DrYak

@dryak.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy

Medical Doctor and Bioinformatician

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@b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gyReposted by @dryak.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy

Thinking this morning about how much of teaching is just taking the time to listen. Hearing what someone’s actual computer problem is and then addressing it is so much harder than just telling them what I think is interesting or cool. And sometimes I don’t know the answer to their actual […]

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@glyph [...]

Let me tell you: all answers I get range between "meh" and big disappointment.

I am yet to find a situation where my reaction is "Oh, that's clever! If I got that output, it would saved me a lot of time/made me learn something new".

This shit is useless to me and has been getting […]

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@glyph [...]

Another one is each time I finish a difficult problem solving rabbit hole/a challenging debugging session/etc. I then query the bots, and check their solutions (e.g. click "solve with Copilot" on automatic tests failure, and copy the error message from the log into a bot)

Each […]

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@glyph a small personal benchmark I've started doing recently:
I am pretty handy and tend to DIY a lot of things. Whenever I am starting some complex non trivial maintenance/repair/nuild/etc task, I test a couple of bots and ask how to proceed. (I am not into car maintenance, but if I were the […]

@spikybaddie.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @dryak.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy

Now, be careful not to learn the wrong lessons from the seemingly infinite illegal hacking committed by "frontier models" against, coincidentally, their opponents. This does NOT mean it is legal to do crime now just because you launder it through an LLM. Like always, it just means it is legal […]

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[Suggestion de details]

@ploum pour la creation du PC: une autre raison (en plus des risques d'antitrust) d'utiliser une architecture ouverte basee sur des pieces off-the-shelf: contrairement aux marche des mainframea et des miniordinateurs our IBM avait le quasi-monopole (d'ou proces), pour […]

@ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @dryak.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy

TL;DR: If I were writing a post about AV hookup wire twenty years ago on the subject "Is expensive wire a scam," I'd have TLDR'd it as "Mmm yes and no, expensives are better BUT you hit diminishing returns VERY quickly, in that there's a massive difference between a $2 wire and a $20 wire but […]

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@ploum Absolument ca. Sauf que, perso, je suis pret a passer le temps necessair pour l'expliquer... *a un humain*.

Oui, ca me prendrait moins de temps a vite tapper moi-meme une solution basee sur 2 lignes de Perl avec 3 regexp, *MAIS* le temps extra consacre a l'expliquer est un […]

@attoparsec.clacks.link.ap.brid.gyReposted by @dryak.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy

I took part in this study last month, and it was a nice, chill conversation. The researcher is looking for more input from the AI-skeptic side of the maker community, so I offered to pass the link along. Most of the people reading this will lean in that direction, I'm pretty sure! […]

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[Unsollicited advice on distros]

@PurpleJillybeans if you want an always up-to-date distro, in my experience among the rolling distros:
- OpenSuse Tumbleweed spends the most efforts on testing infrastructure to make sure each release works (I daily drive this on most of my workstations and […]

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