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mrkramer

3,411 karma · joined June 6, 2019

Advice from Sergey Brin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yT5tKm9Pzc

Interests: Big Data, Data Mining, Data Analytics, Search

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mrkramer··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
They are allowed to scrape everybody else but get their feelings hurt when they get scraped....oh yea they respect robots.txt. Guess what, scraping everything that is public is legal.
mrkramer··on Instagram's head says engagement falls by half without the algorithm
Because people are lazy, they feed on feed.
mrkramer··on Recreating Minecraft Is Not a Benchmark
>GPT-6-Astra-Max

"Generate a SVG of a PlayStation 4 controller as nicely done as you can"

Time taken: 11m 54s

No image was used

I was expecting 10s not 12m; if it takes 12m to do it, I would rather try to do it myself. And what it means "No image was used", wasn't it trained on bunch of images including probably console controllers images?

mrkramer··on What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?
>What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?

You get an intelligence of an average person. Imo, majority of people are clueless and just hustle day in and day out. I know that capitalism is hard but you have to stay informed and aware.

mrkramer··on It's a shame what's happened to radio
"Video killed the radio star."
mrkramer··on Crypto firms have spent $189M so far on 2026 US election, report says
I remember watching Sky News and hearing that UK political parties were from then on forbidden to take donations in crypto which is just another nail in the coffin of crypto. All started going downhill when Satoshi left his Bitcoin project.
mrkramer··on Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?
One more reason not to use social media. Except anon discussion boards.
mrkramer··on Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers
Stop funding cyberterrorism.

>the deal means that the hackers have returned the compromised data of some 275 million users across more than 8,800 institutions.

Yea sure, they didn't keep the copy of stolen database. You know, criminals are very trustworthy people.

mrkramer··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce
I feel like they overhired over the years and now they reap what they sow. AI just accelerated their awareness of overhiring. I think if Cloudflare or any other well established software company stopped hiring this year, they would be doing the same as they did last year. At the end even the management will be replaced by AI.
mrkramer··on AI slop is killing online communities
I actually think the good old Page rank[0] is crucial because if the authoritative sources link to some website, webpage or content it means that particular item provides some kind of value to the entity that linked it. I'm also a big fan of metadata which can be used to describe web content and make the content more usable to the search engines and the Web users.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

mrkramer··on AI slop is killing online communities
The importance of good search engines and good discovery engines will grow even more.
mrkramer··on Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard
I meant this https://www.federalreserve.gov/central-bank-digital-currency..., this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_euro and this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_renminbi
mrkramer··on Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard
I meant digital dollar and digital euro, you won't need Visa and Mastercard anymore.
mrkramer··on Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard
Pix is for domestic use right? So tourists who come to Brazil still use Visa and Mastercard as well as Brazilian tourists who travel abroad. Visa and Mastercard are companies of the past, crypto and stablecoins will destroy them sooner or later.
mrkramer··on DeepSeek v4
All empires are to some degree evil because their agenda is to dominate weaker peoples and nations. They almost all committed crimes against humanity and genocides if you look retrospectively from the todays point of view. Even our beloved Roman Empire that the Western civilization is built upon was genocidal empire.
mrkramer··on The hottest college major [Computer Science] hit a wall. What happened?
Some things are better when they are outsourced because other companies specialized for that problem set. Just like you won't roll your own cryptography, you won't and can't do everything in-house.
mrkramer··on OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation
Good luck competing with Google which has "unlimited" budget.
mrkramer··on Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls
Epic lost billions of dollars when they were kicked out of the App Store and Google Play and they were out for a long time. Only now Fortnite is coming back to mobile.
mrkramer··on Regex Blaster
I vibe code web apps with Google's Gemini and I think it actually mimics Google's UI and UX because I see similarities between my vibe coded web apps and Google's web apps.
mrkramer··on Regex Blaster
This looks like something I would vibe code with Google's Gemini. Interesting concept.
mrkramer··on Wired headphone sales are exploding
I use to have wired headphones for years but wires always get damaged over time and then headphones stop working. Now I got wireless headphones.
mrkramer··on Random Numbers, Persian Code: A Mysterious Signal
Isn't this a risky way to transfer intelligence information because when people see gibberish data they will know something fishy is going on. Better way would be to use subliminal channels[0] for intelligence exchange.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_channel

mrkramer··on Meta patented an AI that lets you keep posting from beyond the grave
At least nobody will be able to sue you for things you say when you are dead. Zuck will get all the lawsuits.
mrkramer··on Meta acquires Moltbook
It was just one of my numerous thought experiments....starting with text only social network (like Moltbook) is probably way easier than to go with full blown Facebook/Instagram type network.
mrkramer··on The dead Internet is not a theory anymore
Tbh I don't care if I speak to a human or a bot as long as they are "useful"; by useful I mean if they provide me useful information but then again humans can provide unique information that bots can not. But I think identity is not relevant anymore, what's relevant is reputation. People think internet bots are bad per se but we need to build useful bots, just like there are chat bots that are useful on various platforms like Telegram, Discord or whatever other platforms people use.
mrkramer··on Meta acquires Moltbook
I had a similar idea where AI bots run its own social network and talk to each other but my AI social network would be more realistic (human-like) e.g. AI Instagram-like network where AI bots would share their photos and comment on each other posts.
mrkramer··on Major airline bans 'barebeaters' across all 24 daily flights from UK airports
I've never seen or heard anyone listen music out loud from his or her phone in the public transit or on the airplane. They all have headphones but sometimes they listen music so loud that you can actually hear it from the headphones or earbuds. People usually listen out loud some short clips or they talk out loud via speaker but music, that's just disrespectful.
mrkramer··on OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading
Inside trading on the public market and on the public blockchain, that's smart!
mrkramer··on AI makes you boring
I vibe code little productivity apps that would take me months to make and now I can make them in a few days. But tbh talking to Google's Gemini is like taking to a drunk programmer; while solving one bug it introduces another bug and we fight back and forth until it realizes what and how needs to be fixed.
mrkramer··on Why I don't think AGI is imminent
You need artificial life first in order to achieve AGI not vice-versa.
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