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I had no idea Thinking Machine was a brand! I just thought they were "thinking machine super computers" another way of saying "artificial intelligence super computers" or "machine learning" (dunno if ML was around then :shrug:)

Just an FYI there are many efforts already available to clean and or provide a clean Firefox.

I leaned into the narrative style for this post. The content comes from my concrete talks and work but I don't mention any specifics. Not sure if I like the result but it was still interesting. The topic was light and easy enough I don't feel it suffered for it.

I'll bite. I have always been told copyright is inherit. Does it cost money to file a copyright? Do I need to do it for each blog post? For each gist? I'll totally setup some scripts to make it happen if it what actually needs doing to have the copyright I expected.

Edit: remember not to down vote ideas you disagree with. I think it was only down vote things that lower the discourse

It's a competitive world out there isn't it? Thank you

Unrelated to the app but I dig your website design.

This was a thing in the beginning of 2025. Not sure how they do now but I did the interview just to see the AI bot in action. It wasn't great but it was amazing at the same time. It might have been around sooner but I remember doing one AI interview that had a video lip synced avatar asking questions like we were on video chat.

Doing something novel is incredibly difficult through LLM work alone. Dreaming, hallucinating, might eventually make novel possible but it has to be backed up be rock solid base work. We aren't there yet.

The working memory it holds is still extremely small compared to what we would need for regular open ended tasks.

Yes there are outliers and I'm not being specific enough but I can't type that much right now.

Feature request: Combine book series into a single entity. Bummer getting recommendations for another book in the same series as one I already liked and read.

Feature request: Exclude books already in shelf. This is harder I'm sure. I've got 1146 books in my Read shelf.

I know a couple folks that do a ton of phone only reading now. I haven't read for pleasure in over a decade but I've listened to ~1300 different audiobooks. Seems like this isn't well thought out.

I don't know what I'm talking about but when I first asked your question this https://gist.github.com/Artefact2/b5f810600771265fc1e3944228... helped start me on a path to understanding. I think.

But if you don't already know the question your asking is not at all something I could distill down into a sentence or to that would make sense to a lay-person. Even then I know I couldn't distill it at all sorry.

Edit: I found this link I referenced above on quantized models by bartowski on huggingface https://huggingface.co/bartowski/Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-GGUF#whic...

No huggingface models or did I just miss them? Edit: they mention doing open models at some point at the bottom of the page

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Imagine three other possibilities:

You have a dozen people who would give you emotional support but you don't ask for any because you aren't sure you could give emotional support in return.

You have a dozen people you think might give you emotional support but you don't want to burden them with your problems.

You have a dozen people that would give you emotional support, maybe once, but you are too afraid to burn the single emotional support coupon until its more important.

It’s awesome they try to define those terms. But I wouldn’t call that well defined at all. https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=6a4c20dc-594d...

I would say that math is unambiguous.

Measurements are becoming more unambiguous. The accepted measurement of a kilogram equalling s Avogadro’s constant. Something like the number of silicon atoms in a 93mm sphere?

But the definitions of best and reasonable are only accepted based off precedent and we’ve seen in recent history precedent in law isn’t as reliable or defined as we may have thought.

Is there any language or any level of language that can remain defined across time and culture?

So long as legalese requires interpretation to determine intent and outcome it can be expected be incomprehensible.

For the sake of my question let’s assume this is legit and magically works for a wide range of autoimmune conditions. How many years away are we from being able to sign up for this treatment? 10 years? 20? 30?

It would be nice to dream of it happening sometime soon.

Halide. If you don't mind subscriptions or the lifetime $75 the app I found that did everything I wanted is Halide. The pain of the problem for me didn't cross the threshold for me to buy the app but the trial of it worked. Funny I have several dozen selfies of me testing it out compared to the Camera app with all the options toggled.

If you want to try out the “fix” goto camera settings and turn on “prioritize faster shooting” then in the camera app on the take picture button: tap, hold, drag left. It should stay white and play a shutter sound. There is a chance to do a similar action that just starts a recording but the button goes red for that.

I’d like a small phone with the newest screen and camera features. The phones with the features keep growing in size,

I’ve searched and searched for a way to turn off the extra processing. The only methods are third party camera apps or doing burst mode for every picture.

I preferred it when they saved the original and processed photos. Now there is no way to turn it off.

Worst part for me is when I get to see a perfect picture that gets processed a blink later and can never be recovered.

I can’t reply to dang’s comment with a Wikipedia article but I was laughing when the link they posted resulted in a toast notification.

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New option needed besides concise. Think quietly on your own, then answer concisely.

Sometimes I think I'd prefer it to "think" before answering anyhow. The immediate thinking out loud text can be irritating for some irrational reason.

I can see the author's perspective I think but the argument comes out like a little rant at the world and how things are than any real objection.

Places say no pets, which keeps out 99% of the pets, but then a more responsible or at least more determined 1% came up with a way to excuse their pet presence. They "earn" the ability to take their pet into areas otherwise restricted. Is that a class system? I wouldn't relate the two since it isn't something assigned at birth. However I know I'm woefully ignorant on these matters.

Pets are responsibility. They are entirely dependent on the owner for continued existence. I do not agree with relating them to Adderall prescriptions in any way shape or form.

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Or! Can this be related to the viewpoint of "It is better that ten guilty men go free than that one innocent man be convicted." and we just put up with all the bad actors for the good of the people who really need it. Given my bad experiences in medicine I'd side with this argument if nothing else.

I’m not well read on LLMs in spite of using them daily. The increase in performance seems incremental. As if they added another 0 to the number it might only go up the same percentage in output.

So I assume that the number is just one facet of increasing output quality. Is that a safe assumption? Like throwing more energy at a problem to improve output it only goes so far.

No ideas about side projects or anything "productive" but for a concrete example look at SillyTavern. Making fictional characters. Finding narratives, stories, role-play for tabletop games. You can even have group chats of AI characters interacting. No good use cases for profit but plenty right now for exploration and fun.

Shooting from the hip here I’d say $800 would be a good start for all new parts. You might get down to $500 with used parts.

The most expensive piece in either build is a video card. You want to be able to load the LLM file into your video card RAM.

I just got a 16gb new card for this. I can load up to 34b models on it but poorly. Anything 13b or less runs perfectly. A 12gb card would be able to run 7b models and with the right training I think 7b models can be awesome.

New 4060ti Used 3090

Hah. Damn our pedantic ways. I was about to come comment the same on brutalist. The author created something they are proud of but weren’t able to accurately describe.

Author; great work! Keep making things and you’ll figure the rest out along the way. No I wouldn’t buy or use it but I see the effort and potential you put in. Don’t stop.

I don't expect to buy another Chromebook after I found out mine had planned obsolescence. After a certain date it would no longer update. I didn't realize this would happen when I bought it so it came as a surprise. Still a perfectly fine machine otherwise I just have to make time to figure out how to install some Linux distro.

Fines always feel meaningless. Who gets the money?

I regret all the domain names I let go.