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The Jolla 2 is said to be "sold out". Apparently, they produce the phones in batches, not sure when the next one is due?

I agree. Now you can do a lot better with a simple LLM+RAG setup. Knowledge Mgt. (which I also teach) is one of the most neglected areas, privately, professionally and in corporati…

Let's make sure Ladybird will have good RSS and Atom feed support, then that'll settle things.

> "We Will Dance Again" I seriously hope that one day, whether during our lifetime or not, Israelis and Palestinians can dance with one another, without having fear.

I don't know who downvoted the parent or why, but it's a fair question IMHO. The answer is there can be dramatic difference running a benchmark one time, because LLMs are not deter…

I understand you. As an AI research (actually, despite formally called professor of AI, I have historically always called myself more specifically NLP/IR/ML researcher rather than …

> The parsley and condoms I don’t get Note that there is a certain level of arbitrariness involved in this association game. For instance, if a household regularly is in need of bo…

Whoever likes this will likely also enjoy this clock announcing the time using literary quotes: https://www.amazon.com/Author-Clock-Literary-Quotes-Unique/d... (What I particularly…

There is a version of Chekhov's short stories available on Amazon [1] that is bi-lingual. Has anyone tried this? Are the translations good? Is the material sentence-aligned so that…

Always a good exercise to implement a text editor, every programmer should have tried it. And I always try using new ones, curious to find something exciting. Sorry, but it looks e…

I recommend a BlackBerry (this problem was already perfectly solved in the past).

Thank you.

Is there a counter-part that focuses on implementations and practical exercises for hackers (in the MIT sense of the word)?

I'd like to see STRICT as the default. That's pretty much the only disagreement with the SQLite developer, who is an amazing guy that wrote an amazing tool!

The title of the HN post "History of T (paulgraham.com)" is isleading, as this article was not written by Paul Graham himself. "Olin Shivers: History of T (paulgraham.com)" would b…

Very cool. As a linguist (not a native English speaker, but highly trained), I love it a lot. Love the pressure due to the timer, and the best aid to help is say it aloud.

Slightly related: https://oeis.org

Receiving one of Don's cheques ("Bank of San Serif" ;-) a few months after pointing out an error has been many a computer scientist's career highlight!

I agree with that opinion. He started writing TAOCP in 1968, and could have switched to Pascal in 1972. Pascal is simple and clear, and can be translated easily to anything from LI…

Not to forget he was asked specifically to write a book about compilers (= "Volume 7") by Addison Wesley in the 1960s. Now, half a century later, he is chickening out...

In short, it's the "mind's 'I'" - we think not as response to external stimuli (only) such as prompts, but we have an inner "I" that asks questions on its own initiative. There are…

"France is a beautiful country" may also still continued by "...in the heart of Europe".

Agatha Christie was also a high-volume writer; apparently, this was due to unreasonably demands in her contracts with her publisher, and she hated to be thus pushed.

Stallman wanted to protect the right to fix bugs, he was not against paying for goods and services.

One point that was not addressed is the sorry feeling one gets when others are wrong and you are right, but for whatever reason you cannot convince them otherwise, and as a consequ…