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Emily Wilson's translation is way better, more modern and adequate to present-day readers and, probably more context aware.

Is it me or this is one of the worst and knowingly less informed articles that has hit HN in a while?

Hallucinates on the first question I ask, as 90% of these models that try to take shortcuts.

it's one of my favourite interviews questions and very few people get it right.

For someone so mindful of efficient software and use of energy, it's showing that images on that post are 5MB PNGs...

Such an old problem solved very elegantly. Congrats. Remember the days of MySQL Workbench and how clunky it was.

A good way to think about it is finding how much it'd cost to buy and run a GPU that runs a model at around 100tk/s ("thinking" agents are not viable otherwise). The figure mention…

compatible with Cardputer?

Pandoc is such an amazing piece of software. I used it to format my novel and made it part of a GitHub action to produce all the formats I required. I wasn't aware of templates, bu…

I don't think we're in the early ages... LLMs technology has essentially stagnated since GPT3.5, we just have bigger models that can handle more context. We're trying to cope for t…

Writing your own storage is a great way to understand how databases work (if you do it efficiently, keeping indexes, correct data structures, etc.) and to come to the conclusion th…

I LOVE this, but I am still love the Sunday night family bonding moment of planning the week in the pen and paper weekly planner that also costs us $10 a year.

because we have an alternative that we humans can fix. The problem with AI is that it creates without leaving a trace of understanding.

Didn't know about Grokipedia, I've just opened an article in it about Spain, scrolled to a random paragraph, and the information in it is plain wrong: From https://grokipedia.com/p…

I didn't know about Tansu and probably would not use it for anything too serious (yet!). Bus as a firm believer of event sourcing and change of paradigm that Kafka brings this is c…

Just that all of those activities you mention feel like a useless life compared to spending time with your own children in a house big enough for everyone to have their space, but …

There's no more proof that any Venezuelan election's results has been tampered with than with any US election. The state of Venezuela's state is sad, and so is the fact that millio…

I really enjoy using text.npr.org from my Kindle / Kindle Scribe. I'm really thinking about setting up a self-hosted RSS aggregator site that's Kindle-friendly.

I developed a big chunk of my Scumm games decompiler in London's central line. I was lucky (or unlucky) enough to go far enough each day to always hand an empty seat and enjoy 30 m…

It's the same hunch we all have when we think we're going to learn something by watching tutorials. We learn by struggling.

I think you hit the nail in the head there. There's absolutely nothing we can do with AI that we can't do without it. And the level of understanding of a large codebase that a soli…

Consequences of having early access to ChatGPT and getting AI knowledge debt?

And most importantly, we're paying with our brain and skills degradation. Once all these services stop being subsidised there will be a massive amount of programmers who no longer …

Also, the way models are evolving (thinking process, llms waiting for interactions with external entities via MCP, mixture of experts, ...) are making "useful chatbot responses" wa…