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muntedcrocodile , to nostupidquestions in Why is there so much hype around artificial intelligence?
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It depends on the task you give it and the instructions you provide. I wrote this a while back i find it gives a 10x in capability especially if u use a non aligned llm like dolphin 8x22b.

Kintarian OP ,

I have no idea what any of that means. But thanks for the reply.

slazer2au , to asklemmy in Have you ever cosplayed before? Can you tell us about any?

Cosplayed as a Dalek once. It was hot, stuffy, and difficult to manoeuvre. I now understand why Daleks are angry all the time.

Chozo ,

It was hot, stuffy

Ventilate! VENTILATE!

Elextra , to asklemmy in Have you ever cosplayed before? Can you tell us about any?

Ive cosplayed a handful of times. Maybe 4 or 5? Elektra Netflix version was most fun as someone gave me their sparing sais and I found other Netflix Daredevils at the time to pose pics with and pretend to spar.

I was Momo from My Hero Academia. A generic agent from Psychopass. The gun prop i have is fun. It flashes and talks. Jealous now though as there are some that transform. It was cool when I found other characters from the show.

Lastly, I was a terrorist from Counter Strike. I had rubber knives, grenade, sunglasses and I drew a mustache for myself!

I havent cosplayed in a while though and havent been to any conventions lately

xmunk , to asklemmy in Why do people on Lemmy get mad when you make multiple posts about similar topic?

I don’t know why someone would get mad at you but I personally dislike multiple posts on the same topic because it dilutes and confuses discussion.

Mistakes certainly happen though.

WeebLife , to linux in Noob Question Thread: Ask Any Questions About Linux!

I’m on Linux mint 22 and my audio outputs don’t change automatically. When I plug in USB headphones, audio won’t output to them unless I manually change it in settings.

Also, why can’t I interact with the panel applets (on the right side) while I’m in game? For example: I’m playing a game, I plug in my headphones, I have to manually change the audio output so I hit the “windows” key to bring up the panel, but I can’t interact with any of the applets on the right side of the panel (I can’t select the audio icon and change settings from there). I have to search audio settings in the panel then alt tab to it. It’s really cumbersome

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted ,
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Fun fact: The “Windows key” (or “Command key” for Mac users) has its own generic name: the Super key!

Not trying to be a smartass here; I genuinely find it fascinating! :D

nmtake ,

Can you try “pactl load-module module-switch-on-connect”?

EndOfLine , to asklemmy in Why do people on Lemmy get mad when you make multiple posts about similar topic?

If these posts are made in a relatively short time then it could appear as spam. I browsing New is my default and, on a couple of occasions, I have blocked a user simply for being too active and flooding my feed.

200ok ,

I, too, sort by “New” and found/commented on the newer duplicate of this post: https://lemmy.ca/post/28264641

It’s been deleted, probably because it was down-voted to oblivion.

Ironically, I had suggested waiting before posting to a different community. And only if the OC didn’t get enough traction.

Admetus , to asklemmy in Why do people on Lemmy get mad when you make multiple posts about similar topic?

Half your posts are specific questions to a specific game which could be answered by searching Google. Such posts do not promote open discussion.

And you might need to check your spelling a bit.

If you had a post like ‘I really love Red Dead Redemption 2 (note spelling is correct here) for (insert mission here)’, other Lemmy users might chime in with their own favourites.

So you need to curate your posts a bit. Maybe stick to commenting for the time being.

Sundial ,

I don’t think it’s fair to OP to criticize their spelling. English may not be their first language. Even if it was, we shouldn’t penalize people for making innocent mistakes.

Admetus ,

I understand your concern. I wouldn’t be criticising their spelling in the main body of the post, but at the very least they should be spell checking the title. An occasional typo is usually forgiving but if the Lemmy feed is showing a post with many spelling mistakes it’s not going to go down well.

Learning spelling and ensuring it is correct is part of learning a language.

If I was posting in a Chinese forum, I would be very careful to ensure the Chinese characters are correct. Differences in minor radicals can make all the difference, e.g. 慢 and 漫 are distinctively different words. It’s a different kind of spell checking.

Sundial ,

I’ll admit I didn’t go through that many of OPs posts when I made my original comment to you so I took a closer look. It looks like OPs titles suffer from bad grammar more than bad spelling. The only real spelling mistakes I found was “redemtion” on a few of OPs posts which can be excusable if you’re just spelling it how it sounds. I 100% agree with you people should do their best to proofread their posts, especially titles. I just don’t feel it’s justification enough to downvote someone.

SomeAmateur , (edited ) to nostupidquestions in Why is there so much hype around artificial intelligence?

I genuinely think the best practical use of AI, especially language models is malicious manipulation. Propaganda/advertising bots. There’s a joke that reddit is mostly bots. I know there’s some countermeasures to sniff them out but think about it.

I’ll keep reddit as the example because I know it best. Comments are simple puns, one liner jokes, or flawed/edgy opinions. But people also go to reddit for advice/recommendations that you can’t really get elsewhere.

Using an LLM AI I could in theory make tons of convincing recommendations. I get payed by a corporation or state entity to convince lurkers to choose brand A over brand B, to support or disown a political stance or to make it seem like tons of people support it when really few do.

