Biggles @Biggles@qoto.org
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Father of 4, Lasers and Computers and Physics, Oh My! Soon to be a major motion picture. My Pokemons, let me show them to you.
Joined Apr 2022
I've always just said "we use lightning to force rocks to think" - anything more accurate is going to take a long time to talk about.
Arguably, if you stay overnight you've made a horrible error.
As a reminder: I stopped attending when it became clear the overcrowding was a fire hazard, and you could arrive at a session for which you had a reserved seat *on time* and still be denied entry not because it's full, but because the fire marshal ordered it. I *believe* that was 2014.
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Three days after Amazon announced its AI chatbot Q, some employees are sounding alarms about accuracy and privacy issues. Q is “experiencing severe hallucinations and leaking confidential data,” including the location of AWS data centers, internal discount programs, and unreleased features, according to leaked documents obtained by Platformer.
An employee marked the incident as “sev 2,” meaning an incident bad enough to warrant paging engineers at night and make them work through the weekend to fix it.
https://www.platformer.news/p/amazons-q-has-severe-hallucinations
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Remember a few years back when Sony installed a root kit as part of their "copy protection" on the PC, and didn't bother to tell anyone? Trust went out the window years ago. Sony does what's good for Sony, the customer be damned, always and forever. They hope we won't notice, remember, or react.
Anyone remember yellow dog linux? You could run it on the PS3; indeed, part of my justification for buying the PS3 was that I could get a linux for the platform to mess around. Until Sony got cold feet and removed it after the fact, without warning or compensation. Sound familiar? That PS3 was the *very last* time I've given Sony a dime - they're thieves, simple as that. Of course they have their reasons to be thieves, so that makes it ok? I'll keep that in mind - sony thinks stealing is ok if you have a good reason.
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Battle.net broke in Wine / Proton - here's how to fix for Steam Deck / Linux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/battlenet-broke-in-wine-proton-heres-how-to-fix-for-steam-deck-linux/
Maybe. But if humanity survives and develops routine space travel, *someone* is going to try to intercept and retrieve a hugely important historical space artifact with an exquisitely well defined trajectory. I wouldn't put it past us, nor would I discount the possibility - the one constant of human science is a poor track record of predicting future advancements.
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So much great stuff in this Jeremy Howard interview on LLMs - I grabbed this quote for my blog, but there's just a ton of insight crammed into this one: https://www.youtube.com/live/6LXw2beprGI?si=I2JEqIccboFRou0K
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Here's an incredible new way to run LLMs on your own machine: llamafile - https://hacks.mozilla.org/2023/11/introducing-llamafile/
It bundles an LLM with the code needed to run it in a single binary using DEEP magic (Cosmopolitan Libc) such that the same binary works on 6 different operating systems
Best part: it works with LLaVA multi-modal... so you can a 4GB file from https://huggingface.co/jartine/llava-v1.5-7B-GGUF/blob/main/llamafile-server-0.1-llava-v1.5-7b-q4 and:
chmod 755 llamafile-server-0.1-llava-v1.5-7b-q4
./llamafile-server-0.1-llava-v1.5-7b-q
Visit http://127.0.0.1:8080/
And now:
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@mttaggart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3i6c4TRuZc
But it has to come with it's crew.
Lol - I asked our TAM *this exact question* today in our touch-base. His answer was best described as "nebulous", which I thunk means no.
i made it to #6 before i snorted involuntarily.
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This just went live: The John Scalzi Humble Bundle! Get a whole bunch of my books really cheap - and support the literacy charity First Book, which provides books and literary resources to kids in need. A perfect way to stock up on my eBooks. Please feel free to share around!
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/john-scalzis-interdependency-old-mans-war-and-more-tor-books
Somewhere out there people are going to have a Thanksgiving dinner with one of these men present. I know who I'd rather share a table with.
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via @Biggles, I must agree entirely with his assessment that this is the most random, wonderful, insane video I've seen in literally years. Maybe ever. Everything from the narrator's voice, to the background music, to the topic, to the interactions with other people, to the script ... it's all just incredibly delightful, reminiscent of the weirdest parts of the Internet from like 20 years ago. A++++, would watch again. https://youtu.be/VGhcSupkNs8
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So - I'm not a medical expert. But it seems to me if you run a hospital and have multiple instances of people pulling crucifixes down off the wall and beating staff - you may just be doing something dreadfully wrong. The obvious question being *why* people seem to feel the need to do this.
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@hal_pomeranz well said, that man.
It is also taking focus and funding away from ML that has real uses for so many things.
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I’ve been in the Computer Science field long enough to have seen multiple rounds of the AI hype machine. It’s always snake oil, smoke and mirrors. It never even approaches what a reasonable person would consider to be a thinking machine.
What it really turns out to be is an elaborate “pump and dump” scheme where early investors push the hype, knowing it’s all BS. Once a sufficient number of rubes jump on the bandwagon, the early investors cash out at a profit and leave the gullible behind to absorb the losses when people eventually realize that there is no value anywhere in the AI companies.
Oopsie! There went your retirement plans!
Do not be fooled by this chicanery.
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Father of 4, Lasers and Computers and Physics, Oh My! Soon to be a major motion picture. My Pokemons, let me show them to you.
Joined Apr 2022
