romeu

romeu, 7 days ago to random

The sheer horror 😰

romeu, 11 days ago to random

The Oberon language was a successor of the Modula-2 language and a lot of the evolutions where things erased from the Modula-2 language (like, say, the for loop was removed). I think about that a lot.
I think it is beautiful.
We should do that more.

romeu, 20 days ago to random

When I read a talk title with « LLM » or « GenAi » in it I mentally replace it with « massive plagiarism ».

« How ‘massive plagiarism’ helped me as a <profession> »
« The opportunities of ´massive plagiarism’ for <field> »
« What is <field> in the age of ‘massive plagiarism’ »

romeu, 20 days ago to random

Bros will hype « innovations » and is all arbitrage or rent-seeking or pyramid-schemes or wage-theft.

Because building useful stuff is never as profitable as those 4.

Meanwhile we direly need innovations against several life-ending risks.

romeu, 1 month ago to random

Me reading this:

“Come ON! Those have different meanings and add precision!”

…

“Oh damn people are using the more precise in a general sense to ‘sound smarter’” this is awful

…

“Do I… do I sound like a TOTAL ass when I speak ?”
https://andersonchris.medium.com/the-nerd-urban-dictionary-abcd55ca7ac4

romeu, 1 month ago to random

I might fuck around and radically love in a system that foster division distrust individualism and domination

samir, 2 months ago to random

I am surrounded by microphones that I just trust to stay off.

This seems wrong.

romeu, 2 months ago to random

Very interesting article
Specially on the gigantic mechanical Turk behind Scale AI and the effects of the mechanical Turks themselves using chatGPT

https://amycastor.com/2023/09/12/pivot-to-ai-pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain/

romeu, 2 months ago to random

This International day of the struggle for Women’s rights I would like to celebrate Emmeline Pankhurst

For reasons that would get me banned if I elaborated

So I’m just inviting you to Google her.

romeu, 3 months ago to random

Trying to convert my

Hierarchies to Classifications,

Classifications to Categorizations,

Categorizations to Ephemeral-&-Bounded-Categorizations

Ephemeral-&-Bounded-Categorizations to Heuristics

While accepting that I categorize the previous words as a classification.

romeu, 3 months ago to random

« When you don‘t create things, you become defined by your tastes.

Your tastes only narrow and exclude people.

So : create. »
— _why-the-lucky-stiff

romeu, 4 months ago to random

I love hugging people and sending Internet hugs to people.
I love the 🫂 emoji.

But is is just me that finds the “🤗” off-putting and maybe a little creepy?

romeu, 5 months ago to random

romeu, 5 months ago to random

très aigri, mais pas surpris, que Macron n’a pas accepté la démission de Darmanin.

Joie et célébration que les députæs ont voté le rejet du projet de loi de Darmanin.

romeu, 5 months ago to random

“rhythm of thought: I have nothing to tell you, save that it is to you that I tell this nothing.” — Roland Barthes

romeu, 5 months ago to random

A nation bound to lose almost half its landmass to the sea just decided that the course of action they wanted to vote for is “we are afraid of people that don’t look white enough”