Been running an MSI motherboard, gpu, WD raptor, and haswell cpu since 2015-ish. My only regret is that I got the “K” version of the processor for overclocking, which lacks the VT-d extensions needed for virtualization goodies like gpu passthrough.

Blaine County, Nebraska is the whitest county in America, in case anybody was wondering.

Hey, I’m not your buster, guy.

It’s just a tool. Increased utility can always be misused, but that is a poor reason to delay advancement. Yes, we should be aware of potential abuses of better technology. But we should use this awareness as a tailwind to propel us to the greatest number of beneficial discoveries that we can.

Oh honey… we don’t need artificial neurons for that.

This link should start at the action

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BlbQsKpq3Ak&t=95s

You do you, friend. I’m just sharing my experience, not trying prove anything.

Over bluetooth through a car stereo, no you won’t hear a difference. But over a cable through a decent pair of headphones, there is a difference. Even more with a good DAC, amp, and speakers.

The problem with audio quality is that one bad step in the chain from bits to eardrums will nerf the sound quality. So, if you upgrade one step you have to upgrade all of the other steps too before you will reap any benefits.

As a musician and audio engineer, I would love to say that you should experience a richer music listening experience. On the other hand… fucking rent.

I’ve always heard that the British accent from the 1700s was like a “modern” southern accent in America. Here’s an inconclusive BBC article:

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english

“BLE Radar” I think was picking up body cams at one point

With a terrible cry the Balrog fell forward, and its shadow plunged down and vanished. But even as it fell it swung its whip…

Hey there decentralized digital currency systems, you wanna… centralize?

You seem to spend a lot of energy questioning people’s intentions, inventing reasons to question whether people’s intentions toward you are genuine. Some do deserve to be questioned, no doubt. It just seems draining, and for what goal?

Do you aim to be the sole determiner of truth? To never be duped again? To sharpen your skills as an investigator?

How much more creative energy could you put into the world by taking people at their word in all but the highest risk cases?

What weighs more: the cost of taking people at their word, or the effort it takes to interpret the subtext of every interaction?

What would Altman gain from overstating the environmental impact of his own company?

What if power consumption is not so much limited by the software’s appetite, but rather by the hardware’s capabilities?

XOR cleartext once with a key you get ciphertext. XOR the ciphertext with the same key you get the original cleartext. At its core this is the way the old DES cipher works.

A bit of useful trivia: If you XOR any number with itself, you get all zeros. You can see this in practice when an assembly programmer XOR’s a register with itself to clear it out.

Maybe you’re right. Maybe it’s Markov chains all the way down.

The only way I can think to test this would be to “poison” the training data with faulty arithmetic to see if it is just recalling precedent or actually implementing an algorithm.

Hey now, we’ve called Elon Musk a lot of things, but “homeless” isn’t one of them.

This reminds me of learning a shortcut in math class but also knowing that the lesson didn’t cover that particular method. So, I use the shortcut to get the answer on a multiple choice question, but I use method from the lesson when asked to show my work. (e.g. Pascal’s Pyramid vs Binomial Expansion).

It might not seem like a shortcut for us, but something about this LLM’s training makes it easier to use heuristics. That’s actually a pretty big deal for a machine to choose fuzzy logic over algorithms when it knows that the teacher wants it to use the algorithm.

Yeah, but this reminds me of a line from game of thrones:

“If you’re a famous smuggler, you’re doing it wrong.”