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Eclectic INFJ, bioinformagician, PhD. ggirelli.info

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cyberinsider.com 14d ago

EU now one step away from reviving private message scanning rules

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www.zdnet.com 7mo ago

How to disable ACR on your TV (and why it makes such a big difference)

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civiceconomist.substack.com 7mo ago

It's not censorship. It's democratic self-defense

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www.forbes.com 7mo ago

Perplexity Comet vs Google Chrome – Should You Switch to an AI Browser?

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physics.aps.org 7mo ago

Decoding the Chaos of Breakup

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institutodeanalistas.com 8mo ago

Do We Need the Digital EURO: A Solution to What Problem Exactly? [pdf]

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github.blog 9mo ago

Upcoming changes to GitHub Dependabot pull request comment commands

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blog.google 9mo ago

We built one of the most ambitious datasets in brain activity research

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rslstandard.org 10mo ago

RSL Automates Content Licensing for Fair Compensation of Publishers+Creators

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ggirelli.info 10mo ago

Thinking in Space

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radicle.xyz 11mo ago

Radicle is a sovereign {code forge} built on Git

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ggirelli.info 1y ago

Pull Interactions from POSSEd Content

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stackoverflow.blog 1y ago

You've got 99 problems but data shouldn't be one

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civiceconomist.substack.com 1y ago

A new Dark Age for science – and democracy

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theconversation.com 1y ago

Internet of Things devices affect your privacy – even when they're not yours

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stackoverflow.blog 1y ago

In a deterministic simulation, you can debug with time travel

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www.science.org 1y ago

Expansion in Situ Genome Sequencing

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arxiv.org 1y ago

Do Large Language Models (Really) Need Statistical Foundations?

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arstechnica.com 1y ago

Zero-click searches: Google's AI tools are the culmination of its hubris

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arstechnica.com 1y ago

Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic

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www.techradar.com 1y ago

Why Your Biometric Data Will Soon Be More Valuable Than Money

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arxiv.org 1y ago

From tokens to thoughts: How LLMs and humans trade compression for meaning

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ggirelli.info 1y ago

Plotting Points in Seconds, in R

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ggirelli.info 1y ago

Just Breath

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For most games sold on physical media I was under the strong impression that selling/trading the physical media would automatically transfer the license, as the licensee was the owner of the physical media.

Basically one would by a CD-ROM containing a licensed copy of a game, and would then be the owner of the CD-ROM but only a licensee for the game. Selling/trading the CD-ROM would transfer the licensee status to the new CD-ROM owner.

I did it and yes! I've been reading more books, exploring the indies/smallweb, and spending more time with friends IRL. I highly recommend it! And I agree that the mainstream internet and social media are possibly driving a shortening if it attention span, but books are a perfect example of how to counteract this. After I quit/drastically reduced social media exposure and started reading books again, I initially found it tough. Slowly though I adjusted to the old media.

Loved the article, such a nice read. I am still slowly ramping up my proficiency in Rust and this gave me a lot of things to think through. I particularly enjoyed the temporary mutability pattern, very cool and didn't think about it before!

Why spend electricity and time to read the text in a screenshot, and then more time making sure there are no mistakes. When the sender could have just copied the original text?

Thinking in Space 11 months ago

How does the space you are in, the environment, affect the way you think? Do you "think differently", or does your mind behave differently, when you are in a small restricted space, compared to a large and vast opening?

To me, the major issue of self-hosting (once overcome the tech barrier etc...) has always been protection. Not from external actors or attacks, but from incidents. By which I mean backups. Safest option is online backup, which is expensive and takes your data sovereignty away once again. Or I can once a year make a hard copy and take it to my parents (who live in a different country) for storage, and swap the backups out. Either way, very suboptimal. If anyone has a good way to achieve this, please lmk

Have you experienced this kind of problem? In what tasks does it show up most for you? I have experienced this type of problem. A colleague asked an LLM to convert a list of items in a text to a table. The model managed to skip 3 out of 7 items from the list somehow.

Would solving it be valuable enough to pay for? Do you see this as something LLM providers will solve themselves soon, or is there room for an external solution?

The solution I have found so far is to prompt the model to write and execute code to make responses more reproducible. In that way most of the variability ends up in the code, but the code outputs tend to be more consistent, at least in my experience.

That said, I do feel like current providers will start to or are already working on this.