Exactly, my vaccine against GenAI chatbots is to not use them, which is the equivalent of masking when covid vaccines were not available.
I am just waiting for the GenAI vaccines (ideally regulations, practically people rioting in municipal councils against gigantic data centers opening at their door).
Indeed. It's a step forward and two backwards, personally I don't have payment cards on the phone wallet because one company surveilling my purchases is enough.
Hopefully there will be some Wero-powered card option. From a UX point of view, both payers and merchants, it's still the most practical and fast.
How many devs would be able to keep working if GitHub disappeared tomorrow?
You can do inference on SOME laptops, but the current shape of GenAI need massive data centers to be used at scale.
Also the existence of various big tech companies rely on these data centers being place, without them they are useless.
You don't need to have a "good knowledge" of a misused technology to hate it when it's used by malevolent people.
In the same way I don't need to be a virologist to know that is better to avoid the flu, I don't need to be a ML/AI expert to see its direct detrimental effects on people, communities, and the internet as a whole.
The idea is that merchants will ditch the card-pos in the long run. You scan a QR-code or send money through some app. Satispay does that in Italy and got massive rollout from stores because fees were pretty low also for smaller transfers, so no more "sorry, at least 5 euros to pay with card"
Google started to crap on search six years ago. At this point anyone choosing to use google search (I am excluding here all the people that are not aware other search engines exist because Google pays to be the default search engine) are masochists.
With the (somehow sadly) added value that the TV broadcast algorithm is kinda known by everyone (morning programs, prime time etc), and that if there wasn't nothing interesting to watch, we would just do something else.
Honestly surprised that Italian municipalities are doing relatively well compared to other countries. Maybe it helped a push from the government to have a shared design for municipal websites (https://github.com/orgs/italia/repositories?q=comuni)
And then Google is moving at full speed to lock-up the whole Android experience (bootloaders, OS, app store, etc.) so that even tech-savvy consumers are forced to get new, crappier devices when the old ones start slowing down. Enshittification at its highest level
It's a quid pro quo from Valve. They are investing profusely in Linux ecosystems, and the distro-devs are following that.
Meanwhile Epic Games still lacks a first-party app on linux, and users need to pass from Lutris, Heroic etc...
It seems that Zig people are following the path of ZeroMQ [1]: "To enforce collective ownership of the project, which increases economic incentive to Contributors and reduces the risk of hijack by hostile entities."
A healthy contributor community is more important than mere code performance, quantity of features or lines of code, etc..
Not at all, if you have a lot of data coming from imperfect hardware (which can mean both a fixed bias and unknown variance), and you don't know the variance for plenty of practical reasons, you are left with a result that is statistically significant, but wrong
- Is the wearable accurate enough to be sure that 3bpm is not a measurement fluke?
- Why did you use the minimum heart rate value (which could be a measurement glitch) and did not compare a percentile (e.g., 2.5th lowest percentile)?
- Were all assumptions for paired t-testing valid? How did you account for likely temporal correlations in the data (e.g., sauna could have an effect also on a night 2 days after it, same for exercise)?
- How can you define a "comparable-intensity exercise day" if you don't know the characteristics of the sauna?
Honestly impressed! While humanoid legs are an interesting challenge from a technical point of view, there are plenty of examples in nature (roadrunners) and tech (anything with wheels) that are more efficient and practical.
I am just waiting for the GenAI vaccines (ideally regulations, practically people rioting in municipal councils against gigantic data centers opening at their door).