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r-u-seriouson Wellington second-hand bookstore's mysterious orders

Let's talk again when it turned out operating LLMs at that scale isn't profitable, the companies go bankrupt, and you need to learn about said niche subjects.

r-u-seriouson AI Firms Are Buying Up Old Books, Then Scanning and Destroying Them

You know who also destroyed old books? The Nazis!

r-u-seriouson Walter S. Arnold–Sculptor/Stone Carver

a true hacker

r-u-seriouson Writing Builds Resilience in Everyday Challenges by Changing Your Brain

Does writing LLM prompts count? :D

r-u-seriouson Equal Earth – Political Wall Map (2018)

I love the "south at the top" variants! :D

r-u-seriouson Europeans fail to understand how much they were fucked by the 2008 crisis

If GDP rises but wages stagnate, where does the money go?

r-u-seriouson Pandoc

yes

r-u-seriouson FFmpeg Explorer

If you know the right ffmpeg options...

ffmpeg challenge: more Richard Spencer getting punched!

r-u-seriouson Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase

I lost it at "best practice". I once worked with this guy. He would use that term whenever he didn't have any good argument, which was basically all of the time. He would have the strongest opinions, whenever it didn't matter...

r-u-seriouson Go makes it easier to write correct, clear and efficient code

> Honestly I keep seeing this in all big go project, despite the lack of generics.

Not maybe because of the lack of generics?

r-u-seriouson AdNauseam – clicking ads so you don't have to

This is genius! Use people's resources to click on ads without them knowing, brand it as "obfuscation", profit!

r-u-seriouson Go Game Guru – Learn all about the board game Go

Hebsacker Verlag has options for every budget. Shipping still adds a bit, though:

http://www.hebsacker-verlag.de/shop.php

http://www.hebsacker-verlag.de/shipping.php

r-u-seriouson New music collaboration site

How does it deal with network latency?

r-u-seriouson Watch an AI bot play Go [video]

I'll check that out!

r-u-seriouson Watch an AI bot play Go [video]

Great! Thank you!

r-u-seriouson Watch an AI bot play Go [video]

Cool. I recently started working on a command line Go program. Mainly for learning Haskell and without any AI, yet. https://github.com/tsujigiri/gosh

r-u-seriouson Watch an AI bot play Go [video]

Do you have a link for the Google thing?

r-u-seriouson AIs Have Mastered Chess. Will Go Be Next? (TL;DR: Still Not.)

Interesting read about the approach of using Monte-Carlo tree search, though.

r-u-seriouson Chicago Boss: The Erlang Web Framework

I prefer Axiom for its lightness: https://github.com/tsujigiri/axiom

...but that might just be because I built it.

r-u-seriouson Internetarchive.bak

You can donate here: https://archive.org/donate/

r-u-seriouson Paperspace – A full computer you can access from any web browser

Does it say what the computer is full with? I would probably be not that interested if it is bees. In contrast, if it is dark chocolate, I would be very interested.

r-u-seriouson Show HN: As my first Haskell project, I'm implementing Go

Spoilers! ;)

r-u-seriouson EveryoneAPI

Well, it says "everyone" on the box!

r-u-seriouson Confidential Messengers: Are They Able to Substitute Skype and WhatsApp?

Threema let's you verify their encryption: https://threema.ch/validation/

I'm not a security expert, but... seems legit. :)

r-u-seriouson WPA2 wireless security cracked

> Perhaps expensive journals are having trouble finding original content in our culture of openness?

Apparently: http://www.nature.com/news/publishers-withdraw-more-than-120...

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Coin-cidences! Hohoho!