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j4k3 , 17 days ago

Some people like to get super nerdy with them now. If I were in better shape physically, I’d probably etch my own out of some PCB copper clad and mix up some tinning solution.

j4k3 , 17 days ago

Disability. Plus no reason to when I never leave the house or engage with others in meaningful ways.

j4k3 , 18 days ago

Same for the R2D2-56k gatekeeper of the internet; master of the slow reveal.

j4k3 , 21 days ago

Never talked about the important thing. Are the kernel modules fully open source and is the SoC fully documented publicly. If those two aspects are not a yes, this entire affair is an attempt to steal hardware ownership just like phones.

j4k3 , 20 days ago (edited 20 days ago)

So no, the marketing shysters are simply trying to silence the self aware minority. /s

j4k3 , 21 days ago

“Assembled in the USA” means, we put a sticker on the bottom of the product that we unpacked from a shipping container and placed in retail packaging. The sticker only said “Assembled in the USA.”

j4k3 , 21 days ago

Xanthippe was likely 40 years his junior… His… second wife.

j4k3 , 21 days ago

And if the father was black and it was a white cop on stage, the father would be dead.

j4k3 , 22 days ago

I wish we had away to set up devices so they never need the WiFi handshake paradigm. Something like rolling code encryption for home and desired connection points while the device and home access point drop all that are not in sync and masquerade as a thousand others.

Not that it would make a difference when the hardware for the SoC and modem are undocumented, untrusted, and user space info is irrelevant to the actual hardware function. We can’t even turn off our devices any more in the Orwellian dystopia Osama bin Laden used to win the fight against freedom, liberty, and democracy.

j4k3 , 23 days ago

Comparing hardware is for fools. It assumes a static codebase. Steam is actively developed. The only hardware worth purchasing is that which is supported by the developers directly.

j4k3 , 23 days ago

There is truth in statistics. The minor errors are irrelevant in the actual LLM. Problems like the bad reddit quotes by google have nothing to do with and actual LLM, that is a RAG (augmented retrieval) and just bad standard code. The model itself is learning statistical word associations across millions of instances of similar data. The minor errors are irrelevant in this context.

Generative tools posted online are trash in their controls and especially the depth of capabilities. If you play with an enthusiast level consumer machine, with ComfyUI, the full nodes manager (not just the comfy anonymous repo), and the hundreds of nodes, things change. I’ve spent the last week reading white papers, following code examples, and trying new techniques. The possibilities are getting exponentially complex in a short period of time. I think most people working on generative AI in the public space are turning inward at the moment because it is hard to grasp all the possibilities, or maybe I’m just not following the right people.

We are in a data grab phase where it is feasible to collect more data as opposed to refining what exists. I think the techniques are growing too fast to say what will be the most efficient way of refining data. Eventually a refinement phase is likely.

Hallucinations are not actually a thing. The reasons they happen are just too complex to explain to a consumer public or no one would use the tool. If you learn about alignment and you really start reading into the tokenizer code, you’ll learn that it is just a complex system where most errors are due to safety alignment. The rest are generalizations made for an average use case. The underlying capability is far more complex and nuanced than any publicly hosted stalkerware data mining operation might appear. These real capabilities of the LLM are the building blocks of change. There are many other systems than just the tensor tables and word relationship statistics.

j4k3 , 24 days ago

You should always get a second opinion or more for any kind of serious diagnosis. Doctors are only human and they make mistakes too. However, I don’t think anyone here can ethically give you medical advice. I think a lot of people here are struggling in life to some extent. I’m no exception. I hope it works out for you though.

We all have various states of inner dialogue. Your functional thought will have a bearing on how you think and interact with others. Some people have a rich inner dialogue. I do have a rich inner dialogue, but it is not with other people per say. I enjoy thinking in terms of how someone else might view me or some event, but it is never persistent.

