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Oh my, AI sure is a cultural phenomena. I don't know why I'm in this seminar,...
Oh my, AI sure is a cultural phenomena. I don't know why I'm in this seminar, it can't be good for blood pressure. - LLM != scripts that flood the internet with garbage. That...
How to make good use of LLMS - be an expert in the area you're prompting about...
How to make good use of LLMS - be an expert in the area you're prompting about - invest time into prompting and automated conversations, i.e. don't rely on single shot - read...
When you ask a bot to write code to use an API you see what is confusing. When...
When you ask a bot to write code to use an API you see what is confusing. When a bot expects an exception to happen, it has no idea if it should quietly return a neutral value or...
Day 2 of upgrade. I think can compete if they can give their bots personality...
Day 2 of upgrade. I think can compete if they can give their bots personality better than the knock offs. So far the bot is an upgrade from the random path-bot and did it's job,...
Re: hashtags and cw - hashtag means two things, "add this to your filter" AND...
Re: hashtags and cw - hashtag means two things, "add this to your filter" AND "engage me on this topic like I just posted to a mailing list" - words mean, "you can still mute this...
Kernel level drivers are like Microsoft letting 3rd parties commit directly to...
Kernel level drivers are like Microsoft letting 3rd parties commit directly to the operating system main branch without review.
Wow, the bug was a file of ALL NULLS. When executed/used it led to a null...
Wow, the bug was a file of ALL NULLS. When executed/used it led to a null pointer deref Two layers of null unsafety.
I've an inclination to write a bot - Human-in-the-loop bot. There have always...
I've an inclination to write a bot - Human-in-the-loop bot. There have always been humans in the loop for bots, the question is how much in the loop. I'll manually approve *every*...
Millions of linux users around the world had their productivity crippled by as...
Millions of linux users around the world had their productivity crippled by as they all rushed to read the news, post hot takes & dad jokes to their Mastodon feed.
I can't actually tell what is public on my account because I have to sign in to...
I can't actually tell what is public on my account because I have to sign in to see what is "public". I can only simulate my own auth claims. This is different from, say, linkedin...
1) Most local bots are not even ChatGPT3.5 level 2) Inference speed is often...
1) Most local bots are not even ChatGPT3.5 level 2) Inference speed is often usable slow* 3) The hardware to run inference at a reasonable speed is ruinously expensive ($6000 is...
The ratio of wingeing about generative AI to heat pumps around here makes me...
The ratio of wingeing about generative AI to heat pumps around here makes me think some people are putting on a show. Around 1/3 to 1/2 of ALL energy is space heating.
**AWS**: take a daily snapshot in case you need to restore your database:...
**AWS**: take a daily snapshot in case you need to restore your database: **Me**: I need to restore my database to the same server, same domain, same connection string **AWS**: Oh...
Re: bots and compliance I'm starting to think that creating a bot that it is...
Re: bots and compliance I'm starting to think that creating a bot that it is convinced is not a sentient being will not help with compliance because our mental model of compliance...
I've started reading "Service Model" by . (Robots!) Anyhow, you can tell it is...
I've started reading "Service Model" by . (Robots!) Anyhow, you can tell it is pre-LLM sci-fi because the bot sees a sign "Abandon all hope all who E" and the bot spends a...
August 18, 2024 will be the Ghost festival this year. It is not one, but 3,...
August 18, 2024 will be the Ghost festival this year. It is not one, but 3, holidays in one. - Halloween (Ghosts!) - Mother's day - Thanksgiving (The veg-feasting part) I'm...
What if the president asked someone to do something illegal? It is still...
What if the president asked someone to do something illegal? It is still illegal for them, right?