Viewing profile — gabipurcaru

multimodality would be very useful, but on the other hand humans can't see infrared, and can't smell ~most things that other animals can

There are multiple parts to it -- "The 2 May 2023, 6 months later, the regulation started applying and the potential gatekeepers had 2 months to report to the commission to be iden…

> people only do it when there's no API Legitimate scrapers, maybe. Everyone else does it to circumvent the API limitations, by posing as real traffic. APIs imply API keys which ca…

this is fairly easy to test for yourself. What did you try?

This is super fun! I did the same back in uni, it was an awesome project: https://github.com/bbpcr/Yomato

yep, I think it's quite standard. The BitTorrent protocol also uses it extensively : https://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecification#Bencoding

this also implies that you can train for more sustained intensity, which I think is absolutely true. You can become a brilliant engineer by finding the right balance of intensity a…

As usual, journalists trying to explain what scientists do and misrepresenting the facts. The paper mentions accuracy i.e. (true positives + true negatives) / total examples. And i…

people buy their stuff.

well, to be fair, the app store has ads in search. When you search for app X, you're likely to see its competitor Y as the first result. (Though this is obviously not Jobs' doing.)…

Nice. I'd be super interested in deeper AI integrations for note taking apps, to help you reach certain goals, e.g.: - calorie counting or diets: just write down what you ate, and …

I'm pretty sure wget has plenty more users in addition to Stallman

This is what they claim: We did no specific training for these exams. A minority of the problems in the exams were seen by the model during training, but we believe the results to …

this looks nice and clean. Generally, the problem with these services is that they can easily be used for malicious purposes -- fronts for data exfiltration, scamming etc., so ther…

Same as the recent FB and Linkedin incidents. It's all scraped data. Doesn't mean that collecting public data at scale is not something bad

My one contention with click menus is that clicking on _anything_ has a nonzero chance of accidentally navigating away from the page, depending on the particular website's implemen…

> The government says the code will initially focus on Google and Facebook, but could be expanded to other tech companies. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-56107028

> I'm not saying that companies shouldn't be able to suspend accounts temporarily. I'm simply saying that there needs to be a way to get your account unsuspended if you're innocent…

> How many innocents have to get caught in the crossfire before we start protecting them? > Again, it's not a "request" [..] suspension notifications can also be automated. Can you…

privacy, online safety, no false positives Pick two. Different companies do different trade-offs. The optimal solution depends on how the internet community weighs each individual …

> The "spammer" can only pretend to be 10 million different people because e-mail is free. Paying a tenth of a penny per e-mail has been one of those long-standing impossible anti-…

the legal system deals with a finite number of people; the internet enables that finite number of people to act as a potentially infinite number of entities, without a great way of…

gov.uk: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-authorises-pfizer-bion...