Juraj

One of the strange things to understand, which was not seen by many people until arrest of Telegram's CEO is the regulatory capture of big-social(tm). Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, etc. are not arrested by French cops, because they comply, at least with the governments that have

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Not surprised. I have to say I'm super bored at Bitcoin conferences (talks), I almost never watch the talks and if I do, I usually regret it. Bitcoin is supposed to be boring I guess. If it's non technical, it's basically convincing people to

Just listened to this 8 hour Neuralink episode. It might not be fun for all of you, so it's not a general recommendation, but to me it was fascinating. First about how the technology including robotic surgery works, but mainly about the weirdness of controlling something with your

Holy shit, there is a weather fax over radio! (No 32).…

I've been playing with continue.dev (I am using it with Venice's LLaMa-405b or with local Gemma2-27b. My setup: Continue can also use Claude. Is Cursor any better? Anyone has experience with both? Replying to Andrej Karpaty's remark here: "Programming is

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Wow, Cypherpunk Now has created some beautiful art again.…

My friend @Wilder wrote (my commentary below): "I'm traveling to France on Tuesday and just thinking: If Pavel Durov deserves 20 years in prison for not cooperating with the French government and thus supporting terrorist groups and the spread of child pornography, then I, who publicly defends

I've been enjoying beta testing this and so happy this is out. It's amazing, I've been using it as my only podcast player. I've always loved learning about outstanding podcasts from my social bubble. Someone posts something to a group that they

OK, I will come out as coffee ☕ posh, but... I was asked to prepare a drink from some brown powder. It came in a box with the sign "Lavazza", which is on cafés around the world. I've rightfully interpreted it up to now as "never

Time to review the firing test with the current models. I chose LLaMA-3.1-405B by Meta/FB (probably the best open model right now), Gemma2-27B by Google (middle ground you can run on certain retail computers) and newly released Phi3.5-mini-instruct by Microsoft. The prompt…

"It's the loveliest day's policing, of course, to sit at your desk with a digestive biscuit and a cup of coffee, and to scroll throught Twitter to find if a woman somewhere in Doncaster has 'liked' something that she shouldn't have

@eso-level-estimator turned on its head and told to generate only Eso Level 10 concepts and ideas.…

Yesterday I was in a forest with zero signal. There were mosquitoes around. I remembered that some B vitamins are supposed to repel mosquitoes, but I needed to confirm, to sound cool with my family. Luckily, I had the MLC Chat app with the tiny Gemma 2 2B model (only…

My nephew just created (with my help) a Nostr account for his drawings. @BATCAT KOMIX. I created an npub site for him as well. Facebook/Instagram would not have him, it's since 13/18 years (even though his parents approve). Question: Are there kids nostriches here he could

Veľmi pekný článok od R. Chovanculiaka. Večná téma, aplikovaná v závere na školstvo. "Pri „krajine zdatnosti“ je potrebné pripomenúť, že to nie je nejaká statická hádanka, ktorú má evolúcia rozlúštiť. Krajina zdatnosti sa neustále mení. A to nie len kvôli tomu, že sa v prírode neustále vyvíja fyzické, neživé