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Very similar story, in 1982: got paid at 15 to create a prospect database for a small business. What now would be called a CRM. The enterprise had to declare me as an apprentice fo…

Pretty much all tech companies and universities had a drop-in ftp server where anyone could, anonymously, put and retrieve files. It was a collective 'pastebin' useful to exchange …

Or I guess the kid can set it if they're smart enough to reinstall the OS or spawn a VM. I'm sure there will be online resources to help them that kids know how to share

Or, as I like to put it: I need to activate my personal transformers on my inner embeddings space to figure what is it I really want. And still, quite often, I think in terms of th…

But in this occurrence, they are public services, under the public administration's control. Successful socialism if you want.

In Europe, more and more public transportation is free, or at least very heavily subsidized The costs are covered by local taxes, to curb on individual vehicle use and reduce conge…

In my vision, it's the opposite of ad blocker, it's something that generates non existent traffic and views beyond what I would have done.

It is not entirely true that no one cares about quality. I'd like to stay optimistic and believe that those who are demanding on the quality of their production will acquire suffic…

I disagree. Giving fake info adds noise to the mechanism, makes it useless. Ultimately I'm inclined to believe that privacy through noise generation is a solution. If I ever find s…

My way of phrasing this: I need to activate my personal transformers on my inner embeddings space to really figure what is it that I truly want to write.

I'm more and more convinced top execs are most likely to be advantageously replaced by LLM. They navigate such complex decision spaces, full of compromises, tensions, political kno…

If anything, they'd want something like Mossadegh back, which is not to please Trump at all

Even Knuth, in TAOP, acknowledges that using O(n) asymptotic behavior as a measure of performance is just a heuristic and not an absolute. Cache-awareness and structure discovery a…

My numbers come from conversations I recall with René Amalberti, a notable specialist in the area, having advised, among others, Airbus. The conversations were around 1993-96, when…

Fun fact: in the 90's, the reference gauge for aircraft safety was 1 accidental fatality per 100 million hours of passenger flight. Which is amazingly safe, far better than car and…

The problem I see with decentralized protocols is that node owners can easily be spotted, and then crushed under legal constraints that will make them more insecure than a strong m…

How comes US celebrities have to create their foundation in Sweden instead of the US?

Or simply yelling "fire" for no reason in a crowded space must be a sin, pretty much like it's a limit of free speech.

> keep a human in the loop before executing the kill chain, or to reduce Skynet-like tail risks in line with Paul Christiano's arms race doom scenario. It is a little known secret …

I disagree that you need a lot of space for self hosting. Unless you want to host streaming content for thousands of users, Intel NUC or raspberry PI on top of your router is plent…

Thinking of something like APL or J?

CEOs like to brag about how AI is going to replace skilled workers. Yet, it should be obvious to anyone having experience in LLMs that top executives are the jobs that are most lik…

Algorithm aversion and automation biases have been thoroughly studied over the past 70 years of human factors for industrial security. All in all, the thought processes of humans a…

In the late 90's, I attended a talk by Ted Nelson, the guy who coined the term Hypertext. To him, things started going downhill with HTML, and the URL. The gist of his complain is …

I maintain my land line so that when a website or business asks for my phone number, I don't give them my mobile. Lots of funny stories with this one.