slim

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I'm Slim Amamou from Tunisia

my twitter http://twitter.com/slim404

my blog : http://NoMemorySpace.wordpress.com

my startup : https://supplytensor.com

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slimon An agent in 100 lines of Lisp

this is as if python was written in python, and you added support for llm in python so that it can write it's own code

slimon Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again

or someone else is dead

slimon NSA and IETF: Fairness

  MLKEM wasn't designed by NSA, but rather by a team of highly-regarded European academic cryptographers, including Bernstein's former collaborator Peter Schwabe

As you know, teams are vulnerable to infiltration and individuals to compromise. Corruption often stems from various motives, including ideology

slimon Multilingual experience linked to delayed aging

people learn by trial and error. ai output can be 50% accurate. it is still useful

slimon Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5

You can compete by being smart and using less-than-sota models and build a more solid business around them

slimon .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

too selfish

slimon Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development

use llama.cpp with cuda

slimon Deciphering Basmala

it really is the same four words written in a different calligraphy and arranged in a different way (more horizontally). arabic calligraphy can take liberties with orientation of text and even arrangement of letters. the name of the game is make deciphering it a puzzle, but easy enough for the reader to have fun and not get bored.

slimon EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors

annas archive is a single point of failure

slimon Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers

how the hell is arbitration enforcable ? they will need to go to court to enforce it, right ? you surely can't redeem your free speech human right by signing a document, right ? I'm not sure about US, but I'm sure that in most countries human rights can not be surrendered by contract. These kind of clauses are void

slimon Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models

it's not about symathy. Tactically, would you like your enemy to have this kind of control over its employees ? if the answer is no, you should support them

slimon Identity verification on Claude

what if they think your face is too brown to use sota ? (they do, and they will?

slimon Identity verification on Claude

you can't just selectively sell only to people you like. it's prohibited in most countries

slimon Identity verification on Claude

or you can scan you retina using sam altmans device and get access immediately /s

slimon The experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt

maybe AI will solve this ?

slimon The experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt

if you write (with a pen) text with mixed arabic, numbers, english words. then somebody else gets to read it, he will read arabic from right to left, then when when he encouters a number or an english word, he will naturally jump to the first latin letter of the word and start reading left to right, then jump back to the beginning if the next arabic word and switch back to RTL. the alogorithm should copy that behaviour.

slimon The experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt

  Internet Explorer 5.5 implements text-justify: kashida. For one brief, weird browser-quarter Microsoft is the only software vendor on earth that can justify Arabic correctly on a screen.

slimon The experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt

actually : four and eighty and nine hundred and a thousand

slimon The experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt

I think he's talking about the rendering algorithm with regards to the stream of text. essentially saying rendering direction should follow reading convention.

on the other hand, in formal arabic, it's not unusual that numers are read in clusters from least significant to most significant (right to left). 1984 would be read : eighty four and nine hundred and a thousand. not sure if the author is aware of this

slimon Waymo Premier

can't you get your head out of the window and yell at him ? serious question, not sure if you can even open the window on thes cars

slimon I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling

who will train them ? average trainers. it's a chicken/egg problem

slimon Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

They now what to do with it. They sell it to gov

slimon Colonization of Venus

colonizers gonna colonize

slimon Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints

the most easy to spot is the camp fire reflection on the car :D

slimon Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)

buttons ? knobs ? we are fascinated by machines. It's curiosity about the inner workings of the machine and fascination by the mistery of the closed box. you can observe that in certain kids

slimon AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures

There are already closed source operating systems you can use instead of linux. No need to enshittify linux

slimon Three Inverse Laws of AI

dude, we can literally deliberately dehumanize human beings. The way to egineer culture to "not enthropomorphize" anything is known and well documented

slimon Oil tanker hijacked off Yemen, steers toward Somalia

US navy doing piracy does not help either

slimon A 25-Year-Fight over a 2-Second Sample

because he probably sampled it himself from another source and spent hours researching the original source and similar breaks then spent hours piling layers of sound and effects on these 2s. So he knows exactly which one is theirs

slimon Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet

sabotaging science must be the most morally corrupt thing you can do as a civilisation