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Andreea

@aerins.bsky.social
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Co-Founder. Creative. Frontender. and some more stuff here and there

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Andreea @aerins.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Are web extensions on the rise again?
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Hyperplane @hyperplane.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
We're launching an ebook on 28th this week 😳 Regular speech-to-text tech struggles with kids’ voices since they’re higher-pitched and less predictable. We worked on that by creating a smaller, more accurate model that works well with children’s speech, even in noisy or low-power settings.
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Hyperplane @hyperplane.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The principles of an indexing pipeline: 1/7
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Andreea @aerins.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Ended up with something like this for the upcoming ebook for @mlvanguards.bsky.social
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Andreea @aerins.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
This made my day
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a woman is covering her nose with her hand while laughing .
ALT: a woman is covering her nose with her hand while laughing .
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Andreea @aerins.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Did anybody create a voice-only chatbot? What improvements would be cool from a UX perspective?
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Hyperplane @hyperplane.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
"prompt engineering" is just fancy copy-pasting at this point people tweaking prompts like they're adjusting a car mirror, thinking it'll make them drive better you’re optimizing nothing, you’re just guessing
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Andreea @aerins.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Love! And on Halloween, it actually curses your whole family because you commited your Open AI key to GitHub
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Andreea @aerins.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Did anybody figure out how to prompt chat gpt to get the perfect animation using @gsap-greensock.bsky.social ? I am a beginner with animations and debugging them is not my forte :(
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Andreea @aerins.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I had issues with the import when I tried out the docs so I ended up using a classic img tag in a tsx component. So I used a lot of tsx components instead of astro
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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
NO CHATGPT Or other artificial stupidity: motivation
First, clarity on distinguishing AIs:
Non-generative: grammar aid, translation, dictionary, text-to-audio (e.g. Natural Reader): no problem
As long as you use the appropriate tools (least intensive in data and server energy use).
Why? Because you provide the content. Your brain is doing the most important work
Generative: ChatGPT & Co. 
You only supply the prompt, the AI supplies the content.
Why is this delegation of work problematic?
3 domains: ethical, environmental, intellectual engagement.

(Caveat: generative is probably ok for computer programming, where it can be useful and save time. Not relevant to this class.)
1) AI and ethics
Mass theft of all and everything
«learning» on books, articles, blogs, social media, images, music, cultural production, without  permission of authors/creators, and leading to their mass joblessness. Profits are not reditributed to originators. 
Permanent destruction of the mental health of underpaid precarious tech workers in the Global South (Kenya, Philippines …):
«correction» to avoid production of violent and pedophile contents etc, tech workers are obliged to watch and correct super violent contents for days on end, leading to extreme psychological suffering and trauma, from which recovery is doubtful. No or little compensation (certainly not at the level of the suffering inflicted). 
In short, an industry built on theft of real human creation and sacrifice of real human health, profiting a few megafortunes. 
2) AI and (un)sustainability

Massive consumption of electricity, water, server capacity for generative AI. 
Outcome: keep fossil fuel companies in business, using up new renewable capacity, without any satisfaction of basic human needs.
Massive misappropriation of the finance necessary for climate and ecological action (renewable generation, efficiency and retrofit for buildings, public transit, infrastructures for cycling etc) towards AI industry. 
Overall: undermine climate action, reinforce fossil industry, waste resources necessary for human development. 
3) AI and intellectual engagement

First, what learning is (or should be) about:
The goal should not (only) be the reproduction of «correct» knowledge,
But mainly personal engagement and experience of thinking about topics of interest. Personal engagement = using one’s own brain. 
The most important activity for learning and intellectual engagement is the experience of making one’s own mistakes, by trial and error, corrections based on new ideas, starting over again. Learning to recognise nuances, knowledge gaps, better explanations 
This kind of learning is possible only through using your own brain, not AI. 
Also, Ais are not «intelligent». At all. 
They simply reproduce pre-existing patterns. They «bullshit», invent false references, false facts, false data, simply because those sound plausible. VERY DANGEROUS. 
If you learn how to NOT use AI, and how to research facts and data on your own, this will serve you and your communities for the rest of your life.
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Andreea @aerins.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Those are some great arguments, thank you for sharing! I think they are a must read for everyone honestly, the critical thinking in people is decreasing at an alarming rate
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Andreea @aerins.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Oh yeah, I feel like I am on the right path this time around and I just need some more puzzle pieces to fall into place so I can get the whole picture of my skillset - and what I'm amazing at long term
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Andreea @aerins.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Seems like fighting will be the new career path :)) Fighting to be seen, fighting for recognition etc
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Andreea @aerins.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Uh I get what you mean :( The thing is, I am a founder, I do the dev but I also growing into the operational stuff. My main issue is that I am still so inexperienced on other areas that all people see me as is the dev - because that's where I excel in among all the unseen work i do
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Katerina Marchán 🐈 @zkat.tech · 21/02/2025
(Boosts encouraged!) Hi! 👋 I’m Kat. I’ve been a professional dev for over 15 years. I maintained the NPM CLI for 5 of those. I sat in TC39. I work at Microsoft. I’m self taught w/a film degree and no formal CS edu. Are you new to tech? What do you wish you could ask some1 like me? Literally AMA
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Andreea @aerins.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
How do prove value outside of being a dev? I’m trying to get out of that box lately
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Hyperplane @hyperplane.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Indexing messy PDFs? Try these: LayoutAnalyzer for messy formatting. TextDensityAnalyzer to tell text from images. VisualElementAnalyzer for charts/diagrams. TableDetector to grab tables. Convert them to images and use Vision Models like ColPali/ColQwen2.
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JSHeroes @jsheroes.io · 07/02/2025
📢 We’re thrilled to announce the selected speakers from this year’s call for papers! 🔎 Check out the full lineup here: jsheroes.io/#speakers And make sure you join us in Cluj this May 💙 #JSHeroes #TechConference #TechInnovation #TechInsights #WebDev #JavaScriptTrends
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Andreea @aerins.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Hello everybody! I launched a free newsletter where we deep dive into some of the toughest challenges for AI in production—especially now as POCs are everywhere, but real-world scalability gets the short end of the stick. I’d love for you to check it out! mlvanguards.substack.com
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ML Vanguards | Substack
Escaping PoC purgatory: Your Weekly Guide to production paradise. Click to read ML Vanguards, a Substack publication.
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Nicholas C. Zakas @humanwhocodes.com · 17/01/2025
Finishing up ESLint’s financials for 2024 and…it’s not pretty. ESLint ran at a nearly $60,000 deficit. We managed due to our prioritizing building up our reserves for several years prior in case of a rainy day. We can use your help closing the gap. eslint.org/donate
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Donate - ESLint - Pluggable JavaScript Linter
A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.
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