raychis

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by raychis 2mo ago
Hurray and good. A technology shouldn’t be treated as unlawful simply because it can be used to bypass restrictions. Restrictions which are stupid in the first place in the majority. I hope VPNs are not becoming the next battleground betwee
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by raychis 2mo ago
Interesting approach to large scale visualisation. Moving reduction into Rust and sending screen bounded data to WebGL seems much more sensible than pushing millions of raw points into the browser. How does it perform with real time updates
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by raychis 2mo ago
This period lasted quite some time. In the mid 00s it was still like this. I remember writing code in notepad and vim. Version managers like tortoiseSVN were a total game changer when it came to collaborating. I still think learning like th
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by raychis 2mo ago
Nice balance of practical examples and mental models. One question though, how do you decide when to use interactive rebase versus relying on squash merges in platforms like GitHub.
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by raychis 2mo ago
$1B sounds like a serious fine, but for a company the size of Google I’m not sure it changes much. Hopefully the rules create room for more competitors, we'll have to see if it has any impact.
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by raychis 2mo ago
I wonder if we made tech billionaires choose between keeping their golf courses or building more AI data centres what they would go for.
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by raychis 2mo ago
This really captures the danger of turning every technological gain into a new expectation. AI may save us time, but if we simply reinvest that time into working harder and competing more, what have we actually gained? Throughout history th
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by raychis 2mo ago
I know, but it just seems that so much journalism is propaganda (as you put it) at the moment. It is really sad and a big shame that is holding back proper needed debates and discussion. Especially on an important emerging tech like AI.
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by raychis 2mo ago
This blanket assumption that Chinese AI models are a threat is really silly. We need to be able to separate security concerns with concerns about competition. The media at large seems unable to distinguish this and it is really annoying. AI
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by raychis 2mo ago
Could be a major test of whether regulation can create real competition. Opening Android to rival AI assistants makes sense and would be good, but sharing search data is what is really needed for those assistants to be useful.
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by raychis 2mo ago
It does raise uncomfortable questions. I've felt this a long time about long form interviews, they are less honest conversation and more polished PR half the time. There are some serious issues the video raises, but I don't think
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by raychis 2mo ago
Thought this was about Tim Berners-Lee, he is the only father I know.
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by raychis 2mo ago
This was a fantastic read. I had no idea how much of Terminator 2 had to be invented from scratch. It's amazing to think that a lot of the tools and ideas that shaped modern VFX started with engineers just trying to solve one impossibl
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by raychis 2mo ago
You know, when I wrote that comment I was actually thinking of the ending of Inception. Still makes me very uncomfortable though.
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by raychis 2mo ago
This looks very cool. An AI that can listen and speak and handle tasks without breaking the flow of conversation would solve some big annoyances with current tools. The concern is though as these get better will people struggle to distingui
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The hard part wasn't the code. The hard part was the thinking that produced it(medium.com)
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by raychis 2mo ago
Interesting that even Nasdaq-100 inclusion could not keep SpaceX shares up. Probably the expected boost from index-fund buying was already priced in. I hope that investors are finally looking beyond the hype, the valuation was massively ove
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by raychis 2mo ago
AI is being pushed as a productivity revolution. Sure, it is very good. But, the costs of it are astronomical and manufacturers and customers are left paying the whooping bills, in this case from energy. Who is really benefiting from this r
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by raychis 2mo ago
I don't think the issue AI note-taking per se. It is whether a conversation can still be candid and confidential once everyone knows it may become permanent, searchable, and shareable. Big tech companies don't exactly have a clean
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by raychis 2mo ago
The idea that its two lobes joined through a slow, gentle collision is really cool. It could hold clues of how planets first began forming billions of years ago. Really interesting object.
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by raychis 2mo ago
Do you remember that terrible meme of a guy Ajit Pai? Somehow the current clown show have made him look like a pretty reasonable guy in comparison.
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by raychis 2mo ago
What stands out to me is how quickly developers switched once they perceived the model became good enough for agents. It may not be the best model overall but at that price it doesn’t need to be. OpenAI and Anthropic need to get their act t
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by raychis 2mo ago
This is exactly why AI summaries shouldn’t be trusted blindly, especially when safety concerns can be buried under hundreds of positive reviews. It is a big problem that the uncertainty in the text produced by LLMs isn't surfaced to us
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by raychis 2mo ago
Watched this when it first came out last year. I think it is the clearest explanation of quantum computing I’ve seen. It is especially good at tackling the myth about trying every answer at once. 3blue1brown videos are always absolutely top
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by raychis 2mo ago
EV batteries may be lasting far longer than most buyers expected but are consumers really going to trust the data over the headlines? There has been such a propaganda attack on EVs that it will take a long time to overcome that.
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by raychis 3mo ago
Fascinating read. The bit I’m worried about is not AI writing a novel, it’s the possibility of culture drowning in endless polished, but average writing. To be fair we’ve been on a similar cultural trajectory without AI, everything feels sa
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by raychis 3mo ago
Really enjoyed this framing of threat modelling as a way to make assumptions explicit and not just a compliance checklist. It was also quite amusing and sassy. Well done to the author, great piece! The point that secure is meaningless witho
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by raychis 3mo ago
People aren’t mad about technology. They’re mad about being told after the fact that their town might lose water, power, quiet, or tax revenue to a project they didn't have a say in. Build the future, sure. But don’t sneak it past the
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by raychis 3mo ago
Honestly, it’s wild that selling people’s precise location data was ever treated like a normal business model. We already know massive data harvesting has happened. Laws like this are just the bare minimum for catching up. Would be nice if
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by raychis 3mo ago
This is where prediction markets get messy. The moment a ranking has a payout attached to it, people start looking for ways to move the ranking. These markets are going to create more toxic incentives. Their boosters aren't going to ac

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