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Not if you enjoy gardening.

In Sweden new rentals are exempted from collectively bargained rents for 15 years, the idea being that the landlord should be able to recoup enough of their construction and capita…

When I saw Anki/Duolingo in the bio I assumed it was for language learning, but this is a great idea! I too often watch these kinds of videos without really retaining a lot. This i…

GPT-4 (in)famously tricked a human to do a captcha for it. The current GPT-4 with vision would probably have been able to do it without the human, but maybe it has been “gaslit” by…

~86 400 free LLM requests at >= GPT 3.5 level per day - I’ll be running this nonstop if true.

The EU has been declining in its share of the world market year on year - it should focus on stopping the decline, not adding more regulatory burden.

Those countries simply forbid competitors from selling in their domestic markets. EU regulations apply equally to EU and non-EU companies, so they won’t lead to homegrown tech cham…

The EU hasn’t done much to build local Big Tech companies, why would it be different with AI? I think the EU and its member countries are largely content with taxing American tech …

It may be more typing but I can write SQL in my sleep whereas the git CLI I cannot. Though if I regularly needed the information that this tool retrieves I would probably have memo…

The numbers are reported by the Russian government. It is plausible that the true numbers are worse, but unlikely that the Russian government would want to intentionally project ec…

Obviously our leaders are better. Our standard of living is higher, our life expectancy is 10 years longer, and our 20-year olds aren't dying in a meaningless war. Putin's leadersh…

Money also attracts talent. An OpenAI competitor led by the people who led OpenAI to its leading position should be able to raise a lot of money.

The idea that blue collar and white collar workers are equally intelligent on average might feel good, but is easily disproven as intelligence has been shown to be highly correlate…

It’s a very Anglo-Saxon objection, they are not mandatory in any of the Five Eyes countries unlike the majority of Western countries. Something to do with preventing government ove…

The good news is that over 10 million largely tech illiterate Germans over the age of 55 will retire in the next decade. Not only will the Germany of the 2030s be less technophobic…

We would have loved to name our son after my grandfather, but his name includes non-ASCII characters so we went with his middle name instead.

Given recent developments in AI, building a true Babelfish is more of a hardware challenge than a software challenge these days.

Hallucinating also gets the point across that the LLM will sometimes be 100% sensible and 100% confident in its claims, while being 100% wrong in those claims.

Unity suffers from an outdated and inefficient architecture, both in game logic and the rendering engine. There have been multiple ambitious projects aimed at finding a more effici…

Rewrites tend to improve code quality, and replacing dependencies with custom-tailored code that does just what you need also improves code quality. And while the Python version us…

As someone who is out of the loop but could use high quality image embeddings right now, what's the best CLIP model right now?

This one has more reason to exist than most vector DBs since it's not just a wrapper around hnswlib.

I'm fairly sure that guy took off with $7,000 from his "investors" and disappeared.

I love Clojure as a language but I can't bother to deal with the JVM ecosystem most of the time. Is this something I could use as an alternative?

The problem is that many European startups don't exist because potential founders don't want to have to deal with GDPR when they could focus on building a good product first. And y…