Running trained LLMs has, more or less, always been profitable. Inference can only run on one GPU efficiently, you know the size of the model, you know how long it takes… etc.

Inference is approximately as expensive and environment destroying as Call of Duty, which don’t get me wrong, is a waste of humanity for sure.

Model training however…

Which is why you use an electro-magnet.

You energize it, allow it to snap to the car pulling it forward slightly, then disengage it and use a motor in the arm to reset it to it’s original position.

SIM cards/personal payments are pretty secure. Several generations more so than internal banking systems.

I was just reading a report on this and tracking down a credit card thief when they can only spend that money when it pings their location is… pretty decent.

The mistake is thinking that security comes from some kind of techno wizardry instead of the ability to unceremoniously kill the thief the very second the value of what they’ve stolen exceeds the cost of killing them.

It’s very similar to learning how to use a computer in 1995. I’m just old enough to remember meeting these people.

There is this thing, which, supposedly, can help you do your job better, it’s being pushed by management, and it is sometimes expensive, often confusing, and obsoletes the skills you spent years to acquire.

Fast-forward 30 years, and it’s very, very, very difficult to find people to talk to who still argue computing doesn’t belong in the workplace, and that using a computer isn’t essential for virtually all work.

The reason it is difficult to find these people, is because they were left behind.

There aren’t any eugenics under the hood of Idiocracy. You’re thinking about genetics.

Eugenics is the idea that we should breed human beings intentionally, which is never proposed or discussed in the film.

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This might be the most evil thing I’ve learned about this year.

It really doesn’t matter, I’ve read most of them and justifying killing is high on the list of Important Things To Touch On In Religious Works.

So much so that it really is hard to imagine the world John Lennon describes.

Killing time it is then!

Edit: You should start with everyone not of your faith, as your God invariably commands you.

Some people understand peace, some people only understand war, so if you want to bring an understanding of peace to everyone… Guess it’s time to get killing!

Or, maybe, there’s another way; a way to find nothing to kill or die for.

And the lucky (not smart) among them get wealth, real power, and nobody to point out the problems with their reckless ideas.

I’m looking at a copy of Newton’s principia and it’s pretty obvious from the first chapter that y’all are fucking idiots. (Except OP, OP is cool).

Try reading it sometime. Imagine leveling this kind of critique at any other book you’ve never read.

Yes, it’s easily the best of the three.

I have some news for you, here is a real story.

I’m a programmer, a pretty good one, I have built real products worth millions of dollars and I’m doing alright. I’m no rockstar, I’m no pundit.

I have a raspberry pi connected to a touchscreen I use for home automation, it’s a nice little home IT project, I don’t really spend a lot of time on it. It’s a hobby and something to walkthrough/demo/make available for the kids to hack on.

I wanted to tighten up the install, get automatic updates running, get it in full kiosk mode and add a couple features. Nice little Saturday project, figured it take a couple hours on the outside, hardest part would be mapping the touchscreen again.

Claude did it for me in 20 minutes. So I got to spend an hour and a half thinking of features I wanted to include, pretty great for me! Pretty great for IT! Need doesn’t enter into it.

Maybe not great if your boss is a pinhead.

You owe it to yourself to borrow an oculus from a 14 year old and play Alyx.

It takes a little over 10 years to recognize that a game (or anything really) was revolutionary. You have to wait until all of the chaff has been forgotten, leaving only the revolutionary games behind.

Here are some of my top picks for what folks will look back on when they right the 2025-2035 had no good games version of your post.

Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. Vampire survivors. Hades. Elden Ring. Disco Elysium.

And one which will probably be a cult classic/sleeper hit: Return of the Obra Dinn.

Just for a start.

I spent a couple days on and off reading about this theory, I read a few papers in the field and some of Penrose’s work (I didn’t go grab his books). So, thanks. It was interesting. I have had some physicists mention to me in passing that quantum consciousness was a junk field, but I hadn’t looked into it.

I agree, this is definitely bullshit.

1. Penrose himself attempts to dodge this in the first paragraph, but why are we groping for a special theory of consciousness at all?

2. Quantum mechanics is in everything, without it, fundamental processes (like light passing through your window) can not adequately be explained. Just because something has ‘got a quantum’ or whatever doesn’t instantly make it special from a physical perspective (you don’t see scientists tossing out conversation of energy or causality because stuff’s ‘got a quantum’ or whatever).

3. You might be interested in some of the recent work demonstrating that anesthetics work on plants. Not a microtubule in sight.

Hey, look, you can read the paper! I wonder if the paper tells us what it is about?

courses.csail.mit.edu/6.803/pdf/turing.pdf

Of course! This has been true for almost 30 years!

But if your argument amounts to, “the soul exists because the brain has got quantum hootnannies in it”; well… :gestures broadly:

I always forget that computers use those special non-quantum electrons. Thanks!