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New comment by cosmicradiance in "Open-source Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications"

cosmicradiance — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:47:11 +0000

Internet decentralized the data. Now, AI has decentralized software. Next, we need decentralized AI.

New comment by cosmicradiance in "Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)"

cosmicradiance — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:30:25 +0000

Bumblebees shouldn’t be able to fly; they do anyways.

New comment by cosmicradiance in "Everything Is Chrome (2023)"

cosmicradiance — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 07:32:11 +0000

The article in context is not just about Chrome, but the various avatars it has manifested into.

New comment by cosmicradiance in "Everything Is Chrome (2023)"

cosmicradiance — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 06:55:17 +0000

So no. Same menu/web-pages; but served differently as per individual needs.

New comment by cosmicradiance in "Torvalds: You can avoid Rust as a C maintainer, but you can't interfere with it"

cosmicradiance — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 13:16:01 +0000

Who's taking the baton?

New comment by cosmicradiance in "How to do distributed locking (2016)"

cosmicradiance — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 16:04:00 +0000

System Design Interview I and II - Alex Xu. Take one of the topics and do it practically.

New comment by cosmicradiance in "Unlearning LeetCode"

cosmicradiance — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 07:01:14 +0000

The same though goes into working with languages.

I was a fan of Python’s list compressions, C#’s LINQ expressions, ORMs and functional/object-oriented abstractions.

Now, I have started appreciating simple procedural languages like Golang.

New comment by cosmicradiance in "Closing factories will not be enough to save Volkswagen"

cosmicradiance — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 12:26:33 +0000

China didn't look like a competitor until they were miles ahead.

"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak" - Sun Tzu

New comment by cosmicradiance in "Scaling Rails and Postgres to millions of users at Microsoft"

cosmicradiance — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 11:39:27 +0000

They are definitely not on the cloud.

New comment by cosmicradiance in "Ask HN: Why Is Stack Overflow Fading Away?"

cosmicradiance — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 19:46:17 +0000

People who crave karma points will continue do so. The game isn't for the faint hearted. SO still has the best gamification model and there isn't any competitor.

New comment by cosmicradiance in "Ask HN: Why Is Stack Overflow Fading Away?"

cosmicradiance — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 16:28:53 +0000

Why will SO be gone? They are now partners with OpenAI - https://stackoverflow.co/company/press/archive/openai-partne...

New comment by cosmicradiance in "Artificial intelligence is losing hype"

cosmicradiance — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 05:44:56 +0000

Wrong. As per the article - a part of our brain is a prediction machine. A human body is more than the sum of its parts.

New comment by cosmicradiance in "Artificial intelligence is losing hype"

cosmicradiance — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 04:54:02 +0000

On the current state of AI - do you believe it has "intelligence" or is the underlying system a "prediction machine"?

What signs do you see that make you believe that the next level (biological intelligence) is on the horizon?

New comment by cosmicradiance in "EVs are starting to overtake gas-powered cars in Ethiopia"

cosmicradiance — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 06:06:09 +0000

Not really, you first have to catch up the vehicle ahead, before you start overtaking. At present, they are miles behind.

New comment by cosmicradiance in "Just use Postgres"

cosmicradiance — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 10:36:00 +0000

1. With the recent developments at CockroachDB one may like to bundle it along with MSSQL and Oracle.

2. Like the author, I will like to understand "Why not MariaDB? (a free variant of MySql)".

New comment by cosmicradiance in "Miss your flip phone? people are ditching the smartphone for 'dumb phones'"

cosmicradiance — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 06:16:28 +0000

Back to simplicity - your contact list is your filter. If the phone doesn't identify the caller - send to voicemail.

New comment by cosmicradiance in "Google's former CEO on why the company was caught off guard by OpenAI"

cosmicradiance — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 06:11:54 +0000

Google settled for the status quo.

After covid, like many other organizations, they went too lean, concentrating on sustainable operations, expecting a tough market.

WFH was an effect of their adopted work-culture and not a phenomenon in itself.

New comment by cosmicradiance in "Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine"

cosmicradiance — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 02:20:52 +0000

I mean AI transformers. I understand we have pre-embedded STT, though I will like the option to include my own - say an English grammar GPT and expose it by an API for progressive enhancement of content.

New comment by cosmicradiance in "Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine"

cosmicradiance — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 17:04:50 +0000

If anyone is willing to put an effort in building a new browser, I have just one wish - allow embedding open-source transformers in the browser; available for both the user and websites/extensions.

New comment by cosmicradiance in "There's Just One Problem: AI Isn't Intelligent"

cosmicradiance — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 14:08:10 +0000

It would have been better if the term used was Prediction Machine, rather than Artificial Intelligence.

One may argue, what's in the name? AI is a catchier term and covers the umbrella under which terms like - statistics & predictions, ML, NLP AGI, etc can be grouped.

* As an engineer it makes sense since the ultimate aim should be to reach AGI.

* As a salesperson it makes selling the technology easier.

* As for the rest of the world, the term has a varying meaning, one that is limited by only the individual's imagination.

  - My wife, who has a PhD in Biotechnology believes AI to be more like a sentient being.

  - My sales director feels AI should be able to act like a real salesperson, taking vague instructions, researching and churning presentations to hit the customer's heart.

The author is right here - the term is misused and misunderstood by most folks, and we should expose the system for what it actually is rather than what it can be.