MajorSomeday
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MajorSomeday
1yr ago
Has anyone successfully ran an LLM fully offline, and still actively uses it? easy to keep using and be confident it’s not sending stuff out? how is it compared to gpt4?
I’d like to take advantage of LLMs for my personal note taking / organization / todos, but I’m generally pretty risk-averse from a privacy and security perspective and I keep some fairly private stuff in there.
MajorSomeday
1yr ago
Congrats! It’s really fun, you’ll probably have a blast.
You’re about to lose a lot of your personal time, especially if you have two. The excitement and lack of sleep will keep it from hurting much for the first few months, but after that you’ll be like, alright, I’m ready to read/videogame/code/do whatever, and the kids keep taking my time. Just keep in mind this is a relatively short time in your life. When your kids turn 5-6 they’ll start school and have their own lives, and you won’t see them quite as much. By the time your children are 12, you’ll have spent 75% of all the time you’ll ever spend with them.
I’d nudge you to have more kids than you’re thinking. There’s a book about this, but the argument roughly goes: Most people optimize for the amount of kids they want to have when the kids are young. But that time doesn’t last very long, relatively. Optimize for some mixture including how many kids you want to have when the kids are 10 / 15 / 20 / 25.
Your own emotional control will likely be a major factor in your ability to be a good parent. Parenting is frustrating and sad and scary and all that. But the kids need you to be reliable, and able to handle the tiny disasters they’re throwing at you. If you can be a rock under pressure with kids screaming at you, you’ll make a better parent.
Also, for whatever reason, being outside is magical for young kids. I can have them inside with a million toys, and they’ll be bored, but outside in a plain yard with an old soccer ball, and they’re happy for hours. Other families have concurred. shrug
MajorSomeday
1yr ago
We had a breach baby and they did an ECV to flip them around, so that we could do a vaginal birth. Basically a doctor pushes on the belly in certain ways to get the baby head-down. Worked for us! Though I hear a lot of doctors won’t do it because there are risks.
I think the most annoying stage so far is the one where they can walk with a hand but not otherwise. They then want to walk all the time, so you’re stuck in a hunched over position to keep them happy.
MajorSomeday
1yr ago
This is an important aspect of economics that lots of people seem to misunderstand: prices are not determined by costs.
They’re determined by what consumers are willing to pay for your product. That’s it.
The manufacturer sets its price based on what will bring them the most profit, I.e. what the consumers are willing to pay times the number of customers willing to pay it. Notice how cost is a pretty minor factor in that.
Supply and demand has an effect because it reduces the amount consumers are willing to pay (because they can get your product elsewhere)
So your argument that software should charge less based on what it costs them is just a misapprehension of how this works in the economy in general.
MajorSomeday
1yr ago
This thing drives me crazy. LEDs are better than the other alternatives in every way except price.
So why don’t they tax them instead of ban them? Just seems idiotic to not let people who want the worse thing to pay for it. And the whole point is to avoid the tragedy-of-the-commons inherent in climate change, so figure out what the diff is in switching, then set the tax at that rate. Bam, now you’ve properly incentivized everyone to do the right thing.
I just don’t get why the govt refuses to make use of the economic engine we have at our disposal.
MajorSomeday
1yr ago
From this exchange it became clear to me that no one bothers to investigate the etymology of words, where they came from, how they are defined, and what they actually mean.
Why do you believe that etymology helps you to know what a word actually means?
Etymology is interesting, but it’s almost totally unrelated to meaning. Even Websters dictionary doesn’t try to do that — they’re explicitly descriptive, not prescriptive.
Words are defined by how they’re used. That’s it.
Yes, it’s frustrating when people intentionally use the wrong word trying to sway public opinion, and it’s frustrating when you can’t pin down people on what they mean because of shifting definitions. But none of that is new nor unique to the left.
MajorSomeday
1yr ago
My opinion? Don’t bother.
There’s going to be a gigantic industry from utilizing ai and learning to use it well. Don’t dive into creating the ai, dive into figuring out the best ways to use the ai to accomplish something else. That’ll probably be more lucrative to you at this point.
MajorSomeday
1yr ago
Fwiw, I thoroughly enjoyed that series. It was an interesting story with pretty cool concepts, and made me think a lot.
I’m no wokist, but I’m not as bothered by it as most people here. The one pronoun device seemed just totally plausible to me. A big concept of sci-fi is exploring alien culture, and it doesn’t seem that weird that you’d have a culture that doesn’t use gendered pronouns. Looks like there’s some in real life even, like Hungarian.
The AI used humans as slaves to provide a better interface to it for its captains. IIRC robotics were just a lot more expensive, so the ships ~never used them.
