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Honestly, this looks like the only LLM summary use case that sounds remotely useful for me. My only gripe, after looking for the cached example, is how verbose it is.

I would prefer just a one-sentence summary of what it is and one-line header explanations for comment topics to point me to the right place in the discussion.

In general, in my opinion, this is more useful as a navigation aid to help me quickly judge whether the discussion is interesting than as a replacement for the original text. But it could be way too out of scope for this tool. (I wish something like that existed for scientific peer-review journals...).

There are people doing that, Qutebrowser, Nyxt does that for WebKit(and they are moving to chromium engine). The main issue why others are not doing that is the issue with cutting yourself from extensions.

Prewar Poland was a military dictatorship(mild but was) in the permanent state of crisis, on a brink of a civil war with all of its minorities. And it is a wild take to blame communists for the nazi atrocities.

But communist solved most of the problems that prewar Poland would have problem of solving. Yeah Polish tech was amazing especially if you consider the resources

Not that I want to be Debbie downer but as always in case of Polish (which I am also are) overexaggerated and having that strange believe that if not the communists Poland would be a global superpower.

Its enough to go the wiki (both about the computer and the inventor) to see that the situation was not that clear. The performance was greatly overstated, it depended on the import of the component from the west etc.

Moreover the guy was cooperating with the Polish version of the FBI so it's not like it was a story of lonely genius vs the governament....

The prices of a lot of consuemr products are actually the same than the western Europe and usually produced in Central or Eastern Europe so this should not be an issue.

I would say it's just because they are allowed to do so and EU open market kinda enforce that.

Its normal double standards. The same happens with non west Europe food items and detergents that are sold in the central or eastern Europe. The sold on non western market have more diluted product or contain more sugar or artificial ingredients.

Honestly, a crazy amount of biology and bioinfo works like that. Do any in silico analysis on NCBI accession genomes. I would say wast majority of them is either shoddy at best and at worst completely mislabeled.

Bioinfo tools? You scrape the surface of the reported results and see what is inside and a lot of stuff is either broken or work on a trust me bro principle.

Sequencing? In one technology results can be a bit different depending on the graphic card used and reported error rate is kinda shady.

Don't get me wrong people working with these stuff are amazing but the constant push for publishing more and more and the profit drive of the companies does a lot of bad stuff.

Kinda logical as Rstudio really lacks a lot niceties from more robust code editors.

I am wishing them the best but I would be shocked if it drags me out of my ESS Emacs corner.

Text correction or generating a full sentences from scraps.

Like I write a super messy barely coherent paragraph and ask LLM to streamline the text and make it easy to understand while avoiding the LLMs grandiose language. Obviously it needs some corrections but it's way faster than normal.

Also just to shorten a longer text or even reformat the text accordingly to some direction.Like to convert daily notes to proper zettelkasten ones.

2. You would be surprised, especially on the science/university level in stat, health or bioinfo. Unfortunately a lot of people go with the path of least resistance and use excel propertiary format or csv for everything.

Like NHS with their post covid data due to excel limitations or gene name conversion problems in sci journals.

Same happens with stupid amount of laboratory management things or bioinformatics tools.

Honestly obviously the article is biased but we should at least think about moving away from csv in non customer facing fronts.

Small files? Json Big files? SQLlite or parquet.

Ahhh I started my programming with Rstudio. Since than I changed to Emacs with ESS.

Rstudio is nice but lacks a lot of nice things from something bigger.

I would say Win clone DE would be horrible for the new users as it would be too similar for the users to fully comprehend that they switch the system and still too different to not incur frustration. Because you can't make 100% copy of Windows without making cheap knockoff of Windows. Linux is in good state right now it does not need another major change.

Really interesting article.

These models left unchecked like they are now could be really dangerous. Increased use in articles will results propagating harmful stereotypes(unconsciously as Midjourney is easier to use than browsing the stock images), the enforcement of western(Anglo-Saxon) viewpoints in other countries.

Also it's just simplifying life to the easiest, most basic common denominator. I honestly think that there is no added value for them to exists.

I emigrated to Germany 4 years ago when I still belived in the myth of German efficiency but at this point I am completely disillusioned.

It's a myth that is problematic because even Germans started to belive in and it's holding it back. German rail is in horrible state, internet speed is a joke, banking system is ancient and you still have problems with paying with cards. Also dealing with even simple stuff require a crazy amount of documentation and personal visit for no good reason.

And the worst part is that due the German mentality and their feel that their are the greatest nothing will be improved and any insight from abroad used. Their approach is always just "Well what can we or oh it's definitely the best system".

Germany is the best in marketing and eating the benefits of the previous generations.

It's crazy disturbing and uncomfortable topic and it kinda remind me of the the interview with a company that creates realistic dolls that can be "hurt", they bleed etc... that changed my opinion about this topic. Do I wish that this stuff did not exists? Yeah, but if somebody find this as a safe ventil for his disturbing urges without inflicting any harm or trauma on others? I would say that this is worthy.

And I am not buying the argument about the this could enable people to move to the "real" stuff we have the same arguments in case of violent video games, movies and music.

But Jesus live and people are sometimes disturbing.