The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at night and devouring its own dreams through the day.
They’re already past Yucatán - one case was detected in Veracruz three days ago. Except what people say about cockroaches also applies to flies, if you’re seeing one there are a thousand, specially in the wildlife.
Mexico notifies the World Organisation for Animal Health 1 incident of screwworms in the state of Las Choapas, city in the state of Veracruz, in a 6yo calf with myiasis around the belly button. Control measures for the event were applied.
Speaking on that: a lot of people act as if promoting Linux means simply “to get others to install it”. And they ignore that the newbie will need help the first days, weeks, even months. Then the newbie gets burned out and switches back to Windows.
That probably explains why some people manage to retain even tech illiterate people using Linux, while others struggle to convince even tech literate ones to switch.
My point is that the site should be recommending a few newbie distros, instead of telling the newbie to search it. Specially because the choice of a distribution isn’t that meaningful in the long run, but newbies struggle picking one.
That said I agree Mint would be a good choice. Not sure on Xfce; I’d probably recommend Cinnamon instead, as it looks a bit more modern (even if myself would rather use MATE or Xfce than Cinnamon).
Download a new OS // Download the operating system you want to install. Search for Linux distributions for beginners to get some suggestions.
I feel like it’s better to actually list/suggest a few beginner distros than to tell people to look it up.
Mewgenics is actually going to be released? I thought it was vaporware!
…I’m actually glad. I was quite interested on the game when announced back then. The video makes me feel that it’s completely different from what I expected, but still fun. (I like this sort of X-COM-like game.)
Automation in general is fun. Cue to Cracktorio Factorio.
And if the balance is just right it allows players to both experience the manual part and ditch it when it gets old.
I hope that I’m wrong but I’m predicting that silicosis will be a relatively small issue there. Since the environmental protection agency of USA is getting less funds, expect infectious and parasitic diseases to make a comeback. Including stuff like botflies.
Yes, it is expensive. But most of that cost is not because of simple applications, like in my example with grammar tables. It’s because those models have been scaled up to a bazillion parameters and “trained” with a gorillabyte of scrapped data, in the hopes they’ll magically reach sentience and stop telling you to put glue on pizza. It’s because of meaning (semantics and pragmatics), not grammar.
Also, natural languages don’t really have nonsensical rules; sure, sometimes you see some weird stuff (like Italian genderbending plurals, or English question formation), but even those are procedural: “if X, do Y”. LLMs are actually rather good at regenerating those procedural rules based on examples from the data.
But I wish it had some broader use, that would justify its cost.
I with that they cut down the costs based on the current uses. Small models for specific applications, dirty cheap in both training and running costs.
(In both our cases, it’s about matching cost vs. use.)
I’d go further: you won’t reach AGI through LLM development. It’s like randomly throwing bricks on a construction site, no cement, and hoping that you’ll get a house.
I’m not even sure if AGI is cost-wise feasible with the current hardware, we’d probably need cheaper calculations per unit of energy.
Why not quanta? Don’t you believe in the power of the crystals? Quantum vibrations of the Universe from negative ions from the Himalayan salt lamps give you 153.7% better spiritual connection with the soul of the cosmic rays of the Unity!
…what makes me sadder about the generative models is that the underlying tech is genuinely interesting. For example, for languages with large presence online they get the grammar right, so stuff like “give me a [declension | conjugation] table for [noun | verb]” works great, and if it’s any application where accuracy isn’t a big deal (like “give me ideas for [thing]”) you’ll probably get some interesting output. But it certainly not give you reliable info about most stuff, unless directly copied from elsewhere.
As the price of a dozen eggs soared above $6 for the first time
Holy fuck. For reference, during Lent a dozen eggs reached almost 12 reals (like, two dollars?) where I live, and people were screaming bloody murder.
Egg companies argue it’s a classic case of supply and demand, where limited supply and high demand lead to higher prices.
“No, we aren’t being arseholes! See, there’s that system of institutionalised arseholery that we’re following to gouge the prices. But we are not arseholes mkay?”
It’s Mothers’ Day tomorrow, so I’ll probably spend my Sunday doing stuff while my mum and sis deservedly do nothing, and my BIL and nephew undeservedly do nothing either. *sigh*
The whole thing can be summed up as the following: they’re selling you a hammer and telling you to use it with screws. Once you hammer the screw, it trashes the wood really bad. Then they’re calling the wood trashing “hallucination”, and promising you better hammers that won’t do this. Except a hammer is not a tool to use with screws dammit, you should be using a screwdriver.
An AI leaderboard suggests the newest reasoning models used in chatbots are producing less accurate results because of higher hallucination rates.
So he’s suggesting that the models are producing less accurate results… because they have higher rates of less accurate results? This is a tautological pseudo-explanation.
AI chatbots from tech companies such as OpenAI and Google have been getting so-called reasoning upgrades over the past months
When are people going to accept the fact that large “language” models are not general intelligence?
ideally to make them better at giving us answers we can trust
Those models are useful, but only a fool trusts = is gullible towards their output.
OpenAI says the reasoning process isn’t to blame.
Just like my dog isn’t to blame for the holes in my garden. Because I don’t have a dog.
This is sounding more and more like model collapse - models perform worse when trained on the output of other models.
inb4 sealions asking what’s my definition of reasoning in 3…2…1…
I was excited until “get more info here” redirected me to a Nazi bar.
I wish EU4 had more automation, the amount of micromanagement there was awful. And this sort of game is more interesting when you can focus on the big picture.
Sadly I don’t trust Hipsters’ Electronic Arts Paradox to do automation right. And by “right” I mean:
inb4: the guy is not promoting pseudoscience but denouncing it, and showing the trick behind the alleged perpetual motion machine he saw elsewhere. To keep it short, an air blower is adding energy to the system.
Björk is everything that isn’t not-Björk.
…you know, naming things after small pebbles is less cringe than being called “bootsie” (Caligula).
(Both words are similar by coincidence: calx “chalk/limestone”→ calculus “pebble” vs. caliga “boot” → caligula “little boot”. I’m not aware of any word like caligulus, at most caliculus “little cup” ← calix “cup”. inb4 sorry I probably just explained a joke, but I couldn’t resist.)
But you do need calculus to build stuff in Roman times! Lots and lots of calculi. Some cement too.
[Explanation: “calculus” is literally “pebble”, “little chalk”, something like this. The association with maths makes sense when you remember abaci.]
Clear PTB.
I didn’t read the whole comment chain because it’s rather long, but goat is consistently building straw men over what you and LibertyLizard said. For example, going out of his way to mix both meanings of the word “communist”, then as LL explained both things he idiotically answers it with “if u now you’re arguement is semantics, y r u even arguing?”.
And… speaking on general grounds, this sort of moron who’s eager to oversimplify complex matters is always a dead weight in any sort of discussion, and is best ignored as you address other users. If you must answer them, clipped/short replies like “I already addressed this” are often good.