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It is updated actually, gemini-1.5-pro-002 is this new model.

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms this?

This is not true. Both OpenAI and Google's LLM APIs have a policy of not using the data sent over them. Its no different than trusting Microsoft's or Google's cloud to store privat…

The Aider leaderboards seem like a good practical test of coding usefulness: https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/ . I haven't tried Cursor personally but I am finding Aider with S…

> someone who doesn't appear to respect the organizational capabilities of academic labs, you are condemning them to far more poorly organized outputs. This is not a great way to m…

Yeah, jupyter notebooks don't guarantee any specifics about versions of code used for that output. In the real world you can expect everyone in the lab including all of the student…

I've looked into Jupytext, but ultimately decided to go with pure python. Most of the practical functionality can be replicated, but I do admit there isn't a easy single install to…

That seems like a reasonable way to use jupyter notebooks since you have an actual plan to move beyond it when necessary. My issue is mostly with the way its misused, often by peop…

Not having the outputs tied into the code is actually preferable if the ultimate goal is reproducible science. Code should be code, documentation should be documentation, and outpu…

Imo, the better architected .ipynb is simply .py with '# %%' blocks. It does almost everything a .ipynb can do with the right VSCode extensions. Even interactive visualizations can…

I dislike how Jupyter notebooks have become normalized. Yes, the interactive execution and visuals are nice for more academic workflows where the priority is quick results over cod…

This is just for the cap. You would also need 2x of the $350 pi eeg hats and of course the pi itself.

Mojo claims to be interoptable with python, but it seems only one way. There's no built in way to use the binaries and use them with a regular python environment. It would be hard …

You are probably right, but that is truly a cyberpunk dystopian situation. A few megacorps will catalog every human interaction and there will be no way to opt out.

Its certainly not altruism. Given that Facebook/Meta owns the largest user data collection systems, any advancement in AI ultimately strengthens their business model (which is stil…

I am aware people use it, but its only a partial solution that introduces new issues. For certain users it may be sufficient but even if you ignore the latency and compression issu…

There's several problems with that. 1. The latency - even if fine for slower games its enough to cause slight vestibular-ocular mismatch and discomfort. 2. Compression and visual q…

I think one of the big problems with VR (and also AR) is that the large companies lack focus and have been trying to make generic do-everything devices to cover many applications. …

This is what I do essentially. I make a new conda env for each project and use pip or conda install. What if I have a new project that needs components from two projects? Sometimes…

My concern is the immunity allows for perpetual, single party rule with only a 1/3 of senate seats and the presidency. There would be no checks in place at the federal level if the…

Is this not a problem given impeachment votes will follow party lines? A party with the presidency and with >1/3 of the senate would have unchecked power. As long as there are indi…

I don't see increasing demand for nuclear power as a disadvantage. We have nuclear material that can last humanity 1000s of years at least. The CO2 footprint is an issue but nuclea…

Sure I agree, but if we compared value it generates per unit energy it would still probably be better than many non-essential industries: the entertainment industry, fashion indust…

If its for training a new foundation model it is not that bad. It's still only a fraction of the energy compared to many human industries. I did rough math some time ago and found …

I actually do something like this with my logseq notes. Since all of the files are .md in a directory, one can load them all in to a vectordb and use it for RAG. Logseq has an API …