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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦Jun 22, 2025

Might reread some old Tom Clancy books a bit to remind myself of calmer geopolitics.

as I understand it mozilla/firefox have some not-terrible language translation models. how can one use those without a browser?

Tommi Komulainen 3d ago

using 1/100th of a second as unit is an interesting choice. could've used second, or millisecond, but nooo...

Tommi Komulainen 3d ago

Lars Wirzenius 3d ago

I first learned how to program in 1984 at 14. The tech press said I'd be obsolete by 25, due to age.

About 1990 tech press said the Japanese were building fifth generation computers to make me obsolete.

In 2000, the dot com bubble bursting was said to make me obsolete.

There's been neural networks, no-code, and more, since then, to make me obsolete.

Now it's LLMs.

Excuse me while I sit here and don't panic.

#rant

EDIT: This blew up. Muting the thread for some peace and quiet.

Tommi Komulainen 4d ago

I thought speech recognition / transcribing / translation was a pretty much a solved problem and heard whisper mentioned several times. and multiple spoken languages in single audio file makes whisper-cpp rather confused and the result is pretty... suboptimal

Tommi Komulainen 4d ago

Dan Gillmor 5d ago

We all get periodic emails with subject lines like "We're updating our Terms of Service and Privacy Notice."

Question:

Has ANY update of this kind EVER been in favor of the customer?

Tommi Komulainen Mar 14

Xavier Mareca Mar 14

Aalto University. Helsinki. March 11, 2026.
AaltoQ20 — Finland's newest quantum computer. 20 qubits. IQM components. Bluefors cryogenics. Built in-house 2022–2026.
The difference: it's not locked in a corporate lab. Students use the actual machine as part of their degree. Full access down to microwave pulse level.
Every other university rents cloud access from IBM or Google — limited, shared, restricted.
Aalto owns the hardware outright.
#QuantumComputing #Aalto #Finland #Tech #AI

Tommi Komulainen Mar 14

I did not know double pendulums are weird
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jVogdTJESw

Pushing Simulation to the LIMIT to Find Order in Chaos

YouTube

Tommi Komulainen Mar 13

oh, right, most people need to be walked through the happy path first. and second, probably.
and here I am skipping all that as obvious and asking whatabouts on the actually hard problems

Tommi Komulainen Mar 13

what's the LLM equivalent of Cap'n Crunch whistle?

Seriously?	No, definitely no. Except when yes.
Interests	Everything but poems. Probably more exceptions but none come to mind.