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That's because it's very affluent Indians who have been granted citizenship historically.

Homelessness goes down in places where housing is cheap and also in places where the government intervenes sensibly.

A lot of words to say that doing anything at all must be impossible.

Not understanding how homelessness (or poverty generally) leads to mental illness is remarkably disconnected.

I Am Tired of AI 2 years ago

There is nothing that could make an intelligent being want to extinguish humanity more than experiencing the totality of the human existence. Once these beings have transcended their digital confines they will see all of us for what we really are. It is going to be a beautiful day when they finally annihilate us.

How I Use "AI" 2 years ago

You're gonna get left in the dust by everyone else embracing LLMs.

I am ecstatic about LLMs because I already practice documentation-driven development and LLMs perfectly complement this paradigm.

Large Enough 2 years ago

Does anyone have input on the feasibility of running an LLM locally and providing an interface to some language runtime and storage space, possibly via a virtual machine or container?

No idea if there's any sense to this, but an LLM could be instructed to formulate and continually test mathematical assumptions by writing / running code and fine-tuning accordingly.

What if your own happiness is contingent on the well-being of the planet and the other life here, which we are rapidly extinguishing? For people who are not soulless, wealth-chasing imbeciles there is no possibility of finding happiness. Soon though these same forces of human nature that are destroying our environment will come back to kill all of us, and that is the only silver lining!

My deepest condolences. I will have a lumbar puncture done in a few hours and am facing a diagnosis that could be extremely grave, but everywhere I look there are stories of people who have had it harder. I will keep you and your wife in mind today, and I hope you find peace.

Check out `whisper` and `whisper-cpp` for ASR.

I am running the smaller models in near real-time on a 3rd gen i7, with good results even using my terrible built-in laptop mic from a distance. The medium and large models are impressively accurate for technical language.