🌸 Mon, Apr 29, 2024 🌸
Long time ago, when I had just arrived in the US and was looking for a job, EA Sports contacted me and arranged an on-site test. The test was really hard; it had 10 questions and, as I was not very experienced in programming, I was only more or less confident I had answered 6 out…
🌸 Mon, Apr 29, 2024 🌸
I like to solve problems my way without asking permission. What I normally do is being explicit about what I am going to do and do it without waiting for permission; my expectation is that my colleagues or my lead will let me know if I am doing something that may break things and…
🌸 Sun, Apr 28, 2024 🌸
I feel like I’m turning into a tinfoil hat crackhead, which is quite shocking to me.
Generally, I have respect for professionals, for people who spend years and tons of money in college. I have a master’s degree in physics and engineering myself, and I especially respect medical…
🌸 Sat, Apr 27, 2024 🌸
I feel like I’m being scammed. Dentistry is not my area of expertise; as a game developer, I lack intuition about this field. Nevertheless, I’ve done as much research as I could and concluded that, in a typical scenario, I might lose $400. In the worst case, I could ruin my month…
🌸 Thu, Apr 25, 2024 🌸
Microsoft just released MS-DOS 4 to open source with the MIT license. Spam W’s in the chat!
https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS
🌸 Thu, Apr 25, 2024 🌸
The government’s issue with TikTok isn’t that TikTok is spying on US citizens, but rather that the government itself can’t use TikTok to spy on its citizens.
🌸 Thu, Apr 25, 2024 🌸
With the rise of AI’s capability to fabricate digital evidence, the authenticity of Polaroid’s instant photos could make them a trustworthy source of evidence. Investing in Polaroid stocks might be wise as they may regain significance in various legal and verification contexts.
🌸 Wed, Apr 24, 2024 🌸
Did Epic just quietly release Unreal Engine 5.4? 😲
🌸 Wed, Apr 24, 2024 🌸
Yesterday, I experimented with Whisper to understand what’s needed to develop a voice chat bot. The biggest challenge is that it struggles to determine when to start talking, often resulting in long, awkward pauses. Sometimes, it even interrupts me before I’ve finished speaking. …
🌸 Tue, Apr 23, 2024 🌸
I applied to Meta for the second time. Wish me luck.
🌸 Mon, Apr 22, 2024 🌸
I am wondering if Mark Zuckerberg is real on his announcements. Is he AI generating announcements?
🌸 Mon, Apr 22, 2024 🌸
I have been a prompt engineer for a long time before AI existed; I used to use the DOS prompt. 😛
🌸 Mon, Apr 22, 2024 🌸
Interestingly, the same thing is happening with AI-generated music. I can sense the ‘AI-ness’ in GPT-generated text, I can see it in AI-generated images, and now I can hear it in AI-generated music.
🌸 Mon, Apr 22, 2024 🌸
I am sure Mark Zuckerberg has a roadmap to the Metaverse he is building, but from an outside perspective, it is very murky. He invested a lot of money and effort into the VR headset; just now, they announced releasing the “open source?” Meta Horizon OS.
In the message, they stat…
🌸 Mon, Apr 22, 2024 🌸
I went to the shop to do a tire rotation on my car. It is a small shop with a little waiting room, mechanics covered in grease running around, and mechanical noises. It feels normal, like the time before the pandemic.
It also felt strange, precisely because of its normalcy. We h…
🌸 Sun, Apr 21, 2024 🌸
I have a standing desk and quite often I find myself standing in front of a lowered desk and working, just because I don’t want to commit to standing, but I can’t sit anymore. LOL
🌸 Sat, Apr 20, 2024 🌸
Darn, ChatGPT just trolled me; I was debugging some issue with the Linux app, and it recommended me to run sudo systemctl restart dbus, which rebooted my laptop.
🌸 Sat, Apr 20, 2024 🌸
When I use command-line tools, they naturally create presets for me in the bash history. So, I only need to figure out the command arguments once, and everything is accessible with the Ctrl+R keyboard shortcut. GUI apps don’t have that luxury; every repetitive task requires a mil…
🌸 Sat, Apr 20, 2024 🌸
BTW, happy 4/20/2024 palindrome
🌸 Sat, Apr 20, 2024 🌸
I have made my opinion about FSD (supervised) clear. From a consumer standpoint, I don’t think it’s worth $100/month. In its current state, I wouldn’t pay even $20/month. I don’t use it for my daily commute because it doesn’t learn from its own mistakes and makes the same mistake…
🌸 Sat, Apr 20, 2024 🌸
I am running Meta AI and ChatGPT4 side by side, and they are very comparable. Sometimes Meta AI generates better results, and it is so fast. I am considering canceling my subscription to save $20 per month.
🌸 Fri, Apr 19, 2024 🌸
One thing I just remembered during the teeth extraction: I had a bunch of tools in front of my face, and at some point, I started worrying they would drop some tool in my eyes. I noticed the assistant had protective glasses, and I was trying to ask for those glasses, but nobody w…
🌸 Fri, Apr 19, 2024 🌸
I just came back from the wisdom teeth removal procedure. I am still in kind of twilight zone, but while the memory is fresh, I want to share my experience. After all the paperwork, I got a mouthwash, and then sat on the surgical chair. They put a device to measure the blood pres…
🌸 Fri, Apr 19, 2024 🌸
The llama.cpp developers and maintainers are rocking and rolling. Yesterday at night, I updated the code, and it’s so fast. I changed the backend from CUBLAS to CUDA, and it’s much faster. Great job, guys!
🌸 Fri, Apr 19, 2024 🌸
My little fellow wisdom teeth are out.
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