lou1306

2,365 karmajoined 11 years ago

Post-doc researcher. https://lou1306.github.io & https://lucadistefano.eu

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/lou1306; my proof: https://keybase.io/lou1306/sigs/_3h270sNCnRfRgc1eIEvK0PWJ_M5SSX7YBoXl02OPLY ]

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16 hours agodiscuss

The Council must go at some point. It is a "legislative" body... composed of members of the _executive_ branch of the individual countries. Granted, that's not the only problem with EU governance, but it is a rather glaring anomaly in terms of transparency and accountability.

Furthermore, at least in the case of Italy & other parliamentary systems, there's something like 3 levels of indirection between the people and their "representative" in the Council:

People elect members of the Parliament -> MPs decide who is the Prime Minister -> PM decides who sits in the Council

We should likely just replace it with either a "EU Senate", where each country elects the same number of senators, _or_ a chamber with truly European elections (as in, every EU citizen may vote for any candidate, regardless of their nation). But the latter option seems still out of reach as of today.

17 hours agodiscuss

Re: making things about me (but also kind of related), I am working on a project that requires sending encrypted telemetry data from a Crazyflie drone (so, STM32) and it's such a fun experience. Each telemetry payload is just 26B so I had to get creative, write down packet diagrams and then make it work in C. An AI agent helps a bit with some stuff but you're mostly on your own.

In general I highly recommend going the embedded/IoT way if you look for challenges and constraints.

3 days agodiscuss

Saying that AfD "is an opponent of chat control" is like saying its more-or-less direct predecessor advocated for vegetarianism.

3 days agodiscuss

People (well, the European Parliament, which is arguably the closest approximation) have clearly and repeatedly opposed Chat Control.

The Commission is an expression of _governments_ (and this one in particular is the result of painstaking compromise) and is only loyal to presidents and prime ministers. It has no accountability to the EP, and it shows.

5 days agodiscuss

I was a net loss for quite longer than that. Nobody was concerned because I was surrounded by people who loved me.

7 days agodiscuss

Do they even _make_ actual money? https://isaiprofitable.com/ seems to disagree.

18 days agodiscuss

> The only real use case that makes sense to me is giving people in developing countries access to a stable currency they can actually hold, trade, and invest in, meaning USDT or USDC. Outside of that, as an EU/US citizen I don't see why I'd hold stablecoins instead of fiat

The logical conclusion of this train of thought (which I agree with) is that people who heavily invested in crypto may significantly benefit from weakening strong currencies and institutions. Make of that what you will.

19 days agodiscuss

Today I learned that This Is Spin̈al Tap is on the Criterion Collection.

19 days agodiscuss

Yeah except that the agent cannot be held accountable if its fix is crap, or if it went off-track mid-fix.

19 days agodiscuss

You actually hire a developer to work on that issue and not something else.

20 days agodiscuss

Perhaps relevant context: The EU commission just ignored the "Tech Sovereignty Package" it launched ~3 weeks ago, and explicitly referred open-source as a core element of their strategy, and endorsed W, another ATproto-based social that recently a) closed their code and b) ...had its CEO attend Davos. Make of that what you will.

21 days agodiscuss

Not just all BSky traffic: all traffic from every ATProto service

25 days agodiscuss

Are we really discussing a plan that has never been attempted before (training a frontier model on federated hardware) and that would require coordination on a continental scale, sketched on a five-page PDF on GitHub with no discernible author or affiliation? a PDF that, I am sorry to point out, reeks of AI prose in more than one passage?

What are we even doing here.

26 days agodiscuss

The "good lawyer" is/was a major archetype in modern Western culture. See "The Devil and Daniel Webster", "To Kill a Mockingbird", "Paths of Glory", just to name a few examples.

26 days agodiscuss

Good. This will force kids to be creative, hack around, and question authority.

last monthdiscuss

Well the size of IJ is itself a statement: 1. there's an awful lot to unpack once you start exploring the intersection of capitalism, addiction, and entertainment; 2. can you even _manage_ to go through it all without switching to mindless consumption every 5 minutes?

last monthdiscuss

If the backend function was so poorly coded to allow such a gargantuan security hole, then it is an even worse problem. Basically Meta is throwing its own engineers under the bus so that its AI chatbot can save face. Scary stuff.

Unless the backend was _also_ vibe-coded, in which case it is still an AI problem.

last monthdiscuss

You joke but this is almost literally what Chain-of-Thought does, at least in the early days. They basically just added "Wait," to the model's output and fed it back to the model iirc

last monthdiscuss

Well people _used_ to pay for it, in fact. Except it was 3 EUR/year rather than 3 EUR/month...

last monthdiscuss

To be honest, Zork at times makes precious little sense: you are supposed to die over and over before you figure stuff out. For instance, you have to grab the endless-light-source treasure very early on, or you mathematically cannot win. And the game does not spell anything out for you, you just have to "get it" by watching closely at how/why you die.

This is a tall order for an LLM: it needs a lot of context but most of the context will be just noise.