Zos_Kia

Zos_Kia , 2 days ago

Bold move to say “I’m starting to think” then parrot the most repeated comment on the subject

Zos_Kia , 2 days ago

Feels like i need to clarify a few things here.

• the anti-american sentiment is not an arab thing. It’s as French as frogs legs (doesn’t make it ok).
• the arabs who bullied you in grade school are not immigrants. Their grandparents immigrated in the 60s, but those kids were born in a French hospital with a French passport. Same goes with black people 99% of them were born in France or in one of our overseas colonies.
• the people who are mysoginistic and homophobic are generally not the immigrants. Again, it’s a marked thing mostly with 2nd/3rd gen. It’s a thing in all religions worldwide, they are all veering towards hardcore conservatism especially among young people. I am not qualified to explain why that is but it’s shit.

So essentially, i fail to see the point in “locking that shit down”. You close the border tomorrow you don’t solve any of the issues that are bothering racist people today. They will still have a radical mosque in their neighborhood and Mohammed will continue bullying the little american kid at school (doesn’t make it ok).

You want some real talk about immigration ? 1 immigrant out of 3 is European. 1 out of 3 has a university diploma. In fact, migrants on average are slightly more educated, and have slightly higher income than native French. You close the border tomorrow that’s who you are barring from the country. As usual with fascist policies - it’s all damned lies.

Zos_Kia , 2 days ago

Oh i didn’t mean to correct your experience but rather the political take you extracted from it. Your personal experience in grade school doesn’t represent a systemic problem. The population we’re talking about here (north african young immigrants fresh off the boat who need remedial linguistic classes) is, what, a few thousand people a year ? You don’t close a country’s borders just because you can’t handle a few thousand unruly adolescents.

My other point is that, while religious conservatism is a real danger to modern society, it is not driven by immigrants who have few resources and are primarily motivated by their own survival. It is driven by well established people who already have the French nationality and are comfortable enough to afford being “rebels” to the system. It’s also not specific to islam - have you seen what Christians are up to these days ? Have you seen what Jews are up to ? Current news seem to indicate that the Abrahamic-minded are not taking kindly to the 3rd Millenium.

Also as a side note. 1 in 3 is not good enough. Most people are risk adverse, give them 33% odds of something positive and they’ll tell you to shove it.

That wasn’t my point. My point is that the majority of immigrants come for study or work and they integrate with no issues.

The people the RN accuses of not integrating are French people with French passports and it is their fucking god-given right to not “integrate” with the culture around them. I was a nerdy vegan kid in a village of rugby players, hunters and delicatessen producers. I never fit in with that peasant culture - should my nationality be put into question ? No ? Then why is the standard different when it’s a kid from arab descent ?

They are French citizens they don’t owe any allegiance to any ideology or way of life and that’s one of the pillars upon which this country was built. They wake up and go to work like me, they pay taxes like me, when they’re caught speeding they get a ticket like me. They bring their kids to the same school where i bring mine. They complain about trains being late and the administration being incompetent. Let’s leave them the fuck alone alright ? We’re living together just fine.

Zos_Kia , 2 days ago

I’m curious to know by which metric France has “become a shithole”, and how that is related to immigration ?

Zos_Kia , 3 days ago

To clarify : We’re talking about differences in the codebase here. They are still exactly the same game, with some very minor disparities in certain mechanics.

The technical differences tend to disappear over time because they rely more and more on the datapack format, which is shared between the two codebases.

Zos_Kia , 2 days ago

holy shit you’re right i don’t know where i got the idea that it was the same format

Zos_Kia , 3 days ago

No it’s actually very simple stuff. Arch is surprisingly stable and easy to manage, and had been for the better part of a decade

Zos_Kia , 3 days ago

That’s because arch is very old and back in the days it was prone to breakage. Ironically, it is now much more stable and easy to maintain than an Ubuntu derivative but people will still recommend Mint to beginners for some reason.

Zos_Kia , 3 days ago

We have the same issue in France. The problem is there is no more negotiation with the legislative, everything gets voted on party lines, and what little gets done happens via executive orders. How can viable candidates emerge in this climate? It’s maddening.

Zos_Kia , 3 days ago

Oh boy. You’re about to discover the wide world of male sex toys and it’s gonna rock you.

Zos_Kia , 5 days ago

Also their role system is badass. It’s incredibly fine grained and makes it possible to manage large communities with plenty of different user levels.

