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Have you considered a less paranoid explanation, like... focused on protecting Europeans from the abuses of big corporations?
First time that I have a "it just works" experience with LLMs on my computer. Amazing. Thanks for the recommendation!
No. Their objective is to intimidate individuals, exhaust them, which leads to...
> As a consequence, I am personally no longer willing to provide my personal address&office-space as registered address for our non-profit/NGO as long as we risk more raids by running exit nodes. That is a risk I am just no longer willing to take anymore.
Which is totally understandable.
State, state and more state. I wonder how does this feel for those out there convinced that the state is just a hurdle to innovation and advance.
Having said that, we definitely need to improve our soil.
Aha. Who pays for it?
> The best way to understand Endatabas is to use it. Head on over to the Quickstart to try it out.
How about a well-written and concise explanation of what it is and what it does, instead of asking me to install stuff on my computer just to understand what it is?
> The success of the TinyStories models also suggests a broader lesson. The standard approach to compiling training data sets involves vacuuming up text from across the internet and then filtering out the garbage. Synthetic text generated by large models could offer an alternative way to assemble high-quality data sets that wouldn’t have to be so large.
And they completely ignore the fact that those models are building their "synthetic stories" based on the knowledge from all that vacuuming text from across the internet, as if now we had already solved the problem of sourcing human data without the need for further vacuuming.
"The idea behind the process is simple. It combines two unlimited resources - sunlight and seawater - to provide ideal growing conditions for crops in hot, arid environments.
The innovation utilises the cooling and humidifying power of water vapour produced from evaporating salt water. Using modeling and simulation techniques developed in collaboration with our partners at Aston University, we are able to process local climate data to predict greenhouse performance and inform the design. The combined effect of reducing temperature and increasing humidity, together with providing a protected environment for crops, results in up to 90% reduction in evapotranspiration. This greatly reduces irrigation requirements, which can be provided by desalination, and improved growing conditions.
As a result operating costs are lower, yields increase, and farmers can benefit from year-round production of high-value horticultural produce. "
My point is about the fact that we already know and have most of the solutions: less consumption, less emissions, less destruction of our environment. Yet, most people with decision power (be it as individuals, as heads of governments or companies) refuse to accept and follow them. Instead, many prefer to propose global-scale, geo-modifications whose results are unknown and potentially more dangerous.
You mean, like, switching to a vegan diet, using public transport and stop flying? Those seem radical enough for most people in the Northern Hemisphere.
> Such as detonating thermonuclear weapons to throw enough dust above the troposphere to cool the planet down?
Weird world, one in which people can consider drastically changing the composition of the atmosphere, affecting all forms of life over the planet at the same time, instead of purchasing less from Amazon and doing some changes in their diet and holiday plans.