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Comment · 1 month ago
Not. External LLMs are blocked at my company. For good reason.
Comment · 1 month ago
Yes, by Pedro Sanchez, of Spain

Interesting, imho, more because who he is, and Spain's current role, than the actual content. Also, targeted at.. the US? Western Europe, I guess?

Comment · 4 months ago
"Former Goldman Sachs commodities chief Jeffrey Currie said this week the real reason the oil price had not returned meaningfully above $100 a barrel in the past few weeks was not a sign of supply - which has been severely constricted by the near-closure of the Strait of Hormuz - being plentiful, but rather of what he called "capital aversion"."
Comment · 5 months ago
Their business model is to allow as many possible "valid" transactions, not to serve their "clients". They're a PSP...
Comment · 5 months ago
Realistically, without data from a large testset that compares this thoroughly to Samtools (and others?), I wouldn't touch this.

Note to the OP: specify a focus please? short, long, mega-long read and bacterial, human, small plant or large plant genome? Alignment heuristics and performance differ significantly across those axes.

Comment · 6 months ago
And yet, Escape from Tarkov is not on Steam, which would seem 5o contradict what you're saying.
Comment · 7 months ago
Wait. You built a new language, that there's thus no training data for.

Who the hell is going to use it then? You certainly won't, because you're dependent on AI.

Comment · 8 months ago
I would argue that craftsmanship includes a thorough understanding and cognitive model of the code. And, as far as I understand it, these agents are syntactic wonders but can not really understand anything. Which would preclude any sort of craftsmanship, even if what they make happens to be well-built.
Comment · 8 months ago
So, I respect the entrepeneurship and technical skills to make this. Well done!

That being said, this is insane.

Maintaining your social network is a skill, just like being able to swim, doing math, being able to hold a good conversation, being able to code or cook or do your taxes.

The "promise" and "illusion" of silicon valley is that all problems (including and maybe even especially social ones) can be solved with technology. This is not true.

Having to use your brain to think about things is definitely painful. It also has incredibly good long-term effects -- and also negative short-term effects because it costs energy. It's similar to eating well, regularly exercising and other aspects of taking care of yourself.

Making sure you can remember to think about other people is not a problem -- it's a REALLY valuable skill that is gradually disappearing.

Comment · 8 months ago
Lots of mayo.. and butter. It's more like a butterich, realistically. ;)
Comment · 9 months ago
I'm already having flashbacks of how the tobacco industry faired..
Comment · 9 months ago
Think about moving. Job markets are vastly different geographically and have been for some time.
Comment · 10 months ago
It's kind of weird that Romania has done so well, given that amount of turmoil in Romanian politics and Romania in general in the last 20 years.

Basically, it went up for Romania because they got access to the EU market (in terms of both exports and remittances) starting in 2007 and that helped, _despite_ everything else that went on. So.. kind of a win for Romania and the EU, I guess.

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