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Missing step numero Zero: What is a menu bar, where should it be placed, and how do I use its menu items in a way that adheres to the basic design rules of all operating systems on which this software runs?
You have to reconsider what "elected" means when it comes to the EU. Certainly not acts of "Germans and Europeans".
Regarding the feeling of something missing by reading on electronic devices, expressed in a few comments:
Some (not all) answers I was able to find in Maryanne Wolf's book "Reader, Come Home". Main concept there is what she calls deep-reading, a complex back and forth between different brain areas and the hemispheres, that needs time and is replaced by specific forms of skimming on the mentioned devices. In particular, the shift between hemispheres allows for integration into the reader's personal store of knowledge and, more broadly, into their own worldview.
The "wasted" time is essential for memory building and consolidation. Add enforced linear reading without immediate availibility to break the flow by googling/notifications/jumping to whatever, also consider haptics and more. Similar effects can also be found in handwriting vs typing, manual sketching etc.
That is far from proven, 'far' being the keyword here in another understanding.
At _this_ moment, AI is in the state of producing things - if you like with factor 10 or more. But what will come afterwards, when all this mush of code shall create _reliable_ results. This means not man month then, rather man years or decades to fix this billion and maybe trillions lines of opaque probabilistic LOC. You have to take the mean of these two stages, if nothing qualitative happens to the models.
Can do it on Ironfox Android (quite a forbidding browser) without problems. Not even JavaScript is allowed here.
Exactly. I'm German and simulated the constellation some year's ago. Verdict was, if you are inside the EU it won't pay out. The Estonian model is for people trying to participate in the EU market from outside.
Much easier with AI. Went from Webhosting all-in package + NAS to Hetzner Storage Share and a separate Emailprovider (Runbox). After a short time I dumped the Nextcloud instance and moved on to a Hetzner VPS with five docker containers, Caddy, proper authentication and all. Plus a Storage Box. Blogging/Homepage as Cloudflare Pages, fed by Github, domains from CF and porkbun, Tailscale, etc., etc. ad nauseam, NAS still there.
Most of this I didn't for many years because it is not my core competence (in particular the security aspects). Properly fleshed-out explanations from any decent AI will catapult you to this point in no time. Maintenance? Almost zero.
p.s. Admittedly, it's not a true self-hosting solution, but the approach is similar and ultimately leads to that as well.
Atheist here: Not true, there is much more in Hyperion (and even Endymion)
From a layman's perspective, another interesting (somewhat related?) example of a long-range effect that is not determined by neurons themselves (also a recent Quanta article: https://www.quantamagazine.org/once-thought-to-support-neuro...)
Site is still fine (but is and was always http-only):
http://bactra.org/notebooks/nn-attention-and-transformers.ht...
Cannot get this to work with Win11, whose taskbar won't accept the same program pinned twice. Even not, after creating two shortcuts.
The one thing I dislike, is the trouble to finish the application in a sane way:
it looks like your grievances are personal
Given the changing voting behavior in Germany, these personal complaints seem to be quite widespread.
There is a sweet spot between Gmail and self-hosting. I use Runbox and generally separate contexts, with CF being an exception as I use CF pages for static blog websites, some of their core services, AND as a registrar. For the latter, the default setting is porkbun. The reason for this is not CF's mandatory in-house DNS servers, but the simple fact that they do not register .de domains.
Yes, and besides having TypingMind utilizing accounts of OpenRouter, Anthropic, DeepSeek and more, I like Kagi's Assistant for many things. Only the models included in the professional plan, but Kimi, Gemini Flash and Deepseek are good enough for me in this respect.
Google Search for an edition from Eastern Germany. Read it, when I was 10 years old (50 years ago!). It was long before all the fantasy hype, and it was magical. Klaus Ensikat was the illustrator.
https://www.google.com/search?udm=2&q=ensikat+illustration+h...
Did this for 30 years. Two years ago I finally took the time to acquire the whole thing.
