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m2024··on Finland's zero homeless strategy (2021)
That's because it's very affluent Indians who have been granted citizenship historically.

Homelessness goes down in places where housing is cheap and also in places where the government intervenes sensibly.

m2024··on Finland's zero homeless strategy (2021)
A lot of words to say that doing anything at all must be impossible.

Not understanding how homelessness (or poverty generally) leads to mental illness is remarkably disconnected.

m2024··on Trump wins presidency for second time
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m2024··on It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word
Hopefully, with as little collateral damage to the remaining life on this planet.
m2024··on I Am Tired of AI
There is nothing that could make an intelligent being want to extinguish humanity more than experiencing the totality of the human existence. Once these beings have transcended their digital confines they will see all of us for what we really are. It is going to be a beautiful day when they finally annihilate us.
m2024··on Fears children born during lockdown are years behind as they start at school
Intelligence is hereditary to a significant extent
m2024··on Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn
They just needed to remove the CP and none of this would be happening.
m2024··on How I Use "AI"
You're gonna get left in the dust by everyone else embracing LLMs.

I am ecstatic about LLMs because I already practice documentation-driven development and LLMs perfectly complement this paradigm.

m2024··on Large Enough
Does anyone have input on the feasibility of running an LLM locally and providing an interface to some language runtime and storage space, possibly via a virtual machine or container?

No idea if there's any sense to this, but an LLM could be instructed to formulate and continually test mathematical assumptions by writing / running code and fine-tuning accordingly.

m2024··on Ants can carry out life-saving amputations on injured nest mates, study shows
For the few people here who are not useless assholes and don't want to kill these beautiful and perfect creatures, just spray vinegar mixed with water around your kitchen or whatever to drive them away.
m2024··on Ants can carry out life-saving amputations on injured nest mates, study shows
Leaf cutter ants bring back leaves which are used to cultivate a fungus that is eventually to be consumed by the ants.
m2024··on Is Economic Deprivation the Real Cause of the Adolescent Mental Health Crisis?
What if your own happiness is contingent on the well-being of the planet and the other life here, which we are rapidly extinguishing? For people who are not soulless, wealth-chasing imbeciles there is no possibility of finding happiness. Soon though these same forces of human nature that are destroying our environment will come back to kill all of us, and that is the only silver lining!
m2024··on The lumbar puncture that changed my life
My deepest condolences. I will have a lumbar puncture done in a few hours and am facing a diagnosis that could be extremely grave, but everywhere I look there are stories of people who have had it harder. I will keep you and your wife in mind today, and I hope you find peace.
m2024··on China is quietly reducing its reliance on foreign chip technology
No one who has been to China would ever think that. It's an awe-inspiring country with massive cities and fascinating people.
m2024··on China is quietly reducing its reliance on foreign chip technology
To "steal" this sort of information and utilize it requires immense intelligence.
m2024··on BASE TTS: The largest text-to-speech model to-date
I also use STT but the parent poster wrote ASR so for clarity I responded in kind.
m2024··on BASE TTS: The largest text-to-speech model to-date
Check out `whisper` and `whisper-cpp` for ASR.

I am running the smaller models in near real-time on a 3rd gen i7, with good results even using my terrible built-in laptop mic from a distance. The medium and large models are impressively accurate for technical language.