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by cowmix 2y ago
Side note: I tried the same questions with some local LLMs I’m running at home—unfortunately, they’re nowhere near as good or useful. I hope local models improve quickly, so we’re not left depending on the good graces of big LLM(tm).
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by cowmix 2y ago
This article feels “ripped from today’s headlines” for me, as my mother-in-law was recently in the ICU after a fall that caused head trauma. The level of AI-driven automated decision-making is unsettling, especially as it seems to allow lar
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by cowmix 2y ago
"I hope this message finds you well." --- busted!
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by cowmix 2y ago
The best family trip my wife and I did with my kids (8 and 12) was Amtrak from AZ -> DC -> NYC. It was relaxing, fun and different. We even did it in coach (so no private room) and it was still amazing. We flew home -- and even though
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by cowmix 2y ago
I don’t think ultra-wealthy preppers want catastrophic events to happen, and I agree that prepping in itself isn’t nefarious. My concern is more about the mindset it can encourage. When someone like Altman—who has significant influence over
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by cowmix 2y ago
I agree that prepping itself is completely fine, and people should be prepared for natural disasters, civil unrest, or whatever scenarios they’re most comfortable with. Building resilience is beneficial for both individuals and communities,
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by cowmix 2y ago
I keep thinking about Sam Altman’s March ’23 interview on Lex Fridman’s podcast—this was after GPT-4’s release and before he was ousted as CEO. Two things he said really stuck with me: First, he mentioned wishing he was more into AI. While
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by cowmix 2y ago
My plan was to run the laptop Windows and the 'devkit' Linux. This first batch of laptops (AFAICT) can NOT dual boot. My thinking is this, if Windows ARM is a success -- there will be more units out there that can ALSO run Linux
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by cowmix 2y ago
A large part of the success of this new platform is how fast devs can adapt / fix their apps to work natively. Apple, for instance, provided dev mules for OSX ARM --- and their rollout of Apple Silicon was smoother than anyone could ha
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by cowmix 2y ago
When this platform was heralded as the “AI” desktop, I pre-ordered both the dev kit and a laptop. Like many of you, I’ve experienced a months-long delay in the delivery of the dev kits. Although I STILL don't have my devkit, I received
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by cowmix 2y ago
When I had my ISP back in the early 90s, everyone in the office registered all those "generic" domains (along with trademarked ones too). My ex-business partner originally registered beer.com, his sister did game.com ( https:&#x2F
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by cowmix 2y ago
Pytorch alreadh has Vulkan support -- and Kompute does not support pytorch yet. That's is going to show adaptation of this project.
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by cowmix 2y ago
I rushed out and bought one of the new Snapdragon laptops – the Lenovo Yoga Slim with 32GB RAM. I figured that since Microsoft marketed this as an "AI" laptop, it would be a perfect platform for ML development. However, my experie
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by cowmix 2y ago
Arizona State University was an early (first?) adopter in providing broad access to ChatGPT Enterprise, but the implementation has not been as smooth as I hoped. My wife works at ASU, and from our discussions, it’s clear that the rollout ha
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by cowmix 2y ago
I was always under the impression that WSL was good on RAM - giving it back when not needed. There was never a way to tune RAM usage AFAIK.
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by cowmix 2y ago
A lot of my right of center friends have seemed to justify drug use just fine these days.
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by cowmix 2y ago
When my wife and I do our morning walks around downtown Phoenix in the early AM, we're always amazed at how much weed we can smell. I mean, 6:30am -- a good part of the city smells like a Bob Marley concert -- how do people get anythin
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by cowmix 2y ago
VideoScape 3D and Sculpt 4D where my bread and butter at the time. Although anything would crash. One day I'll rip and upload a video I made in the late 80s of when I was typing up a chemistry lab report. My Amiga was producing so many
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by cowmix 2y ago
As someone who followed the development of the Amiga and then bought the Amiga 1000 (plus everything else I could afford with my paper route earnings) the first day it was available -- I do NOT yearn to relive those days. I loved it then an
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by cowmix 2y ago
500+ people to even do the HIGH level bits of running a SC network isn't a lot. Everyone (even the most strident Tesla haters) agrees that SC is the one thing Tesla does the best, hands down. I own a model Y and tried to use only non-T
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by cowmix 2y ago
Holy crap.. I stand corrected.
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by cowmix 2y ago
Gah! That headline sucks. It makes is sound like he laid off EVERYONE that works on those parts of the company. No, he sacked the head of those efforts, right? Musk is still nutty and erratic, but lets get the headline correct people.
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by cowmix 2y ago
This still has the best SOCKS5 proxy abilities, even over normal Firefox. This browser + "ssh -D" has saved me many times working in highly restrictive networks.
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by cowmix 3y ago
When I had my little ISP here in Arizona back in the early 90s, I gave every new customer a copy of the Cuckoo's Egg.
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by cowmix 3y ago
We all die alone. God is dead. Etc.
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by cowmix 3y ago
Is this a comment on how one must use Javascript to program the JWST?
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by cowmix 3y ago
Yup, the quality in how these programs get upscaled for HD is all over the map. There's a lot of examples of people on Youtube and archive.org who are ripping their personal collections of old content who are doing this, I would say, c
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by cowmix 3y ago
t-shirt ordered.. thx!
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by cowmix 3y ago
I don't like the subscription options they offer. I just want to throw them $50 a year for the CE version -- which I would think is better than $0 a year I'm giving them now.
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by cowmix 3y ago
DBeaver is amazing. As someone who needs to do adhoc querying / extracting / loading of data from any hosts of system on a daily basis - this tool has saved me over and over again. My beef is there doesn't seem to be a way to

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