QuadratureSurfer

QuadratureSurfer , 4 months ago to technology in Video Shows First Neuralink Patient Playing Mario Kart With His Mind

Direct link to the video: x.com/ModdedQuad/status/1771298116719002100

Mario Kart section happens a little after 1/3 of the way through.

QuadratureSurfer , 4 months ago to technology in TikTok is a Cyberweapon and Needs to be Stopped.

Not sure who’s downvoting you, but for anyone else wondering it’s called “Douyin”.

First sentence of the Wikipedia article on TikTok: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok

QuadratureSurfer , 4 months ago to technology in chatgptdownload.me

Well that link is setting off a number of malicious/malware detections: virustotal.com/…/03ff59ab43bc2bee8f2c1ecfb0a8113f…

QuadratureSurfer , 4 months ago to technology in Discord began blocking servers with information prohibited in the Russian Federation

Looks like the Nordic countries have some of the best protections for their press.

rsf.org/en/index

The U.S. is ranked around 45th which is disappointing considering the first amendment is supposed to guarantee freedom of the press.

But in general western countries are far better than places like Russia, China, India, the Middle East, etc.

QuadratureSurfer , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to technology in Apple to allow iOS app downloads direct from websites in the EU (with restrictions), in compliance with the Digital Markets Act

Did they really just pull a Unity move with charging per download??

This is not going to be good for any developers that sit in that danger zone of offering a free app with in-app purchases. If they don’t make enough money (over €500k) once they hit that 1 million download threshold… they could owe more money than they make.

Edit: Looks like the first million downloads are always free for that year, but anything after that and they start charging per download. Still bad for free apps if they grow a lot without getting much income from their users.

QuadratureSurfer , 4 months ago to technology in Microsoft to end its Android apps on Windows 11 subsystem in 2025

I have rarely used it.

I used it for some Microsoft product that you had to buy to be able to view the thumbnails of iPhone pictures natively in Windows Explorer.

I also used it for setting up WSL with Ubuntu or some other Linux Distro.

QuadratureSurfer , 4 months ago to technology in Robot, repair thyself: laying the foundations for self-healing machines

Liquid metal, self healing… wait a minute, I’ve seen where this leads! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ivS5Cw3eyk&t=117s

QuadratureSurfer , 4 months ago to videos in Is the New York Times losing its credibility on Israel-Palestine? | The Listening Post [24:51 | Mar 02 2024 | Al Jazeera English]

So, there’s this thing called the Wayback Machine…

web.archive.org/…/mona-chalabi-gaza-criticize-new…

QuadratureSurfer , 4 months ago to videos in (After acquisition they had many misssteps, corporate bureaucracy and competition) What Killed MySpace? (It Wasn't Facebook) [15:12 | May 08 2024 | ColdFusion]

Same. Started off with MySpace, but everyone else went to Facebook.

QuadratureSurfer , 4 months ago to technology in Older Computer Programmers & Engineers

Computer Engineering is still a degree where you combine both Computer Science courses with Electrical Engineering courses.

You typically want to go this route if you want to be the kind of person that can create the logic for next generation GPUs/CPUs or if you like working with where hardware meets programming.

QuadratureSurfer , 4 months ago to videos in The Grille Trend that Kills 509 People per Year

It’s worth noting that one reason grills can get so large is to have better cooling for larger engines.

With a larger grill you get more air flowing through the radiator which allows the engine to be more efficient.

Electric vehicles don’t need the same kind of cooling that ICE engines do, so having an electric Truck/SUV would allow for different designs which could be beneficial for pedestrians if they were struck.

QuadratureSurfer , 5 months ago to technology in Someone made a GPT-like chatbot that runs locally on Raspberry Pi, and you can too

I’ve got it running with a 3090 and 32GB of RAM.

There are some models that let you run with hybrid system RAM and VRAM (it will just be slower than running it exclusively with VRAM).

QuadratureSurfer , 5 months ago to technology in Court blocks $1 billion copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users’ piracy

No analogy is ever going to be perfect when you try to look into the details too much… that’s why it’s an analogy.

QuadratureSurfer , 5 months ago to technology in Someone made a GPT-like chatbot that runs locally on Raspberry Pi, and you can too

Direct link to the GitHub repo:
github.com/nickbild/local_llm_assistant?tab=readm…

It’s a small model by comparison. If you want something that’s offline and actually closer to comparing to ChatGPT 3.5, you’ll want the Mixtral 8x7B model instead (running on a beefy machine):

mistral.ai/news/mixtral-of-experts/

QuadratureSurfer , 5 months ago to technology in This tiny, tamper-proof ID tag can authenticate almost anything

You’d have to read the article to know what they’re getting at.

The use case provided was for businesses like a car wash that puts a sticker on a car windshield. The ML model would be able to detect if the customer attempted to transfer the sticker from one car to another.

A pretrained ML model to detect this is actually a very good use case.

However, I think the implimentation of this as an “anti-tampering detector” is a dangerous route to tread since there are other factors that need to be considered.