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[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah it seems like it's something they wanted to do anyway, maybe to drop operating expenses, and they are using those regulations as an excuse.

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Lumo itself claims to be based on Mistral's Large model, which is not open weight.

https://lemmy.world/comment/18393337

https://docs.mistral.ai/getting-started/models/models_overview/

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

It's the Mistral Large model. Mistral does open source many of their models but not the large.

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Lumo being a cat is a cute nod to the Mistral team, who's AI chat bot is Le Chat (the cat).

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

The second time I had to try a little harder to get it to admit that it was Mistral.

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Did Proton train their own LLM or is it a Mistral model?

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What's a pit party?

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ever since CAD software was invented the role of mechanical/electrical engineer and drafter has largely been merged into one.

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

This gets posted pretty frequently and I agree with it. However, it's not obvious to me that there is a clear line where something moves from showerthought to unpopular opinion, making it hard to enforce. You could say that no opinion is a shower thought but that's even tough to enforce.

Using an example: "if you dot your t's and cross your i's, you still have i's and t's."

I would say that's a good shower thought. I don't want to pull that down, but it's not an objective fact. I would understand if some people thought that was an opinion, because you would have really tall i's and really short t's.

All rules are subjective, I'm just trying to tease out my understanding of this common critique.

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

wow, great photos

 

This proposed rule change is open for comment until May 19.

My comment was:

I urge the rejection of this proposed rule.

I think we can be very thankful for the definition of harm as currently defined. If we were talking about the human species there would be no doubt that significant degradation of our ability to feed, shelter, and produce offspring would indeed be considered harm.

From only an economic perspective this proposed rule change is extremely counter productive. We learn an enormous amount from animals and that knowledge creates enormous economic value.

An example is the horseshoe crab. The Virginia Institute of Marine Science estimates the value of horseshoe crabs to the medical research industry at $100M per year. In 2023, the US Fish and Wildlife Service began work to aid their reproduction and support this industry. If harm is no longer defined as a significant decline in ability to reproduce, will we be able to protect this industry?

As our technology advances we are always learning more from animals, so we don't know which animals will give us our next billion dollar industry. After we decimate a species, we may not get to choose if it goes extinct, and with each extinct species we inflict immense harm on current and future generations of humans.

 
 
  • "Ein dog run dans le park, et son owner rennt après."
  • "Un dog läuft in le parc, son master run après."
  • "Ein doggy cour dans le parc, und der owner läuft nach ihm."

The silly language used in the 'Poland ball' memes got me wondering if that language was actually easier to understand for users of multiple languages. So I tried to get chatGPT to unite multiple languages (I tried Le Chat first but it wasn't as good).

My prompt:

Rewrite this phrase so that it is most understandable to people that only speak English, other people that only speak french, and a third group that only speaks German. You may use words from any language and you may misspell words if the word you use, although being mispelled, is more easily understood by speakers of both languages. You may not use slashes to separate two words for the same thing. You may change the phrase's structure as long as the meaning is the same. The phrase is: There is a dog running in the park. The owner is running after it

It's answer:

Here’s a version of the phrase rewritten to be easily understood by English, French, and German speakers:

"Un dog is courir in the park, und le master cour après."

Explanation of choices:

"Un dog": "Dog" is a simple English word that’s often understood by French and German speakers, and “un” is French for “a,” also recognizable to many.

"is courir": A mix of English “is” and French “courir” (to run), easy to guess even for German speakers who know “laufen” or “rennen.”

"in the park": Fully English, but all three languages share similar terms (“le parc,” “der Park”).

"und le master": “Und” is German for “and,” “le” is French for “the,” and “master” is close to “maître” (FR) and “Herrchen” (DE), but more internationally recognized.

"cour après": French phrase for “running after,” also intuitive to others.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by vatlark@lemmy.world to c/til@lemmy.ca
 

The theorem has been expressed colloquially as "you can't comb a hairy ball flat without creating a cowlick" or "you can't comb the hair on a coconut".

 

How much time is wasted sorting socks?

 

cross-posted from: https://50501.chat/post/49131


Originally Posted By u/Unique-Literature-00 At 2025-03-21 11:28:30 AM | Source


 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26717237

I was curious how well wealthy countries do at hosting refugees.

The plots are interactive so its better to view them here: https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics/insights/explainers/refugee-hosting-metrics.html

In the plot, the size of the circle is the number of refugees.

Germany is really doing an amazing job, y'all should be proud.

Compared to Chile, the US has 15x the population and 5x the wealth per capita but hosts fewer refugees. I certainly don't have the full picture but its not a good look.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by vatlark@lemmy.world to c/DataBackRibs@lemm.ee
 

I was curious how well wealthy countries do at hosting refugees.

The plots are interactive so its better to view them here: https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics/insights/explainers/refugee-hosting-metrics.html

In the plot, the size of the circle is the number of refugees.

Germany is really doing an amazing job, y'all should be proud.

Compared to Chile, the US has 15x the population and 5x the wealth per capita but hosts fewer refugees. I certainly don't have the full picture but its not a good look.

 

The tesseract Lemmy app, has a little overview from mediabiasfactcheck.com (MBFC). It seems like a clever way to foster a healthy community.

If you click on the ranking you get details.

ranking details for CNN

EDIT: Sorry to stir up an old hornet's nest.

EDIT2: Commenters have some valid criticisms of MBFC. Even if there are flaws, I would like to celebrate all attempts at elevating the conversations we are having.

 

This person is surprisingly skilled

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25383874

Whats a good tool for tracking my emissions?

I tried apps like Klima and Earth Hero. Earth Hero is especially good but I would like to play with the numbers myself for specific scenarios like snapshots of my emissions, planning my next year, logging my specific air travel, hobbies, etc.

If anyone has a spreadsheet model I would be grateful. Otherwise I can build one. Earth Hero gives a lot of references to their source models.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by vatlark@lemmy.world to c/moviesuggestions@lemmy.world
 

I feel like this is low hanging fruit with the Lemmy community. I think this movie is so much fun. Such a nostalgia trip.

I would be curious how much gen alpha would enjoy it.

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