There is no way back. Relaxed posture, no UI elements stealing my focus unnoticed, parallelism (partially): continually "big-picturing" text; speaking with people while typing. The rhythm of this motoric skill and his quite specific form of memory alone, strangely decoupled from and coupled to the other mental processes at the same time, the interplay is simply marvelous.
Left/Right: First thing - add more axes. The most used standard example from politics or economics is liberalism/libertarism (not diving into the subtleties of definitions, their history, usage in different parts of the world, etc.). Look for more such axes, leave the political conceptual world behind.
After that, try Principal Component Analysis and look, what remains from these dimensions and the labels describing them. Think up names for the Eigenvectors / new axes. Investigate further. For example, look where people are concentrating in this high-dimensional space.
At least my kind of problems were solved by
https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/integration/pytorch/#instal...
...
- uv tool replaces pipx etc.
- uv pip --tree replaces pipdeptree (including 'inverse' mode)
- ...
aider [...] It kept telling me to "add files" that are in the damn directory that I opened it in.
That's intentional, and I like it. It limits the context dynamically to what is necessary (of course it makes mistakes). You can also add files with placeholders and in a number of other ways. but most of the time I let Aider decide. It has a repomap (https://aider.chat/docs/repomap.html), gradually building up knowledge and makes proposals based on this and other information it gathered also with token costs and out-of-context-window in mind.
As for manual changes: aider is opinionated regarding the role of Git in your workflow. At first glance, this repels some people and some stick to this opinion. For others, it is exactly one of the advantages, especially in combination with the shell-like nature of the tool. But the standard Git handling can still be overridden. For me personally, the default behavior becomes more and more smooth and second nature. And the whole thing is scriptable, I only begin to use the possibilities.
In general: Tools have to be learned, impatient one-shot attempts are simply not enough anymore.
Cannot compare, because I own only the following ones:
https://www.amazon.com/Counterexamples-Analysis-Dover-Books-...
Weierstrass function is also there, but exactly this one contains an error... :)
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1507399/is-the-weie...
There is also
it is explicitly stated that number of works was a measure of productivity not quality.
I have noticed that. But my entire posting, to which you replied, had the subtext of excellence - in this case, the comparison of professional basketball and mathematics. And in the latter at least, quality and originality plays first fiddle. In this respect, I would be reluctant to shift the discussion to other qualities such as “productivity”. For me, this is not the relevant measure in this context and, as I said, I also view it critically as a criterion for whatever.
As for Tao, I knew the picture and the story. Yes, an old and a young one. So what? It's not countering my or Hardy's point. These are statements from experience about a whole profession.
Individual examples do not contradict the general statement. Galois was dead at an age when I wasn't even at university. Abel a bit later (so avoid groups if you want to have a long life), same with Ramanujan (which incidentally may be a factor in Hardy's comment). And so on, just as singular at the first glance. As a mathematician, however, I continue to argue Hardy's point, both for the present and for the past as a general and observable phenomenon.
And the number of books as a measure of quality, really? I think that view is skewed by today's “publish and perish” environment (nothing against Euler).
G. H. Hardy wrote: "Mathematics is a young man's game." Of course, you can continue to be a mathematician later, but for top performance, especially in terms of novelty, you have to start early.
FRACTINT
Still available:
Back then I learned C from the source files, until then I had been using a mixture of Turbo Pascal and assembler. Later that led to C++, which was the base language for a large part of my freelance career. Nice to be reminded of it again.
Thanks! Shows the same version as the installed app from the main F-Droid repository - but this one works.
Mmmh, I'm using it on Android for some time now, installed as F-Droid app. Problem is, there is some friction regarding Countermeasures of YT and a new version adjusting to them. Often, I'm unable to use the alternative Client on Android for months until this is fixed. Will this be a problem on Linux too?
There are several others (free and certainly on par with cursor). Personally I'm using
https://aider.chat/docs/usage.html (not a vscode plugin, but with other advantages even when using this editor)
https://docs.continue.dev/getting-started/overview
https://github.com/cline/cline
was pretty good too, but it had taken on too much in its latest version 2.0.0. In other words, it is too unstable at the moment (but probably worth looking at again later).