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@neil Indeed.
The reason social media has embedded itself so easily into life is because it mirrors our interaction with so many other things, but the effort barrier is massively lower.
@neil just to play devil's advocate.... Doesn't a journal like Nature meet that description as well.
We all have authorities we trust. Education is based on that. It's the people that question EVERYTHING that drive themselves crazy with conspiracy theories.
Like all things, the solution is balance. Be questioning enough so that you reveal those who would take advantage. Be trusting enough that you don't reject every challenging idea.
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@wagesj45 do you find that going class by class gives enough context for goods docs. If I did that as a human I wouldn't expect much more insight than just a "translation" from code to English.
@wagesj45 @mfowler Are you able to share any more on how this is done?
Personally, I think it's vital that this is a local process, but I've found the information out there about getting local models to ingest reference material is non-existent.
I'm just about to take ownership of python code based that is a few 10s of thousands of lines without documentation. Could be a good application of the tech.
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JFC, people in tech are really out there saying that language models will be better at therapy, financial advice, and career advice than trained people.
WTF is wrong with you people? Do you really have no clue about what other people’s jobs actually involve?
Language models can’t even do maths how are they supposed to get good at financial advice?
And therapy? Just… 😑
What’s wrong with people in tech?
@revk @TimWardCam @ImpossibleUmbrella
Doing that with a class would be great. A fun lesson that gets an important message across.
@TimWardCam @ImpossibleUmbrella @revk
3blue1brown did one (with an addendum video) on cryptocurrency that's really quite good. Explains on a conceptual level things like digital signatures along the way.
@simonzerafa @revk I very much believe CompSci should be a maths heavy subject in much the same way that Physics is. Different topics though. Logic, Groups, Number systems, Linear algebra (through matrices and tensors), etc, etc.
An "Applied CompSci" course would include the software development.
"Computer Engineering" would be focused on larger scale systems, networking, and infrastructure.
None of them would be about computer literacy.
@windrunner Yes exactly.
Air is replenished with outside air, but because you're flying at altitude it's only a fraction. The fraction is controllable. The primary reason to replenish is CO2 buildup, but because part of the cabin air is recycled CO2 levels in the air will naturally go up.
https://aircraft.airbus.com/en/newsroom/news/2021-01-cabin-air-quality-key-to-a-comfortable-flight
CO2 is what drives the breathing cycle. High CO2 in your blood turns it slightly acidic and your body responds to that by raising your breathing rate to get rid of CO2. This is why you breath hard when you work. Burn more O2, generate CO2, breath hard to get rid of it.
If you're breathing a gas with too high a level of CO2 you cannot reduce your CO2 level in your blood and you hyper ventilate. This is the only way that it's dangerous. Our bodies know how to deal with CO2 and respond quite violently to high levels of it. It sounds flippant, but you know the CO2 level is safe because nobody is breathing heavily.
You don't have a CO2 scrubber on a plane because you'd need about 1.5 tonnes of scrubber material for each 8hr flight and there's perfectly good air outside, just not as much as normal.
Planes do not have CO2 scrubbers on board and CO2 is not removed by normal filtration.
Whatever you're measuring, it's not what you think it is.
@bloor @staustellsimon zero effort or zero enjoyment?
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Ok, new policy - any time I see a programming question starting with "I asked ChatGPT and...", I'm only going to give them answers written for me by ChatGPT.
LLM is not a magical programming box. It's an overactive autocorrect.
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🐍📰 Duck Typing in Python: Writing Flexible and Decoupled Code
In this tutorial, you'll learn about duck typing in Python. It's a typing system based on objects' behaviors rather than on inheritance. By taking advantage of duck typing, you can create flexible and decoupled sets of Python classes that you can use together or individually
@helenczerski I place fingers as a pivot just one side of the groove on front and then apply force from behind at the end on the lever that is the chocolate bar with thumb. One handed break.
I never apply force at the groove in any direction. Well, I guess I do in an action/reaction sense, but that's not the intention.
@LouisIngenthron I didn't realise that was the medium of communication we were discussing.
@LouisIngenthron Also, some people need to have their actions criticised, whether they want it or not.
Integrating local LLMs with #emacs.
@fidel I've mainly been focused on #codellama as the intent seems to be targeted at coding. Both 7b and 34b. 70b is beyond my capacity.
I find it difficult to get an idea of what's happening behind the scenes. It would be quite nice if #ellama placed the request in a buffer so you could see the conversation.
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