Free open models are still capable of flooding art communities with slop images, which is worth sympathy, and is not included in your "Which highlights that the issue is with the hyper scalers, the rhetoric, the corporations, the marketing, etc etc".
Both of you have thoroughly missed the thread context.
Here it is extracted:
> "I'm pro-progress, but a datacenter brings approximately nothing to the local economy. It doesn't employ any noteworthy number of people, it doesn't generate any real tax revenue, and it increases electricity costs for the region."
This thread points out that lack of tax revenue and increased electricity costs are not inherent properties of datacenters and are choices that people make.
My partner was working at an event and a co-worker had prepared a poster using AI - a teenage kid at the event pointed out how the poster "has AI smudges".
Joplin looks great, and is open source, but it appears to have one problem: the primary data store is SQLite, not files, and in this AI infected era having plain text files on the local filesystem is really important.
So if I am correct the "cloud drive as the storage" option is syncing with a the local SQLite db and to get local files one would need to be syncing the local db with both the cloud drive and the local filesystem.
With Obsidian I sync from local files direct to a cloud drive.
The US tax system is substantially more progressive than you might think.¹ It seems unwise to make it even moreso. The tough pill to swallow, if we are to follow in e.g. Sweden's footsteps, is that you need to tax the middle class a lot more if you want the government to provide more services.
By the way, this whole discussion completely ignores that the country is *broke*. Why are we contemplating building a new patio and switching to Whole Foods when we're not even on pace to pay off the house??
This seems like the conclusion someone would come to by watching 1980s college movies, not someone who looked at data. Community colleges, vocational schools, and commuter students represent a large proportion of college students, and are removed from the Animal House experience.
The primary goal for attending college, as stated by both students and parents, is for preparation for entrance into the workforce and adult life.
One can go to the engineering or computer science building in almost any U.S. or Canadian university and observe a student population that doesn't party on a regular basis.
I don't know how many times I've seen some Google AI summary or ChatGPT with references that, when I checked, did not say what what the AI summary said. If a high school student falsified references in a paper like this, they would get a bad or failing grade. This is bad, not acceptable, the teacher would say.
But we have been sold to use these constantly falsified AI summaries as the go-to source of "truth" by all levels of society. We're trading truth for an illusion of short-term gains. This will not have good consequences.
Cancel culture is alive and well. There are many people who will boycott businesses, shun performances, or refuse to associate with someone whose views differ from their own.
This happens even if the product or service has nothing to do with anything political. It must be hard to shop when you feel like you have to investigate the backgrounds of everyone who might have built it.
I understand your point. The paper is more about the depth of the tree to represent and audit a model versus the raw CPU clock cycles. It takes the exponent and logarithm as given since for all practical purposes, in a scientific context, they are.
To represent something like sin(x) with f(x,y) requires infinite steps. Conversely, with eml you get an exact result in around 4 using identities and such.
One could argue that we do Taylor Series approximations on the hardware to represent trigonometric functions, but that highlights the key aspect of the eml approach. You can write a paper with those four steps that describes an exact model, here sin(x). And people can take that paper and optimize the result.
This paper is about an auditable grammar that you can compute with.
I would actually phrase is a "fossil fuels are an existential threat" - regardless on how climmate change will impact us, it is IMHO enough to see the destructions people are capable due to fossil fuel money & it makes 100% sense to get ridd of any dependency on fossil fuels ASAP.
It's a hell of a lot less dumb than growing crops for biofuel on it, to start. And it's not even an either/or situation, you can do both on the same piece of land.
Yes, January 6 was in the middle of a random work day in January. Those people travelled from around the country and put themselves up in hotels. You can't do that if you're making minimum wage. There were doctors, lawyers, business people, executives, political consultants, and law makers storming the capitol that day.
It was almost exclusively highly paid lawyers and lawmakers who were the architects of J6.
Not to mention all of the billionaires flanking Trump on inauguration day 2025. They're all MAGA as far as I'm concerned.
I also branch out, and rebase. Also, keep updating and rebasing until merged. It’s tedious when PR take ages for approval, as I keep creating new branches on top of each other.
So, when I saw this announcement seemed interesting but don’t see the point of it yet.
Honestly I don’t even bother with interfaces anymore as I really like using voice dictation with Whispr + Claude, feels much more natural.
But actually building these teams of agents is a thing I didn’t try yet. So would be interesting to see how the platform evolves to support power users like me.
How can money stolen from bank accounts even be offramped? It makes perfect sense to me how it works within crypto—transactions are not reversible. But how does this work in trad-fi, can't any money transferred just be sent back by the banks by editing the ledgers?
Fair enough. Retry: What I'm objecting to is your brilliant, insightful point, to which you are attached enough that you've injected it into this thread where it is, by your own admission, irrelevant. They're resorting to violence because they're unpopular, not because democracy failed to do its job here.
Some coding doesn't fit your schedule. If you've scheduled 2 weeks, but it takes 3, then it takes 3. Scheduling it to take 2 does nothing to actually make the coding faster.
Will incorporate false-positive rates into the rubric from the next run onwards.
At winfunc, we spent a lot of research time taming these models to eradicate false-positive rates (it's high!) so this does feel important enough to be documented. Thanks!
"better" in that sentence is very specific. Worse is also worse, and if you're one of the people for whom the "better" side of a solution doesn't apply, you're left with a mess that people celebrate.
This is basically how I use linux. PC plugged in to the TV running bazzite. No keyboard or mouse, just an xbox controller. The experience is so seamless now.
In 2020, I wrote a book and livestreamed the writing of it. Felt more raw and real at the time but I guess is probably more human vs ai these days.
Not sure how to make that a platform, as when i wrote i explicitly put everything directly into a book unedited, whereas for many people, the editing is probably at least half if not more of the time they spend writing.