MajorSomeday
1yr ago
“ylpeä" (direct translation)
Just to double check: is this the same translation that the survey used? I’d think if the connotation is positive in English and negative in Finland, then that isn’t a direct translation.
But you do raise an interesting point: it seems like we should be taking surveys that cross language barriers with even more salt than we usually do, since translations and cultural contexts affect them so much.
Do you think in reality Finns aren’t so different? Or do your second two bullets override the translation problem?
MajorSomeday
2yr ago
I got one a few months ago. It’s been interesting. I guess my main discoveries are:
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My workouts are actually more intense than I thought
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I’m sleeping way less than I thought I was
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Magnesium actually has an impact on my sleep performance
I think the journal that you fill out daily is probably the most interesting feature of whoop, since then it’ll tell you how the things you’re doing are affecting your recovery.
MajorSomeday
2yr ago
I have concluded that just about anything women say on this matter can be more or less discarded.
This is true about just about everything. People are really really bad at revealing what truly motivates them in any aspect of their life. Most people don’t know themselves (myself included). If they did know, then why would akrasia be a thing? Why would anyone fail a diet? Why would meditation be interesting at all?
MajorSomeday
2yr ago
Interesting counterpoint! It’s tempting to say they’re not employees but that seems like an uninteresting detail. I’m gonna have to ponder on what makes that different.
MajorSomeday
2yr ago
The most efficient form of government would be benevolent dictator (if you could solve the alignment problem).
A startup trying to follow free market economies internally would be quickly outpaced by every other company in the world.
MajorSomeday
2yr ago
I actively recommend against it for most people. I think it’s infohazardous. It paints a pretty bleak picture of corporations, and some class of people will be demotivated on actually doing the work they’d need to do to get ahead.
MajorSomeday
2yr ago
Replace “gambled” with “traded with”, and its now basically the same as what any major modern bank does, I think. (Outside of the idiotic TOS, which I agree they effed up on, since the problematic phrase wasn’t even in there until May)
MajorSomeday
2yr ago
Turns out January was too early. They added the section about ownership in May. So I retract what I said before.
MajorSomeday
2yr ago
I don’t think that’s anything that a modern international bank wouldn’t do? Like, surely JP Morgan Chase extends lines of credits to their own hedge funds, using bank deposits to fund them. (Granted they prolly don’t extend 50% of their assets to them. But I think that’s a difference in appetite for risk than any real ethical boundary)
The terms claiming they wouldn’t do that is dumb. I’m not sure they exactly violated them, since they didn’t loan the assets to FTX trading, they just allowed another client (Alameda) to trade on margin on shitty terms. But they definitely violated the spirit of it. (Though I don’t really know what “title” is supposed to mean in this context)
MajorSomeday
2yr ago
Ah yep. Hadn’t seen that one. That’s idiotic and effed up.
Ahh that would definitely be something if it were true. That said, it seemed to me like a strange thing for a company to put in the TOS, since those things are about protecting the company. So I pulled the FTX TOS from January and don’t see anything in there promising that edit: I was wrong. January was too early to pull the TOS.
You say he made that claim publicly?
MajorSomeday
2yr ago
What exactly do you think his crimes were? I haven’t seen anything that says he was operating any differently from a normal bank, except doing it in with much riskier assets.
I still don’t understand a lot of peoples hatred of this guy. From what I can tell, he made a dumb mistake in a very complicated system that went against him. His main transgression was playing it too risky, and I can’t tell that, other than whatever that implies, there’s any bad morality at play here.
edit: information revealed since I made this comment makes it clear that he was an overconfident asshole and there is definitely lots of reasons to hate him. (Tho I maintain that the early kvetching reeked too much of “his company crashed so he must be doing something wrong”, which reduces to “successful = good”)
MajorSomeday
2yr ago
In my experience, eye strain issues are massively helped by short breaks scattered through out the day. Is it possible that you were filling the natural breaks in work by looking at your phone? If so, maybe it’s not about PWM, it’s about the fact that not having a phone means you’re not staring at screens 100% of the day.
MajorSomeday
2yr ago
A friend I knew in school declared that notes from the underground was required reading for any educated person. I’ve read it and while I appreciated it, I didn’t quite have that reaction.
Can you justify the recommendation some? I’ve been thinking of giving it a reread
MajorSomeday
2yr ago
I don’t post a ton so not sure how much it matters, but as promised a few months ago, I made it!
I gotta look around and see if the RSS feeds work. I’ll prolly forget to check in if not.
Something to try: Max yourself out, then switch to negatives. i.e. use a chair to get to the top, then slowly let yourself descend.
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