There's clearly something tempting about a web index somehow separated from Google. It always felt like a natural monopoly and so a type of public service.
Now that push arrives a tad late so the impacts are unclear. Overall I still think this would be a net positive if there are more web search companies built onto such an index.

Didn't know bash got this feature now. I'm torn between "it looks so cool" and "we'll never see the end of debugging issues which use this".

Interesting thinking and trick. We clearly pile up too much noise in our shell history.

Nice simple fix in Git but with a large impact on backups. A good proof that profiling and keeping an eye on algorithmic complexity can go a long way in improving software.

The memory models for GPU programming are complex. This isn't easy to squeeze more performance without introducing subtle bugs.

This is an important piece of advice. You need to try things for yourself and fail to really learn. I'm not talking about failing in production of course. But trying to break something locally to see how it behaves, reading the errors, etc. is part of learning. This is how you will troubleshoot things faster the next time.

A good piece so that the origin of the term doesn't get lost.

This looks like a really fun workshop. Been wanting to run one for a long time now. Somehow I never had the chance.

If there was still any doubt that the arguments coming from the big model providers were lies... Yes, you can train large models using a corpus of training data for which you respect the license. With the diminish return in performance of the newer families of models, the performance they got from the model trained on that corpus is not bad at all.

Nice to see one more implementation available for the fediverse. This one comes with interesting features actually.

A personal experience which led to not using ChatGPT anymore. This kind of validates other papers on cognitive decline, the added value is in how it makes it more personal and concrete.

Somehow I missed this paper last year. Interesting review of studies on the use of gen AI chat systems in learning and research environments. The amount of ethical issues is non negligible as one would expect. It also confirms the negative impact of using those tools on cognitive abilities. More concerning is the creation of a subtle vicious circle as highlighted by this quote: "regular utilization of dialogue systems is linked to a decline in abilities of cognitive abilities, a diminished capacity for information retention, and an increased reliance on these systems for information".

I always find interesting how several math domains have similarities and bridges between them. Here it's about the ties between polynomials multiplications and convolution sums.

Interesting initiative to have DNS servers compliant with GDPR, respecting your privacy and with the filtering you need. Now the real question is how long it'll live by its mission.

I don't think I'm ready to give up just yet... Still, I recognise myself so much in this piece it feels like I could have written it (alas I don't write as well).

A long but important report in my opinion. Reading the executive summary is a must. This gives a good overview of the AI industrial complex and the type of society it's leading us into. The report algo gives a political agenda to put us on a better path.

Somehow this is funny that it works at all. With the advent of SPIR-V we're clearly seeing more experiments in the shading languages space.

This is a funny way to point out people jumping on LLMs for tasks where it doesn't make sense.

Interesting little experiment. It's clearly making progress for smaller tasks. The output is still a bit random and often duplicates code though.

Early days for this project but the idea is interesting. I could clearly things I'd want to automate that way.