And if it’s factually incorrect so what? It was just some kind stranger™ on the internet

SirDerpy ,

If by “best practical” you meant “best unmitigated capitalist profit optimization” or “most common”, then sure, “malicious manipulation” is the answer. That’s what literally everything else is designed for.

tal , to linux in Any luck with Snapdragon Elite?
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

I do not, but I read an article within the last year or so saying that it’s doable on a few models – this one dealt with the Thinkpad you’re talking about – but has a lot of stumbling blocks.

theregister.com/…/linux_on_the_thinkpad_x13s/

E.g…:

Getting it to boot from SSD is an epic undertaking, involving entering a UEFI firmware shell and manually going through 30 or 40 entries to find and enable the right UEFI boot entry, but after hours of searching and countless reboots, it worked, and Debian would start. Unfortunately, when booting the installed OS, the screen blanked after just a few lines of output, never to return. The OS was running – for instance, pressing the power button led to a clean shutdown after a few seconds – but with no display, not even a text one, we couldn’t configure a Wi-Fi connection, and the machine has no built-in Ethernet port.

tal , (edited )
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

I’d add that I was was initially somewhat interested in ARM hardware, but I’ve cooled a lot on it.

For me, and I suspect a number of others, power efficiency is the main appeal.

First, even on Linux, where a lot of software is open-source and some distros have ARM builds, there’s a lot of closed-source software out there, like Steam games, that are x86-based and won’t ever be ARM, and if you’re emulating x86, your power-efficiency benefits go away.

Second, the ARM world is more SoC-oriented, so you don’t have the ecosystem of drivers for modular hardware that plays nicely, and a lot of SoC data isn’t available. This is not a minor issue. An ARM system is not just an x86 system with a slightly-different processor. Whole different world.

Think this sums it up:

www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/…/linux_for_arm/

With Arm support, it greatly depends on the specific boards as well as its general popularity. It isn’t at all as well standardized like x86 is. Each device takes at least some amount of unique customization, even before you get into the video and other hardware drivers, often not open source. ie Qualcomm.

An image for a Thinkad X13S won’t necessarily work or even boot on a Lenovo Flex-5G, for example.

The good news is that there are growing numbers of people hacking on these to get better support and usability.

For the X13s, at least. My Flex 5G does not seem to be very popular, lol.

I think this point is often underappreciated - if ARM is to take off for personal computing, there’s a lot of standardization work yet to be done.

Third, for a lot of software, what matters is single-thread performance. And x86 is ahead there.

Fourth, I was recently in a discussion with someone on here and they informed me that the power-efficiency gap has narrowed (at least on Apple’s ARMs, dunno about all ARM sysyems) since Apple’s M1 release, when it was more-significant. I haven’t looked into that, but given that that was the major selling point, it also gave me pause.

EDIT: All that being said, I am totally onboard with wanting laptops with long battery life and the state of things in 2024 is a favorite pet peeve. I would very much like to have a laptop with beefy batteries in the vein of some of the older Thinkpads. I had a T460 or something with two batteries, one removable and where one could get a larger battery that just hung out the back. That was fantastic. Getting a laptop with a single fixed 100Wh battery is very difficult these days, and pretty much nonexistent outside of power-hungry gaming systems that will burn through even the larger battery in short order. Getting a multi-battery system that can be expanded (even past 100Wh) is pretty much only the domain of a few very expensive “ruggedized” laptops like the Panasonic ToughBook.

I’m not sure whether that’s because the typical consumer:

  • Cares way more about weight than I do.
  • Is way more price-sensitive than I am. 100Wh batteries aren’t that expensive, not in 2024. Here’s a device with a 146Wh battery and an inverter .
  • Does not care about battery life, like, uses their laptop never far from a plug.
  • Just doesn’t consider battery life when buying a laptop.
  • Is willing to live with swapping USB PD power stations in. The problem here is that while there is actually a USB device class for power sources that permits a battery bank to report remaining capacity – I checked this in the USB spec the other day – (though I don’t know whether Linux can use this, map it to a /sys/class/power_supply device the way it can ACPI batteries), I haven’t been able to find anyone who actually implements this on their power station and advertises it. No power stations that I own implement it. And I want things like my laptop telling me remaining time to keep working, which they cannot, absent that information.
muntedcrocodile , to science_memes in Tensors
@muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee avatar

Everything’s a matrix if u fuck with it hard enough

Admetus , to askscience in Can you safely heat people with microwaves?

Microwave ovens work on resonance, so I’d be worried about heating up parts of the body more than others. Without resonance you wouldn’t have effective heating so it would be a bit complex to warm all parts of the body equally.

niktemadur , (edited ) to science_memes in Explosions in the Sky

But it wasn’t really an explosion, it was more like a spontaneous, insane inflation that found itself suddenly huge and empty, only after it was through with that particular stage did it zap itself full of energy and matter everywhere all at once. Then it continued growing in volume and thinning out via regular ol’ relativistic expansion.

EDIT: looking a little bit closer, there’s the thing about zapping all over itself after Inflation, it was almost perfectly half-and-half matter/antimatter, which then proceeded to join and annihilate into pure energy, but for some reason probably related to the Weak Force, just a little bit more matter was created than antimatter.

And that’s what we are and see today, 1 part out of every 8 million-and-one. For every 4,000,000 parts antimatter, there were 4,000,001 parts matter, only that 1 left over particle of matter, multiplied a bazillion times.

That’s just a whole other level of amazing than just saying “an explosion”.

LucidBoi , to piracy in Where to find FLAC music?

FNP, TL, ST are good. Any general purpose PT is nice since you’re probably never getting into RED or OPS anyways haha. Like me :(

TwiddleTwaddle ,

Isn’t OPS relatively easy to interview in to?

SHOW_ME_YOUR_ASSHOLE ,

I don’t know about OPS but Redacted wasn’t hard to interview into.

muzzle ,

Can you expand the acronyms?

VanHalbgott , to fediverse in Fediverse Poster

Question, what kind of design is this logo?

troybot , to science_memes in Explosions in the Sky

I heard Bill Wurtz voice while I read this

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