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This will cause cognitive debt anyway. As mentioned in https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.21972v1 : "When students rely on these outputs as a substitute for their own reasoning or critical…

Oh wow, even scammers care about usability and their employees' well-being. What's the excuse for bad UX in internal company software?

I'm really not sure how this would work. I don't know how the ACM works, but in IEEE you would have to give them your publishing rights. However, training a LLM is not publishing b…

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Moving money around is harder than it seems

I don't understand why almost always the AI doomerism needs to give embodiment the AI. Real life is not a movie needing visual effects. AI doesn't need a body of itself to became d…

I tried the smallest ome, the only available, and got an error: ``` Could not load. Error: failed to call OrtRun(). ERROR_CODE: 1, ERROR_MESSAGE: Non-zero status code returned whil…

Real programmers use butterflies (mandatory xkcd reference) https://xkcd.com/378/

But what users prefer? Given this is for marketing, which results produce more conversions? From the examples shown, personally I strongly preferred Claude Opus in all cases.

"Uniqlo x Akamai sells another design of shirt in the same range which is plainly incomplete" Imagine having to return a t-shirt because that malfunction! — I don't understand why …

Hash functions necesarily have collisions. Also, it is perfectly possible to introduce bugs in the hash function (hash inputs, hash function itself) that allows cross account conta…

That sounds very similar to what we know in self-supervised learning as representation collapse. I wonder if we could copy some of the anti-collapse mechanisms from SSL into GPT...…

This is interesting. Adam Smith said "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public,…

I really miss the crimson red. New one makes me think they are mourning someone.

Often, but not always. For my thesis, I ended up with a section related to porn. ChatGPT simply refused to spell-check that section. Also, recently I wrote a comment on HN about di…

I had that discussion with my high school English teacher. We used USA oriented books and they often introduce "advanced vocabulary" which should have been trivial for Spanish spea…

I can do high level thinking for around 6 hours with just two scrambled eggs and a cup of coffee. What I need is something to prevent me from context drift. /starts googling how ma…

Simply Ruby on Rails. I maintain 3 markdown documents with system design, implementation plan and use cases in repo. Then tell it those files exist and go implement X feature (from…

The F35 program is essential! When the USA will finally conquer free healthcare?

I'm not sure that is really the case, or relevant in practice. I have been using OpenCode with DeepSeek lately (regular coding). For instance, today I got 120 million input tokens …

I have refused to lean too hard on agentic tooling for developing. I'm aware of the gains, I use it at my daily job. But I cannot afford to loss my brain skills, just in case they …

That also sucks if you are not anywhere close to retire or having a beffy bank account and depend on regular monthly payments.

No, increasing the offer of something decreases its value, always. Do not necessarily increases its demand. That is basic economic rule. See that I use "value", not "cost". The dis…

It has always been possible to do it. LLMs are not a particular enabler for that. The difference is that now it is worthless: there is no learning, no person caring about the resul…

Many banks already require monthly or annual payments for keeping an account with them. They also use the money from deposits to lend it at high interest rates. It is not like the …