Zos_Kia , 6 days ago

Yeah this sounds weird I thought Russia was producing ammo at like 10 times the rate of all of NATO combined

Zos_Kia , 7 days ago

I think the bitter lesson here is that there’s a bunch of jobs where quality has zero importance.

If you take for example, content marketing, SEO, and ad copy writing… It’s a lot of bullshit, and it’s been filling the web with gpt-grade slop for 20 years now. If you can do the same for cheap I don’t see a reason not to.

Zos_Kia , 7 days ago

Yeah I’m not bashing anybody, my wife did that for a couple years I know how it is. There was a kind of golden period where it would even pay enough to let you do some quality stuff but when VC money stopped raining the market slumped almost immediately.

Zos_Kia , 7 days ago

But we are talking about freelancers, not about SEO or content marketing, more like content filling

Most SEO is done by freelancers (at least in my industry). When i talk about content marketing i mean anybody who writes blog posts and LinkedIn posts for companies. It was already shit long before AI arrived.

Zos_Kia , 8 days ago

I see the folks organising and the protests, I honestly think we could clutch it. If only for the pleasure of telling Emmanuel to fuck off. The far right has wind in their sails but they are also terribly uncooperative with each other. Not saying it’s a done deal but there’s definitely some hope.

Zos_Kia , 10 days ago

I don’t know about the US but in European GDPR parlance, of it can be reversed then it is NOT anonymized and it is illegal to claim otherwise. The correct term is pseudonymized.

Zos_Kia , 10 days ago

😂

Zos_Kia , 12 days ago

I managed to not use my brain by using my brain and noticing the API playground still worked

Zos_Kia , 14 days ago

Artists are perfectly able to use the fediverse, that is not what is stopping them.

They don’t come because they need to be where their fans are. That is why Cara will only be a splash: their niche is artists who place more value on the anti-AI slant than on meeting their audience where it lives. By definition that is not conducive to a lot of organic growth.

Zos_Kia , 16 days ago

I’ve worked on a couple of Saas in Europe and thankfully GDPR has shaken things a lot. What you have to look for is terms of use where you are the controller, and the Saas is only a processor. In that case they don’t have the right to use the data you generate for their own purposes. This generally excludes telemetry like product analytics and logs, but even those must not include any user data, just an opaque id and technical informations.

Zos_Kia , 18 days ago

It is not a false dichotomy though.

Being mentally healthy and well integrated does not require you to live in a perfect, just and balanced universe. It requires you using all the cognitive, psychological and philosophical tools at your disposal to deal with the universe on its own terms.

Keeping yourself depressed for the sake of “not being deluded” is in itself a mental illness symptom, and only has negative consequences for everyone.

Zos_Kia , 19 days ago

Disclaimer : I currently work in the field, not on the fundamental side of things but I build tooling for LLM-based products.

There are a ton of true uses for newer AI models. You can already see specialized products getting mad traction in their respective niches, and the clients are very satisfied with them. It’s mostly boring stuff, legal/compliance like Hypercomply or accounting like Chaintrust. It doesn’t make headlines but it’s obvious if you know where to look.

Zos_Kia , 19 days ago

Large language models like GPT, llama, and Gemini don’t create anything new

That’s because it is a stupid use case. Why should we expect AI models to be creative, when that is explicitly not what they are for?

Zos_Kia , 21 days ago

This exact joke is used in a Community episode, but I never saw it attributed to a professor

Zos_Kia , 22 days ago

Agreed, I’ve had to mix an entire live show recently and Ardour + a few open source VSTs did the job wonderfully. Took me maybe an hour to get my bearings but it is very well done.

Zos_Kia , 22 days ago

You cannot in all seriousness use a LLM as a research tool. That is explicitly not what it is useful for. A LLM’s latent space is like a person’s memory : sure there is some accurate data in there, but also a lot of “misremembered” or “misinterpreted” facts, and some bullshit.

Think of it like a reasoning engine. Provide it some data which you have researched yourself, and ask it to aggregate it, or summarize it, you’ll get some great results. But asking it to “do the research for you” is plain stupid. If you’re going to query a probabilistic machine for accurate information, you’d be better off rolling dice.

Zos_Kia , 22 days ago

No you don’t understand. The word AI, which was invented to describe this kind of technology, should not be used to describe this technology. It should instead be reserved for some imaginary magical technology that may exist in the future.

