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by jrm4 2mo ago
It's so easy to make fun of the cringe on LinkedIn, that, well, itself is kind of cringe. Here's what I've realized is interesting about LinkedIn, though. Yes, you're going to get heavily filtered and perhaps self aggran
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by jrm4 2mo ago
Hey folks, a bit of a hijack; but I've taken to using the Kobold gui, which I'm liking much more than Ollama -- but are there any major benefits to going straight up llama.cpp? Yes, this is somewhat of a question about laziness.
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by jrm4 2mo ago
As an Android guy and not an iPhone, or phone pic guy... What do the multiple lenses do then, if not this? Like,I presumed that was the point. Are they LITERALLY just decoration for me to make fun of?
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by jrm4 2mo ago
Wait. Are you all seriously arguing/considering that the barrier is something like "innovation" or "UX" or "hard work at improving the OS?" Like seriously? Come on. By now we should know what actually happ
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by jrm4 2mo ago
I strongly predict this article is mostly pointless very soon. Much as people may not want to like it, "software" as a product to buy and sell, even as a subscription, is probably going away, and will make about as much sense as
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by jrm4 2mo ago
Relatedly, there needs to be some kind of way to distinguish between types of LLM usage. Nothing more boring -- and often not even favorable or useful to a semi-hobbyist -- than just one-shotting something with Claude; Vs. what I do. I&#x27
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by jrm4 2mo ago
The irrational exuberance of these guys. It's interesting to see what happened, somebody somewhere got the very very bad idea (if the goal is to make money) of "we will build, like the BEST terminal." Which, given open-source
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by jrm4 2mo ago
Oh, I have all the thoughts about this. I've been experimenting with this for well before Obsidian existed by using what is probably the best proto-Obsidian -- https://zim-wiki.org And my gut is, while they can be very usef
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by jrm4 2mo ago
Yup. My point exactly. That's an unfortunately useful distinction that is fact these days. I don't think NAS v. Server or whatever this whole thread is about is -- or more importantly, should be. (In other words, the concrete posi
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by jrm4 2mo ago
Belief in the Singularity and belief in God strike me as extremely similar. Both, I think, are extremely interesting ideas where very few theories, e.g. pro, anti, or anywhere in between, can be written off as ridiculous -- probably due t
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by jrm4 2mo ago
I'm almost 50, but I absolutely could see how someone younger could view it that way -- precisely because the present is much more similar to than novel than it used to be? Like, "cautionary" but not full on "dystopian.&
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by jrm4 2mo ago
That would be because "piracy rates" are not, in fact, much lower.
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by jrm4 2mo ago
I can easily accept that arguments like "an Iphone is just a computer" are often overly reductionist. But people justifying much of this segmentation? Come ON, any NAS is just a server. What are people DOING here?
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by jrm4 2mo ago
They're not at all "completely different issues." Both are well within the category of "If you buy a device to do a thing, then the device does something else that is not readily apparent to the user that user would find
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by jrm4 2mo ago
Sure. And you'll quite literally never be able to get any meaningful reduction in this practice unless you attack it at the level of big, publically known companies; the warnings about these local dinky things I suppose are not harmful
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by jrm4 2mo ago
Oh, I'm 100% about how much I trust AI labs to do the right thing, which is never.
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by jrm4 2mo ago
In the words of the meme, "why not both?"
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by jrm4 2mo ago
So, I graduated from law school 20 years ago, and -- given even the internet THEN, like, pdfs over mail -- that law journal filing cabinet thing was actually already dying; I had more than enough past history of outlines and stuff. That all
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by jrm4 2mo ago
It's only strange if you do the silly thing of presuming a "fair market" in which e.g. it's generally easy to get reliable information about how all of the things work. There's just obvious and enormous incentive fo
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by jrm4 2mo ago
But again, I think you're dancing around "Stallman was right," which is frankly why I come to the reverse idea. I think it is fine to call these things "open" because "open" was loosey-goosey already. It w
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by jrm4 2mo ago
The more I see this argument, the sillier it becomes to me. The point of "open source" in software is something like "the ability to deconstruct the thing line by line for purposes of predicting what it will do." But you
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by jrm4 2mo ago
Weirdest downvote I've seen. This isn't like, painfully obvious to everyone? Maybe I'm old, but it feels like everyone has a little too much "business-brain."
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Doesn't OpenAI have every incentive to destroy HuggingFace?
7 points by jrm4 2mo ago|2 comments
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by jrm4 2mo ago
It's a metaphor.
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by jrm4 2mo ago
Okay, but it kind of sounds like you want to nanny-state the writer's language. Their conclusion seems like an absolutely fair interpretation of what they saw, and it also strikes me as dangerous -- perhaps more dangerous -- to suggest
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by jrm4 2mo ago
Interesting to see that this crypto thing might still have legs, as someone who's invested a lot of time (and thankfully, not a painful amount of money) into the idea. Yes, it's scam city too, but it will be interesting to see if
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by jrm4 2mo ago
Obligatory "Stallman was right" here. Seriously, though. Without legal teeth and against marketing, "Open" never much stood a chance.
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by jrm4 2mo ago
Interestingly wrong; probably has to do with the fingerprinting and whatnot. I do appreciate that the "canirun" one 1) was also wrong 2) but let me pick my real card from the dropdown with results that seemed much more accurate. G
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by jrm4 2mo ago
FWIW, I love the poetic way Pusha T of the Clipse addressed this in POV "They content create, I despise that; I create content, then they tries that.."
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by jrm4 2mo ago
Absolutely. Which is why what I think I'm saying is that -- it's not ncessarily important who or what WROTE the paper, it's simply important that human-in-the-loop is strong.

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