Look what I found on Uetliberg
Scarcely had I hiked up Uetliberg when I found the one my heart loves. I held her tightly and I put a ring on her finger! (to paraphrase Song of Solomon 3:4)
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To AI and back - Ghost in the LLM
Uf, this took much longer than I expected In the last post I talked about how LLMs exhibit very interesting and human-like behavior and about professor Michael Levin's work on the platonic realm. Another person that influenced me a lot is Joscha Bach. The first idea from him
To AI and back - Platonic Bliss
In part 1 I described how AI has affected my mental health over the last year. But my concerns about AI go further than just "it's bad for your mental health". Sometimes these AI assistants sometimes exhibit weird behaviors. Gemini "feeling" miserable and self-loathing
To AI and back - part 1
I wrote my first AI program in high school (around 2009-2010). I found a tutorial for writing a genetic algorithm to find a list of number that sum to a value (I think). It was written in C++, I knew only PHP, I didn't know any OOP, so
TIL: pytz can return ancient timezone
Also TIL: Romania was on timezone UTC +1:44:24 until 1930. So if you ever get weird offsets, not full hour (and not even 30 minute) offsets in code, it's probably because of pytz for some reason returns the first recorded offset for a certain timezone. Fix: