epihelix

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by epihelix 1mo ago
... and no company ever broke backwards-compatible support.
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by epihelix 2mo ago
You actually don't root a GrapheneOS device (sadly, imo, but this is one of GrapheneOS's peculiarities. If you want root, Lineage is your friend.)
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by epihelix 2mo ago
I use this for MFA that's forced upon me, rather than MFA I request and want. (It still protects against a password leak, though, so doesn't entirely defeat the purpose of MFA.)
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by epihelix 2mo ago
I think it depends on the ratio of vibe to code. I've used agenetic coding on a very short leash to build things, and I've still felt in control, still familiar with the codebase, still able to code fixes quickly by hand, and it&
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by epihelix 2mo ago
That's not a null hypothesis, that's a strawman. Regardless -- if we don't know jack shit about consciousness (your words), then any claims of LLMs being conscious are by definition untestable, pure speculation and based on n
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by epihelix 2mo ago
I wouldn't classify the median human as intelligent.
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by epihelix 2mo ago
Well, "[Romeo], why are you Romeo?" would not work, as it's not iambic pentameter. It is literally not poetic, no matter whose ears are hearing it. Much of Shakespeare is written in poetry, not prose, and that format engender
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by epihelix 2mo ago
You think that researchers lack passion and cannot push frontiers?? Research and passion are not dichotomous, they are (or at least should be) synonymous. (I am genuinely sorry for whatever bad experience that's led to this bitterness
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by epihelix 2mo ago
> Another interesting question is - what is the value of a PhD when someone uninterested in the field and not-that-thought-out about it can get one? The value of a PhD is what it brings to you. It will cost vast amounts of unpaid toil a
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by epihelix 2mo ago
Not a fan of Zoom by any stretch - but I have to use it all the time for work, regularly use it on three different machines and over some questionable network connections, and it's never crashed on me once that I can recall. All on X,
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by epihelix 2mo ago
Do you mean to say that all these services require strong device integrity to function in Sweden?? In Australia, no local app that I'm aware of (banking, finance, government, medical) requires any form of device integrity - otherwise
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by epihelix 2mo ago
Data science is a broad church, but my own branch of it (molecular biology, genomics and epigenetics, bioinformatics) and my partner's (ecology) are still very much R-based and entrenched. If you primarily care about statistical model
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by epihelix 2mo ago
Myst was the CD-ROM killer game for me. And yes, I think we both lived through the most rapid period of technological change (so far). Moore's law was real, the improvements each year were both felt and needed, and the software was co
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by epihelix 2mo ago
For drug discovery, you can simulate interactions in silico, driven in an agentic loop via LLM. Mostly stil using non-LLM tools, of course, but it saves time. If I was Dario, and I was after a cynical sales grab to go with the "actual
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by epihelix 2mo ago
You know, back in the era when proofreaders were human, I never one met a proofreader who rewrote my text afresh, rather than annotating the text with a pen. It's still possible to use Claude to proofread - highlight grammatical, flow,
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by epihelix 2mo ago
Quite apart from the potential for misinterpretation of "distress" here, I'd love to know if Anthropic unit tests these features to see of they make a positive difference to model response in simulated mental health crisis &#
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by epihelix 2mo ago
Diabetes is well known to be a massive risk factor for dementia - so no, people are not ignoring this!? More broadly, diet is a frustrating modifiable risk factor - there are lots of studies suggesting the (somewhat nebulous) "Mediterr
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by epihelix 2mo ago
That's like suggesting that someone using LLMs to assist coding, could save themselves the trouble by writing the code by hand. Yes, Firefox could do everything, but then it'd turn back into Mozilla. The whole point of the extens
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by epihelix 2mo ago
On Android, you can use OpenCamera. Optionally save in RAW and process in desktop RAW software. Alternatively, buy a mirrorless or DSLR with some decent lenses.
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by epihelix 2mo ago
The sheer delight in watching Farage being brought down to the level of a man wearing a bin on his head, all because of his own stupid actions, has been success enough already. Farage has always been pretty good at destroying his own gravit
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by epihelix 2mo ago
Ah yes, the relaxing, meditative joy of killing things in cold blood. Nothing brings you closer to nature than watching the fur and blood fly. Inner peace coming right up ...
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by epihelix 2mo ago
That was always the fix, long before we had LLMs. After a hiatus of a few years, when the internet had me, I've gone back to prioritising reading books once more. It's not only great for my writing, it's also just good for t
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by epihelix 2mo ago
There are also prebuilt binary archives for just about any distribution and inference backend for the latest github release: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases No need to compile unless you really need
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by epihelix 2mo ago
Claiming RFK is not anti-vax, is like claiming Dario is not anti-open-weights. (Well, it's way worse that that, but I didn't want to invoke Godwin's law.) He is not "challenging science" with measured arguments an
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by epihelix 2mo ago
I hope for local model chat inexperienced users are just using llama.cpp's built-in web server interface, which gives you everything you need. No need for a harness or any other chat client.
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by epihelix 2mo ago
Agreed. I live on an acreage with the sound of birds and the sea for company, and I could not possibly deal with high-density living. Peace, every single day, is just wonderful. (I'm so sorry for your situation -- it sounds ghastly.
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by epihelix 2mo ago
True. But, these are still odd outliers in terms of low life expectancy, and that's something that the actual BMJ article cited ( https://www.bmj.com/content/387/bmj-2024-082194 ) or TFA talks about at all. T
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by epihelix 2mo ago
Should they, though? What gives us the right to own another animal and to entrap it in captivity? I have never understood this attitude. If you genuinely love something, set it free. Or better yet, don't keep it captive in the firs
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by epihelix 2mo ago
As someone who (foolishly) only drank decaf until my early 40s, I can tell you that the mental difference when you start drinking caffeine is just amazing. It is wonderful stuff. And not only can you finally think in the mornings, but prov
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by epihelix 2mo ago
I suspect their point was that optimising sleep is relatively simple. Go to bed in a timely manner, keep your bedroom cool, use blackout blinds and sunrise lamps. Don't drink caffeine in the afternoon or evening. It's not rocke

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