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data wrangler

Bucharest, Romania
Joined September 2009
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Another story. A colleague asked why my code wasn't doing X. I know X was implemented and I replied so. No he said, that's not what my agent found. I then asked him to ask his agent to tell me where in my code X was disabled. He later came back saying it was his agent logging code that did not record X properly, and I was right. His agent is the same agent that overrode my powerful idea in the post I quote. Yet, despite these evidence of his agent being wrong he still trusts it more than me. I find it frightening that people trust AI so much. This post is not against AI. I use codex a lot. But I know what the code does. I don't use AI as a black box. Maybe it is a bit slower in the short term that delegating it all to AI, but in the long term my code is better.
I still code by hand and I still read code generated by agents. But around me I see what's quoted here. When I ask questions to some colleagues they answer after 30 minutes what should take a minute. Why? Because they have to prompt their agent. And probably try several prompts as they have no clue about what to look for. Even more surprising. A colleague asked me how I got an idea that proved interesting. I said I used my brain. This idea implementation was removed by AI agent and I override their code. We've entered the meat proxy era I'm afraid. Don't become a meat proxy. Use your brain.
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Lipsa locuințelor ieftine este una din cauzele principale ale regresului economic și social. Nu poți să ai creștere demografică când plătești 500 de euro chirie pe 6 mp unde nu încapi a fute. Statul Român a futut demografia și s-a sinucis pentru o șpagă. (dar și alte state)
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Dionisie Kenan Wang, the first Chinese priest of the Romanian Orthodox Church Born in 🇨🇳, raised in 🇧🇷, he arrived in 🇷🇴 12 years ago, studied history and Orthodox theology at Bucharest U. Following his ordination on Sunday, he will serve at the "Transfiguration" Church in Cluj
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"AI" is the new battle of Somme, with humans and resources being burned for very little gain, and there will be no "AGI" at the end of it, only exhaustion and burnout. The difference between 1916 and now is now you don't have to burn anything, you can just wait until the competitors waste away. At the end there won't be even new tech to be picked up, only obsolete computer hardware being sold on ebay.
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When a leftist flog asks how one nation will fund its policies Show them this. It'll set their hair on fire.
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corporate officials say the darndest things
SITUATION DETECTED: OpenAI President Greg Brockman says he thinks AI will make “significant strides” in biology, health, and curing diseases over the next 12–18 months, and that “death becoming a choice” could become possible.
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Replying to @emilper @Sosowski
This was answered in IBM v Compaq in 1983. If it's copyrighted, you have to clean room it. If it's public domain, you have to follow the license or clean room it. LLMs don't.
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My European mind cannot comprehend this I think he's missing at least 17 permits, 4 inspections and a GDPR consent form
🍕 A guy in San Diego makes pizza in an ordinary home oven. Now 3,500 people are on the waiting list No restaurant, no professional pizza oven, and no delivery. Just a guy named AJ, his home kitchen, and pizzas that sell out in less than a minute. Customers are limited to one pizza each — and that's only if they're lucky enough to secure a spot. While the pizza is baking, AJ sends customers updates at every stage, so they can time their arrival and pick it up fresh out of the oven. There's no delivery — you have to collect it yourself. His recipe is unusual, too. Originally from the East Coast, AJ combines crispy New York-style pizza with the traditions of New Haven, Connecticut. Sourdough crust, signature charred edges — and thousands of people eager to try it. Apparently, you don't even need to open a pizzeria to run a successful pizza business.
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Europe getting one step closer to independence day. I wonder how much of the enthousiasm for supporting Ukraine will survive the European assets in China going broke.