Zos_Kia , 22 days ago

I don’t understand. Have you ever worked an office job? Most humans have no way to guarantee their logic is sound yet they are the ones who do all of the reasoning on earth. Why would you have higher standards for a machine?

Zos_Kia , 22 days ago

I thought the sarcasm in my comment was self evident 🤔

Zos_Kia , 21 days ago

Sounds like a recipe for disappointment tbh. But on the other hand, sounds like you trust techno marketing a bit too much.

Zos_Kia , 21 days ago

Can’t blame you when some people non-ironically use that argument all the time

Zos_Kia , 21 days ago

I"m not sure what lie and what datasheet you’re referring to ?

Zos_Kia , 22 days ago

Same, especially the earlier session. Been listening to it at work almost daily since I discovered it a couple years back.

Zos_Kia , 21 days ago

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Zos_Kia , 23 days ago

There is some research being done with fine tuning 1-bit quants, and they seem pretty responsive to it. Of course you’ll never get a full generalist model out of it, but there’s some hope for tiny specialized models that can run on CPU for a fraction of the energy bill.

The big models are great marketing because their verbal output is believable, but they’re grossly overkill for most tasks.

Zos_Kia , 23 days ago

Sadly,I doubt there’s many countries that would enforce that ban

Zos_Kia , 24 days ago

Love that the article header is a picture of a Pentium II. That’s cold as ice 💀

Zos_Kia , 24 days ago

While I definitely agree with your general sentiment, how do you contend with the 66% of voters who think Israel is justified in this war, and the nearly 40% who think the way it is waged is acceptable? Wouldn’t the electoral risk be even more dire if you alienate them?

I’m not asking that rhetorically, I think it’s a genuinely hard problem.

Zos_Kia , 24 days ago

You’re right, i didn’t have the breakdown by party and didn’t realize the size of the difference. I would have thought that establishment democrats would be more strongly in favour. Wholly agree with your comment then.

(i don’t have the link right now but if i remember to look for it on my phone i’ll edit it here later. It was from a run of the mill polling institute, i don’t remember which)

Zos_Kia , 27 days ago

And that’s why Josh is a dick and we need to banish him

Zos_Kia , 27 days ago

Them dusters always complaining about something smh

Zos_Kia , 28 days ago

I’ve been getting back into anarchy Minecraft as an old buddy of mine is kinda resurrecting a base I used to be active at.

The scene is mostly dead, on our main server it’s 2 to 4 players on average which is crazy to me. It used to be from 50 to 100 most evenings.

Now I’ve got a 2 million blocks trip to make, even auto walking on the nether roof that’s gonna take some time. But it’s also an occasion to revisit some historic milestones along the way! I was able to get my hands on one signed book a friend had given me some time before passing away so it’s also kind of an emotional journey.

Zos_Kia , 28 days ago

Don’t mean to victim blame but i don’t understand why you would use ChatGPT for hard problems like optimization. And i say this as a heavy ChatGPT/Copilot user.

From my observation, the angle of LLMs on code is linked to the linguistic / syntactic aspects, not to the technical effects of it.

Zos_Kia , 28 days ago

Agreed and i have the exact same approach. It’s like having a colleague next to you who’s not very good but who’s super patient and always willing to help. It’s like having a rubber duck on Adderall who has read all the documentation that exists.

It seems people are in such a hurry to reject this technology that they fall into the age old trap of forming completely unrealistic expectations then being disappointed when they don’t pan out.

Zos_Kia , 28 days ago

I don’t think that’s asking too much of it.

Apparently it was :D i mean the confines of the tool are very limited, despite what the Devin.ai cult would like to believe.

Zos_Kia , 27 days ago

Honestly i started at a new job 2 weeks ago and i’ve been breezing through subjects (notably thanks to ChatGPT) at an alarming rate. I’m happy, the boss is happy, OpenAI get their 20 bucks a month. It’s fascinating to read all the posts from people who claim it cannot generate any good code - sounds like a skill issue to me.

Zos_Kia , 27 days ago

Sounds like your view on the subject is mostly informed by Hollywood. A bit irrational if you ask me, and certainly very dogmatic.

If for some reason you decide to check out a fact-based approach on the subject i can recommend a few Youtube channels that are free, hosted by accredited scholars, and offer in-depth, well researched, long form content on the history of spiritual movements. It is so fucking interesting man. It’s like the B-Sides of the history of ideas, and has a lot more impact on the Age of Science than you realize.