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He was related to the Dvorak keyboard inventor.

The options are to use LLMs from a country run by a psychopathic regime or alternatively to use Chinese LLMs.

In a world of obesity, and over nutrition nutrient density is the last thing we need.

Beaten on quality and price by competitors.

The same thing is happening to BMW, Toyota,Mercedes...

Apple manufacturing is entirely Indian and Chinese.

While GoPro is made in Thailand.

America is just where their marketing teams hang out...

Wikipedia seems to be going the same way.

The hostile moderators killed stack overflow.

Perhaps to symbolise the quality of the material they extrude...

Slop rhymes with plop.

Buy Chinese cars instead.

They are far better.

BYD reliability and support leaves European cars for dead.

Driving up costs to the company.

The costs will be recouped by sacking more developers...

I used it to listen to a high level walkthrough of interesting and entertaining code while driving to work.

Of course I then read the source myself afterwards.

So far I have used it for the Plan 9 C code for ed and for the C source for Karpathy's toy llm. I plan to use it later today for the ed source from Unix Ver 1 in the original PDP 7 assembly code.

Hearing it talk about Ken Thompson's bit stealing trick was enlightening.

Since I am not a C programmer, getting a bird's eye view first is useful.

Free Sanskrit lessons from IIT Roorkee:

https://sanskritclub.iitr.ac.in/course/Subhashitam/uview

My South Indian Dravidian language Malayalam, is around 50% Sanskrit words.

Technically any Sanskrit word is also a Malayalam word.

Examples of Sanskrit words we would use daily in conversation with a fluent Malayalam speaker include:

Pusthakam (Sanskrit: Pustakam) - Book

Bhāryā - Wife

Swapnam (Sanskrit: Swapnam) - Dream

Agni (Sanskrit: Agni) - Fire

Varṇam - Color

Samayam (Sanskrit: Samayam) - Time

Vidhyālaya (Sanskrit: Vidyālaya) - School

And of course many personal names ( including mine, my wife's and my children's ) are in Sanskrit.

We have a word for this phenomenon : "Manipravalam is a medieval South Indian literary style and hybrid language that blended Sanskrit with local Dravidian vernaculars—primarily Malayalam and Tamil. Translating to "ruby and coral," it symbolized the seamless, decorative intertwining of the local tongue's grammar with the eloquent vocabulary of Sanskrit"

There are thousands of other Sanskrit words in daily use in Malayalam.

"bodham, santoṣam, saṅkaṭam, sneham, iṣṭam, premam, deṣyam, (Skt : dveṣyam) kopam, viṣamam, saṁśayam, bhayam, buddhi, dhairyam, ālocana, cinta, vicāram, vedana, daya(vu), dākṣiṇyam, abhimānam, mānam, sukham, tṛpti, manass, antass, śānti, samādhānam, svairam, sahatāpam, paribhavam, parāti (a Malayalam word made using Sanskrit; parātī, act of rejection) duḥkham, ātmā(vu), āgraham, virodham, prayāsam, kaṣṭam, manaḥprayāsam, manassamādhānam, manośūnyam (this is a common phrase in some dialects and completely absent in others, it refers to the act of not having mental happiness in anything) dhārṣṭyam (I am surprised how mallus still use such tough words) puccham, (means “tail”/”inferior” literally, used in the sense of contempt) ahaṅkāram, bhāvam, svabhāvam, guṇam, āśvāsam, āśaṅka, (colloquial in some dialects) ākulam, (colloquial in some other dialects) ākrāntam, ārtti, krūram, vīryam, ākāṃkṣa, vātsalyam, vāśi, tātparyam, svapnam, saṅkalpam "

"vṛtti, sampatt-, sāmpattikam (this is a Malayalam word made using Sanskrit vṛddhi rule, the Sanskrit word should have been sāmpadikam) svatt-, prakṛti, praśnam, upayogam, svantam, svātantryam, sādhanam, sammānam, sammatam, saṅgītam, pratīkṣa, pradhānam, ādyam, avasānam, divasam, rātri, sambhavam, samayam, kālam, vidham, vidhi, śīlam, rīti, svasthata, asvasthata, sūryan, candran, bhūmi, guḷika (meaning “round”, same root as gola) sūkṣ-ikkuka, rakṣa, surakṣa, upadeśam, lābham, prayojanam, āvaśyam, atyāvaśyam, adhikam, sāram, nissāram, tatkālam, prasiddham,upakāram, anugraham, varam, dānam, śāpam, śalyam, aṅgīkāram, anveṣaṇam, ākrama-, akramam, parākramam, yuddham, tarkam, sallāpam, niścayam, jīvitam, mārgam, uccam, śabdam, āghoṣam, sādhu, puṇyam, pāpam, svargam, narakam, pātāḷam, prakāśam (more colloquial words are veṭṭam, veḷiccam, all are equally frequent according to dialects) viśvāsam, kāryam, śuddham, vaśam, sāmarthyam, sādhakam, dikk, diśa, vākk, svaram, ābharaṇam, viparītam, nāśam, vārtta (for “news” : made using vṛddhi from Sanskrit varta- “present affair”, compare with NIA bāt) sāmyam, trāss (from Skt tulās) saṃsāram, vartamānam, anusaraṇa, anuvādam, anāvaśyam, alpam, svalpam, abhiprāyam, dhārālam (an old Sanskrit dialectal word used today only in Malayalam, the opposite of viralam) and hundreds more. (even out of the world Sanskrit-Malayalam combination words like vṛtti-kEṭu, buddhi-muṭṭu, piṭi-vāśi)"

