In Spain multiple big ferris wells were found in mines and also some parts of machines that were using to pulverise rock. There were machines for hammering the rock using water, made in wood.

The Romans probably used machines for polishing the stone also so it could fit with other stones, as they did everything this way and those machines were done also with wood.

We also know that they had machines for lifting the enormous rocks as we can see the marks that the gripper left, done in wood.

And every arch done in Stone needs to be build first in wood. The romans loved to use the same arch so they could reuse the wood. The romans standardised everything so everything could be reused or mass produced.

When I had partners in my business I studied them first deeply like I was going to marry them because I WAS going to marry them!

You should agree on your values or else the company will go nowhere. One founder will raw one way and the other the opposite making the boat to stay in the same place.

I have a software company and the opposite problem: I am obsessive about testing and meta programming. We write way more testing code than code, we automate everything with meta programming.

It was clear several times that we tested and automated way more than necessary. We automated things that only used once for example(although we used later multiple times on other projects).

So we had not the usual problems than companies have like bloat or security vulnerabilities but we had the problem of having software that was was super expensive because we did double or triple the code than the competition with tests that developers hated(they are boring to write). Our software took also way more time to market.

Companies love to buy the cheapest they can today and tomorrow we will see, so that put us in a difficult position. It was specially hard at first, but then this principles gave us an edge(because most companies would compromise early and not reap the benefits later).

Had I a business partner with a different mindset and beliefs, it would have been impossible to me not to change course of the boat in hard times.

BTW we use LLMs with great success. It let's us test even more spending way less than before.

That was more than 20 years ago.

Half of our laboratory PC rooms used Linux or BSD and we had licences like Matlab for Linux early on. The other half used Windows and yes, we could get very good license prices from Microsoft precisely because we had so many Linux machines. It was almost free.

You could even say that Microsoft spent money on us trying to buy the University sales gatekeepers with things like free expensive travel to States' conferences, free laptops and stuff.

We were probably not a normal University as we were a technical University and regularly organised conferences inviting people like Stallman.(Our technical University also managed the servers of the Humanities side of the University).

It was not that hard. Today, with so many programs running in Webassembly, it should be much easier.

>Is it just political symbolic migration because they have anything better to do with tax payers money?

Usually when you replace privative software with open source you spend 10x or so less in licenses. The problem being that the open source software is not as capable as the privative.

I did not understood why instead of spending 10 times less with open source, you spend half and pay for the necessary capabilities improving the open source software.

I understood it later. In the past it was a scheme lots of politicians used for getting negotiation power against Microsoft. Digital sovereignty was very down the priorities list compared to getting a good price.

Now, after the Ukraine war, and Trump actively using the US dependence against Europe, digital sovereignty is a very real issue, even critical.

So this way there will be a lot of false positives like with school assignments.

I think a better solution would be to have a network of people that you trust manually read and label texts instead, so this way no machines are used and you don't need to read a text that 100 of your trusted friend/trusted readers flagged as artifitial.

By the way, this man does not care about AI slop. He cares about AI usage. In the same way there is very good code created with the help of LLMs, albeit a minority like Linus Towards says, there will be very good writing created with the help of LLMs.

Just taking one of those and "destroying them"(it is not destroyed, a digital copy with the ability of doing millions of copies is stored somewhere) is not problematic for Humanity.

By the way, I always search for second hand books. Most of the books there are garbage. Most people clean their shelves with the books they don't care about, but preserve the ones that are good. If they are young people that inherited a house and don't care about books, they pick and sell the good ones, giving away the bad books.

If you go to a recycling centre, the garbage to quality ratio is over 100 or more. That is, for every 100 books that are garbage there is one good quality book. It is very rare to find a jewel there.

Claude and AI partners have taken all what they could from the Open Source projects without giving credit or respecting the licenses. They have increased the traffic on websites in an absolute disrespectful way increasing the hosting cost in inefficient and ridiculous ways.

They have taken all the important books and not asked permission from the authors.

Fair enough. Fair use.

Of course I would create a competitor software to Claude or any others if I could. Using Claude(and others) of course.

I am not paying you 200 dollars/month for you to tell me that I could not create code that competes with you. If you try to go to court in Europe with this you will lose.

It is just the same fair use you proclaim for taking the data from others.

If I want to talk about "Seattle" and use "Siadol" a lot of people are not going to understand.

It is very typical that when someone gets on drugs even the father of the person stops trying to help after several failed trials. Only the mothers stay. And it is so painful to watch. The kind of abuses mothers tolerate from their children.

Substances destroys the typical regulating behaviour of the brain. They literally can't see the harm they do to others. You usually can't help them until they hit rock bottom and open a window for you to intervene.

For helping you need knowledge and training and "trying to help" without it could do more harm than good.

About the moral obligation to help the drug addicts, as "social justice", I would call this "injustice". Here is the typical situation: Someone takes drugs in a social group because is "cool". In the same group there is someone that decides not to take them. He is humiliated by the group and it takes a lot of work. One of the members of the group gets addicted, do terrible things and asks for help.

It is usual that the one that did not take drugs, or the brother in the family ask the question "why are you helping this person that decided to go this way herself?" "Why are you expending like 10x more resources in this person that did everything wrong than in me when did everything well (studied instead of earning easy money selling drugs, that had to withstand the pressure and humiliations by the group).

