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Alvaro Videla

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Author of words and code. Sometimes I read books.

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Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" is a story about promoting in enough context to get a latent space to throw up a recognizable chunk of output

16.02.2026 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The early history of COBOL | History of programming languages

Oh right, since ACM stopped being absolute dinguses and made the digital library open access, I can now point you Jean Sammet's "The early history of COBOL" absolutely free

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

16.02.2026 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here's Laurie Spiegel introducing Music Mouse in the 1980s - CDM Create Digital Music Eventide has posted a fantastic archival video in advance of their remake of Music Mouse. In this 1987 episode of Midnight Muse, composer and programmer Laurie Spiegel explains the software and takes ...

How Laurie Spiegel thought about Music Mouse in 1986-1987, from the introduction she wrote accompanying the software and an interview:

16.02.2026 12:06 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Time to find out where your tax payer money is going.

15.02.2026 10:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No creo haberte autorizado a usarme como mascota de tus videos πŸ˜…

15.02.2026 01:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

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πŸ™πŸ’ͺ

04.02.2026 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This bookshelf is all you need to become a software developer

07.01.2026 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A man said to the universe:
β€œSir, I exist!”
β€œHowever,” replied the universe
β€œThe fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.”

~Stephen Crane

07.12.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe you could run a couple containers on that hairdryer

14.11.2025 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well, I just met said friend again and now he has an even smaller cam. Cool 😭

31.10.2025 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s pretty good. A friend lend me his for a small project and the quality is next level. I’ll order mine soon.

31.10.2025 04:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I don’t remember a word from this boon but still I highly recommend it

27.10.2025 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Promptend developer.

16.10.2025 11:29 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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When I met Ted Chiang

13.10.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This escalated quickly

30.09.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Unless you are moving houses, you don’t need metaphors

30.09.2025 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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What we cannot speak about we must passover in silence

24.09.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So much for everyone who thinks these things are just cute toys that let parents take video of their kids discreetly. Meta is building facial recognition and AI into future models.

23.09.2025 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Ben Affleck tambiΓ©n ha hablado de LLM

20.09.2025 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No podes comparar el medio con como se expande. Digo que pareciΓ³ que ponΓ­as al famoso hablando de LLM como seΓ±al de algo, yo creo que para esas otras industrias en perspectiva fue igual.

20.09.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

El telΓ©grafo seguro. La TV seguro. La imprenta tmb. La radio….

20.09.2025 08:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Esta traducciΓ³n de Borges al inglΓ©s es tan mala. Siempre que se me da por leer algΓΊn cuento en inglΓ©s encuentro errores.

17.09.2025 20:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œSemiotics studied everything that can be used to lie”

10.09.2025 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Some of my latest acquisitions

19.08.2025 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Estructuralismo mentioned

19.08.2025 11:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The intro alone to this book is a jewel of literature.

19.08.2025 10:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Claude LΓ©vi-Strauss I had heavily underestimated you. I’m sorry.

19.08.2025 10:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

v0 from Vercel sounds close enough

19.08.2025 10:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Que es el arte?

13.08.2025 23:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0