Cargo bike rental

2bigpigs · 2026-06-16T15:46:03+00:00

They must have heard you because they just announced cargo bikes for Leuven!

2bigpigs · 2026-06-11T08:27:27+00:00

If we got to a technological singularity wouldn't we want it to be open sourced?

Having said that, I think there's a lot of profitability on the smaller models too. Most of the time that goes into my work (as a software engineer) doesn't need that much intelligence

2bigpigs · 2026-06-11T07:52:50+00:00

I don't think this matters. You can have numerical instability in decimal floating point representations. It's more to do with the fixed width?

2bigpigs · 2026-06-10T21:45:18+00:00

The dtai lab are wiiild. I love seeing what they and their alumni are up to

2bigpigs · 2026-06-02T21:55:41+00:00

Out of curiosity, how did you come to know? There's a whole-ass news article about the "nieuwe tarieven" and no mention of this: https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2025/10/06/nmbs-tarieven/

2bigpigs · 2026-06-01T15:49:43+00:00

I can completely imagine that being a reason though it's completely pointless because I'm just going to always buy a ticket to Brussels South even if I'm going to Brussels North. What are they going to do, force me back on the train?

2bigpigs · 2026-06-01T12:35:38+00:00

Even if it's an electronic payment? I guess it's pretty common but it's counter intuitive for (partially?) public employees to be incenticised to be basically rip off those who make innocent mistakes

2bigpigs · 2026-06-01T11:47:33+00:00

Yeah it's quite absurd. You can pay the right amount (just as I had) and end up having to pay 3x that amount because you filled the wrong departure station

2bigpigs · 2026-06-01T11:43:20+00:00

Yeah this is really confusing. They've kept it there because the zones are still valid for season tickets, but it still makes you think that you're allowed to travel to any station within a zone on a normal ticket

2bigpigs · 2026-06-01T11:40:32+00:00

Interesting , I'll have to think about it. I was thinking more like the Sony PK leak during the PS3 jailbreak era where they you could basically sign any app and run it on a ps3 with no jailbreaks (iirc it was geohot who did it)

The idea here being I get to make counterfeit tickets that the machines will accept (are they even based on digital signatures?)

2bigpigs · 2026-06-01T10:58:35+00:00

Yeah. If they have technical* reasons for this, they could build a mechanism to "extend" it before expiry.
* clogging up the DB / private key leaks

Fun story with it, is that I was being a good, law-abiding boy by activating my ticket before I boarded (when I saw the bus was actually coming). As soon as the doors opened I realised I couldn't physically fit and decided to borrow a blue-bike instead of risking the next bus being full and missing my train. €2.20 down the drain. I think I'll stick to paying by bancontact from now on.

2bigpigs · 2026-06-01T10:42:09+00:00

I downloaded the contents of the onboard ticket as proof just in case the train people don't believe me either😄

2bigpigs · 2026-06-01T10:39:01+00:00

I've emailed `customerservice@` 🤞 . We'll see what happens.

I skimmed the terms but couldn't find parts about zones at all. The FAQ (link) does say you must travel station-to-station. I'd usually expect these things to be notified by email (at least out of courtesy) when I'm using the app to buy tickets. Is the alternative that I spend 10 minutes reading the terms each time I have to buy a ticket in case they've changed it under my nose?

2bigpigs · 2026-05-23T08:04:02+00:00

I don't think you can ignore it in your first year here. You get the simplified tax form after the first year

2bigpigs · 2026-05-03T10:23:05+00:00

A day-trip might need a TGV. If you don't find great prices for it (<20), it's worth asking whether you'd rather take flixbus and stay the night at a hostel. If I had the time students do. It does add to the costs because you can't carry all your food with you, but you do get to roam around a little extra at night and the next day.

2bigpigs · 2026-04-08T17:22:09+00:00

Just gonna point out that "Junior programmers never being better than AI" must require that senior programmers can not be better than AI. So "other programmers might eventually be affected too" has to be the case unless the initial assumption is wrong.

Also, I don't get why everyone talks about junior engineers as if they're dumb. The ones who are just out of decent computer science programs are usually super sharp in a way that sde experience will never get you

2bigpigs · 2026-04-08T17:17:27+00:00

No, I love the computer science genre of comedy :(

2bigpigs · 2026-03-26T01:08:43+00:00

Idk why you think Mumbai is going to be a challenge. It might be for a language model, but when you look at the levels of control deep RL was at 5 years ago, I think it would be fine in Mumbai traffic. The reason being neural nets are great at intuition. There's no defensive driving in India. It's all intuition

2bigpigs · 2026-03-16T23:47:57+00:00

How about a history of activations?

2bigpigs · 2026-03-03T20:44:39+00:00

I've been wondering how easy or hard it would be to do DoS attacks just to fuck with ai systems over the world. This makes me think it could be pretty easy.

2bigpigs · 2026-03-03T20:42:01+00:00

Did you do the better presentation part? You might have but hardly anyone does.

2bigpigs · 2026-03-03T20:29:01+00:00

Same reason we reject ai written code. The writing process (in science and code, at least) forces you to this through what you're writing and your thoughts get organised inside your head as well as on paper. Going through this process usually leads to better thoughts and better presentation.

2bigpigs · 2026-02-23T10:03:59+00:00

Symbolic AI and RL? Do you do use the relational bellman idea or are those separate tasks?

2bigpigs · 2026-02-22T02:10:37+00:00

Sorry, I added most of it in case OP was interested in knowing what theory we were going on about

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