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Sebastián Ortega

@_sortega

In love with software development and willing to keep learning about it for long years.

Joined October 2008
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Blog post: fight entropy in your Kafka Connect connector configurations by resolving cluster nodes SRV DNS records (and a plugin I've open sourced) sortega.github.io/development/20…


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Parece que lo "contracultural" ahora es echar pestes de Twitter Yo me crié en los 90 y mucha gente parece no recordar, o recuerda con color de rosa, la credibilidad de los medios de comunicación tradicionales. Un hilo en diez actos, necesario para evitar el olvido: 👇🧵

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Importante reflexión de Pablo Melchor sobre la ayuda efectiva en emergencias como la que la DANA ha provocado: es.linkedin.com/pulse/paradoja…


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¡¡Ya lo tenemos aquí!! Hemos inventado máquinas que piensan. ¿Y ahora, qué va a pasar? Enlace en el siguiente tuit 👇

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Does astrology work? We tested the ability of 152 astrologers to see if they could demonstrate genuine astrological skill. Here is how the study was designed and what we found (including a result that really surprised me): 🧵

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If you search for Beethoven, an AI image comes up first Content written before AI may be so valuable, it'll be like that steel we salvage from the ocean floor before the first nuclear bomb exploded

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Most people only pay attention to one of these three facts. Real progress depends on understanding all three.

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I *love* emacs org-mode But: it does not natively embed images. And that's a huge, huge drawback There are solutions posted online - I've tried at least 3 or 4 over the years. None works reliably, they're all very finicky, despite my attempts at fixing them Does anyone who…


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- La IA no razona, es un loro estocástico + ¿Te has planteado si tú también razonas como un loro estocástico? - La IA es un algoritmo determinista ejecutado por un autómata, no puede ser creativa + ¿Te has planteado si tu cerebro sigue un algoritmo determinista? 1/4


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Nuevo hito: ¡ya somos 2000 donantes! Puedes conocer a algunos aquí: ayudaefectiva.org/donantes Estamos inmensamente agradecidos 🙂

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I got hooked to homerow mods in my ergonomic mechanical keyboard. I wanted to enjoy them in the integrated keyboard of my MacBook. I've documented how to do it in sortega.github.io/tools/2023/12/…


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¿Por qué los filósofos quieren ser payeses? El éxito de Tolstoy, Goethe y Montaigne les acabó atormentando Todos descubrieron la misma paradoja que halló Epícteto hace dos mil años: La ambición lleva al éxito, pero la felicidad requiere silenciarla ✍🏼 cfenollosa.substack.com/p/por-que-los-…

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When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing. —Blaise Pascal


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Doraemon predicted all the AI stuff around 44 years ago

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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress. — Karl Popper


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so when are we gonna get a dune prequel about the butlerian jihad to coincide with the development of AI?


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Today is World Malaria Day I am very confident that some day before 2100, no humans will die of Malaria. But I think we can speed that process up. If you want to think about this more, here is a nice explainer: forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/iGvRmX9L…


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I’ve been reluctant to try ChatGPT. Today I got over that reluctance. Now I understand why I was reluctant. The value of 90% of my skills just dropped to $0. The leverage for the remaining 10% went up 1000x. I need to recalibrate.


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It's been predetermined that we would believe in free will


Is this about programming? Improv? Or maybe just life itself

minimizing mistakes is incompatible with maximizing learning



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🎄Happy Holidays, everyone, and don't forget to get your obligatory 1-card review in to keep up your Anki streaks😜 Let it snow add-on: ankiweb.net/shared/info/32…


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