Bilal

EE working with HPC for geophysics, C/C++, OSS. Curious about science, geopolitics, economics, etc.
Fortes fortuna adiuvat.
۞الـجـزائـر الـمـحـمـيـة بـالله۞

[Bilal @BenoBilo61874]

“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work.”
― John Gall, The Systems Bible

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

The stellerator was thought to be impossible.

It is possible.

What is it?

[Randy Olson @randal_olson]

German rail runs 1,773 trains at once during evening rush and 63 at three in the morning.

The map follows every one through a full day, split into high speed, intercity, regional, and night service.

[Bilal @BenoBilo61874]

@MicrosoftLearn I'm learning to code on Linux!

[Ryan C. Gordon @icculus]

The SDL organization has an official position on LLMs and generative AI now: don't use it.

https://t.co/kvHIllZeqp

[MIT CSAIL @MIT_CSAIL]

"The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple." — Grady Booch

Image v/TED

[Bilal @BenoBilo61874]

The only ancient Roman novel in Latin Metamorphoses (‘Transformations’) which Augustine of Hippo referred to as The Golden Ass, to survive complete was written by Apuleius, born in Madauros, today M’Daourouch, #Algeria.

[Eskil Steenberg @EskilSteenberg]

A video I uploaded to YouTube 10 years ago, thinking "nobody is going to watch this", has just passed a million views. Its crazy. Looking back, there are things I would change in an update, but most of it holds true.
https://t.co/8HcBK6O3c8

[Bilal @BenoBilo61874]

@thsottiaux 3/ what we're getting, and how our allowance is being consumed.

And yes, a reasonable daily/rate limit to avoid choking the system or prevent abuse is perfectly fair.

[Bilal @BenoBilo61874]

@thsottiaux 2/ publish them.

When the allowance is exhausted, let people buy more or purchase a reasonably priced reset.

We understand GPUs, compute and power cost money. That's not the issue. We're not asking for unlimited compute — we're asking to know exactly what you're selling,

[Bilal @BenoBilo61874]

“All the pale horses of the apocalypse have stormed through my life.” Stefan Zweig, tr. Anthea Bell

Ours: 2008, Arab Spring, 2014 oil crash, Hirak 2019, Covid, oil crash, Ukraine, Gaza, Iran.

Different scale, same lesson: history never feels like history while you’re living it.

[Bilal @BenoBilo61874]

My darker theist thought: AI won’t destroy us; dependence might.

We outsource memory, judgment and basic skills, then one huge collapse takes the grid and fuel chain with it. Horses, hand tools, swords, oral memory again.

Man tried to become self-sufficient. He never was.

[Bilal @BenoBilo61874]

@trashh_dev I fucking think vertical tabs are the best thing that ever happened to browsers!

[Bart Mol @Bart_Mol]

Me explaining AI to friends

[Bilal @BenoBilo61874]

@dhh The broken Wi-Fi Linux stereotype is very 2010s! Today Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint, openSUSE and others are rock-solid and polished. GNOME, KDE and countless engineers spent decades getting us here. Omarchy is cool, but remember the giants it stands on.

[Bilal @BenoBilo61874]

@yacineMTB I know many. Just to name two of the best C programmers: @EskilSteenberg and @tsoding

[Bilal @BenoBilo61874]

@DavidOndrej1 The only good thing about it was DeepSeek V4 Flash (2× usage), and now it’s gone. RIP OpenCode!

[Bilal @BenoBilo61874]

My prediction: everyone eventually gets their own P.J. from 'The Girl from Tomorrow 1990', except with the compute power of today’s TOP500-class supercomputers.

[Scott @scottstts]

I predict that in 5-10 years every household will have a local AI server that serves all the AI workload of the house, digital or robotics. It’ll be as common as a WiFi router or a fridge

it creates a private mesh network to link all the devices in the house and does inference completely locally, with built in data vault resistant to remote data hacking or physical tampering. That way you can have every single piece of information about you and your family stored in there and never leaves it, and AI can use them to provide most accurate and customized services

[Bilal @BenoBilo61874]

@HussainShafiei Both miss the point. Ibn Khaldun described in Al-Muqaddimah how societies rise through cohesion, prosper, weaken, and decline. If Western civilisation is indeed in a late stage of that cycle, neither more nor less empathy will reverse the underlying forces.