I decided that at my scale, NixOS is easier to maintain. So for me its just a `systemctl status <thing I host>ˋ

Thats exactly what I so often find myself saying when people show off some neat thing that a code bot “wrote” for them in x minutes after only y minutes of “prompt engineering”. I’ll say, yeah I could also do that in y minutes of (bash scripting/vim macroing/system architecting/whatever), but the difference is that afterwards I have a reusable solution that: I understand, is automated, is robust, and didn’t consume a ton of resources. And as a bonus I got marginally better as a developer.

Its funny that if you stick them in an RPG and give them an ability to “kill any level 1-x enemy instantly, but don’t gain any xp for it” they’d all see it as the trap it is, but can’t see how that’s what AI so often is.

My guess for ferries would be that most ferry trips are very short. That means less total travel per trip, so for the same risk per trip it gets much higher risk per distance.

I think this is the real answer. HDR is a thing and the baseline for expected dynamic range is higher than both what older displays can produce and older eyes can consume.

You should check out language jones’ suggestion on how to use anki most effectively. It did wonders for me. (yt link: https://youtu.be/QVpu66njzdE)

Now I want all 26 done this way… D as in django would probably be the best though.

My favourite part has to be the fact that a box of poptarts contains 8 poptarts…

I feel like everyone is underestimating 5. It’s any toaster. Make a killer robot that happens to have the ability to make toast and you’ve got a remote control death bot.

I’d make a whole set of devices that happen to also be toasters. Why not add some heating elements and springs to an elevator, a car, a plane?

I went to sign it and the sign button takes me to an empty page. Anyone else seeing that? (seems to be every petition that’s open too :/)

Full on 5. Maybe a 4 if I try really hard. But I still have a “big imagination”, I just can’t see it in my mind.

I’m not sure if this is the best place to put this, but I wanted to share my thoughts.

For background, I got an undergraduate degree in software engineering. I took a few electives on AI, but it was more primitive back then (state of the art were GPT-2 and early stable diffusion models, it was pre “Attention is all you need”). Since then I’ve tried out the new stuff, made some generic profile pictures with “AI”, messed around with a few prompts on GPT-4, but not really used any “AI” for anything productive. I haven’t found a single valid use-case at my work for anything past MLPs (which admittedly work great).

My first reaction was: “wow, that’s actually pretty impressive – at least relative to what AI/ML could do a decade ago”. I then noticed the size of the models, leading to my first question: how bad is the “efficiency” of increasing model size?! I know that MLPs reach serious diminishing returns before getting into the billions of parameters; and I understand that the transformers eat up a bunch of additional parameters. Nonetheless, I almost expected more from statements like “480 billion parameters”. IIRC that’s significantly more parameters than neurons in the human brain (though probably fewer nodes due to the more connected nature of artificial neural networks).

The next thing I realized was that there are a lot more models out there than I thought. I had of course heard of the GPTs, and played around with LLaMA, plus news has made me aware of Gemini, Claude, and Grok. I didn’t realize just how many models there were. Given their size, that leads me to my next question: given the cost (in both $ and environmental impact) of training an AI, why are so many companies training their own AIs instead of in some way sharing training time on the same model? Surely the training sets can’t be that different given their size. A handful of different models makes sense, but this seems like a massive waste of resources to me.

Finally, I realized that I really am a bit out-of-date on AI usage (though not overly out-of-date on AI research). I haven’t tried interrogating weights of any modern model, I didn’t even know you could reasonably ask modern models to dump their output probabilities like that, though of course it makes sense. So my final question: are there any FOSS models with state of the art techniques being used? (i.e. expert dispatch and LoRAs)

I’m curious: what makes bag vacuums better? What’s the main difference?

I was thinking the same thing. Although the graph does have some taper to it and maybe “most” schools end around the 6th?

The Cluefinder series, Minecraft beta from 1.4 to 1.6, BOTS, Secret of the Solstice, Realm of the Mad God, Skyrim, Mindustry, FTL, and currently CS2 and PokeRogue. Though I’m sure I’m forgetting at least one.

500km… About 4 hours. Was never home though.

I feel like I need context. Never played either game, but played all of the games in the meme. What does it mean either earthbound or cave story?

Honestly not necessarily the worst idea. I don’t know about Iran, but I have family in Israel. The general consensus (backed by recent polls) is that Bibi is just keeping war going so he can stay in power. The average Israeli is not as genocidal as their leaders. They just have to choose between mandatory military service where they will likely just patrol a border and not let aid through but probably not die or directly kill anybody, or commit a major crime by dodging military service and risk their lives. At 18 years old I don’t know if I’d have the courage to take that risk. But Iran is different, they can actually cause risk to “important” (read: wealthy/powerful) civilians. Could sour the public on Bibi enough to oust him. Maybe.

I’m honestly worried mango Mussolini might try the same thing in 2028. Maybe he’ll get food poisoning from eating a Danish, call it an assassination attempt and declare war on Denmark. “We can’t have an election right now, we’re in the middle of the GREATEST war we ever fought against the MEANEST nation in the world. We’re gonna WIN. MGAA (make Greenland America again)!”

How is #6 not specific to IDEs? I’ve never had vim, np++, or any other dedicated editor freeze; and I’ve used them to edit multi-gigabyte log files before.

Out of curiosity, what is the original?

Any of the cluefinders games, or gizmos and gadgets. Plenty of other edutainment classics do it too. Outside of edutainment, only NHL2000 and Halo: CE come to mind.