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sebastiansm7on Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue

Android, Maps and Chrome I use it almost daily for years. Dont know if are great at revenue, but are great products for me :)

sebastiansm7on What shall I teach my son?

How do I teach my children to be like that if I am not all that?

Maybe we'll have to improve and learn together. How do I start?

sebastiansm7on Why do we have so many meetings?

pre wfh times the meetings were restricted by the capacity of the meeting rooms in the office. It also required more effort to coordinate, schedule, preparation, etc.

Now just a click and summon people.

sebastiansm7on OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked

We were planning to fix our vibecoded mess.

sebastiansm7on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

To form an human to do frontier research requires decades since birthdate

sebastiansm7on Forever junior: Skills AI can't develop for you

My work is more data science related, but remember those same struggles where I spent hours, days, weeks, months, even years crashing my head against a problem. A lot of daily hours researching, talking to colleagues, implementing tangential papers that lead to nothing. Most of the time I arrived to a satisfactory solution, but others just have to gave up.

Maybe because I experienced all those struggles I'm confident to delegate a relevant portion of my work to some LLM, being able to validate the results, knowing what to ask and detect easily when something was bad implemented or where I gave ambiguous instructions.

The catch is that I'm starting to do things where I haven't experienced those struggles in prior times, for example, web app development for my data work. I don't feel confident that I'm doing a good work, I'm just vibing, don't know the implications of some decisions. It doesn't makes me feel comfortable shipping things I don't really understand, but also is nice to be able to do things that previously required years of studying and practice.

We are on strange times.

sebastiansm7on Forever Junior: The Skills AI Can't Develop for You

In a team environment, those libraries also should be team developed, at least, assure a minimal understanding from other team member.

sebastiansm7on Decisions API is in public beta

3 weeks sounds amazing in corporate time

sebastiansm7on Pi.dev: You Said No MCP

sebastiansm7on Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform

My Toyota is a pre office 365 Microsoft Excel

sebastiansm7on The darker side of being a doctor

Now that senior engineers can utilize an LLM as his junior, the job market its deciding that don't need too many juniors.

sebastiansm7on Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM

Almost 10 years ago at my university in Chile. My professor of Computer Networks invited a PhD Student that was working on the ALMA Observatory [0] doing some research on signal processing.

What stayed with me from that talk was that all the data that was captured from those massive antennas was packaged in boxes, loaded in a cargo van and travel 1.600 kilometers to Santiago to be uploaded into the systems.

[0] https://www.almaobservatory.org

sebastiansm7on Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip 'broken wide open' after 26 years

eDonkey times, nice times.

sebastiansm7on A misalignment of AI in mathematics

https://tcec-chess.com/

Top chess engine championship is pretty fun to watch.

sebastiansm7on Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months

I'm still happy with my Lenovo P50 with an Intel Xeon 1505m, Nvidia Quadro m2000m (4gb), 32gb ddr4 ram and 512gb ssd.

It runs Factorio and Zelda BOTW, why do I need more? :)

sebastiansm7on Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction

*on small datasets

sebastiansm7on I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates

I wasn't able to wire the inputs to the gate, so my career at ChipCorp ended at level 1.

Also it would ne nice to have a level zero where you create the gates from transistors.

sebastiansm7on Ear Training Practice Exercises

This is very fun!

sebastiansm7on We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag

It's Elo not ELO. Elo is not an acronym.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system

sebastiansm7on HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'

I think is more related to vibe coding

sebastiansm7on Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight

Then with the raise of rapidshare, megaupload, etc that JPG thing stopped.

sebastiansm7on Show HN: I rebuilt a 2000s browser strategy game on Cloudflare's edge

I played ogame, travian and a mexican pokemon rpg online

sebastiansm7on Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight

Still remember those times watching movies or documentaries by parts. Sometimes I started watching just to discover that part 8 was missing :(

edit: in previous years some anime communities uploaded episodes to photo sites. They chunked the episodes in small JPGs with the video data encrypted. Just download hundreds of photos, join them and you got the episode :)