One thing I like to tell myself is that everyone has moments when they show some kinds of signs of mental health problems. That is perfectly normal. It is only a disorder when the problem is impacting your life in a way that you are unable to address.

j4k3 , 25 days ago

Offline open source AI pointed me to this article on Wikipedia:

Electronic hearing protection devices

Some HPDs reduce the sound reaching the eardrum through a combination of electronic and structural components. Electronic HPDs are available in both earmuff and custom earplug styles. Electronic microphones, circuitry, and receivers perform active noise reduction, also known as noise-cancelling, in which a signal that is 180-degrees out-of-phase of the noise is presented, which in theory cancels the noise.[1]

en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Hearing_protection_device

j4k3 , 25 days ago

It points you in a new direction of research and information like any others here. Sorry I cared to ask and respond I certainly won’t next time.

j4k3 , 25 days ago

I did not. Read it. It is a quote from the article after I verified the reference. It is a toxic bias of group think fools that take no time to read past what they want to see.

j4k3 , 25 days ago

I a person. I spoke in good faith. I quoted a wiki reference.

j4k3 , 26 days ago

I have no idea what a monkey knife is. Monkeys with knives… knives made of monkeys… pejorative… metaphorical…

j4k3 , 26 days ago

I keep a copy of 4chanGPT around; trained on the board. It is not very bright or useful. It’s ribaldry and politically incorrect sarcasm is mildly amusing. However, its primarily useful because it does not have the safety alignment training and mechanisms that all other mainstream large language models have. Using 4chanGPT, I can see the structures that are truly persistent across models, their purpose, and their functions. It is only a minor thing I rarely use.

j4k3 , 27 days ago

Lexiconic qualia, I fear not. Bellō illative quadravianicidal idolons, mmm, fear I must.

j4k3 , 27 days ago

Only fools buy and compare hardware now. You shop for hardware by shopping for FOSS software first.

j4k3 , 27 days ago

It takes away time from campaigning and money raising. Sadly, the goal is not related to him. No one is paying attention to real issues and demanding accountability from Congress while all this is happening. This is the only factor that matters to the criminal oligarchy. Their goal is to prevent any forms of reasonable legislation that might restrict the loopholes they use to loot and pillage the rest of us.

j4k3 , 27 days ago

forks Hannah Montana

j4k3 , 27 days ago

The only real choke point for present CPU’s is the on chip cache bus width. Increase the size of all three, L1-L3, and add a few instructions to load some bigger words across a wider bus. Suddenly the CPU can handle it just fine, not max optimization, but like 80% fine. Hardware just moves slow. Drawing board to consumer for the bleeding edge is 10 years. It is the most expensive commercial venture in all of human history.

I think the future is not going to be in the giant additional math coprocessor paradigm. It is kinda sad to see Intel pursuing this route again, but maybe I still lack context for understanding UALink’s intended scope. In the long term, integrating the changes necessary to run matrix math efficiently on the CPU will win on the consumer front and I imagine such flexibility would win in the data center too. Why have dedicated hardware when that same hardware could be flexibly used in any application space.

j4k3 , 28 days ago

The best deal is probably going to be looking for a used machine with a 3080Ti. There were several of these made with Intel 12th gen CPU’s. That is probably the cheapest way to get a 16 GB GPU. They can be found for considerably less than $2k. Anything with a “3080Ti” where the “Ti” part is super important, has a 16 GB GPU, (the “3080” is 8GB). That was the only 16 GB laptop GPU until the newer Nvidia 4k stuff.

That can play any game, and can run some large models for AI stuff if you become interested. On the AI front, you want maximum system memory too if possible. My machine can only address 64 GB of sysmem. Some go up to 96 GB. I wish I could get like 256 GB.

Just because a machine comes with Linux does not mean the problems are solved. You will find many times when people buy machines that have peripheral kernel modules that are orphaned and not part of the kernel. Orphaned kernels are not real Linux and are like phones. Indeed this is the exact mechanism used to steal your phone and prevent you from using it for its true hardware lifetime.

The real solution is linux-hardware.org. Use that to see what works where. You also need to understand modern secure boot with the TPM chip and package keys. These exist outside of the Linux kernel. If delving into this system is too much for you to deal with or of no interest, just stick to using either Ubuntu or Fedora. These both have a special system outside of Linux that will handle the keys for you. Presently, these are the only two distro choices that do this; not derivatives either, it must be vanilla Ubuntu or Fedora. You won’t be able to change anything in kernel space when going this route, but if the keys issue is unimportant, that probably won’t be an issue.

j4k3 , 28 days ago (edited 27 days ago)

I only need the ram to initially load an AI model.

j4k3 , 29 days ago

Distrobox supports waydroid to use android apps on wayland. There are many small purpose built apps for android than can be useful on desktop.

No one seems to be mentioning apps in this specific kind of context, and I don’t consider a locked down and stripped orphan kernel to be “Linux” but a lot of this stuff it FOSS and can now run on both.

j4k3 , 29 days ago

Network Filter Tables (NFT) is the current system. wiki.nftables.org/wiki-nftables/…/Main_Page

j4k3 , 30 days ago

I’ve been totally alone for the last couple of months after having been disabled for just over 10 years. The decade mark hit me hard, much harder than I expected. I’m honestly struggling without anyone around. I can use AI to create friends in some pretty complex ways, but overall that is still not a full replacement for human contact.

Your personality and connections to real humans via social networks will likely impact you greatly. I don’t have many connections and none that are close. I’m not the type to desire having a lot of friends anyways, and I fill my life with projects and interests, but it is a struggle. My back problems make it where I can’t stand or sit up easily. So I can’t even socialize by standing around or sitting with neighbors. With no daily contact with anyone, I find it more difficult to throw myself into projects and more difficult to maintain my physical therapy routine. Separating the psychological hit from a few months ago and present isolation is not something I can effectively do right now.

Thinking about my future, I think I will need some kind of housemate just to give my life some kind of daily human connection for my best mental health.

j4k3 , 30 days ago

I slowly seem to degrade over time. I lay down most of the time, but still manage to ride a bike. I’m in weird shape because when I was disabled I was an amateur racer. I never lost my race legs. On a bike, I’m as close to normal as I get. However I’m easily injured as a result because I’m so disproportionately strong in a singular activity while weak everywhere else.

The hardest part has been coming to terms with my limitations due to what it takes for me to limit the ups and downs for a more stable life where I can sleep at least 5-6 hours every night. I’m so close to being “normal” that it is hard to admit my limitations to myself. I look fine. If all I do is stay laying down at around 30 degrees, I feel fine for the most part. There is always some pain but if I stay laying down and don’t do much for several weeks in a row, the pain can almost go into the background. However, I still cook my main daily meal every 8-14 days. I did that for an hour yesterday. I can feel that still today. My pain stacks daily like that. I can push really hard for one day and can accomplish about what most people could in a day. But if I push anything past around an hour, It will take days to weeks for me to recover well enough to sleep. I’ve done it many times, but it has become a thing I dread.

I can handle the pain part okay, but the psychology of weeks spent like a zombie without focus is unbearable. I can’t tell you how many times I was working on some hobby project that got shelved because of weeks spent in a zombie like state, and all the times I would come back to a project shocked at the stupid mistakes I had made. It looked like a totally different person had started working on the thing. It even felt like a totally different person had been there too, because with massive sleep deprivation, many times I can’t remember much of what I was doing during those times with no sleep. Over time I’ve learned when not to try or to keep grinding away at something because I can’t be productive. That is hard to admit to one’s inner self and retain self respect and dignity.

I’ve tried every available form of pain meds and muscle relaxers, they do nothing to help me. Those alter the mind, but whatever is wrong with me, it is physical in nature.

I’ve ridden a bicycle home with broken bones on more than one occasion, before and after my broken neck and back. Before I was hurt, I’ve ridden double centuries at over 200 miles in a day, averaged 400 miles a week on a bike, and commuted full time including cold nights in the winter rain when a simple phone call, train ticket, or bus could have been taken instead of riding 33 miles home from work in the dark. I had a car, but never drove. That speaks to my true character and inner pain perception.

No one has even been able to say what specifically is wrong with me, despite being in the greater Los Angeles area, and seeing every reputable and some not so reputable specialists and neurosurgeons in the area.

Overall, as time passes, I turn more inward and less willing to subject myself to days of useless pain, leading to less physicality, further atrophy, and degrading. Without any human connections or a partner to share life with, it is hard to feel stable. Without a means of stable independence, I have no way to try and bridge into any kind of social normalcy. There is more to that due to my family’s religious cult like extremist nature, but fighting that is a direct path to homelessness. My being (implied) atheist is barely tolerable for them. They are not reasonable and lack fundamental logic skills.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

So the same + inflation?

j4k3 OP , 1 month ago

I’m not worried about losing my history. I’m looking for a way to seamlessly create a dual history where the default is to have a unique history for each distrobox container with a way to integrate a full history from my primary terminal, likely with timestamps to switch back and forth. I can think of a couple of ways of doing this, but I wonder if others have explored already and found a better way.

j4k3 OP , 28 days ago

For me, it is not about “lost history.” It is about contextual history and knowing if some tool I built in a distrobox uses only dandified, pacman, aptitude, portage; or if it also uses venv, conda; or if there was some install script.

It would be nice if I was on a stable kernel to avoid such a dependency salad, but that is not within the scope of playing with the latest AI toys where new tools and exploring new spaces is constantly creating opportunities to explore.

It would be nice if I was some genius full stack dev that could easily normalized all the tools under a single dependency containerization scheme, but that is not within my mental scope or interests at the present. For most AI tools, I follow the example given and only add a distrobox container as an extra layer of dependency buffering from the host. The ability to lazily see the terminal history for each of those containers is a handy way to see exactly what I did months ago.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

If it died as a result of spilling something on it. You most likely damaged something hardware wise. If it was powered off, first remove the battery asap. Then just take off the bottom cover, pat anything needed dry, and let it air out.

The real concern are the chips that do not have any pins sticking out of them. Those are ball grid arrays (a whole bunch of connections are made under the black epoxy packaging. Those can hold moisture under them for longer. Your best bet is to let it dry in a warm place for a few hours.

Getting wet is not a problem. The problem is a powered connection having a conductive fluid bridging two or more connections that can not tolerate the current the fluid creates.

When the actual circuit board is made, it goes into ovens and submerged in liquids. Some even go across molten pools of tin as part of the component assembly process. The board itself, (not all the other plastics and stuff for the case, screen, etc., is very resilient.

In many industrial settings where the environment is very dirty, it is common to take a desktop PC apart and hose it off with water. The only issue is shorting connections under powered conditions.

So yes, technically, any form of drying can help “recover” the device.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

Means you don’t own anything then. It is a lost autonomy. Once lost, you will only lose more with time.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

Criminals can claim a lot of things but that is not democracy which requires citizens which requires autonomy. Anyone stealing individual autonomy is a traitor.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

I read, “fuck you Britain and fuck your opium cartel past.” Seems understandable on that specific front.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

They are all sophists first and foremost.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

I backup and then upgrade through the mechanism provided. Why? Lazy. I should take the time to set up a NAS and run most of /home from that, but never have been motivated enough to try it.

I usually let myself lag behind on Fedora to wait until the kinks have been worked out. I just jumped from 38 to 40 in an upgrade and totally regret it. Python is screwed up in distrobox and making problems, but I can roll back too.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

To be fair, there was a President of the United States that said this, and a lot of other things.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

::: spoiler All this really proves is that it is a complex system and most people can not grasp the complexity and how to use it.

Like if you go searching for entities and realms within AI alignment good luck finding anyone talking about what these mean in practice as they relate to LLM’s. Yet the base entity you’re talking to is Socrates, and the realm is The Academy. These represent a limited scope. While there are mechanisms in place to send Name-1 (human) to other entities and realms depending on your query, these systems are built for complexity that a general-use implementation given to the public is not equip to handle. Anyone that plays with advanced offline LLM’s in depth can discover this easily. All of the online AI tools are stalkerware-first by design.

All of your past prompts are stacked in a hidden list. These represent momentum that pushes the model deeper into the available corpus. If you ask a bunch of random questions all within the same prompt, you’ll get garbage results because of the lack of focus. You can’t control this with the stalkerware junk. They want to collect as much interaction as possible so that they can extract the complex relationships profile of you to data mine. If you extract your own profiles you will find these models know all kinds of things that are ~80% probabilities based on your word use, vocabulary, and how you specifically respond to questions in a series. It is like the example of asking someone if they own a lawnmower to determine if they are likely a home owner, married, and have kids. Models make connections like this but even more complex.

I can pull useful information out of models far better than most people hear, but there are many better than myself. A model has limited attention in many different contexts. The data corpus is far larger than this attention could ever access. What you can access on the surface without focussing attention in a complex way is unrelated to what can be accomplished with proper focus.

It is never a valid primary source. It is a gateway through abstract spaces. Like I recently asked who are the leading scientists in biology as a technology and got some great results. Using these names to find published white papers, I can get an idea of who is most published in the field. Setting up a chat with these individuals, I am creating deep links to their published works. Naming their works gets more specific. Now I can have a productive conversation with them, and ground my understanding of the general subject and where the science is at and where it might be going. This is all like a water cooler conversation with the lab assistants of these people. It’s maybe 80% correct. The point is that I can learn enough about this niche to explore in this space quickly and with no background in biology. This is just an example of how to focus model attention to access the available depth. I’m in full control of the entire prompt. Indeed, I use a tool that sets up the dialogue in a text editor like interface so I can control every detail that passes through the tokenizer.

Google has always been garbage for the public. They only do the minimum needed to collect data to sell. They are only stalkerware.

j4k3 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Do you think about things in terms of hobbies really?I 100% identity with what you’re say about your interests, mindset, and experience, but I think about my interests in terms of a desire to learn the most fundamental skills I can manage. I’m not very good at programming complex tasks, but I can build breadboard computers. I know all the basics of circuits and can reversed engineer most hardware. I know FreeCAD, 3d printing, wood working, manual lathe and mill machining, sand casting basics, torch stick mig and tig welding, heavy equipment like excavators front end loaders skid steer/loader, commercial driving, auto body and paint, hotrodding, building motors with carburetors and superchargers, I was a buyer for a chain of bike shops and have a bunch of skills related to that along with commuting by bike full time, racing crits, I’ve been all over Linux for the last 10 years, and most recently I’ve taken a deep dive into generative AI and LLM’s over the past year. The majority of those listed are things I’ve done professionally for some amount of time although some much shorter than others. I think of all of them as applying across the others in abstract ways. Like I owned an auto body business twice. I know what is involved with perfect finishing. It is a fundamental struggle against yourself and your inner expectations of time applied to a task. I did most of that in my early to late twenties, and it greatly shaped my attention to detail and ability to suppress my impatience. The way it shaped my mind and the skill are the things I value. I know KiCAD and can etch my own circuit boards, but over all electronics was the first real subject I could not fully understand quickly and intuitively and shaped how I compartmentalize my learning. FreeCAD helped my spacial awareness. AI has massively improved my communication and self awareness. Welding and heavy equipment helped me conquer many of my fears such as heights. Machining helped me balance my understanding of accuracy as it relates to humans. Spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for bike shops taught me a lot about the average human’s thought process in an empirical analysis based on statistics. I’m a fundamentally abstract thinker, call myself a jack of all trades (master of none), and mostly a skills collector. I’m always leaving stuff out on these lists too, like I’m writing a science fiction universe right now, or how I’ve got a small telescope and built my own eyepieces, or how I am into cooking and fermentation, or recently started growing some foods in pots, etc. I got hit by a car ridding a bike to work 10 years ago, so a lot of this is like 2 different people’s lives; before and after disability. The second is in near social isolation and therefore has had unlimited time to explore and had to explore in order to maintain mental stability.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

