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realPtolemy··on What's the best way to learn a new language?
I recall that my old German teacher taught us that listening to Music in a particular language, and watching TV where they speak a language, were the two best ways to learn a languages.

Her reason for why: Context and various slang words are grasped much quicker compared to the cumbersome process of repeating of words and phrases (She did not omit the need of the latter though).

She was great, 60 years old at the time and had us repeat the lyrics of Rammstein songs in class, her favorite band.

realPtolemy··on A love letter to the CSV format
I love CSV
realPtolemy··on I learned Haskell in just 15 years
Or Elixir! Quite easy to grasp as well.
realPtolemy··on Extracting concepts from GPT-4
Thanks, I must have read through the document to hastily.
realPtolemy··on Extracting concepts from GPT-4
Could there also be a “legal hedging” reason for why you would release a paper like this?

By reaffirming that “we don’t know how this works, nobody does” it’s easier to avoid being charged with copyright infringement from various actors/data sources that have sued them.

realPtolemy··on Extracting concepts from GPT-4
Indeed, and the very last section about how they’ve now “open sourced” this research is also a bit vague. They’ve shared their research methodology and findings… But isn’t that obligatory when writing a public paper?
realPtolemy··on Programming languages endorsed for server-side use at Meta (2022)
I’m curious to know why they don’t support Elixir and Haskell to a greater extent.
realPtolemy··on Microsoft Phi-2 model changes licence to MIT
How is it compared to 7B LLaMA quantized to run on a raspberry pi?
realPtolemy··on Microsoft Phi-2 model changes licence to MIT
They can already do that with some simple googling.
realPtolemy··on Reviving decade-old Macs with antiX and MX Linux (2022)
I’m running Manjaro on a late 2012 MacBook Pro, it’s running flawlessly.

The only initial issue I had was that I had to configurate the broadcom WiFi driver manually. Super easy after some googling for the more technically interested person… But nothing I would expect the general person to solve without frustration.

8gb RAM, 125gb SSD. 1xBattery replacement.

It does not run IDE’s like ST32 (based on Eclipse) and OneNote via Firefox smoothly simultaneously. But everything else so far has worked flawlessly. I use it every day and have done so since the beginning of this fall.

Edit: Call me a script kid all you want, for this particular laptop it’s just more convenient for me to run Manjaro rather than Arch right of the bat. But I guess I could eventually set up a shared partition for storage and an individual partition for each OS.

realPtolemy··on Apple and Google avoid naming ChatGPT as their 'app of the year'
I use it multiple times per week, more than I use Instagram and most other apps.
realPtolemy··on Satya Nadella: "We have all the rights and all the capability."
If OpenAI sucks so much, then what should i use instead?
realPtolemy··on Ask HN: Best programmable robot for kids? Christmas gift
Thanks! Appreciate the recommendation and tip!
realPtolemy··on SumatraPDF Reader
Excellent! Will update today then :)
realPtolemy··on SumatraPDF Reader
Using it for windows, good and lightweight, much more convenient than Adobe for basic usage.

But I wish that I was able to ”drag and open in new window” tabs of different opened PDF files.

But I must say that skim for Mac is the best!

realPtolemy··on We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT
See the glas half full or half empty?

Medical secrecy, processes and laws have indeed prevented SOME things, but a lot of things have gotten significantly better due to enhanced statistical models that have been implemented and widely used in real life scenarios.

realPtolemy··on Apple finally put USB-C in new iPhone, but limited to 23-year-old USB 2.0 speeds
They release it with 2.0 this year so that they can update it with 3.0 next year (or in two years) and it will all be forgotten.
realPtolemy··on A New Mode of Cancer Treatment
In case you’ve missed it. His blogposts at Science.org are available here: https://www.science.org/blogs/pipeline

I’ve had it bookmarked for a couple of years. Worth visiting twice or trice a year, or even more frequently.

realPtolemy··on Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private
I disagree. Personally I still think Twitter is a goldmine for following the latest relevant releases of AI-papers (@_akhaliq), the current Stock market buzz (several accounts), and the Ukraine war from an OSINT and serious journalism perspective (@maxseddon).

You get what you decide to follow.

realPtolemy··on Modern Image Processing Algorithms Implementation in C
Thanks for sharing!
realPtolemy··on Modern Image Processing Algorithms Implementation in C
Curious to know as well
realPtolemy··on Will see Sundar speak today – If Q&A, what should I ask him?
Unfortunately there was only time for preselected questions from various student societies.

Mostly he and the host were chatting about AI responsibility (seem to be their current campaign atm).