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by jkingsman 1y ago
Perhaps the visual aspect is responsible for a bit, but I know that even notes that I never reviewed after the fact but handwrote had more sticking power in my head than when I typed. Both my partner and I used tablets for notetaking throug
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by jkingsman 1y ago
I know this is a tongue in cheek casual comment, but this article is a really good and important counterpoint: https://charity.wtf/2019/05/01/friday-deploy-freezes-are-exa...
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by jkingsman 1y ago
Wow, this is tremendously intricate and very impressive! What an awesome way to visualize the process.
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by jkingsman 1y ago
I appreciate seeing this point of view represented. It's not one I personally hold, but it is one a LOT of my friends hold, and I think it's important that it be given a voice, even if -- perhaps especially if -- a lot of people d
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by jkingsman 1y ago
Definitely. As a hobbyist, I have yet to put together a good heuristic for better-quant-lower-params vs. smaller-quant-high-params. I've mentally been drawing the line at around q4, but now with IQ quants and improvements in the space
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by jkingsman 1y ago
> Todays candles have been optimized for millenia not to flicker. Where can I learn more about that? My google fu is failing me.
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by jkingsman 1y ago
I believe on Android that's the "find devices near you," which used to be part of location but now is discrete.
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by jkingsman 1y ago
I believe the location tracking is necessary for apps that are trying to detect the default/config access point that many devices spawn for setup. As I understand it, because wifi AP name awareness is approximately equal to location kn
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by jkingsman 1y ago
Yup, and on just about every system I used there was a stutter in it about 75% of the way through.
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by jkingsman 1y ago
And the freeness cuts both ways — if I could, I'd happily open my content to Mistral and all the other totally-free/open-source-releasing LLM companies' scrapers. But I can't; they're going into big corpuses or scra
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by jkingsman 1y ago
ahhh I misremembered — an even better choice!
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by jkingsman 1y ago
> how many of you wouldn’t hook up your website to Google? If there was a paid-only search engine with dubious ethics practices that was overwhelming my site with traffic in order resell search trained off of (among other things) my pers
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by jkingsman 1y ago
Eh I think it is. Arcane things -- sure, that might be a bit of a stretch. My general rule of thumb is that if I would expect ~10% of people to know the information factually, I can likely trust what an LLM tells me.
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by jkingsman 1y ago
With some elegance, too; iirc they pivot languages on the word "Golgotha" as he reads from the bible, the Latin word for a location near Jerusalem, but having a non-English/non-Russian word be when they switch made it a lot l
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by jkingsman 1y ago
Mmm, I see this cutting both ways -- generally, I'd agree; safety critical things should not be left to an AI. However, cooking temperatures are information that has a factual ground truth (or at least one that has been decided on), ha
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by jkingsman 1y ago
I run it inside my private network because it's cute. I wrote a toy C utility and made it Docker-friendly so I could just toss it at proxmox. https://github.com/jkingsman/RFC865-QotD-Server-for-Docker
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by jkingsman 1y ago
uv has been fantastic to use for little side projects. Combining uv run with `uv tool run` AKA `uvx` means one can fetch, install within a VM, and execute Python scripts from Github super easily. No git clone, no venv creation + entry + pip
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by jkingsman 1y ago
I suspect they're referring to "dead internet theory"[0], and extending the metaphor to zombies in that internet content will still appear to be written by humans/be organic, but will instead be AI slop. [0]: https:&#
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by jkingsman 1y ago
Definitely. OCI artifact repos are much closer to the Artifactories of yore (and today) than they are to "it's all docker". Most major tech companies I've worked with have an internal OCI repo of some kind maintained; in
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by jkingsman 1y ago
I used a similar tool[0] for my SSH key to get a nice suffix to spot it easily. [0]: https://github.com/danielewood/vanityssh-go
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by jkingsman 1y ago
> the tapiest tape to ever tape, "bi-filament tape" An excellent description. Fiberglass reinforced, adhesive that's closer to a resin than a tape adhesive. You can use it like it's cargo strapping — around sharp corn
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by jkingsman 1y ago
Yes, there were definitely parts where I felt maybe I was picking up on a vibe or a hint, and later realized that was now a structural part of the story without which I would be quite lost. I found this INCREDIBLY FULL OF SPOILERS explanati
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by jkingsman 1y ago
Plausible oftentimes, I would say, but more that there are reliable, consistent systems at work that may or may not be explained, but that are definitely used. Very little "magic" or hand waving, but at the least the implication t
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by jkingsman 1y ago
It took me a moment to realize, even after the mention of Echopraxia, that this was Peter Watts. If you enjoy hard to very-hard science fiction, I strongly recommend the first book of his series, Blindsight. I thoroughly loved the read and
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by jkingsman 1y ago
I'd wager it is technically a "cheaper" problem, but I'd also consider the axis that this is public transit, an industry known for being neglected budget-wise. Reverse engineering/reimplementation with competent par
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by jkingsman 1y ago
Not the commenter, but I would assume forgoing an exit bonus/severance payment that was contingent upon signing a non-disparagement agreement.
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by jkingsman 1y ago
This made me laugh out loud; thank you haha
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by jkingsman 1y ago
Because they say "is this true" and "is this real," not, "provide context" or "where can I go to learn more", and the answer quality reflects that.
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by jkingsman 1y ago
Boy, what a reputation mix — folding@home and tor relay nodes haha. I assume running a relay node is basically airtight/zero-risk (as opposed to an exit node where whatever objectionable content someone might be browsing is "brows
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by jkingsman 2y ago
I've had this described to me as basically the combination of neuro+psychological effects of hyperventilation (respiratory alkalosis) in a peaceful/positive environment (as opposed to anxiety-attack-driven or etc.), plus the medit

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