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From the US: Question “Half 4 in the morning” is
A. 3:30?
B. 4:30?
C. 2:00?
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Re: https://infosec.exchange/users/lcamtuf/statuses/116901998490591428
I don't find it surprising that people send LLM-generated docs, publish LLM-generated blog posts, etc. Writing is a chore and there's this big button labeled "get it done".Writing can be many things, but a chore? That's not something I entirely understand. I don't mean to sound like I'm hollering at this single point from this person's post, but it's a sentiment I've seen expressed before and this was a convenient example (and what I say next is in the spirit of and amplifies the further point they make!)
There's an emerging theme in my last few posts today concerning means vs. ends. Science as a production process that spits out knowledge products. Writing as the necessary chore sitting between a person and "having another blog post" or "citation count go up".
Overfocus on the ends can lead one to think of the means as chores. Science is slow and boring, let's use AI to spit out the Good Science Stuff faster. Writing is a chore, let's use the AI to spit out Documents. Heck let's chain them together and have the machine do Good Science Stuff and then spit out Documents about it that we feed back into the machine and hey we can send the Documents to Funding Agencies to get Funding for our Good Science Stuff and spit out even more Documents so that...and...to...so...[infinite random string]. Wait what were we doing again?
Personally I think it's poisonous to focus mostly on ends. The absurdity is a clue. If I believed in souls I'd say it's bad for them. I guess I find the mindset confusing because long ago I came to think that the means are the ends. There are no other ends but the means.
Yes, I well understand there are certain kinds of mandated writing that are tedious and unwanted.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #writing
@abucci I love writing.
I did find coding tedious and not fun, so I stopped. Java and OOP took my joy in coding.
But I've always been more into people and stories.
I still find myself appalled at folks using the LLMs though.
It's so anti social and to me, it seems a rather mean, lonely thing to do.
You're missing out on genuine connection and collaboration using them. That's before we get to the environmental and political issues with this tech.
Gosh, on a 2+ years old laptop with these low-quality pastes all dried up you're looking at a 10-20C temperature difference under load versus a proper application.
Getting it out of those tiny capacitors on the side of the die is a nightmare. I soak the thing in TIM cleaning solution, let it dissolve it for a minute then soak it up with an old toothbrush. There's no other way to remove it from those dents without leaving traces of other materials.
@Lunaphied @aeva it feels like there’s some fundamental tension between if you make the browser really powerful then you can do fun things vs if you make it really powerful then people will do *important* things there so it needs to be locked down because unfortunately online is adversarial
It is a bit weird that it can feel *more* locked down than an actual OS half the time but maybe that’s because it is just a very shoddy OS or because for all that annoys me google has at least not managed to make it so you need their permission to put things on the web, *yet*
For some reason despite an early start and the heat and all the running around and park run, my brain told me to go hiking this afternoon because I had a couple of hours to kill. In classic Ben fashion, I decided to do the hard route, got lost. Really lost. Had plenty of time though so figured I'd just go with it. As soon as I thought I was dangerously far away from my car it turns out I had somehow made it back to the car. So figured if that was the hard route and it was so quick, I'd do the easy route because I had plenty of time. I GOT SO LOST. FOR HOURS. My phone nearly died. I thought I was going to have to ask someone to call out Chiselhurst mountain rescue. Wasn't going to make it back in time to pick up kiddo from work. And then somehow I just sort of popped out a few miles just down the road, so managed to get back. What a palaver. I shouldn't be allowed out by myself. I did get some photos of some excellent trees though which I shall post later! Huzzah! I am very hot!
@TheBreadmonkey as someone who loves to spend hours in the forest, I've come to rely on Open Street Maps on my phone. Gaia GPS is good but commercial. Organic Maps is free and open source, but lacks some features. If you remember to download the map for the area before you leave, you don't even need a cell signal to view the map and your position on it.
@gbargoud I’m not familiar (please don't link me), but this came from watching a Bilmuri video that kind of looked like some scenes were filmed with a trail cam, but they weren't actually filmed that way.
Basically cops broke into his house on some bogus charges and he used the footage for a bunch of music videos to songs like "who's gonna pay for my door?" and "lemon pound cake" (names after one scene where one of the cops eyes a lemon pound cake on the kitchen counter)
It was big news a few months ago when those same cops sued him for defamation and lost.
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The person who works out how to jam/disable them could be rich.
If I figured it out, I’d put the plans in the public domain…
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@barbapulpe for now yes, but it will be expanded, and open sourced so you can run your own too!
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Is it any different from other standard relays, such as Aoderelay I alreay self-host?
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Aw it’s happening for real
In this brand-new episode of the Gastronomad podcast, Amira and I are in a pub in Scotland trying haggis for the first time! https://gastronomad.substack.com/p/trying-haggis-in-a-pub-in-scotland
@MikeElgan I love it! I hope you like it!
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🔌 Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity
@fahrni I'm doing a 65 mile group ride in a couple weeks, so this was a little bit of a mental ride as well as physical. The group ride is more relaxed, so it should be a good time.
@brianb That’s awesome, Brian! 👍🏼
@sundogplanets they are unavoidable now. I used to be able to take three or four shots and one or two would be without satellites. Now, it's nearly impossible to get a shot without one in them. It's only going to get worse. I'm dreading this new space mirror that was just approved
@bryanhansel Yeah, also true for research telescopes :(
I keep thinking about how much I’d like to retire.
Time to buy a lottery ticket. 🙂
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Every thermal paste vendor application is a crime against the laws of thermodynamics.
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Gosh, on a 2+ years old laptop with these low-quality pastes all dried up you're looking at a 10-20C temperature difference under load versus a proper application.
Tropical forests facing increasing risks of exposure to critical temp thresholds
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2528622123
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48872973
#HackerNews #tropicalforests #climatechange #environmentalrisks #temperaturethresholds #conservation
"no no the API prices going up don't affect AI at all, you can totally do what you need with an AI local model on your PC"
-- even the quantised model uses at least 256Gb, nobody has done the particular thing on a local PC
"well you can in the near future"
… right after RAM prices drop and 256 GiB of RAM becomes affordable?
Maybe after the bubble bursts and suppliers discover they sitting on unsellable piles of HBM. The only other option is that they reduce production and release the stockpiles slowly and a cartel would never do that.
@MarkHoltom In the words of the great philosopher Mister Natural: ‘Twas ever thus.
@sundogplanets isn't the cost of doing this a lot more expensive than building battery storage here on earth? Putting something in orbit has to be the most expensive and least effective way to solve this problem.
@andy Yes. All this is true. They're still doing it, because they're stupid.
