epigramx (u/epigramx)

epigramx commented on Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access dl.acm.org/openaccess... · Posted by u/Kerrick

patmorgan23 · 2 months ago

If publishing the most papers is the goal why do we even need journals? We have blogs and preprint servers if Volume is your goal.

Journals should absolutely play a role in maintaining quality and curating what they publish.

epigramx · 2 months ago

Peer review success is not the rule of the owner of a company but the acceptance you get from peers.

epigramx commented on I hate screenshots of text parkscomputing.com/page/i... · Posted by u/paulmooreparks

gyomu · 3 months ago

Like other commenters point out, automatic OCR on Apple platforms is a godsend, and it's such a great use of our modern AI capabilities that it should be a standard feature in every document viewer on every platform.

Another thing I wish was more common is metadata in screenshots, especially on phones. Eg if I take a screenshot of a picture in Instagram, I wish a URL of the picture was embedded (eg instagram.com/p/ABCD1234/). If I take a screenshot in the browser, include the URL that's being viewed (+ path to the DOM element in the viewport). If I take a screenshot in a maps app, include the bounding coordinates. If I take a screenshot in a PDF viewer, include a SHA1 hash of the document being viewed + offset in the document so that if I send the screenshot to someone else with the same document, it can seamlessly link to it. Etc etc.

There are probably privacy concerns to solve here, but no idea is new in computer science and I'm pretty sure some grad student somewhere has already explored the topic in depth (it just never made it to mainstream computing platforms).

It feels like screenshots have become the de facto common denominator in our mobile computing era, since platforms have abstracted files away from us. Lots of people who have only ever used phones as their main computing devices are confused when it comes to files, but everyone seems to understand screenshots.

Also, necessary shout out to Screenshot Conf! https://screenshot.arquipelago.org

epigramx · 3 months ago

OCR is not AI

epigramx commented on PuTTY has a new website putty.software/... · Posted by u/GalaxySnail

userbinator · 6 months ago

Somehow, these new long TLDs just feel spammy and "fake" and I usually ignore them when they show up in search results. Unfortunately the .com, .net and .org are already taken.

epigramx · 6 months ago

Not a big deal, because they tend to be trusted eventually by the search engines and the language models, though I don't trust much the latter to tbh.

epigramx commented on TikTok goes dark in the US techcrunch.com/2025/01/18... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

epigramx · a year ago

US is the same country that allows a practical monopoly of NVIDIA on GPUs and Intel on CPU (or at least an oligopoly), and then pretend "foreigners are out to get us". It gets one to know one.

epigramx commented on TikTok goes dark in the US techcrunch.com/2025/01/18... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

AirMax98 · a year ago

It's a shame that it's come to this. I feel that all arguments that TikTok is unhealthy or spyware and bad for our general public are valid, but the same arguments also apply to Instagram/Twitter/Whatever. Rather than have some sort of further regulation for what data any application can collect and present to Americans, we've just brought the hammer down on the millions of people that use this application for their livelihood. This serves only to enrich our American tech monopolies — companies which have proven to us that they have bad intentions towards our country's people.

Truly bleak.

epigramx · a year ago

It's the same country that allows a practical monopoly of NVIDIA on GPUs and Intel on CPU (or at least an oligopoly), and then pretend "foreigners are out to get us". It gets one to know one.

epigramx commented on Stimulation Clicker neal.fun/stimulation-clic... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

epigramx · a year ago

I reached the end.

Not sure that will help me end by stock market addiction. nice game.

epigramx commented on AIs Will Increasingly Fake Alignment thezvi.substack.com/p/ais... · Posted by u/theptip

epigramx · a year ago

It will happen, as long as people don't get language models are a glorified google search. They predict what they should say based on what they read.

If what the read is nonsense then they will predict nonsense.

They are basically glorified parrots.

epigramx commented on OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB arcprize.org/blog/oai-o3-... · Posted by u/maurycy

epigramx · a year ago

I bet it still thinks 1+1=3 if it read enough sources parroting that.

epigramx commented on ChatGPT Pro openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

fudged71 · a year ago

OpenAI is racing against two clocks: the commoditization clock (how quickly open-source alternatives catch up) and the monetization clock (their need to generate substantial revenue to justify their valuation).

The ultimate success of this strategy depends on what we might call the enterprise AI adoption curve - whether large organizations will prioritize the kind of integrated, reliable, and "safe" AI solutions OpenAI is positioning itself to provide over cheaper but potentially less polished alternatives.

This is strikingly similar to IBM's historical bet on enterprise computing - sacrificing the low-end market to focus on high-value enterprise customers who would pay premium prices for reliability and integration. The key question is whether AI will follow a similar maturation pattern or if the open-source nature of the technology will force a different evolutionary path.

epigramx · a year ago

And the catch-up of logic clock, how fast people catch-up we don't have Skynet within 2 years, but a glorified google search for the next 20 years.