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by raister 2y ago
I bet French people can't wait for their electric bills to halve overnight! (/sarcasm). On a more serious note, EDF, France's suppliers sells their provision as 99.99% clean, which is not wrong, I guess, but a good selling po
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by raister 2y ago
Too bad this github has latest changes 5 years ago, I wonder what they could update with LLMs, etc.
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by raister 2y ago
I feel this whilst learning (trying to) German: when I think "how I would say this in German?" I got nothing less than a blank on my mind. But I'm a good "speaker" though, and sadly, I feel I'm not going anywhe
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by raister 2y ago
The way I see it, it's not CS per se, it's about solving problems. You hone that skill, and it will shape your future, whatever field. You'll never be jobless having that particular skill. Don't give up.
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by raister 2y ago
Great story, especially for a 9y! I love to know that one can rise to occasions given time and persistence and willingness to learn, at any age. Thanks for sharing.
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by raister 2y ago
I once thought I lost a paper I'd written a while back (before OverLeaf and Cloud), and I've rewritten it only to find it back again: when I compared the versions, the second one had better sentences altogether. The core framing w
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by raister 2y ago
"Tell me how you measure me, I will tell you how I behave." Eli Goldratt "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." Goodhart's Law
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by raister 2y ago
Thank you for sharing this - very useful!!!
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by raister 2y ago
This reminds me of Eli Goldratt's quote: "Tell me how you measure me, I will tell you how I behave."
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by raister 2y ago
If you have the time and the attention span: "ChatGPT is bullshit" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5 (although they concluded it's "soft" bullshit, as it doesn&#
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by raister 2y ago
TL;DR: "It’s about real estate." Real.
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by raister 2y ago
I resonate with this, unfortunately. I wish things in our field were better.
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by raister 2y ago
It's so disheartening that a lot of effort is put towards presenting ads to people in all spectrum of tech.
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by raister 2y ago
Sorry for the very basic question, but, is DSA, in this context, Disabled Students' Allowance?
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by raister 2y ago
I agree that being the first is important. I have had a paper reviewed, then rejected, only to see the same idea elsewhere a while after. I cannot say the reviewer "had the same idea" nor prove, but it is known to happen. Putting
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by raister 2y ago
For anyone interested, I've wrote a while ago this book: "Markov Chains for programmers". Link: https://czekster.github.io/markov/
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by raister 2y ago
Roblox is a huge problem for me, as a parent of a 8y kid. Let me explain: I try to block violent apps in his tablet using Google's Family app, however, Roblox internally keeps 'offering' my kid almost any game, whatever if th
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by raister 3y ago
The problem with Excel, in my view, is that people start using it as a database, and things get convoluted from there on very fast.
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by raister 3y ago
He surely has a point stating that creators will compete with AI generated content in the years to come. Virtual stars are already plaguing the platform and companies are seeing those as costing less to produce content (and they don't
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by raister 3y ago
Please, elaborate.
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by raister 3y ago
I would expect Mojo to perform better in these settings.
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by raister 3y ago
This was posted 50 days ago - how does it reach first page again? https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=benhoyt.com
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by raister 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20231215014053/https://www.peopl...
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by raister 3y ago
Responded: > Scanning is unavailable at the moment. Try again later.
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by raister 3y ago
Well, it's true, however, it's nice to have a way of showing stakeholders about technologies behind security solutions altogether.
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UK GCHQ's CyberChef(github.com)
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by raister 3y ago
Well, houses, it's simple: they (politicians) limit the number of new builds, otherwise prices would fall. It's always supply and demand in the end. Diamond extracting also: they control the amount of diamonds that 'enter&#x2
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by raister 3y ago
I can imagine in the future authors selecting a checkbox with "I authored this manuscript without the help of any IA." before submitting a paper for review. AND if caught, they would have the 'power' to lift the paper fr
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by raister 3y ago
"...if I were you, I’d hitchike to Alaska this summer instead." Read this book first though: "Into the Wild", a 1996 non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer.
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by raister 3y ago
I miss iGoogle............. :'(

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