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_giorgio_··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
Yes.
_giorgio_··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
10 EUR is quite the minimum in EU supermarkets for decent wine.

Under that, it's not poison, but very rarely good.

_giorgio_··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
In EU, quality wine prices went up 50% - 100% in the last five years.

I remember perfectly the prices of the same bottles - same brand. That's incredible.

And inexpensive wine is terrible.

_giorgio_··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
Not true at all.
_giorgio_··on Goodbye Google
Did you read the article?
_giorgio_··on Goodbye Google
Go as in alpha go you regarded.

Chris Nicholson was explicitly talking about AlphaGo.

YOU ARE REGARDED.

_giorgio_··on Goodbye Google
WHY DO YOU KEEP TALKING ABOUT LLMs WHEN I SAID MODEL. YOUR GOD IS A DOG.
_giorgio_··on Goodbye Google
LOL. You are regarded. Look for autonomous models for weapon targeting. Nicholson (WIRED, Jan 2016): the kind of AI demonstrated by Go “could apply to almost any problem that you can think of as a game… This includes financial trading… and war.”
_giorgio_··on Goodbye Google
do you have google?

Elon Musk: In July 2017, he famously warned the National Governors Association that AI is a "fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization" and called for proactive government regulation before "robots start killing people." Later that year, he tweeted that competition for national AI superiority would be the most likely cause of World War III.

Stephen Hawking: Throughout 2017, the renowned physicist warned that AI could be the "worst event in the history of our civilization," noting that it could replace humans entirely if a runaway intelligence explosion occurred. CNBC +4

_giorgio_··on My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps
Tokyo wandering on YouTube. A drug.
_giorgio_··on Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
Even if it passes, you'll see the first nuclear power plant not before 15 years.

And it will not pass before the next legislature in 1 year.

_giorgio_··on Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
Yet someone will say that the solution was in the training data.

"LLM can't handle out-of-domain (OOD) queries!" Yeah.

_giorgio_··on Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice
So it's legal to systematically clone a website and host it as an alternative service?

Seems quite different from google cache or archive.is, (one is offline), and the othere is too unreliable and full of holes to configure as a real and credible threat.

_giorgio_··on Microduck
So which one should people buy?
_giorgio_··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
I've tried many times to run those hugging face hosted models.

Slow, unreliable, unusable, long licenses that you have to sign and then wait.

I've used probably 3 times in 3 years.

I don't see the value... probably it has simply some users.

_giorgio_··on Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly
That's just an old and not useful device.
_giorgio_··on Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly
Is a stone working after 1000 years? Yep, still a stone though.
_giorgio_··on Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly
The missing heart-rate monitor is a pretty big limitation for a lot of users. LOL. Imagine writing a review and leaving the heart rate in last place. Just don’t write a review then.
_giorgio_··on Writing by hand is good for your brain
I am left handed, and my wrist is not stained.

There are a lot of fountain pen inks that dry faster, like the Iroshizuku line. And some specifically built to be water resistant etc. It is a lot different from years ago.

_giorgio_··on 30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format
Ilya has never made the list public.

The list is simply made up, as confirmed by John Carmack.

""" John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack I rather expected @ilyasut to have made a public post by now after all the discussion of the AI reading list he gave me. A canonical list of references from a leading figure would be appreciated by many. I would be curious myself about what he would add from the last three years. """

https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1622673143469858816

_giorgio_··on OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
Where do you buy the open wrt one? EU
_giorgio_··on OpenPrinter
HP will simply prevent them from buying their head + cartridge bundle. By legal or by controlling more strictly bulk purchases of replacement parts.
_giorgio_··on An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
Nobody talks about the content, so the content is zero.
_giorgio_··on Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor
So the engines have the same size of a disk brake?

That's incredible.

_giorgio_··on Claude Opus 4.8
Seems a lot slower with MAX level.
_giorgio_··on Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML
Thanks for this.

It's a very beautiful language, it's quite simple, if you like simple.

_giorgio_··on Talking to strangers at the gym
You only (mostly) talk to guys? Waste of time.
_giorgio_··on Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
It's not, because I've never hit my weekly limits because of the very restrictive 5 hours limits. Let's see if I really hit my weekly limits now.

However you see it, it's an improvement for the consumer.

_giorgio_··on Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions
That's a super nice story. Sometimes we tend to forget the contributions of AI for the visually impaired or hearing-impaired people—for example, subtitles on Meta glasses or audio descriptions and such.

Wish you the best.

_giorgio_··on Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
Backprop kept producing wins. That bought it time.

“Wait longer” is not a blank check. In 2026, with Meta-scale talent, data, and compute, serious ideas should show strong intermediate results, not just theory.

Time is necessary, but it is not evidence. More compute does not replace insight, but it does speed up falsification.

So no, skepticism is not naive. If a research program still cannot point to a clear empirical advantage after years, “it just needs more time” stops sounding like science and starts sounding like insulation from the scoreboard.

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