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I love ffmpeg, but the command line gymnastics are a killer.
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In the previous year, I wrote the program, running on Intel’s first microprocessor – 4004, that computes the first 255 digits of π. But, unfortunately, I was not able to beat ENIAC’s achievement with 2035 computed digits 1. So let’s continue our journey. I'm glad these people exist that dedicate so much time and energy and knowledge into making low level operations as blazingly fast and efficient as they can be, so that the rest of us can use high level languages and not be too concerned with the physical reality of how it actually gets done.
modified 7-Nov-23 18:20pm.
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Whip me, beat me, make me compute π to N digits...
Software Zen: delete this;
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Sean Ewington wrote: so that the rest of us can use high level languages and not be too concerned with the physical reality of how it actually gets done. wrong and make the systems lose performance and go to their limits anyways just because "what ofr? computers today are so powerful, that we don't need to pay attention" FTFY
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But how would you fry your eggs otherwise???
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Heard somewhere that this is one of the reasons why AI became widespread. The fundamental theories of AI (neural networks, optimization methods, etc.) are several decades (or even centuries) old, it was only the computational horsepower which was missing to make it feasible. Now, with today's computational speeds, AI is a practical reality.
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One of the most highly anticipated PC games of the year Cities: Skylines 2 was released last week to a mixed reception. My impression is that gameplay and simulation-wise it seems to be a step in the right direction, and at least on paper the game seems more well-rounded in terms of features than the original was at launch. This reminds me of that guy who went digging through GTA V and found out loading is slow because of low performance for its JSON processing.
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As YouTube tightens its restrictions on ad blockers, privacy advocates in the European Union are betting that government regulations can put a stop to the crackdown. The game of cat and mouse escalates.
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Allowing ads is a security risc for the machine. No ads on my machine until youtube accepts financial liability for the stuff it distributes.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: No ads on my machine Is your right to decide that
Eddy Vluggen wrote: until youtube... is their right to say "no ads? no service"
If at the end is a good decission or not... that's another topic.
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some things with ADs is the shift of uncertainty
the long last 1 second, is so frustrating, unless this just a thing on "other" video sites
and how many, when, how long, all add to a bad uncertainty.
90s and 2000s TV growing up was fine. Its N ads, or when the station Ad comes on, the show will resume after. And at set times.
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With the release of ChatGPT one year ago, OpenAI introduced the world to the idea of an AI chatbot that can seemingly do anything. Now, the company is releasing a platform for making custom versions of ChatGPT for specific use cases — no coding required. Feels like the app store moment for ChatGPT
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Quote: The creators of GPTs won’t be able to view the chats people are having with them, and it’s unclear what high-level usage data they’ll get access to. OpenAI says it will be monitoring activity to block things like fraud, hate speech, and “adult themes.” Of course...
Same as FB, Google and Co.
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On June 21, Red Hat Vice President Mike McGrath revealed that Raleigh-based Red Hat, the world’s largest provider of open source software, would begin to reserve the source code of its flagship product, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, to paying customers only. Free as in speech, not beer
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I remember the open source community going beserk with this announcement, but they completely forgot that this simply means that Red Hat is no longer part of the community.
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In July, software engineer Julian Joseph became the latest victim of the tech industry’s sweeping job cuts. Facing his second layoff in two years, he dreaded spending another couple months hunched over his laptop filling out repetitive job applications and blasting them into the void. So soon we will have AI writing job applications and AI reading job applications. What could go wrong?
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Well... looking at some headhunters and some HHRR guys... it might be an improvement
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No one had ever seen one virus latching onto another virus, until anomalous sequencing results sent a UMBC team down a rabbit hole leading to a first-of-its-kind discovery. As a hypochondriac, I should not have read this story before bedtime. Or at all.
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I, for one, am glad that viruses can get infected. Serves them right.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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This is just cool. Thanks for including it in the newsletter.
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Over the years, techniques for email obfuscation, like modifying characters (for instance, replacing '@' with '(at)'), have been utilized to prevent automated programs from easily collecting email addresses. While these methods were effective against basic web-scraping techniques, they have become less effective in light of advancements in AI technology. I used to subscribe to email obfuscation, now I guess I subscribe to spam and I can't ever get off that list.
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A new paper indicates that AI models like GPT-4 can perform better when users express emotions such as urgency or stress. This discovery is particularly relevant for developers and entrepreneurs who utilize AI in their offerings, suggesting a new approach to prompt engineering that incorporates emotional context. ChatGPT, I can't find a bathroom. Where is the nearest one? I'm scared.
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Elgato hasn’t just made an excellent teleprompter, it’s also made a great USB-C cable that ships with it. Professional audio engineer Matt “Spike” McWilliams spotted that Elgato’s latest USB-C cable has the bandwidth and USB type imprinted on the connector, and now I wish all manufacturers did this. Please.
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According to The Decoder, leaked screenshots and videos show a custom chatbot creator with many of the same features already available in ChatGPT using GPT-4, like web browsing and data analysis. OpenAI will apparently also have a new marketplace where users can share their chatbot or browse those made by others. A chatbot marketplace. A Utopia, or a wretched hive of scum and villainy?
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Sean Ewington wrote: A Utopia, or a wretched hive of scum and villainy? The first moments, an Utopia. Some seconds later, a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
As always...
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