plasticchris

This is why I think llms are a killer app for Linux desktop. They’ve been trained on Linux very hard, and it cleanly solves the “how do I make it do $thing” problem since everything is open and the llm can manipulate it. For example: Sound not working? Just tell the llm.

I put knoppix on a cd and since the filtering was implemented via a proxy server that was entirely voluntary to use… also bypassed the filtering.

Once I burned a bunch of Linux boot cds with unreal tournament on them and took over a computer lab to have a lan party. That was fun until the lab monitor got spooked that his monitoring system showed all the computers as turned off when clearly the lab was full…

To focus your point: we fear that with ideas having easier replication that the noise in the signal will increase.

But this is what people said about the printing press. And the internet. Less effort to spread the memes. Has it been a net negative? Maybe in some respects. Can you stop it? Probably not.

The interesting thing is that ai actually helps me learn more effectively than ever before. Each session can become a personalized little seminar that dynamically tests me as it presents ideas and concepts and I attempt to apply and extend them.

I think we need to move past recall as the test itself, and tasks as the gate we judge academic achievement by. These were only ever an approximate measure, which is why we still have things like thesis defenses.

But imagine the final being an interview with an agent that is designed to probe your mastery? From my experience so far it seems we could measure much more directly the educational outcome and also accelerate the learning at the same time. But this assumes those involved want to learn, which widespread cheating suggests is not the case. Maybe the real answer is that we shouldn’t attempt to force curiosity but instead cultivate it where we find it, allowing those who reject it to be redirected until they find something engaging.

Anywhere the nerds or artists go, if they are good, eventually becomes overrun with such types. Just look at the state of Silicon Valley and y combinator, and gentrification in general…

It will only get harder. From the trenches in tech it’s hard enough to get people who should know better to put in the work to understand the ai output.

For education I can’t imagine. You might have to resort to actual discussion in classrooms instead of homework, with the accompanying need for both more educators and higher quality therein. Which isn’t going to be easy when education is fully under regulatory capture (at least for K-12 in the USA)

Yes and much like the technological leaps of the past, everyone’s standard of living goes up.

Because they need the local infrastructure to support them, which would be difficult and expensive to reproduce out in the middle of nowhere.

Misses the point. Now that things are easier, we have greater agency, not lesser.

Probably not when you consider the training cost and upkeep expenses, not to mention the depreciation…

Qwen’s 3.6/3.8 27b actually has some algorithmic advantage when it comes to the kv cache size needed, so it actually needs less memory at equivalent context. My experience using both in vllm supports, with considerably more overhead in context size on these models than Gemma 4 31b, and better performance in most tasks I’ve tried on both models.

My earliest coding memory is messing with the gorilla code to get an advantage playing this against my brother…

Shots fired

Could be some other hardware issue for you, yeah. I recall there are some problems that can happen if the usb power supply is too weak. But this fixed it for me.

Make the sdcard a read only root fs, problem solved

Breakthrough! I’ve found it! The load bearing smoking gun is clearly how annoying this is.

The clocks aren’t even the biggest source of error in the pseudo ranges.

Believe it should be available to all eh? Where’s the hf link then?

I get much different results than others when using these tools. Turns out there is some skill in wielding them, and knowing the domain in which you do.

The cause stops mattering after a while, either you have to go on a full time campaign to educate people… or switch the setting to rebase and squash and be done with it.

It’s a recurring theme, see dune’s references to Samuel Butler.

The why is that most people when given the merge option don’t clean up their history so you end up with tons of garbage fix up commits.

Maybe if you can get it to zoom out far enough and wire up an array of lights on the surface of Nauvis…

It probably depends on the measure used to define peak, but the removal of arbitrary limits on honest intellectual inquiry has huge benefits, eg the enlightenment, science, etc.

It’s funny because captchas are meant to be hard for bots but easy for people and it might be the opposite now.

Radar might still have worked

Wait it’s not April?

Probably it means that now we have evidence that… it is a colloquialism

Edit: yep, The universe's expansion may actually have started to slow rather than accelerating at an ever-increasing rate as previously thought, a new study suggests.

People talking about efficiency are missing the point - the pedals are only there so it gets classified as an e-bike and not an electric motorcycle (so no license required, registration, taxes, can drive in the bike lane) and doesn’t have the jerky handling of an e-bike with the wheels mechanically linked to the pedals.

They never really intend for you to turn the pedals. It is a regulatory thing.

I’ve seen it fail, having tried it for a few years. There’s a type that passes this no problem but isn’t productive.

I switched to a battery of knowledge questions centered on the type of programmer I was looking for, it works much better and is even predictive of coding ability as it helps you learn this stuff.