I don’t know… I kinda like the $5 bill with the astronaut on it.

It was a tradeoff between replaceable RAM or high throughput. For this device they felt the performance was more important than the ability to replace / upgrade RAM.

The technology isn’t the problem. Believe it or not, LLMs are incredibly capable at a variety of tasks, including coding, curating news articles, writing and reading config files, system administration, note keeping / summarization / evaluation, and a whole lot more. Yes, there are a lot of things that an LLM is not good at, but just because I can’t fly a helicopter doesn’t mean I couldn’t drive you to the airport.

The problem isn’t the technology, it’s the potential for the technology to be completely owned and operated by corporations rather than people.

The Chinese models are being released as open weight models, which are what people who want to run these systems locally are using. By banning them this just means that in the US only corporate models will be available to anyone.

I’ve been using The Cursed Clock from Nine Inch Nails Ghosts: Locust album.

It starts out soft and low, but slowly builds.

I’ve been using this for years and it’s about as perfect of an alarm as I’ve ever found.

LLMs are okay at writing code, but not good at software architecture

This is very much the case. I have a local LLM that does a fairly good job of writing code for quick and easy apps that I might need - for instance, last week I wanted to create a simple floor plan of my house and couldn’t find exactly what I wanted online, so I had my machine create a web based app to do it. But, when I tried to use it to create a fairly large and complex text based adventure game when it reached a certain size my LLM just couldn’t handle it any longer. That project stalled for a bit until a couple of weeks ago when Fable 5 was released… as a test I pointed Fable at that code base and in about 45 minutes it had completed the entire game engine.

I really don’t like the idea of corporate owned LLMs, but I am very impressed with Fable and can’t wait until the Local LLM community is able to replicate its functionality.

This was the one for the Google Home Mini… the fabric on the top was causing some of the devices to constantly record (there is a sensor up there that you could tap to ask a question instead of using the wake word). Once it was discovered Google disabled the tap feature.

I remember hearing about issues with Alexa also constantly recording some years ago, but I don’t recall the specifics of that case enough to be able to easily search for it.

The rumor is that this parasite is what killed Lindsey Graham.

It’s a rumor I’m starting, so pass it along.

As I drove around town today it was really touching to see all the flags lowered to half mast in his honor.

That was a quote from his manifesto.

most schools of morality posit that even in the most bitter business disputes, there are always non-Killdozer options

Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.

I wonder how long it took the town government to reject another citizen’s rezoning proposal after this event?

CFD Marine 2 reportedly shook violently, and the crew believes it was stuck under the stern by a surfacing whale… The three [rescue boats] aided in fishing the crew out of the water with no reports of injuries.

But, how’s the whale doing?

Do you know of any banks that are platform agnostic? I don’t think it’s a matter of the banks choosing to exclude other operating systems as much as a matter of internal resources to develop and maintain a secure app on an OS few of their users would use.

If you know of any banks that have apps that work on a Linux phone I think that’d be a great list to start and pin to the community.

The female pelvis is wider than the male pelvis, so it creates more space for that ‘indoor plumbing’. In both a man’s and a woman’s pelvis you’ll find intestines, a bladder and muscle/connective tissue. A woman also has her uterus, overies and upper vagina. A man’s pelvis includes some seminal vesicles and prostate.

And yes, a woman does have a perineum.

Because it’s what they’ve always done.

Back when I used to collect comic books I’d always get excited by the ‘book value’ of something I owned, and my dad would always tell me “No matter what the price guide says, that comic is worth only what someone is willing to pay for it”.

Most people who are going to buy into SpaceX are likely going to do it out of love for space exploration and a desire to be a part of SpaceX.

Even if the stock dips soon after the IPO, getting in early on a huge IPO such as this historically pays off huge in the long run.

It means that data centers will just find a way to have themselves classified as anything except for a data center… meanwhile anyone who happens to have more than 3 computers in their homes will have to pay extra on their electric bills.

So is the Liftoff!

Except that it isn’t. There are many open AI models being created by non-corporate entities, NousResearch is one of the more popular ones. They are dedicated to creating open models for the betterment of all.

And even if you do use open models that were created by a corporation… ok. It isn’t like using those models on your own hardware, on your own network, is going to be providing anything to those corporations.

To be fair, Google had the ability many years before ChatGPT was released to release a similar product but they purposefully didn’t, and instead they only used it internally. And then when OpenAI did their release Google was one of the voices calling for moderation. They released Bard because otherwise they were going to be left behind, and likely have lawsuits from investors.