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And when you are an investor, you must predict who is able to make a good game. What is the likelihood that a Myst-like will pay for itself. There is already a lot of Myst-likes on…

The minimalist approach is great until it isn't. You can cover 98% of use cases with a single button is a great motto, until you are in the other 2%. I often fail to find basic fun…

It is a good blog, not a good paper.

The thing is, you can play it in any way you like. You don't have to optimize for speed at all if you don't enjoy it

With the volume of outputs in today's academia, this is simply not possible. There are conferences with tens of thousands of submitted papers, grants have hundreds of pages, etc.

The AI companies also have a lot of space to grow their income (more ads, price hikes, ...). It seems realistic for them to turn profitable. But the market expected much more from …

The standard of living in Rome was not surpassed for more than a millennium. Large parts of the empire were at peace for centuries, allowing economy and trade to thrive. Many provi…

There are thousands of people working in top level labs. Somebody would leak it

Is matter code? There is some sort of computation happening in space over time.

I understand that motive. On the other hand, LLM smell makes the text untrustworthy. I have detected it as well, and I immediately started to wonder about whether I am reading a re…

There are many ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine that really welcomed the Russian army. The problem is that the rest of the country is not that happy about this.

Can you give me some examples of these interactions / vibe?

This is the question that led to the communist movement in the 19th century.

Of course mediocre and bad leaders make their mark on history. But Carlyle's Great Men theory is more about paradigm shifts that Great Men can will into existence, not just random …

I find it interesting how slow the spread really was after the initial burst. I am used to think about Christianity as a global religion. But before 16th century it was a pretty re…

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The problem is that AI is mostly yielded by the Silicon Valley caste that is as popular as bankers in 2008. People are sick of tech companies that are acting as parasitic as possib…

How exactly would you deploy 10,000 drones? If you start thinking about the logistics of it (you need to store them somewhere, somebody needs to bring them from the storage and pre…

Dataset quality is a huge issue in ML in general. You can often list a few dozen random samples from any given dataset and you will find out something weird going on instantly.

It's like asking what if AWS starts doing it, they have all the infrastructure in place. LLMs are just one cog. There is a lot on the application side they are not doing at all.

Never heard the term Lusophone before. TIL

Before clockwork, human mind was a city (Plato, Marcus Aurelius, i.a.)

That's why we have state. There are many technologies that we, as a society, decided to control in various ways. You can't just build a nuclear weapon for example. There is no part…

Oil is up by 100% in recent weeks. It might have to give, but probably not with these prices.

Cyrillic is probably a successor to Glagolitic. Glagolitic was the first Slavic alphabet, but when they tried to use it in Bulgaria, it had all the UX problems you mentioned. What …