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jaakl

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About jaakl

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    There are a few fundamental reasons: 1. at least iOs app privacy/sandboxing model makes sharing any data files pretty difficult, if impossible. I suspect Android has similar issue.…

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    Author notes. Motivation and target: country detection can be certainly solved with standard tools eg PostGIS, with 3 prerequisites: 1) you know the stack (right formats, resolutio…

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    Comment #48471804

    AI reminds me a lot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ , it is like a good machine implementation of it.

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    Comment #47859113

    Is there a browser plugin enabling to swap out any parts of a website/app with own ones? With prompt/vibe-based input, so any user can customize websites in any imaginable way. May…

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    Comment #47423480

    What developers and fellow Product Managers think of the attempt to redefine Scrum to be (even) better fit for the AI-empowered teams? And how these teams would be different?

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    Comment #46946072

    Semi-academic attempt to build semantic-level standard system for data type classification. Useful for metadata semantics data lakes / warehouses beyond basic physical level like t…

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    Comment #45718949

    Reactor h2o itself does not carry radiation, but any extra molecules in tend to do it, thats the reason why the water is as clean you can get, over-distilled. This by itself means …

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    Comment #45560522

    And “chicken” in which one?

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    Comment #45062012

    Not just energy cost, but also licensing cost of all this content…

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    ASCII tabulature was not invented by ChatGPT, it is decades old thing. It is easier to write with basic computer capabilities, and also read for ChatGPT (and humans with no formal …

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    Note that being Estonian OÜ (LLC) brings convenience of both having fully electronic communication towards any state affairs and also super easy to get (no even registration needed…

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    I hate it. I used it to have carefully curated metadata (sources etc) to my collection of tens of tables, and someone else took backup/restore of the database and all this was lost…

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    It seems to be based on very common naive belief that things which are named same or similar in different domains are conceptually same, so "lets deduplicate" ? There can be rare m…

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    Did you try to put all this (complex and external) context to the context (claude.md or whatever), with intructions how to do proper TDD, before asking for the tests? I know that m…

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    Comment #44069856

    Some models do have US 2025 president election results explicitly given in system prompt. To fool all who use it for cutoff check.

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    Comment #43501755

    My main takeaway here is that the models cannot tell know how they really work, and asking it from them is just returning whatever training dataset would suggest: how a human would…

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    Comment #43233545

    Well “building” is also troubleshooting, fixing a problem. Just in a bit more general level: ideally it is not fixing a “small” well-defined problem in software, but bigger and fuz…

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    Not funny anymore, after 1/20/2025

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    One more zoom LoD please: to the actual pages of the books!