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China fell for a lobster: What an AI assistant tells us about Beijing's ambition

bbc.com
17 points·by tmoravec·قبل 3 أشهر·1 comments

Australians must prove they are over 18 to access porn under new laws

bbc.com
8 points·by tmoravec·قبل 4 أشهر·0 comments

TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app

bbc.com
11 points·by tmoravec·قبل 5 أشهر·1 comments

Getting Real with LLMs

giladpeleg.com
1 points·by tmoravec·قبل 6 أشهر·0 comments

Life, Work, Death and the Peasant

acoup.blog
3 points·by tmoravec·قبل 7 أشهر·1 comments

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tmoravec
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Model != AI tool. Especially with Gemini, the model is fantastic, both in benchmarks and in the API. Sentiment is not that positive for Google AI.
tmoravec
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Qwen3.6-Plus is available from Fireworks.
tmoravec
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Senior EM, platform/backend background.

    Location: Prague, Czech Republic
    Remote: Yes, ideally team in Europe
    Willing to relocate: No
    Technologies: C++, Python, AWS, GCP, K8s, Java, JS + TS, network protocols, distributed systems, ...
    Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tadeasmoravec/
    Email: [email protected]
Built multiple teams from scratch and created several successful products. Most recently led a core backend team that handled millions of requests per hour and enabled 20+ engineering teams to ship faster. Engineering background in CDN architecture, low-level network protocols, and on-the-wire cryptocurrency protocols. Currently active in AI: reduced support resolution from 24 hours to 1 hour.
tmoravec
·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
Why? Reddit is full of bug fixes and improved forks. Seems like it's Anthropic that's dropping the ball with it's takedown requests instead of engaging with the community.
tmoravec
·قبل 4 أشهر·discuss
Yes. Some important parts of the software, like complex tools, art, or the use of symbols only appeared between 100.000 and 50.000 years ago, however.
tmoravec
·قبل 4 أشهر·discuss
I don't understand how that would limit evolution. Bigger bodies can evolve together with bigger hearts, as already witnessed with the very whales being researched.
tmoravec
·قبل 4 أشهر·discuss
Privacy protection has the exact same issue. Wiretapping laws were created at the time there was literally a detective listening to a private phone conversation as it was happening. Now we record almost everything online, and processing it is trivial and essentially free. The safeguards are the same but the scale of privacy invasion is many orders of magnitude different.
tmoravec
·قبل 5 أشهر·discuss
> Yet, human achievement in domains such as career success tends to peak much later, typically between the ages of 55 and 60. This discrepancy may reflect the fact that, while fluid intelligence may decline with age, other dimensions improve (e.g., crystallized intelligence, emotional intelligence).

Isn't it about accumulated human capital (aka social networks) and experience more than anything else?
tmoravec
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
They sort of address this in the next sentence: "But if people run into problems, they can make a complaint and it will be looked into."

Random checks and whistleblowing are used in other, more "serious" processes, e.g., tax checks. At least here in Europe.
tmoravec
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
> "Others, we found, were inflating numbers and trying to show their company is growing, even if it's not."

Sounds like a fraud against investors? That could be a way to attack this problem because in the U.S., many issues get turned into laws and regulations protecting shareholders.
tmoravec
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
What do you think "loading the project" means when discussing context?
tmoravec
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
> In a monorepo, just loading the project consumes ~20k tokens

I don't work on a monorepo, and as an example, what I would consider a mid-size service in my mid-size company is 7M tokens.

I can't but ask: do all people who are so enthusiastic about AI for coding only work on trivial projects?
tmoravec
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
I've thought these frozen and snowed trees are common in all mountains.
tmoravec
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
Exactly. You might also enjoy Bret Devereaux' recent series of how life was really like for pre-modern peasants. Also includes parts focusing on women in particular. https://acoup.blog/2025/07/11/collections-life-work-death-an...
tmoravec
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
This is the first post in a series discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage, labor, subsistence, death – of pre-modern peasants and their families. Prior to the industrial revolution, peasant farmers of varying types made up the overwhelming majority of people in settled societies (the sort with cities and writing).
tmoravec
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
Drifted to the Caribbean.
tmoravec
·قبل 9 أشهر·discuss
Except that more often than not, Claude is blocked from reading the article.

This used to work great two years ago when chatgpt first got the Web browsing feature. Nowadays, no eyeballs on ads: no content.