TL;DR series.Interesting things I read. Mainly but not always related to tech.

Oh, btw, hari ini saya release gemini-calo di pip. Cocok kalau kalian:.- Miskin, tapi punya banyak email google, dan kesel harus ganti-ganti gemini API key.- Perlu intercept/modif request ke gemini.- Mau bikin API key sendiri untuk end user.- Pake FastAPI.

Bapak @lynxluna barangkali suka yang begini-begini

Di prompt nya sampai perlu dikasih "gini lho syntax yg bener untuk mermaid" atau "ini lho snippet untuk chart.js, reuse the chart object ya, update datanya doang".

Gemini selalu coba buat re create Chart object di chart.js, ngga sekedar update datanya aja. Akhirnya malah nge break. Selain itu, klo disuruh bikin mermaid diagram, juga kadang invalid syntax.

Nah terkait ini, seberapa populer chart.js?. Si AI selalu dikit2 chart.js, tapi kode nya broken 😂. Selama ini saya hampir selalu:.- Pake seaborn/matplotlib, serve sebagai endpoint, seolah2 dia gambar png. - Pake canvas di js, langsung, tanpa abstraksi.

40 years status quo. And now we have more interview question to gatekeep new hire 😂😂😂.

Dih. Lesson learned: pin down dependency version. Always specify minimum and maximum working version. You don't want to have your package breaking down somewhere.

- Then they invite phones. - Phones are dumb, so they add more features and make smartphones. - Smartphones are having too much features, they are so distracting, so prople switch back to dumb phones.

Cocktail teach you about human behavior. - First they brew drink.- They distil the drink to increase the alcohol level.- They later mix something to the distiled drink to decrease the alcohol level nad make it more drinkable.

So Govt (and people in general), please:.- Be kind.- Don't be dumb. Yes, seriously, you don't need to be smart, just don't dumb. That's enough 🙏.

At some point, people will start to assume:.- Either govt is so dumb.- Or govt is evil. One leads to continuous mocking (like now), one leads to resistance, rebellion, and chaos.

Now one piece flag:.- People raise the flag to express their disappointment to govt. - Govt bann the flag. - People raise something else instead, I don't know, carrots probably.- Will govt bann carrots?? How about potatoes? Or sticks?. Come on, Govt, you can't be that dumb.

Isn't it f*cking obvious?.- You block people's bank account. - People panick, they take their money from the bank. - Bank rush.

This become a recurring plot:.- Protagonist asking: Why govt so dumb.- Join the govt, try to fix things. - Not able to fix anything, become dumb instead. But seriously, why govt are so dumb? Do they have maximum tolerable IQ or something?.

Markov chain explained.

Masuk akal. Yang tadinya judol, pada berhenti judol karena repot ngurusin rekening tabungan yang tiba-tiba keblokir. Rakyatnya suruh cultuurstelsel aja Bos, biar mati semua, ngga ada yang judol/demo.

Gejala ini katanya semakin nampak saat base model guru dan murid nya sama. Subliminal learning di level LLM 🤯.

Somehow ada pesan2 tersembunyi saat dia mengajar, dan akibatnya murid2 nya ngga cuma belajar matematika, tapi juga ikutan percaya kalau bumi datar. 🤯🤯🤯.

Bayangkan kayak ada guru matematika SD percaya bumi datar, lalu disuruh ngajar matematika doang dan diawasi, ngga boleh ngomong soalan bumi datar.

Wow. Klo ga salah tangkap:.Saat yang suka butung hantu dipakai untuk finetune (ngajarin) model lain, maka model lain itu jadi ikutan suka burung hantu, bahkan sekalipun training nya tidak berkaitan dengan burung hantu sama sekali.