somename [she/her]

A lot of people have deep misunderstandings on what the massive data centers are for. While they do use a decent portion of them to run requests, as they’re trying to service a lot of people, a big chunk is training and data processing. Not for the end user, but for their R&D, model production, and the endless churn of data processing as they find and create new data to incorporate in models.

Which is how you can run pre-trained LLMs on your computer, if it’s a good one.

I always forget how much of Lemmy lets Hexbear live rent free in their minds. We barely interact with them at all lol.

I hope they get a life one day.

Dogshit article. “China does X” without it saying who actually did it, and with no link to the work. Looked a bit more and found the actual paper about it.

https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.73756

Seems pretty cool. I need to read it in more detail, but it seems like it could have nice agricultural effects in less centralized economies. Lots of smaller scale water production sources for crops. I doubt it’ll scale directly to the rate of large industrial desalination plants, but progress is good. A variety of methods can often be better, using appropriate tools to the right situation.

P-zombies always seemed like anti-materialist navel gazing to me. I don’t think they’re meaningfully possible.

I think we’re talking past each other or something. I was meaning that LemmyWorld is a shitty, reddit style, censorship regime. Not that neolibs getting banned is bad.

Yeah. Why voluntarily get the worst part of reddit moderation?