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kensai

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    Comment #49126729

    “The mammalian brain achieves fast, highly effective goal-directed behavior leveraging paired forward/inverse internal models, open-loop multi-step motor commands, and the hierarch…

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    Comment #49081122

    "Disagreement on AI philosophy shouldn't be a reason to flag a contribution." Amen!

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    Comment #49055396

    "like... programmers enjoy the act of typing lines of text into a file on their computer" ehm, no!

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    Comment #49034390

    Are you American? We would prefer it to stay a European company. I personally hope Mistral buys them or somehow they unite to make a stand.

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    Comment #49033161

    You are completely ignorant. This is one of the best places to live and work on earth. Nonetheless, they also have positions in San Francisco for what is worth.

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    Comment #48853773

    My question always remains. Which variety/implementation of Lisp is it worth it to learn as a hobbyist and which as a professional?

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    Comment #48827194

    Valid comment, but prolly because this is the reality he knows. Which is fair.

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    Comment #48825789

    That's a very harsh take. Most of us would not be alive by the end of the century to personally witness or attend the 1000 years of the University of Bologna, but that goes enough …

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    Comment #48825359

    What's the problem if a site is vibecoded? We will be seeing it more often, I recon. Let's get used to it. On the other hand, perhaps a disclaimer is in order.

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    Comment #48720837

    As a neurologist I read often imaging findings myself. However, one ability of the radiologists I appreciate is their ability to discern through artifacts by years of experience. I…

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    Comment #48602600

    The problem is the other way around. That we somehow accepted that X-Rays/Röntgen is the only way to do CT.

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    Comment #48560978

    "Prompt "engineering" and working around your tools will be over in a year or so." What do you mean by that? What is happening in just over a year or so?

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    Comment #48560087

    Original iPhone presentation vibes! Maybe the technology is mature enough now for a prime product, although at around $2200 still expensive for the average consumer.

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    Comment #48537082

    Probably this category of mental tasks. For politicians it's the other way around. Prolly you need to have some 'elder statesman' skills as well as wisdom to achieve greatness. Den…

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    Comment #48531419

    Who told you that? Swiss don't even want Germans, which is actually the biggest minority apparently. FFS, Germans! The original racists. PS. I am German.

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    Comment #48400984

    You expand my comment to uses I had not envisioned. It was simply an analogy to correct the analogy of the OP comment.

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    Comment #48393230

    Not if you have a German keyboard.

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    Comment #48392019

    This reminds me of the analogy of the smoking grandpa. I had a grandpa that was chainsmoking his whole life and managed to reach 90 and died of other causes. This does not mean smo…

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    Comment #48378508

    Is this abandoned? No major change since 2024 or so.

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    Comment #48252897

    Do you think by now C# has left Java behind in features and performance?