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Your assumptions seems to be that there is a limit to what is knowable. Picture a spotlight shining down on an infinite field. The surface which is lit up by the spotlight represen…

The quarterly earnings statement says something about, well, earnings. And earnings need not be directly linked to search traffic since Google has several revenue streams, also fro…

Does the vision-language-model process raw image data, or does it process OCR character output?

I think it's safe to say that Google has had a prominent position, and that they have indeed abused that position to gain an unfair market advantage over other companies due to ad …

Got Tinnitus from working as a concert photographer. It's not so bad. I've learned to live with it. But yeah... It's permanent. So, to not make it worse, I've bought protection tha…

This is an interesting observation. Do you have some examples of this?

Regular selectors... (pun intended)

Part of this is the ever increasing amount of tags and elements in HTML files. Instead of being a document markup, it's a page markup, and it's difficult to discern where one stops…

EVE Online has the nickname "Spreadsheets in Space" for a reason, though. There are many aspects of the game where you don't need a spreadsheet, so you're not forced to play this p…

Sounds like a good use case for a Kalman filter.

Plan 9? Is this a reference to the cult movie Plan 9 From Outer Space? Edit: Oh, it looks like it is indeed!^[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs

That's a big “depends.” We can assume that Google employs ML too, and that it will tailor its output to the particular user. Thus, your output might not be the same as mine. With t…

This gives me Chinese Room vibes.

The mere mention of its name sends chills down my spine. We must tread carefully, for the path to understanding R'lyeh is paved with peril and unimaginable horrors.

Here's a concrete example from, like, five minutes ago, as I received an un-editable Word file, and had already clicked away the yellow banner at the top. Technotroll: How do I ena…

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> Can you give some examples of how ChatGPT “does better” than a human searching for something and then using their own cognition to make sense of it? Certainly! ChatGPT outperform…

> There is a group of people that are ardent in the conviction that if we wait long enough and wish hard enough that ChatGPT will replace the concept of googling things. Have you t…

AFAIK you have to be 18 years old to apply to Apple's iOS developer program. This is a huge problem within teaching. Please do tell me if there are legal ways around this.

In a lot of applications, there is no need to signal readiness. You can simply start processing the input at once, and display it continuously, from the first character or number t…

You certainly should because you're building the company that way.

Sorry, I can't remember. They suddenly lowered the amount of clients a few years ago. This locked me out of my e-mail client. Since 2FA updates were sent to my e-mail it lead to a …

Perhaps this is tangential, but I'm always amazed with input forms have a "Go" or "Send" button when it's supposed to do some on-the-fly or local computation or treatment of the in…

I had this problem with Dashlane after they suddenly changed their policies, though with a regular password. My solution? Out of frustration I developed my own password manager. Ev…

I'm an Atari ST guy myself, so now we can never be friends... But I gave you an upvote either way. ;) Jk, I had a lot of fun with Amigas too, when I grew up. I remember pitching my…