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tonmoy··on How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me
This is how I feel trying to follow tutorials for using LLM or GenAI (LoRA, agentic, MCP what?)
tonmoy··on Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation
> This cabinet is one of the most impressive on paper cabinet i've ever seen

How can I be on you side since said this without any source. I had to spend 15 minutes going through each of the cabinet members profile (and the ones in previous presidencies). While there are a few people with good experience in the present cabinet, majority of the members don't seemed to have any experience for the job they where hired for

tonmoy··on 1910: The year the modern world lost its mind
Something similar happened during WW2 I guess
tonmoy··on Study mode
I don’t know what subject you are learning but for circuit design I have failed to get any response out of LLMs that’s not straight from a well known text book chapter that I have already read
tonmoy··on Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-Degree Turn
Clearly the engineers are being made scapegoats
tonmoy··on Underwater turbine spinning for 6 years off Scotland's coast is a breakthrough
For reference the Sahara desert is 9.2 million square kilometers (obviously covering the entire desert in turbines is impractical, but we might be able to come up with 1% “useless” land if needed)
tonmoy··on Binary Wordle
Odds of getting it within 2 attempts is 1. Odds of getting it on exactly the second attempt is 31/32
tonmoy··on What are people doing? Live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics
That could be because most people in the world currently are young. Hypothetically even if birth rate remains constant but suddenly a huge portion of the population start dying due to age then it could flip suddenly
tonmoy··on Tesla has yet to start testing its robotaxi without driver weeks before launch
And we can make them environmentally friendly by having them run on electricity that is constantly supplied by overhead power lines, alleviating the need for heavy batteries. I think we are onto something here
tonmoy··on I made my AI think harder by making it argue with itself
Yes, but I guess the model is optimized for relatively quick response, whereas these techniques are allowing the model to spend more time to generate a higher quality response
tonmoy··on A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen
I don’t see the issue in that though. If the target was to keep the average emission down across the entire country and if inefficient brand A decided to merge with efficient brand B to keep the average down that seems like it still adheres to the spirit of the law
tonmoy··on Avoiding skill atrophy in the age of AI
Compilers atrophied our skills of writing assembly, calculators atrophied our skills of doing arithmetic and search engines atrophied our skills of recalling random facts, but that enabled us to gain skills in other areas
tonmoy··on How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2
Given that those parameters are for wheels on a plane that doesn’t have wheels, I would say fixing the parser is the better fix
tonmoy··on A number of electric vehicle, battery factories are being canceled
Even without the recent MAGA wave, Americans on both sides of the party line have always thought that. Even in the corporate world the domestic market is always the primary target and international is an afterthought
tonmoy··on A number of electric vehicle, battery factories are being canceled
I don’t know where you live, but I charge my EV using two phase 240V outlet (same as the ones used by washing machine) and it takes about 8 hours to charge from 30% to full, which is more than enough for 99% of my use cases
tonmoy··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
> Many other countries, including EU members and China, already apply tariffs and non-tariff barriers far in excess of what the US is applying now.

Source?

tonmoy··on Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks
For people who want to have a professional social presence (FB/linkedin) as well as an anonymous one (Reddit etc), it’ll be super useful to see if the accounts are truly unlinkable. Moreover if you are opening a new anonymous account, maybe a good idea to search the new username using this tool to make sure it’s not “taken”
tonmoy··on Trump wins presidency for second time
I don’t think ChatGPT should be cited as source
tonmoy··on Trump wins presidency for second time
> Hard fact is that Trump presidency delivered actual wage growth for people in many years

Do you have a source for this claim? Covid did end up causing salary increase I know, but we can hardly attribute that to the president

tonmoy··on Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization?
There are plenty of south/East Asian counties that have just as much if not more restrictions in textbooks. So I don’t think that alone accounts for the discrepancy
tonmoy··on U.S. maternal death rate increasing at an alarming rate
Obesity rates increased slightly between 2014 to 2021, but I’m not sure that will account for doubling of mortality rate. It could mean that more obese people are having kids than before, but that would be far from trivial to prove
tonmoy··on Clouds in Video Games
Playing some of the games mentioned here doesn’t heat up my phone as much as reading this article for 2 minutes did
tonmoy··on SimCity in the web browser using WebAssembly and OpenGL
I’m guessing “inking” is a autocorrect of a typo that was meant to be “input”
tonmoy··on AI Leapfrogging: How AI Will Transform “Lagging” Industries (2023)
While it might seem a little extreme, the first sentence isn’t necessarily wrong, right?
tonmoy··on A former slave who became a cowboy, a rancher, and a Texas legend
While there were more reasons for sure, I had never heard about the slavery aspect until today. Doing some google search showed me indeed historians think that it was one of the reasons and I find it surprising it isn’t talked about as much
tonmoy··on Timekeepers may subtract a second in 2029 as planet spins slightly faster
The effect of special relativity would be negligible
tonmoy··on Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
Perfect, I can update my LinkedIn profile when the project is in a critical phase and I know managers are making increment decisions
tonmoy··on Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu
Clearly not according to Nintendo
tonmoy··on Botanical gardens can cool city air by an average of 5°C
But it’s probably the easiest and cheapest way. Another plus point would be creating habitat for smaller animals and morale boost for the city inhabitants
tonmoy··on Getting into robotics as a software engineer
As someone who works in making physical things, I disagree with the premise that the world of bits and bytes does not have impact. We will always need to manage resources including humans at a large scale and web apps are the best way to do that.
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