematics isn't that suddenly the profitability of their profession (lol) is going to go away, it's that people are thinking of AI as a replacement for the human social and intellectual practices that constit
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by petilon 5d ago
> We are witnessing a general threat to intellectual work, with misalignment between the outcome of the use of AI and its initial purpose. In many fields and activities, years of training have traditionally served not only to produce a
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by petilon 6d ago
If it is a tier-1 language why isn't it supported in Visual Studio?
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by petilon 6d ago
If you like uncomplicated GUIs: http://mayura.com/chess/
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by petilon 10d ago
If the goal is to use JSX and avoid the complexities of React checkout https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder Sample application: https://github.com/wisercoder/eureka/tree/master/we
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by petilon 12d ago
Astra pelican looks amazing: it looks like it was made by a professional artist. All the others look like they were made by kindergartners.
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by petilon 12d ago
I think mainly your mail won't go into the sent folder and be searchable. You can work around that by CCing your domain. What other features will you not get? The mail composer in Gmail is pretty sucky anyway. For example when you are
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by petilon 12d ago
This only impacts Gmail web interface, according to [1]. You can use a desktop email client and continue to receive and send email from your custom domain. "Web access changes: As previously announced, you can no longer add or sync you
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by petilon 13d ago
AI could discover candidate novel physics without autonomously operating new physical experiments, and humans or instruments can later independently validate the result. This is analogous to how Einstein developed theories whose predictions
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by petilon 13d ago
Solving "open problems" will push the field forward.
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by petilon 13d ago
Here's another definition of AGI from Sam Altman: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/20/podcasts/hard-fork-sam-al... Sam Altman: Let’s say we make an A.I. that is really good, but it can’t go discover
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by petilon 13d ago
He says the same about AGI: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/20/podcasts/hard-fork-sam-al... Sam Altman: Let’s say we make an A.I. that is really good, but it can’t go discover novel physics. Would you ca
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by petilon 13d ago
Sam Altman himself has said it is not AGI unless it can discover novel physics. https://x.com/burny_tech/status/1725233117055553938 In the tweet Sam Altman is quoted as saying: "If (for example) super intelli
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by petilon 13d ago
This is wild: OpenAI is basically declaring that AGI is here. https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/989601/o... “If we fast-forward a couple of years, and we look back and say, ‘When was it, really,
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by petilon 13d ago
You can use another word instead of "port". What is undeniable is that the Gates team looked at the DEC Basic source code, had extensive experience with it (having enhanced it), and the Basic they later made had functional similar
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by petilon 13d ago
> In 10 years? I predict that healthcare, education, legal services and transportation won't change in a meaningful way at all. "We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the ch
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by petilon 13d ago
What about this sentence don't you understand: "The BASIC they did which we got ahold of the BASIC source code and enhanced t quite a bit was great." That's a direct Bill Gates quote, see here: [1] https://ame
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by petilon 13d ago
That's completely false. Bill Gates has said [1] he got DEC's Basic source code and "enhanced it". So it is not limited to OS. [1] https://americanhistory.si.edu/comphist/gates.htm
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by petilon 13d ago
> We might recognize that the economics of making such a fascinating and artful experiment like this have completely changed. And this is not limited to software development. In just a few years, the economics of delivering healthcare,
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by petilon 14d ago
They got the source code of DEC Basic, studied it, "enhanced quite a bit" then wrote their own Basic which is similar to DEC Basic, and you don't think it is a derivative? Ok. It is a derivative in my book.
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by petilon 14d ago
In this [1] interview Gates says that he and his group got DEC BASIC source code and enhanced it. [1] https://americanhistory.si.edu/comphist/gates.htm
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by petilon 14d ago
Credit should be given to Digital Equipment Corporation. Back then software isn't what companies made money on, it is hardware. Source code wasn't guarded as a secret as it is today, and you could find print outs in the dumpster [
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by petilon 14d ago
Forget AI, silicon valley parents don't want their kids using phones and computers either. https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/silicon-valley-parent... https://www.nytimes.com/2026&#x2
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New Google AI Model Said to Narrow Gap on Coding Ability (Gemini 3.8 Flash)(wsj.com)
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by petilon 15d ago
So they will switch to per-agent pricing instead of per-user. Fine, but that doesn't change the fact that Microsoft Office will become a just bunch of viewers as far as human usage is concerned. As far as generating Office documents, y
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by petilon 15d ago
There is a serious threat to Microsoft here, if everyone starts using AI for generating and updating Office docs. At some point Office will become just a viewer.
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by petilon 16d ago
No, democracy doesn't mean everyone supports this administration. And in fact, this administration has declared that the blue states are the "enemy from within." If anything you should be sending us survival gear when Trump e
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by petilon 16d ago
If you want to retaliate against this US administration avoid buying stuff exported by red states. The rest of us can't wait for this admin to be over.
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by petilon 18d ago
The example is not particularly impressive. The SQL equivalent is much easier to understand, which means it is easier to maintain. Number of lines is not an interesting metric; understandability and maintainability are more important.

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