Basically eliminated China's ability to retaliate with auto tariffs -- nothing left to tariff = no remaining leverage
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Romania 🇷🇴 to restart second unit of nuclear power plant after months offline. The start-up sequence for Unit 2 of the Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant was initiated on Monday. The two CANDU reactors have an installed capacity of approximately 700 MW each. romania-insider.com/business…
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Basically eliminated China's ability to retaliate with auto tariffs -- nothing left to tariff = no remaining leverage
China’s imports of German and Slovak cars have collapsed Soapbox: China’s imports of German motor cars fall from $16.3bn in 2021 to ~$4.8bn in 2026, a decline of 71% China’s imports of Slovak cars fell from $5.9bn in 2021 to ~$1.6bn in 2026, a decline of 73%
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🇷🇴⚡️🇲🇩Mołdawia uruchomiła nową linię napowietrzną, która umożliwia import energii elektrycznej z Rumunii z pominięciem separatystycznego Naddniestrza. 8 listopada, w obecności prezydentki Mai Sandu i unijnej komisarz ds. rozszerzenia Marty Kos, oficjalnie uruchomiono liczącą 158 km linię wysokiego napięcia (400 kV), łączącą Vulcănești (w Gagauzji, na południu kraju) ze stolicą Mołdawii, Kiszyniowem. Inwestycja, zrealizowana w ramach wartego 61 mln euro projektu finansowanego przez Bank Światowy, pozbawia Rosję kolejnego instrumentu nacisku na Mołdawię. Dotychczas przesył energii z Rumunii – a szerzej także z europejskiego systemu elektroenergetycznego – do centralnej części kraju (a przede wszystkim Kiszyniowa) był uzależniony od infrastruktury znajdującej się w separatystycznym Naddniestrzu. Energia docierająca do Vulcănești była bowiem kierowana postsowiecką linią 400 kV do węzła elektroenergetycznego przy elektrowni Mołdawska GRES (MGRES, znanej również jako Cuciurgan lub CERS Moldova) w Dniestrowsku. Dopiero stamtąd trafiała do Kiszyniowa, będącego największym ośrodkiem konsumpcji energii elektrycznej w kraju, oraz innych miejscowości. Sytuacja ta była – mówiąc łagodnie – daleka od optymalnej. Naddniestrze pozostaje bowiem poza kontrolą władz w Kiszyniowie, a sama elektrownia MGRES należy do rosyjskiego koncernu Inter RAO. Uzależnienie przesyłu od infrastruktury kontrolowanej przez separatystów dawało Moskwie możliwość wywierania presji na mołdawskie władze, w skrajnym przypadku również poprzez zakłócanie dostaw energii. Dla Mołdawii, która w dużym stopniu polega na imporcie prądu – pokrywającym w niektórych okresach 70–80% zapotrzebowania – taki scenariusz mógłby mieć katastrofalne konsekwencje. Nowa linia, określana przez mołdawskie władze mianem „linii niepodległości energetycznej”, pozwala ominąć naddniestrzański węzeł i przesyłać energię bezpośrednio z południa kraju do stolicy. Projekt wpisuje się w szerszą strategię dywersyfikacji dostaw i integracji mołdawskiego systemu elektroenergetycznego z siecią unijną. Przygotowywane są bowiem dwa kolejne połączenia wysokiego napięcia z Rumunią: północne Bălți–Suceava (Bielce–Suczawa) oraz centralne Strășeni–Gutinaș. Ich realizację wspierają odpowiednio europejskie instytucje finansowe oraz Stany Zjednoczone. Dopiero rozbudowa sieci o kolejne połączenia pozwoli jednak istotnie ograniczyć pozostałe zagrożenia dla bezpieczeństwa dostaw. Uruchomiona 8 listopada linia, choć ma fundamentalne znaczenie strategiczne, nie rozwiązuje wszystkich problemów. Po pierwsze, jako pojedyncza trasa przesyłowa pozostaje narażona na awarie lub potencjalne akty dywersji. Po drugie, jej przepustowość, wynosząca do 630 MVA, odpowiada nieco ponad połowie krajowego zapotrzebowania na energię elektryczną w godzinach szczytu. Nie jest więc w stanie samodzielnie zaspokoić potrzeb całej Mołdawii. Co więcej, nowa inwestycja nie zwiększa automatycznie przepustowości połączeń transgranicznych, którymi energia z Rumunii dociera do Vulcănești. Mołdawia zrobiła zatem ważny krok w kierunku uniezależnienia swojego systemu energetycznego od infrastruktury kontrolowanej przez Rosję, ale na pełne zabezpieczenie dostaw wciąż jeszcze trochę poczekamy.
President @sandumaiamd joined by Commissioner @MartaKosEU, Minister @DorinJunghietu & @WorldBankGroup Ulrich Schmitt launched the 400 kV Vulcănești-Chișinău power line - called “The Independence line” - significant step toward a more secure & resilient national energy system.
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Replying to @azamsharp
Artificial pseudo-intelligence exhibits a new form of Gell-Mann Amnesia: When I ask it something within my area of expertise, it produces slick sounding but significantly erroneous bullshit; when I ask it something outside my expertise, it seems brilliant & insightful! 🤨
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Unpopular opinion: If you think AI writes better code than you in an area where you consider yourself an expert, maybe you're not really an expert in that area.
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An AI model doesn’t “know” anything. There is no knowledge stored anywhere. All it is designed to do is predict what an answer to your question might look like using over engineered statistical analysis. It’s an answer simulator.
Can I ask a dumb question? An AI model runs fully offline on my laptop. No internet, no cloud. Then how does it “know” so much? Where is all of that stored?
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A few short nights of sleep can shift the hormones that drive hunger. Healthy young men slept less for two days in a controlled setting, with food and activity held steady. After the short nights, leptin fell, ghrelin rose, and hunger and appetite both climbed. The biggest jump in appetite was for calorie-dense, high-carbohydrate foods. Sleep helps regulate hunger for the next day. If cravings get harder to manage after a stretch of late nights, getting enough sleep is worth addressing alongside what you eat.
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Procesul de aderare la OCDE pune România în comparație cu statele membre la mulți indicatori. De exemplu, din acest grafic aflăm că România suferă de suprareglementare ("reglementări restrictive" ale piețelor) - e la nivel de Mexic & Columbia. Și nu văd vreo intenție de progres.
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