From a layman's perspective, another interesting (somewhat related?) example of a long-range effect that is not determined by neurons themselves (also a recent Quanta article: https://www.quantamagazine.org/once-thought-to-support-neuro...)
Readit Newsmbeex commented on Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions quantamagazine.org/cells-... · Posted by u/marojejian
I will beat loudly on the "Attention is a reinvention of Kernel Smoothing" drum until it is common knowledge. It looks like Cosma Schalizi's fantastic website is down for now, so here's a archive link to his essential reading on this topic [0].
If you're interested in machine learning at all and not very strong regarding kernel methods I highly recommending taking a deep dive. Such a huge amount of ML can be framed through the lens of kernel methods (and things like Gaussian Processes will become much easier to understand).
0. https://web.archive.org/web/20250820184917/http://bactra.org...
Site is still fine (but is and was always http-only):
http://bactra.org/notebooks/nn-attention-and-transformers.ht...
In Windows 10 I have shortcuts pinned to my taskbar that are just
> ...firefox.exe" -P "profilename"
and then `taskbar.grouping.useprofile true` so only windows from the same profile are grouped together and some custom recolored Firefox icons for those pinned shortcuts and custom per-profile userChrome.css styling (#TabsToolbar background-color) for easy visual differentiation of a window's profile.
For Windows 10, no scripting is needed. Just the initial GUI profile setup.
> ...firefox.exe" -P "profilename" "https://www.example.com"
from terminal works exactly as expected regardless of how many profile instances are currently running or their state.
You can even have multiple versions of Firefox installed and point them at different profiles. I have some profiles on ESR and some on Standard.
Cannot get this to work with Win11, whose taskbar won't accept the same program pinned twice. Even not, after creating two shortcuts.
mbeex commented on KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices community.kde.org/KDEConn... · Posted by u/snthd
The one thing I dislike, is the trouble to finish the application in a sane way:
mbeex commented on Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels grist.org/buildings/how-g... · Posted by u/bilsbie
Thats a lot of historical revision if you blame a dude who was minister for 3.5 years about decisions made 20-30 years ago. Same for your last paragraph. Nothing even close to that happened in the years he governed. Maybe you should start showing recipes because it looks like your grievances are personal in nature and everything but factual.
> it looks like your grievances are personal
Given the changing voting behavior in Germany, these personal complaints seem to be quite widespread.
mbeex commented on Cloudflare Email Service: private beta blog.cloudflare.com/email... · Posted by u/tosh
It's unfortunate that email hosting and email infrastructure can really be done only well by major players. The days of people running and maintaining their own are pretty much long gone.
Fwiw, not a knock against CF. I like their products, mostly simple, fair pricing, etc. Just a bit unfortunate commentary on the state of email infra on the internet.
There is a sweet spot between Gmail and self-hosting. I use Runbox and generally separate contexts, with CF being an exception as I use CF pages for static blog websites, some of their core services, AND as a registrar. For the latter, the default setting is porkbun. The reason for this is not CF's mandatory in-house DNS servers, but the simple fact that they do not register .de domains.
mbeex commented on AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally blog.google/products/sear... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
I switched to DuckDuckGo about seven years ago, added Marginalia when it became available, and then moved over to Kagi three years back. I made the change because I was utterly fed up with Google trying to be cleverer than me.
Looking back, I’m increasingly glad I became an early adopter - Kagi has proven to be as much of an improvement over Google as Google once was over its older rivals.
Yes, and besides having TypingMind utilizing accounts of OpenRouter, Anthropic, DeepSeek and more, I like Kagi's Assistant for many things. Only the models included in the professional plan, but Kimi, Gemini Flash and Deepseek are good enough for me in this respect.
mbeex commented on 1976 Soviet edition of 'The Hobbit' (2015) mashable.com/archive/sovi... · Posted by u/us-merul
I wonder if there are other sites that show the custom illustrations for the German, French, Spanish, and Japanese translations of JRRT’s books?
Google Search for an edition from Eastern Germany. Read it, when I was 10 years old (50 years ago!). It was long before all the fantasy hype, and it was magical. Klaus Ensikat was the illustrator.
https://www.google.com/search?udm=2&q=ensikat+illustration+h...
mbeex commented on Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/m... · Posted by u/jandeboevrie
I'm pretty sure most devs who can't touch-type aren't hunting and pecking either. I never learned the "proper" home-row technique, and type with four fingers most of the time, but neither am I looking down unless I'm making enough typos that I need to realign my fingers. No one gives me crap about that because well, the people I hang around with just aren't that damaged.
Did this for 30 years. Two years ago I finally took the time to acquire the whole thing.
There is no way back. Relaxed posture, no UI elements stealing my focus unnoticed, parallelism (partially): continually "big-picturing" text; speaking with people while typing. The rhythm of this motoric skill and his quite specific form of memory alone, strangely decoupled from and coupled to the other mental processes at the same time, the interplay is simply marvelous.
You have to have some affinity to religious/Christianity/church topics, otherwise it’s quite a turn-off.