@xuv writes

On the Social Web (also known as The Fediverse or Mastodon), the saying goes that “you are the algorithm”, usually to mean that, because the software that connects you with other people is not profiling you, it’s your active contributions, the posts you s…

There is a weird thing with Apple computers.

“genericide”, when a brand name acquires substantial market dominance or mind share, becoming so widely used for similar products or services that it is no longer associated with the trademark owner, e.g., linoleum, bubble wrap, thermos, and aspirin. http…

If my files are correct, on this day, 20 years ago, I started using the open bookmarking service del.icio.us.

Recently, I’ve been puzzled by the lack of references on whether most of open source development is done by volunteers or paid developers.

[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.

AI systems learned to code by devouring Stack Overflow’s archive of human-solved problems.

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,…

Qu’est-ce qu’un espace latent ?

Continuing with the exploration of Linux on Mx chips, I’m faced with another potential set back, and this time it impacts software availability.