IAmNotACellist

I don't understand why we don't have a "Discuss Anything" universal app, operable on literally every tokenizable piece of human content, searchable by similarity in embedding space, and discoverable using titles, concepts, or vague impressions. Let people create threads and discuss everything, forever, with versioned references to the original content (like a website), as long as it's legal.

A browser extension called Dissenter briefly allowed this, got too popular too fast, had a data leak, and then they rolled it into a spyware browser. It also only had popularity among one extreme of politics.

"Not acceptable. Please upgrade your browser to continue." No, I don't think I will.

Do you not know how many of your tax dollars were already given to Ukraine?

I don't suppose this is open research and I can read about their model architecture?

Who said I ignore what he does?

Just a few weeks ago. Sadly I can't remember the specifics but meta-management toolchains are always a hard sell if what you currently have works and is Good Enough. mm is quite fast compared to anaconda, though not perfect. Maybe I'd also benefit from uv having an environment import feature, since I have like 30 *conda environments by now.

Is uv better than micromamba? I tried using uv once and got some big ugly error I don't remember, and that was the end of that, whereas mm just worked (perhaps due to my familiarity). It was a project with the usual situation, i.e., torch, numpy, cuda support, nvcc, all had to play nicely together and satisfy requirements.txt.

WE aren't. I have a Model Y and still love it.

As a childhood user of QB45, VB, and then VC++, the whole .NET branding to me was confusing and abysmally explained, and I swear my gut reaction when I see it is that I still don't understand it. At the time it felt like a completely out-of-touch attempt to get in on the dot com craze, and the name itself made no fucking sense.

Surely this can't be because the Model Y (literally the best selling car in the world) just had a refresh announced that won't be available until March?

I can think of a few agencies that might be sweating. Or maybe it'll come out that it really was just a random nutjob. Or they'll redact something and conspiracy theorists will forever say that the crucial piece of evidence is contained under the last remaining Sharpie ink

I'm genuinely surprised the answer isn't a smug "Why would you want to do that?" a la any time I tried to get help when I had a Mac.

It's The Atlantic. They have no interest in being honest about the topic, telling you why the data is unavailable, or saying when it will be back (once they update the language that bookends the studies). The purpose is to make you angry and think they're burning data because they hate science.

It's not that they get too much credit (people are excited about this tech and there will be frontrunners and winners), it's that they're a wrapper for llama.cpp and give no acknowledgement or credit to the FOSS that makes their project work.

"Grey zone conflict" sounds a lot like our powers are upset they don't have the level of control over information that the adversary has. They want to be the ones to censor, suppress, and promote, rather than another country. The goal isn't more open access to information.

Too soon. I still tear up over LK-99

When those cameras first came out I said that of course the LEDs could be disabled with firmware only, and it was probably a government-mandated requirement to be able to do so, and I was called a conspiracy theorist.

Well who's laughing from within a tinfoil Faraday cage now?

I'd agree the default user experience is shit (and I felt it was shit on old Twitter too). It's like a shotgun of shit at the wall to see what sticks. But once you engage with content you want (which can be entirely non-political and niche-interest based) that goes away.

Or at least I suspect so. I often end up being interested in politics and thus get more of it, but I'm not complaining. I get a good mix of my specific interests, art, humor, cute animals, and politics.

It's so user-friendly that you get banned for sharing any remotely controversial opinion. Just like the good old days of Twitter!

Twitter/X is actually a balanced discourse site now. CNN even admitted that the party affiliation of its users went from majority-left (65/31) to split down the middle, 48/47. https://x.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1861445812175147353

Don't leave us hanging, show us a weird computer!

Good point too. Things that the authors should've thought about.

So the Tesla Model Y has a lower fatal accident rate than sports cars, but they report it as Tesla overall having the highest fatal accident rate? Perhaps that's because _all_ the cars they make are stupid fast and heavy, and they don't offer cars where it's far harder to get into those situations?

The fact that every child on the planet is religiously taught that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell is all the evidence I need that we're upholding a primordial contractual agreement and these are the conditions to which we are beholden.

Name a single biological entity that has a better PR department. The only one that comes close is Athlete's Foot, which makes the victim sound cool.

Basically: "First you put on the cooling garment, then you wriggle into the spacesuit, which is hard. Then you zip it up with a long extension cable."

Not that detailed.

Plus they'll have increased the deficit by $7B by the time the ink dries on the tax payment check.

You think investment = trickle down economics? Is your 401k trickle down economics?

I can't imagine something more useless than an estate giving money to the US federal government rather than secreting it away via legal tax loopholes and re-investments in new industry.

Gaining information from a video (often just someone talking into their phone) feels like sucking a milkshake through a coffee stirrer compared to reading a forum post written by a human. Worse, you can't see how deep that milkshake is at a glance, so you may end up with just a sip from a melted puddle vs. the big volume of content you wanted.

What else would you expect from a skeevy backstabber who got kicked out of Kenya for refusing to stop scanning people's eyes in exchange for shitcoin crypto? He was building a global surveillance database with Worldcoin.

Altman was fucking with OpenAI for long before the board left in protest, since about the time Elon Musk had to leave due to Tesla's AI posing a conflict of interest. He got more and more brazen with the whole fake-altruism shit, up to and including contradicting every point in their mission statement and promise to investors in the "charity."

That's the thing. You have to love that, and that's probably something only people who grew up watching YouTube can feel at a deep level. Generational divides happen like that often.