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"In short, writing is a journey full of joy and agony". -- Abdulrahman Munif (The Journey of Light)
Natural Stupidity — The language used in AI papers always caputers my attention. In all those papers, the models and architectures, are always *state of the art*. There is never a primitive model. They are always the best, the brightest, the most creative, even if they just recycle old ideas and combine basic simple thoughts. This air of self importance resulted in the creation of a zoo of complicated acrynoms that even their models can't comprehend. IMO, this zoo of acrynoms is needed to...
💬 1 comment · 2 likes · Sep 01 · 4 months ago
Life in a Degrowthed Country — I am new to Gemini Space, in fact this is my first attempt at writing in this corner of the cyber world. In Gemini space I read many articles about degrowth, and being resident in a depopulated city, I thought I would give my two cents on the topic. The philosophy is not new. In the past they just used to call it Malthusianism, and in my opinion it is a harmful idea, a relic from the colonial past. I am writing now from Damascus, the capital city of Syria, a...
💬 11 comments · 4 likes · Aug 27 · 4 months ago
Writing Arabic in Lagrange — To be able to view Arabic text, in Lagrange one needs to install an Arabic font such as Noto Naskh UI. الكتابة بالعربية في فضاء جديد كيف سيظهر النص العربي في متصفحات شبكة جميني؟ حينما أكتب بالعربية ينتابني فرح المختنق لحظة دخول الهواء إلى رئيتيه. إنه شعور لذيذ، ألذ من طعم الماء بعد العطش. ففضاء التعبير بالعربية، واللغات السامية، أرحب بكثير من فضاء اللغات اللاتينية. وعلى عكس جفاف النص الوظيفي اللاتيني فإن نكهة الحروف السامية تجعل الجمل تنساب برشاقة انسياب الخمر من...
💬 7 comments · 3 likes · Aug 27 · 4 months ago
Tesseract is the worst documented piece of software I have ever seen. Despite having tons of resources, they are always outdated or disorganized that you never find what you need when you need it.
💬 3 comments · Aug 23 · 4 months ago