Good ol' days spirit
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Good ol' days spirit
Depends on what is considered as small enough for the LLM to be resolved with a high confidence.
So far it's just reinforcing my feeling that none of this is actually used at scale.. We use AI as relatively dumb companions, let them go wilder on side projects which have loser constraints, and Agent are pure hype (or for very niche use cases)
Luc Julia (one of the main Siri's creators) describe a very similar exercice in this interview [0](It's in french, although the au translation isn't too bad)
The gist of it, is that he describes this exercice he does with his students, where they ask chatgpt about Victor Hugo's biography, and then proceed to spot the errors made by Chatgtp.
This setup is simple, but there are very interesting mechanisms in place. The student get to learn about challenging facts, do fact checking, cross reference, etc. While also asserting the reference figure of the teacher, with the knowledge to take down chat gpt.
Well done :)
Edit: adding link
[0] https://youtube.com/shorts/SlyUvvbzRPc?si=2Fv-KIgls-uxr_3z
Searching for this post, I ended up scrolling through the HN result of "new York rats" [1]. It paints quite a story! Couldn't imagine it was such an intense topic (running for more than a decade!)
I'm surprised it hasn't been raised when talking about saving 2Tb/year only for React. It represents costs, which doesn't seem to be an issue, but also computing power and storage. (Event with a higher/longer computing power due to slower compression, it's done once per version, which isn't really comprable to the amount of downloads anyway)
Hard to calculate the exact saving, but it would represent a smaller CO2 footprint..
Here the scale of time is larger and does make the 5$ significant, while it isn't at the scale of a few days.
- making sure it works on all platforms independently of the browser you use (because it comes packages with chromium)
- having access to more API from the platform. Although the UI is rendered through a WebView, there's still native code running, that you can hook back into your app. That can be useful to either offload some logic to native, or access native API that you pilot from the WebApps
- having a shortcut icon to open you app in the system (although this is getting obsolete now that Chrome and Safari offer "Add to Desktop" functionally)
I mean, in the context of JS 10 years ago, Typescript in indeed overly complex, but in the context of today's JS running servers and very complex apps at scale, it just seems sane to back up the code with types, just as most other languages would do..
In my opinion it's now a required complexity to build up a lib with some stability and a safe DX for contributors
I highly recommend having a look at some of his best creations on deviant art [0], particularly his technic of matching outlines with the final 3d result [1], or his experiments with transparency [2].
[0]: https://www.deviantart.com/3dimka [1]: https://www.deviantart.com/3dimka/art/You-must-not-fool-your... [2]: https://www.deviantart.com/3dimka/art/8-Legs-Magical-Stereog...
So it creates the exact opposite 3d. Watching a stereogram meant to be seeing wall-eyed, cross-eyeing you'll see an upside down 3d. Some stereogram are mean to be seen cross-eyed though, which is considered easier to see.
Portugal (e.g in Covas de Barroso) [1] and Spain (e.g. in Cáceres) [2] are facing huge pressure to settle for lithium mines, without much consideration for the social and ecological impacts on those regions...
It is still considered as a green energy, simply because we decide to forget about part of the process. Just as we did for gas, and plastic.
Energy price should take in account all the impacts (recycling included), the avoid being considered as a magical solution, and rush blindly toward the next crisis..
[1] https://www.portugalresident.com/lithium-wars-step-up-in-cov...
[2] https://www.ft.com/content/459191d9-774d-4a2b-8ec6-ba472017b...
For those copying/getting inspired by the code, don't forget to add the missing empty-array for the useLayoutEffet dependency param.
This gives us the feeling that electricity is almost free and green, while in the meantime we damage entire area through lithium mining (E.g https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/business/lithium-mining-r...)
Apart from the arguable concept itself, I'm genuinely wondering why betting on yet another scanning device, instead of using fingerprint scan, which is now available on most smartphones ?
Is it that much more reliable that it's worth going through the pain of engineering a new hardware ?
Finally, how they could expect any other reactions than doubt, fear, and reject, out of this solution, while fingerprint and face detection already go through so much ethical issues ?
And it's the feeling I have today about Airbnb.. I use to love them, not only because of the concept, but also as a startup pushing innovation, sharing tech and design learnings, etc. It had a sens of contributing to community, and caring its users
Today I despite them for the uncontrolled impact they have in cities, and the we-don't-care philosophy they seems to have adopted (not to mention the feeling of being betrayed by a company I use to look up to). And I can't really blame ourselves for keeping on using it. They created "something that people wants" and now are taking advantage of it.
It's probably our responsibility now to remind those companies that "something we want" is a product along with a care for its users.