Drugs are super expensive and addicts will do anything to get their dose, supporting the addicts usually takes all the resources from a family, neglecting the resources to other members of the family. If the State provides the support, the same thing happens. Should the State spend exorbitant resources that the rest of the society has to pay taking the resources from everyone that needs them?

If you want to sell your app you will need to explain it for humans, like this guy is doing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROEJe-nBmqQ

You will need to get better at public speaking and telling stories. I recommend going to your closest Toastmasters club.

I recently was in Venezuela, I have been in Cuba. I am a native spaniard. There you have a group of people that took control of the weapons in the country and uses it to basically enslave the rest of the country.

When the people in power have automatic weapons and you don't there is basically nothing you can do to defend yourself from the abuses of power.

That is a real thing the people in power have wet dreams and would love to do in any country, including the US.

Once I had finished I could earn 3 to 4 times more on several places.

They were also extremely creative taking foreign systems, studying the patent and modifying it to pay zero to the creators of the patents. This was done with things like the aluminium beams for electricity delivery that I think was developed by Italians, or the tunnelling machines that had all the pieces replicated inhouse.

I could do very useful things with that machine. So it is not the end of the world if we have to go back to a world when you merely have thousands of times more memory for 4 times less money.

It could even be positive if it forces people to be more efficient writing code and wasting less resources.

It is one thing to go carving whenever you want, where you want because you have a good job outside it. Another totally different thing is spending all your time training. Most people will hate that.

Everybody wants to be a tennis player when they see one player raising the cup and earning millions. But a professional player spends most of her life doing extremely boring things. And only a very minority get enough money to live from the sport.

Going out for a walk alone to the beach or the mountains was forbidden. It was so ridiculous. And of course I went out anyway and it was essential for my health and sanity.

I have been working from home for a long time. It gives me freedom. I don't have to waste hours moving most of the time, and time with friends and family that I choose.

When I worked in an office I had to spend one hour moving in and one moving out each day.

This study is equivalent to the drugs study done on caged rats. The caged rats being humans during pandemic.

It was discovered later that if you let the rats freedom and the ability to socialise they did not get as anxious as when caged and they did not look for drugs for escaping their miserable lives.

The solution are not better Hospitals to deal with your diabetes or cancer after all your food has sugars it should not have like corn syrup because sugar is cheap. You have so much additives in your food for preservation. Meat is full of Hormones.

Antibiotics on your vegetables that destroy your microbiota. Genetically Modified to fill the fields with pesticides.

Now Americans are obese as they process the growth hormones from their meat and their microbiota dies from the antibiotics they eat in their vegetables and their meat.

Waiting until your children has autism or asthma or cancer is not the solution.

This is like a kid playing videogames instead of studying, you take the console away and force the kid in front of a book and the kid will spend most of his time looking at the wall and dreaming.

I am engineer with very deep programming background that have managed people, with real experience in the real world.

One of the best things about AIs is that you can test crazy ideas and create prototypes very fast. Only one in a hundred will work great in the real world, but you have to create the 100 before to know.

Creating the 100 before AI was extremely expensive, and took so much time.

For me it is liberating and gives me focus because I can spend so little time testing prototypes and spend real time in what is really important and works.

This is something I learned from game developers: If you are going to create a game, you spend a weekend testing the dynamics and the gameplay of your prototype to know if is is fun. You use boxes, no textures, no complex sounds of music.

Then if it works and is is so fun, you create the game! You can spend 2 years creating the game after that.

You don't spend two years doing a Game only to realise later that is not fun, and you either spend 3 more years or abandon it at this moment.

People believe that you can only use LLMs for sloppy programming. But you can also use it for writing ten times more code of Swiss cheese model tests, and domain specific languages.

You write ten times more code than necessary and all that extra code is testing. Projects like SqlLite do that because they need to be perfect.

Before LLMs we had to use engineers for that and it was a painful and repetitive work, and they were always late and made much more mistakes than LLMs, specially because it was dull and tedious for great engineers to spend their time into.

Now we write tests and when all test pass we write new test for checking the tests.

We divide each complex problem in small subproblems and we warrantee each of them by formal means. We have multiple ways of solving the same problem, usually with one brute force solution that is simple and warranted to work but inefficient, and we can use it to compare with more efficient methods.

Before machines could do that, people doing that were burned down and exhausted, and always leaved pending work to complete.

So low in fact that the majority of the recent "accidents" look like suicides from the pilots. The pilots know exactly what they are doing when crashing the planes.

Please listen to Isaac Moreno Gallo. 99% of the Roman Roads had no big stones on it. Only near big cities you have the stone pavement, basically in the cemetery that was outside town alongside the road.

People with very little idea about engineering wrote the textbooks of the past and some of the wrong ideas are transmitted even today.

For people that have been programming for 20 years, AI is not an issue, on the contrary, it can work for you as you become older. They have trained enough.

For young people, it can destroy them if they stop practicing hours every day, outsourcing all their work to the ai, as they will start losing contact with the reality they are controlling.

But that depends on the personality of people. One of the best uses of LLMs is creating trainers for practicing what you need. For example, I have created programs for practicing my Japanese and Mandarin pronunciation, for practicing chords and note recognition with MIDI, and playing of sheet music, practicing IPA, my handwriting...

Usually I buy some software that does more or less what I want, but them I realise that I need a specific feature the software does not have. So I create the trainer for personalization.

It will be impossible for me to do that without LLMs. There is no time in 5 lifetimes to do that by hand.