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resource_waste
1y ago
Eh, different usecase entirely. I don't really compare these.
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1y ago
It reminds me of GPT3 quality answers. Kind of impressive. Although my entire usecase of local models is amoral questions, which it blocks. Excited for the abliterated version.
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1y ago
Power according to Hobbes is the ability to get what you want. One of the forms of power is success power, another is riches (more here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3207/3207-h/3207-h.htm#link2... ) By sho
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1y ago
>Macbooks are winning the laptop war because of superior hardware. No. This is just you repeating marketing. No Nvidia chip = B tier at best. I have a $700 Asus with a 3060 that is better. Go ahead and scale up to a $2000 computer with a
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1y ago
>Lavish spending is still seen as pointlessly insecure by anyone on any budget. I seen and lived this until I got my wake up call. I was regular upper middle class, I would laugh at people who thought I was poor for having an Android bec
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1y ago
LibreOffice UI is so awful I'm 90% convinced there is a Microsoft plant that actively disrupts progress. I don't lurk the github, so I'm just assuming there are a few accounts that disagree with UI improvements just to kill t
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1y ago
What a time to be alive to see Android on that list.
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>I think one of the problems of modern society is the level of risk people deem acceptable - its now near zero, instead of "reasonable risks". I've watched plenty of youtube videos that say something like 'But managem
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1y ago
If you can be objective enough to consider that not everyone likes keeping fiat currency, it was an interesting alternative. Bitcoin generally appreciated, where fiat had inflation. While the transaction costs/speed have eliminated thi
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That is how the world Ought to be, not how the world Is. As I do with Microsoft, I only use Apple products when its absolutely necessary. My personal choices are whatever is best, Fedora for my home OS(Don't call Fedora Linux, Fedora i
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1y ago
My $700 laptop can run an 8B model in 2023.
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>Why you think an AI could do better than a human at that is beyond me. AI can take your entire medical history and the entire history of physics, chemistry, biology, and medicine up to May 2025... A human was sleep deprived in Med schoo
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1y ago
Do you have any photos of someone before and after tattoos that make them look more beautiful?
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>I’m not going to put my energy into someone who never outgrew the child level thinking of leading head first into surface level impressions Less opportunities for you because you are (intentionally) ignorant of human nature. As mentione
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1y ago
Silly. You prefer to be less beautiful and judged negatively on surface level appearances? Yeah sureeee. I prefer to make less money, have less friends, and have less influence too /s
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1y ago
Suppose they 'filter out', and as a result, they don't get a job that they interviewed for. They wanted the job, or they wouldn't have applied. They don't get approached at a social event, yet they attended to meet
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1y ago
I find it pretty damning that AI Art will not put tattoos on beautiful people(unless specifically instructed). I think everyone knew this to be true, but we are polite to people who have tattoos. On the flip side, there are people who claim
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1y ago
Why would any of this have an impact on stock prices? LLMs are insanely competitive and a dime a dozen now. Most professional uses can get away with local models. This is image generation... Niche cases in another saturated market. How are
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1y ago
Expected this comment. Mistral has been consistently last place, or at least last place among ChatGPT, Claude, Llama, and Gemini/Gemma. I know this because I had to use a permissive license for a side project and I was tortured by how
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1y ago
I don't really know this issue, I don't study it. But from afar: >An EU law stiffles all companies, not just the trillion dollar companies. I've essentially not considered EU audiences because I'm small and focus on t
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1y ago
I generally agree with what you said. My only issue is that it cannot handle lots of data. Both Docs and Sheets have caused limitations here. Docs gets unusably slow. Sheets just wont work.
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>Libre Office is more than sufficient for most people. Buddy, I love Fedora, but this is nonsense. The UI for Libre Powerpoint(or whatever its called) doesnt have text size on the main screen. The reddit mods on the subreddit literally b
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>At this point I view Windows as a legacy/compatibility OS I literally thought about that yesterday as my Windows computer I was using for a legacy application froze/slowdown to the point of unusability. Not the first time this
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I'm genuinely afraid its going to do telemetry one day. I'm sure someone is watching their internet traffic, but I don't. I take the risk now, but I ask questions about myself, relationships, conversations, etc... Stuff I don
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When Apple does it: "Brilliant! Love the security! Walled Prison!! Wooo" When Google does it: "Google is using it to help the FBI" (But the iphone was hacked by the FBI...)
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I personally think religious books should be basically destroyed. Corrupting people to listen to the words of old men in power seems like a bad idea.
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A 100M doesnt have that drastic of a time difference between an athlete and an Olympian. We are talking a few seconds max. This is more of a knock on how out of shape the parents were.
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When I saw them say 'no more non COT models', I was minorly panicked. While their competitors have made fantastic models, at the time I perceived ChatGPT4 was the best model for many applications. COT was often tricked by my promp
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"Right is only a question among equals, for the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer as they must." We shouldnt expect companies to be Moral. We shouldn't expect the government to be Just. The sooner we realize how po
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I know you are trying to be helpful, but this is a bandaid at best. I also wouldn't feel comfortable installing this on a computer that is security critical. The other thing is that Windows is annoying. Where Fedora 'just works&#x
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