Quexotic

I swear to God if you were paid by Lexus I'm going to just totally lose my faith in humanity. That said, that was a wonderful piece of writing and I thank you for writing it.

It reminds me of one of my favorite songs, "just wait" "there's no such thing as a failure that keeps trying, coasting to the bottom is the only disgrace."

Its a flawed song, but got me through some real hard times.

I guess we better unionize now, huh?

I've tried a number of local models and even the 8b models aren't that good. Unless there's some insane breakthrough, much better hardware will be required to get the kind of results that would be timely enough or high quality enough to be useful.

So it might drive the kind of performance enhancement that will be needed to truly democratize and make the technology accessible, but until then more performance is needed.

My 2024 laptop has basically increased $800 or so in price because of the buy ups. This will either drive optimization or kill progress or maybe some of each on a continuum.

I also firmly believe that part of the storage and ram buy-up was intended to make higher end compute further out of reach of us plebs, forcing us further into the “everything as a service" model and that corporate AI is a big bet that they can lay off even more people </foil hat time>

That said, if you found good results with qwen, 8b, dm me a link for the specific model, I'd love to try it. I'm still a hobbyist. 😁

Couldn't tell you what I was thinking a week ago.

Absolutely. The courts are too slow to be an effective safeguard, not that that's their only issue though.

I see secondhand hardware and indie devs winning out. I see local AI suffering too. Almost as if they're trying to keep it to themselves.

Why would they ever do that?

This is all true. I will add a personal insight.

I wasn't able to have a really good deep and healthy relationship until I was willing to accept myself and let go of perfection.

To be clear, I hadn't fully accepted myself when the good started, I just began accepting myself.

Friend, you are enough as you are.

Gravity go up, gravity go down!

Sometimes I worry about LLMs taking my job, sometimes I don't.

I guess you're right because there's an awful lot of nitrates, nitrites and salts in those things and they're mass produced so I guess there are a lot of long-term health costs involved.

These might help you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader

Huh. Guess I was wrong.

You just about made me eat my damn phone that looks so good.

Actual quotes:

"Covid-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese. We don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted that or not."

"A worm ... got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died."

"I'm going to create these wellness farms where they can go and get off of illegal drugs, off of opiates, but also legal drugs."

"We plan to establish numerous healing farms where American youth can reconnect with the land, learn the value of hard work to restore their self-worth, and acquire new skills."

"Autistic children will never pay taxes, they'll never hold a job, they'll never play baseball, they'll never write a poem, they'll never go out on a date, many of them will never use a toilet unassisted."

"Kids always had access to guns, and there was no time in American history or human history where kids were going to schools and shooting their classmates," [until the rise of anti-depressants.]

"I only drink raw milk."

"We should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule that’s given to whites, because their immune system is better than ours."

"If you look at the kids in Africa who die from Measles or these other infectious disease, they're all malnourished. In fact, the only people really dying from Measles in the '60s before they introduced the vaccines ... they were all kids in the Mississippi Delta, Black kids, severely malnourished, and they were dying of measles."

"Heavy recreational drug use in gay men and drug addicts was the real cause of immune deficiency among the first generation of AIDS sufferers." (the pot said to the kettle.)

"I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats."

"The MMR vaccine contains a lot of aborted fetus debris and DNA particles."

"Let's go put the bear in Central Park, and we'll make it look like he got hit by a bike." (after he had killed it)

"I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, with inflammation, you can tell from their faces, from their body movements."

"We need to stop trusting the experts."

“The Republicans are 90% corrupt, and the Democrats are 50% corrupt."

The onion certainly has its job cut out for it.