knightly the Sneptaur

Sounds like an LLM that could have been a PDF.

Far be it from me to yuck anyone’s yum, but did you have to pick almost the worst possible analogy to describe it? XD

It also makes those large corporate platforms unappealing, which is a very good thing for those of us who have always said that federation is a half-step towards proper decentralization.

“In the USA” and “by large portions of the capitalist class” are the answers to your question, I think the previous commenter was just a bit too incredulous because this topic came up in the news lately and they’d expected it to be common knowledge even outside the U.S. since much of the “AI Industry” is involved with U.S. tech companies.

I really hope people are starting to catch on, large language models aren’t “intelligent”, they’re multidimensional maps of human language use and querying them is just tracing a vector “forward” through language-space from the starting point of a prompt.

It’s the reification fallacy writ so large it’s eclipsing entire national economies. Human intelligence isn’t in language, language is a product of human intelligence. The map is not the territory.

And yeah, it is pretty cool that we have the processing power to map out language-space well enough to draw some vectors that remain coherent over thousands of tokens, but using a billion-parameter model to do what could be accomplished with probably-already-existing management software and a few seconds of CPU time per week is as wasteful as it is misguided.

The furry community is like 75% gay guys, 20% trans folks, and 5% straight people. And despite the improved accessibility, there are still a damn lot of techie nerds in the fandom. =D

And nothing of value was lost.

I did, I do, and I’m calling this article bullshit for not pointing out that while the protocol might be open-source, they have yet to share the server software that’s required to operate it.

BlueSky “lets” people host their own profile data because it reduces how much data they have to host. It does not allow them to login and browse the network without going through their centralized servers to do so.

So, it’s not really decentralized, not really open source, and remains under corporate control until such time as they decide to let anyone compete with them on their own network.

This is entirely doable, but you may need to do some manual network configuration.

Dang.

There might be an issue with the latest version of Proton Experimental, try loading the latest GE-Proton from GloriousEggroll and selecting it as your compatibility option.

Perhaps

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I played Vanu for a while, but live service games just rub the wtong way lately.

Omfg.

I was trying to remember the name of kdirstat ladt night when I stumbled across filelight and made use of that instead.

And now there’s a thread on this exact topic. Y’all need to quit it with all this Truman Show nonsense, Baader-Meinhof alone isn’t enough to explain how frequently shit like this happens. XD

Eh, builds do take a while but the performance has been sufficient for my needs until very recently. I’ll probably upgrade soon.

Heck, my current desktop is still an old third-gen i-series, lol~

Raspi isn’t necessarily the best option for that, because it’s based on an ARM processor rather than the x86_64 that’s common on desktops and servers.

A cheap N100 “NUC” style Micro-PC is almost as inexpensive as a raspi and wouldn’t limit the user to ARM-compatible software or add complications like emulating the architecture via qemu.

No problem! I love getting into the comments under articles on quantum stuff 'cuz the topic is weirdly unintuitive from the classical perspective and a lot of folks share some common misconceptions about jargon like “teleportation” and “entanglement”. Please do ask if you’ve got any other questions! 😄

It’s real, but the jargon is unintuitive.

“Teleportation” in the field of quantum mechanics refers to the process by which a quantum state can be copied from one place to another.

This process is like Shrodinger’s Cat, both alive and dead until you open the box to check. Quantum information simply does not exist until a measurement collapses it into back into classical information, so copying a quantum state literally involves teleporting the information about it from sender to receiver without allowing the box to be opened during the transition.

I think they were making a joke about the bluetooth protocol rather than literally describing the electromagnetic field.