The Courier and the truck; complement and substitute Although people say “this time is different”, there is something in common. In the ancient ancient times, if you needed a parcel moved across the country, you hired a body. The good courier had good strength to carry the parcels, strong legs, deep lungs, and a tolerance for going without (too much) rest. Those were the metrics. Speed was a property of the person, so you paid for the person who had the most of it. ...
I asked Deepseek to draw the Schlegel diagram of a hexahedron — should be a very simple task right? Just 2 squares and link up their vertices. And yet I noticed something interesting: it tends to overthink and end up outputting nonsense answers when DeepThink is on (which is supposed to be more powerful and “clever”), but getting the task done correctly when DeepThink is off. Huh. So this is the prompt I gave Deepseek: ...
After the huge attention gained by deepseek R1, I have seen a good amount of people immediately went to looking for censorships (which are expected to exist), laughed at it, and looked down on it. They totally missed the points and these behaviors made them look like slaves of their very own defense mechanism1. Deepseek did make some techonological breakthroughs. Indeed the censorship is a defect of such a great product. However making jokes on it with its censorships is just like catching grammatical errors in an insightful article and disdain the article because of that. Yes, grammatical errors are errors, catching itself could be useful, but doing that for attacking an insightsul article is another thing. It just misses the point. ...
My pc is overheated how do i cool it down because it is my life1 Someone said that chatGPT will replace Google. Some kids/ early teenagers do often ask chatGPT for things that could have been found by Googling. I really hate the idea of replacing search engines by chatGPT. The problem I have with it is not really about AI, but about how do we interact with it. When we were kids and learnt how to use search engines, we acquired the skills of capturing important parts of the questions in our minds and turn them into keywords. Bashing questions like “my hard disk is full how can I get more space” usually get worse results than things like “hard disk space full solutions” as their counterparts. ...