Category: en
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Paid vs Volunteer Open Source Software Developers
Recently, I’ve been puzzled by the lack of references on whether most of open source development is done by volunteers or paid developers. My intuition is that volunteer work is still largely underestimated and invisibilized. Since most big tech companies advertise their contributions to open source and some even have business model based on open…
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Quoting Barry O’Reilly
[About AI assisted coding] All of this is a statistical sifting – using context mapped to code snippets to filter from the set of all possible programs down to the one we need. There isn’t enough time and energy to do this even for a simple application, so we use pattern matching in the embedding…
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Quoting Ellsworth Toohey
AI systems learned to code by devouring Stack Overflow’s archive of human-solved problems. Now that developers ask ChatGPT instead of posting publicly, solutions exist only in private chat histories. They’re not indexed, not peer-reviewed, not available to the next person with the same bug. We’re trading a searchable knowledge commons for ephemeral conversations with a…
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Quoting Max Riesenhuber
The problem is that, in LLMs, words (symbols) are not grounded in experiences of the real world, so any meaning of words needs to be inferred from the relations of words to each other, floating in some abstract space and being prone to misinterpretation, let alone hallucinations. Max Riesenhuber is the co-director of Georgetown’s Center…
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Where is my ARM?
Continuing with the exploration of Linux on Mx chips, I’m faced with another potential set back, and this time it impacts software availability. And it’s not just affecting people that want to replace MacOS by Ubuntu on their pricey second hand laptop.
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Where is my bootable USB?
I spend 2 days trying to figure out how to create a bootable USB key to install Ubuntu on a Macbook Pro M1. And all you are going to get is this wordy blog post to explain how vain that search is. Skip to the end to learn how to install Ubuntu on a Macbook…
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Quoting Cory Doctorow
What the gadget does is nowhere near as important as who the gadget does it for and who it does it to. Your car can use a cutting-edge computer vision system to alert you when you’re drifting out of your lane – or it can use that same system to narc you out to your insurer so they…
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My selection for the Susanne Award 2025
I’m always interested by what people do with Blender and especially in the animation category. So, every year, I’ll go and have a look at the submissions for the Susanne Award. Here is my top 3 for this year.
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Quoting Martin Fowler
All an LLM does is produce hallucinations, it’s just that we find some of them useful. https://martinfowler.com/articles/202508-ai-thoughts.html
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Quoting cats4606
All I wanted was to use my Quest 3 as a Minecraft server for an upcoming LAN party with my friends and turn off the display to keep temperatures down says, by his own description, “an Australian teenager who had just stepped into the VR world”, who’s just published an exploit to get root access…
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Quoting Janelle Shane
I wish more people understood that any “apology” or “self-reflection” from chatbots are meaningless – they’re just continuing with your improv session. ChatGPT will apologize for anything – by @janellecshane
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Quoting Emilia Di Lorenzo et al.
Eggs are one of the most valuable foods on the tables of consumers and in the kitchens of chefs due to their abundant functional properties that make them the funniest and most versatile ingredients to work with. In fact, not only do they contain almost all essential nutrients, which is fundamental for human nutrition, but…