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janstette.bsky.social

Long time software developer and data engineer. AI centrist. Norwegian/British. Walthamstow resident on hiatus in Oslo. Father of twins, servant of two cats.

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LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable LEGO Designs from Text LEGO avalovelace1.github....

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My blood is boiling. Hayden is a hero librarian--one of the few librarians of Congress to have actually been a qualified and experienced librarians in the position. She has one year left in her term and should be allowed to serve it.

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World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...

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The UN warns of a "slaughter of the innocents." Israel boasts that "Gaza will be completely destroyed." Here are notes from doctors in Gaza. They document the crimes against humanity being perpetrated against the sick, wounded and children. Please share. charlieangus.substack.com/p/gaza-eyewi...

submitted 3 days ago • 44 comments

I honestly don't know how to go about all these fake quotes of mine that are everywhere now. I find so many of them each week.

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you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

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Scala 3.7.0 has been released! 🎉 ✅ [stable] SIP-58: Named Tuples ✅ [stable] SIP-52: Binary APIs 👀 [preview] SIP-62: For comprehension improvements 🧪 [experimental] SIP-61: Unroll 🧪 [experimental] SIP-68: Reference-able Package Objects More at scala-lang.org/news/3.7.0/

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NEW The use of artificial intelligence in courts: a warning A judge deployed an onerous sanction when lawyers seemed to use fake, AI-generated case law By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Exactly this.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Lf0...

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Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

submitted 5 days ago • 651 comments

1/ The US Congress is launching a bill to punish those that divest form or boycott from companies that contributes to violations of international law and human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory. The criminal punishment is fines up to 1 mill USD and 20 years in jail.

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Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

submitted 8 days ago • 2352 comments

DuckDB is awesome, that’s all.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

This is a good, balanced take on what AI code assistants are good for.

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FML

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1. Can you figure out where I was standing when I took this picture? ChatGPT could. Given the photograph (scrubbed of all header information), the new chain of thought model, ChatGPT o.3, was able to pinpoint the location with a few meters.