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cosmicradiance
·anno scorso·discuss
The article in context is not just about Chrome, but the various avatars it has manifested into.
cosmicradiance
·anno scorso·discuss
So no. Same menu/web-pages; but served differently as per individual needs.
cosmicradiance
·anno scorso·discuss
Who's taking the baton?
cosmicradiance
·2 anni fa·discuss
System Design Interview I and II - Alex Xu. Take one of the topics and do it practically.
cosmicradiance
·2 anni fa·discuss
The same though goes into working with languages.

I was a fan of Python’s list compressions, C#’s LINQ expressions, ORMs and functional/object-oriented abstractions.

Now, I have started appreciating simple procedural languages like Golang.
cosmicradiance
·2 anni fa·discuss
China didn't look like a competitor until they were miles ahead.

"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak" - Sun Tzu
cosmicradiance
·2 anni fa·discuss
They are definitely not on the cloud.
cosmicradiance
·2 anni fa·discuss
People who crave karma points will continue do so. The game isn't for the faint hearted. SO still has the best gamification model and there isn't any competitor.
cosmicradiance
·2 anni fa·discuss
Why will SO be gone? They are now partners with OpenAI - https://stackoverflow.co/company/press/archive/openai-partne...
cosmicradiance
·2 anni fa·discuss
Wrong. As per the article - a part of our brain is a prediction machine. A human body is more than the sum of its parts.
cosmicradiance
·2 anni fa·discuss
On the current state of AI - do you believe it has "intelligence" or is the underlying system a "prediction machine"?

What signs do you see that make you believe that the next level (biological intelligence) is on the horizon?
cosmicradiance
·2 anni fa·discuss
Not really, you first have to catch up the vehicle ahead, before you start overtaking. At present, they are miles behind.
cosmicradiance
·2 anni fa·discuss
1. With the recent developments at CockroachDB one may like to bundle it along with MSSQL and Oracle.

2. Like the author, I will like to understand "Why not MariaDB? (a free variant of MySql)".
cosmicradiance
·2 anni fa·discuss
Back to simplicity - your contact list is your filter. If the phone doesn't identify the caller - send to voicemail.
cosmicradiance
·2 anni fa·discuss
Google settled for the status quo.

After covid, like many other organizations, they went too lean, concentrating on sustainable operations, expecting a tough market.

WFH was an effect of their adopted work-culture and not a phenomenon in itself.
cosmicradiance
·2 anni fa·discuss
I mean AI transformers. I understand we have pre-embedded STT, though I will like the option to include my own - say an English grammar GPT and expose it by an API for progressive enhancement of content.
cosmicradiance
·2 anni fa·discuss
If anyone is willing to put an effort in building a new browser, I have just one wish - allow embedding open-source transformers in the browser; available for both the user and websites/extensions.
cosmicradiance
·2 anni fa·discuss
It would have been better if the term used was Prediction Machine, rather than Artificial Intelligence.

One may argue, what's in the name? AI is a catchier term and covers the umbrella under which terms like - statistics & predictions, ML, NLP AGI, etc can be grouped.

* As an engineer it makes sense since the ultimate aim should be to reach AGI.

* As a salesperson it makes selling the technology easier.

* As for the rest of the world, the term has a varying meaning, one that is limited by only the individual's imagination.

  - My wife, who has a PhD in Biotechnology believes AI to be more like a sentient being.

  - My sales director feels AI should be able to act like a real salesperson, taking vague instructions, researching and churning presentations to hit the customer's heart.
The author is right here - the term is misused and misunderstood by most folks, and we should expose the system for what it actually is rather than what it can be.
cosmicradiance
·2 anni fa·discuss
No doubt the tools are here to stay and I am not opposed to that. My only advice for young programmers is - when something just works like magic, dig deeper until it becomes science.
cosmicradiance
·2 anni fa·discuss
How we live is so different from how we ought to live ... - Machiavelli