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Agreed, being a n00b in the open source & hacker community I recall asking half assed question on forums and IRC and would get the infamous RTFM.
I detested it but quickly realized that I needed to put in work and learn and only when I understand can I ask valid questions to real problems…not just asking for someone to spoon feed me an answer.
I really appreciate that experience…
What a thorough breakdown!
Must be fun working at IFixIt!
Prion disease is one of the scariest things I’ve learned about. I’m always careful not to eat meats from shady establishments.
Well, the soldering is more for benefiting unified memory. The high speeds require soldered RAM unfortunately.
Was this status indicator simple vertical bars that were black and white and displayed on an old CRT Monitor?
Almost looks like black and white terminal vertical bars (like Alsamixer)?
That looks like a completely new car with the sub model being Corolla… it looks nothing like the Corolla of today and past..
There are chemical reactions that LLMs lack because they do NOT have a biology. They are just mathematical weights. Now, let’s say we can truly make sentient AI in the future but it does not have the biology that we do. Then it would just be a totally literal, emotion lacking, sentient machine.
But then what is sentience? Dogs are sentient to a certain extent and so are dolphins…
When I use a urinal I do not aim directly on front but instead to the curved lower part. That helps guide my urine down; virtually eliminating all splash back!
Why are we putting so much weight (no pun intended) on AI companies. At the end of the day the scaled up LLM transformers lack emotion and will… They do as they are told; or more correctly put. They do as they are programmed to do so.
We do have regulation on food and safety and the recall is because of those parameters.
I believe a similar thing happened with fast food and food delivery fees. It costs money to be listed on the food delivery app so fast food chains started charging everyone the same price to offset the cost of being listed on the apps.
There’s many theories but one that I learned was that women and children provides the bulk of the calories for Early Humans. While the men went out and hunted for meat they also relied on the fruit harvested by the women and children. That would give them the energy necessary for trekking and hunting.
I recall back in 2016 when the debt was $19 trillion dollars.
Here we are 10 years later at double that.
“we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt… place economy among the first and most important republican virtues”
-Thomas Jefferson
That’s a rather splenetic response. On paper their contractor requires them to run an Amazon route and wear Amazon logo. Therefore, it’s not Amazon.
I’m asking honest question that any court law will ask; cynicism is not part of the scales in court but rather objectivity.
Honest question; it’s not Amazon that requires them to wear an Amazon vest but rather their contractor. Amazon may set the route but they don’t pay them to run the route.
This should be interesting from a legal perspective.
I’ve been taken to a steak house for birthday and was shunned for ordering something basic. My reasoning is; a steak is so easy to ruin because it’s so easy to make that it’s just not worth the price to risk eating an expensive crappy steak. So I opt for something more basic that I know will be excellent because of the establishment.
He was a whole aesthetic and genre. Love his music!
Rest in peace.
Just like that new jobs created by AI!
Localized model maintainer/technician.
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slicktux on Saturday July 25, 2026 @11:22AM
from the self-post dept.
Inspired by Crypto Pool Mining: would it be possible to train LLMs as a pool of volunteers? I feel like that would be a good way to have frontier models that are open and don’t rely on big corporations with data centers to train and release them…
One of the most important things for any profession is experience. Experience comes from learning from your own mistakes or those of others. Those with the best skills can be said to have learned a lot from previous mistakes.
So, how can someone become professional if they don’t learn from their own mistakes? In the case of AI; they will learn to become professional prompters and learn from the mistakes of bad prompts???
I prefer the former not the ladder.
I recall reading the original research paper from a student who made the same RF ‘camera’ here in hacker news.
Thank you! I will definitely check it out!
My favorite space probe is the European Space Agency Philae.
It probes the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko and actually landed on it. It was able to send back images of its surface.
Amazing!
Maybe a system running a local model is not so bad. The tokens per second will allow for that break?
Also, at what point does AI take over for all the thinking and white board planning?
AI should be a rubber duckie one can use to posit and assist when hit a brick wall. But if using it for all code generation, planning and troubleshooting then one is not in control; they’re just prompt drones…
Cool anecdote!
Couldn’t help but notice you misspelled car twice but only when talking about the blue car..
That’s great news !
Have they also solved the nuclear waste problem?
Honest question; here in the USA we have not.
Interesting enough; Lyme disease come from ticks that fed on infected mice. Like deer-mice or white footed mice. Rodents are the problem.
Unable to browse because I’m on mobile but Satellite One by Purple Motion is a track to listen to!
<3
When I read the headline I imagined a huge tent with steel beam structure and professional grade covers with HVAC and concrete footprint.
Seems everyone else imagined a camping tent. Different backgrounds I guess.