This highly recommended, excellent school in Sydney offers Sanskrit.

"A third elective is chosen from Accelerated Classical Greek/Italian/German, Sanskrit, ..."

https://www.sydgram.nsw.edu.au/life-at-grammar/academic/

My children had a great time there.

"Modern decor" is different from contemporary decor.

For instance actual lighting designers look with contempt at the kind of lighting mentioned in the article as a 1970's trend, that was in turn influenced by the 1930's Bauhaus.

Modern lighting uses layered lighting to create a cozy ambience and human friendly small pools of warm illumination.

See : https://talalighting.com/blogs/journal/how-to-layer-light-in...

This book by Frida Ramstedt walks through the principles of interior decor, without touting the latest trend.

There are no pretty pictures in it, just text discussing basic principles.

https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/0593139313

The Interior Design Handbook by Frida Ramstedt

For our new house, I used this book along with an experienced interior designer and discussions with a number of interior designers.

Far from being expensive, the designer probably saved us around 10 times her charges, by gently pointing out more practical and durable alternatives to my half baked ideas. And we ended up with a nice cozy, accessible, human friendly house.

For our garden, we used a garden designer ( not a landscape designer, they just stick hard surfaces everywhere ) who specialises in Piet Oudolf's New Perennial style.

When mankind comes to the final judgement, the existence of 9front will be one of the three things keeping us from destruction....

Apropos Pirkei Avot Chapter 1, Verse 2...

Last week one of my patients with preterminal NYHA Stage IV cardiac failure looked into euthanasia.

He found predictably that it is now legal in my country but takes months and formidable legal resources to obtain it. Legalisation of euthanasia has, as everyone in the field warned multiple times, made it much harder to obtain and now requires a lot of time, effort and money.

The well meaning, naive proponents of legalisation of euthanasia have actually made things a lot harder for those who want it. The potential legal penalties for not getting the paperwork right, include loss of employment, deregistration and homicide charges. So now virtually no doctor wants to be involved for any amount of money.

So I told him how to contact the local palliative care unit when he decides to die, gave him documentation attesting to his preterminal , incurable status and taught him the magic words to almost instantly access that terminal, euthanising, life ending dose of mist. morphine...

"I have breathlessness and bone pain"

Also told him never again to say the word "euthanasia" to anyone, unless he wants a ride on the endless merry-go-round of legal paperwork.

Placing the hands in the abhaya mudra is optional...

That strategy would not be guaranteed to work.

An AI simulation of you would post on HN.

Welcome to the future.

As always 99% of it is poor quality slop...

With the recent well publicised cases of developers stealing proprietary information, this is going to become more common.

In mice...

These poor quality animal studies tend to be non-replicable, but provide fodder for predatory journals and tabloid journalism. And for getting grants from gullible philanthropists.

Citations and money, a great outcome for some random graduate student at a third tier programme...

I treat many obese adult diabetics. It is difficult to get most of them to go for a brisk walk a couple of times a week, far less do weight lifting before each meal. There is a reason why they are diabetics ( apart from the genetic overlay , which is a major factor in some populations).

Decline and Fall of the American Empire

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/decline-and-fall-of-the-a...

On the other hand the US is still very good at bombing small, poor countries...

I use a inexpensive 36 AUD Tapo infrared hub to control my fan reliably.

It links to my Google Home installation and responds to voice commands.

https://us.store.tapo.com/products/tapo-h110-smart-ir-iot-hu...

Someone with too much time on their hands might benefit from the iroh solution....

A currently active candidate benchmark from BITS: https://quantum-advantage-tracker.github.io/trackers/observa...

https://www.tripadvisor.com.au/Restaurant_Review-g293916-d87...

Actual customer reviews are less gushing than the WSJ article....

AI slop

Right on the front page...

The most surprising part of this is a "hacker" using Windows ...

German discrimination and racism towards migrant workers and visible minorities is world class.

And with Alternative für Deutschland / AfD rising rapidly, this is only going to get much, much worse.

https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/70478/study-finds-racis...

https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/germany-...

Shutting it down or selling it to Bytedance is probably next.

Asha Sharma needs to keep her bosses happy.

Spinning fiascos as opportunity is standard practice.