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Josip Krapac @josipk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I understand. They took "the last mile missing problems", which are still important, but where a lot of work has already been done, and even there they didn't do great.

Josip Krapac @josipk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Why it's boring? Because it's mechanical application of existing techniques rather than invention of new techniques, or something else?

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Josip Krapac @josipk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Can you give an example where low returns per year in the beginning led to success? I can think only of Amazon (maybe other retailers too). I don't see many parallels between Amazon and OpenAI or Anthropic, but maybe you do. Or maybe you had other, non-retail businesses in mind for comparison?

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Josip Krapac @josipk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"We don't need any regulation, we've got market forces." One could say the same for water safety: market will do it's job when people start feeling the consequences of bad quality. Market doesn't care about people. People (should) do. Assuming that the companies will self-regulate is a pipe dream.

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Josip Krapac @josipk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Jedan dio mene kaže: blago njemu.

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Josip Krapac @josipk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The question is if the town will stop dying because of that enterprise. I think people don't think so, at least in their interpretation of "dying". Otherwise they would be for it. Either that, or they are wrong: the town would stop dying, even in their interpretation of "dying".

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Josip Krapac @josipk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Often the impact of economic activity on the wellbeing of the community (noise, pollution, environmental impact) is negative. The question then is if the gains from economic activity can be used to offset such negative effects. In a lot of cases the negative impacts are shared, but gains are not.

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Josip Krapac @josipk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Slavs heard the Germans and concluded they were as good as mute.

Josip Krapac @josipk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Going in the opposite direction, from an existing word to the name for a group of people, the word for "German" in the Croatian language (but also, more generally, in all Slavic languages) is "Nijemac." The word "nijem" means "mute" (unable to speak).

A lot of the things that are happening in the world today, and that were always happening, can be decomposed into these two axes: 1. freedom & death vs. regulation & survival, 2. alone vs. together. Today we're just experiencing a shift towards more freedom and death alone.

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In the end he said: "French people like their freedom, usually the freedom to die." We spent the rest of the ride in the gondola up the glacier in silence.

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Freedom and death go together. A French mountain guide told me 15 years ago that every year they find some people in the glacier crevasses because they go to the glacier alone, don't tell anyone, fall into a crevasse, and die because there's no signal.

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I thought the point is you can have longer summer vacations because you don't have to go back because kids start school, but maybe you're right.

Maybe laissez-faire approach will bring us there. For example, remove regulation about vaccinating people for measles, people get measles and die, people resist because they love "freedom to die from measles" for some time, the new generation says WTF and brings back vaccine mandates.

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On the other hand China is regulating impacts of AI, not AI itself, e.g. interpreting existing laws so you can't fire people because AI has replaced them.

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But in the US even the ones you mentioned are getting less and less regulated. In China the biotech research is much faster because there's much less regulations, even compared to the US. It's not easy to regulate well, but I agree that regulation is key to sustainable progress.

That's not robust and long term is not sustainable, but if you don't believe that future will happen this is the only thing that makes sense to do.

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That doesn't lead us anywhere worth going. On one hand, it does breed a particular type of innovation, the one that cares about maximizing just one objective.

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That means that we get emergent hierarchies. They are natural, but I wouldn't say they are good, at least not in my opinion. Peterson says: don't resist it, don't "flatten" it, climb it instead.

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Josip Krapac @josipk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

But why is that so hard to see? I suppose it's because "free" and "regulated" are opposites. They really are, but all that we've accomplished as species that makes us human was by constraining laissez-faire. Right now "free" (or rather, a particular flavor of "free") is reigning.

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Ah, nuance, haven't heard that word since 2016.

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Josip Krapac @josipk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"to do Melnikov analysis for design of new rotors" ROTFL!

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Josip Krapac @josipk.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It's *air* humidity. If you fill everything with water there's no air, hence no air humidity to measure. You can't go over 100% air humidity by definition: the excess water just starts to condense because air can't hold it.

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Josip Krapac @josipk.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Full saturation (100% humidity) means that the air can't hold more water vapor at that temperature.

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Josip Krapac @josipk.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

For the same set of prompts how good is the best open vs. best closed (good = completes the task with acceptable quality), how many output tokens are produced for each one, and what is the price per token. Difficult to understand what is happening without this data IMO.

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Pa da, uvijek možeš reći da je biljka na posudbi dok ne da mladice. Kakav lopov!

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With dyslexia it's always fun. Have read "dreck" instead of "deck".

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Moj otac bi sigurno rekao: "Lopov sigurno jesi, a jesi li spasitelj ćemo tek vidjeti". Uvijek pun mudrosti i motivacije.

Josip Krapac @josipk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Why not both? Nešto obratno od Sir Olivera iz Alan Forda ("Manje džentlmen, više lopov") ti si "Više spasitelj, manje lopov".

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Open: you can run them on your own hardware, don't need to send your data to anyone, you can tune them for your use cases and purposes. Closed: none of these things.

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Josip Krapac @josipk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"Hey, this is a private residence, man."

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Josip Krapac @josipk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Chinese LLMs/agents are open weights, US ones are not (except Meta's and Google's, but they haven't matched the quality of Chinese ones, until recently, and Google had put more emphasis on its closed weights models).

Iain Murray @imurray.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

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Sharing this postdoc opportunity at Imperial to develop and apply machine-learning and structural-bioinformatics methods for protein design, with focus on modern generative approaches such as protein diffusion models and flow-based models.

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Mile Sikic @msikic.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Preferred candidates: - Experience with deep learning models or theoretical machine learning. Not looking for computational biologists for these positions - We are looking exclusively for those who are ready to come to Singapore - Those interested in creating biotech startups are more than welcome

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Mile Sikic @msikic.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

AI in biology must be experimentally verifiable, and that requires wet labs. @astar_gis is hiring pre- and postdocs with proven AI knowledge to build foundation models for RNA therapeutics: mRNA vaccines/drugs, gene editing, ribozymes and in vivo CAR-T. Singapore-based. DM me and please repost.

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Josip Krapac @josipk.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

What is price per token for self-hosting Kimi 3?

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Josip Krapac @josipk.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

"Soon" is probably different time span in different in three circles, but GOD KNOWS I'd like it to be same. Determined, of course, by World Cup, because that's the only even with clearly defined end date.

Nice small computer science lab in Quimper, count me in! Did post-doc in Rennes and only ♥️ for BZH.

Why he's doing this? What's he trying to accomplish?

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And latest crescendo: making life miserable for his best engineers by reviewing LLM generated code, installing software that tracks everything they do, and finally getting into betting, pardon, prediction markets.

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Josip Krapac @josipk.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Has Mark Zuckerberg finally lost it? It started with metaverse obsession that was going on for a couple of years and a couple of billions of dollars. Then came mass hiring, followed by the first out of many mass layoffs. Than he brought Scale.ai guy to lead AI in Meta.

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We were promised Washington swamp will be drained. Looks like the opposite is happening.