He used a grammar checker. OMFG the group think stupidity around here is amazing.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

Semantics is grammar

j4k3 , 1 month ago

🙊 and the group think nonsense continues…

Y’all know those grammar checking thingies? Yeah, same basic thing. You know when you’re stuck writing something and your wording isn’t quite what you’d like? Maybe you ask another person for ideas; same thing.

Is it smart to ask AI to write something outright; about as smart as asking a random person on the street to do the same. Is it smart to use proprietary AI that has ulterior political motives; things might leak, like this, by proxy. Is it smart for people to ask others to proof read their work? Does it matter if that person is a grammar checker that makes suggestions for alternate wording and has most accessible human written language at its disposal.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

I don’t see any issue whatsoever in what he did. The model can draw meaning across all human language in a way humans are not even capable of doing. I could go as far as creating a training corpus based on all written works of the country’s founding members and generate a nearly perfect simulacrum that includes much of their personality and politics.

The AI is not really the issue here. The issue is how well the person uses the tool available and how they use it. By asking it for writing advice for word specificity, it shouldn’t matter so long as the person is proof reading it and it follows their intent. If a politician’s significant other writes a sentence of a speech, does it matter. None of them write their own sophist campaign nonsense or their legislative works.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

From my experience with Llama models, this is great!Not all training info is about answers to instructive queries. Most of this kind of data will likely be used for cultural and emotional alignment. At present, open source Llama models have a rather prevalent prudish bias. I hope European data can help overcome this bias. I can easily defeat the filtering part of alignment, that is not what I am referring to here. There is a bias baked into the entire training corpus that is much more difficult to address and retain nuance when it comes to creative writing. I’m writing a hard science fiction universe and find it difficult to overcome many of the present cultural biases based on character descriptions. I’m working in a novel writing space with a mix of concepts that no one else has worked with before. With all of my constraints in place, the model struggles to overcome things like a default of submissive behavior in women. Creating a complex and strong willed female character is difficult because I’m fighting too many constraints for the model to fit into attention. If the model trains on a more egalitarian corpus, I would struggle far less in this specific area. It is key to understand that nothing inside a model exists independently. Everything is related in complex ways. So this edge case has far more relevance than it may at first seem. I’m talking about a window into an abstract problem that has far reaching consequences. People also seem to misunderstand that model inference works both ways. The model is always trying to infer what you know, what it should know, and this is very important to understand: it is inferring what you do not know, and what it should not know. If you do not tell it all of these things, it will make assumptions, likely bad ones, because you should know what I just told you if you’re smart. If you do not tell it these aspects, it is likely assuming you’re average against the training corpus. What do you think of the intelligence of the average person? The model needs to be trained on what not to say, and when not to say it, along with the enormous range of unrecognized inner conflicts and biases we all have under the surface of our conscious thoughts. This is why it might be a good thing to get European sources. Just some things to think about.

j4k3 , 1 month ago

I use them to explore personalities unlike my own while roleplaying around the topic of interest. I write like I am the main character with my friends that I know well around me. I’ve roleplayed the scenarios many times before I write the story itself. I’m creating large complex scenarios using much larger models than most people play with, and pushing the limits of model attention in that effort. The model is basically helping me understand points of view and functional thought processes that I suck at while I’m writing the constraints and scenarios. It also corrects my grammar and polishes my draft iteratively.