And the voices. “Billy…”

“You fucked the whole thing up.”

“Billy, your time is up.”

“Your time… is up.”

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  • Low level programming C

    Could be pretty much any computer

    rust

    Need a lot of memory (8-16 GB) if you are planning on dissecting any existing projects

    Machine Learning programming with Python

    Start with colab / huggingface and get a feel for what level of hardware you need for the stuff you’re doing before you start buying stuff

    If you want just a general high quality system with upgradability etc, frame.work or System76 are supposed to be good high end providers.
















  • Zuckerberg is a big piece of shit who could be using his dominant position and all his money to do something good for the world, and instead is actively helping ruin it. But, at least he created his thing, instead of just buying with apartheid money things that other more capable people built, and then ruining them. He’s not just a useless alt-right lump. And, he actually trains in martial arts instead of just sitting around taking ketamine and using weird alts on his own social media network to try to make himself look likeable.

    I wish that this would happen. I think it is sensible to think that it would be like that Australian TV presenter who made fun of Tae Kwon Doe so they invited a high level female TKD competitor to come on the air and kick the shit out of him.


  • “Hey, so it’s me, the guys who left all those comments. Yeah, so we decided that since we wrote them, and the American system says that means we hold the copyright, we don’t really want you selling them without (a) securing our permission first, and (b) giving us a cut of the action. Were thinking maybe like a 30% royalty. It’s not like exorbitant; it probably won’t work out to much more than a few cents per user. But it’s more about the principle, you know?”

    “Anyway, what do you think?”

    WHAT DO I THINK

    I THINK IT’S ALL MINE

    DO YOU HEAR ME

    MINE

    NOW PAY ME FOR THE USE OF MY API YOU FILTHY PEASANT

    PAY ME NOW

    IT’S ALL MINE, PAY ME

    600K A YEAR IS NOT ENOUGH

    PAY ME MORE PAY ME PAY ME PAY ME


  • Someone on Lemmy phrased it in a way that I think gets to the heart of it: With most of the impressive things that LLMs can do, the human reading and interpreting the text is providing a critical piece of the impressive thing.

    LLMs are clearly very impressive; I would not say that the disillusionment on discovering what they can’t do should detract from that. But they seem more impressive than they are, partly because humans are so good at filling in meaning and intelligence where there (yet) is none.


  • From the article, quoting a Firefox dev explaining the decision:

    @McCovican @jonny @mathew @RenewedRebecca Opt-in is only meaningful if users can make an informed decision. I think explaining a system like PPA would be a difficult task. And most users complain a lot about these types of interruption.

    In my opinion an easily discoverable opt-out option + blog posts and such were the right decision.

    puts on They Live glasses

    @McCovican @jonny @mathew @RenewedRebecca If we had made it opt in, then not a single human being on the planet would have enabled it, and we didn’t want that