I was bicycling at high speed, closed my eyes to enjoy the breeze, and slammed into a concrete pillar, pretty much skinning my right leg in its entirety.

I hobbled home leaving a trail of blood, making some people sick on the way, treated my wounds with hydrogen peroxide and bandages, it took 21 days to heal and was intensely painful.

As I was laid up in bed and staring at the ceiling, I thought:

"I only closed my eyes for 3 seconds at 20 MPH. I’m never taking my eyes off the road in a car. Whoever texts me can get fucked."

“I told you so”?

Doing the speed limit while cruising in the middle lane is the proper way to travel in the United States, or just going with the flow of traffic. Being predictable is safe.

If the road you’re on has a 80 MPH speed limit however, and people are doing 90-100 in the left lane (+10-20) it is exceedingly difficult to pass someone without temporarily going high speeds yourself.

I’ve had a much easier life following a super easy rule for highways:

Left lane: Passing/Fast

Middle lane: Cruising

Right lane: Exit/Slow

If I’m in the left lane doing 110 MPH and there’s a pickup truck right on my ass, I’ll signal and go middle lane and just cruise for a bit.

9 times out of 10, I’ll see that exact same pickup or other car on the right shoulder with a state trooper writing him up.

It’s happened so often in my life, it’s made me believe in “instant karma”. Just let them pass.

The latest LD&R season is utterly forgettable. It’s like mediocre digital art student summer projects, designed to build up a portfolio, there’s no rhyme or substance to it, just all style or visual demonstration.

You’re not missing much.

It sounds like an interview question and not really an icebreaker, imo

Imagine you’re an astronaut for a national space agency on an exploration mission.

You are charting a usual star system named after an astronomer, Kepler.

Everything is normal but you detect trace gases of Nitrogen, Oxygen, Methane and Carbon Dioxide coming from the third planet orbitting the star.

News breaks about potentially organic compounds detected on an exoplanet and your space agency gives you authorization to approach and orbit for closer study.

When you get closer, you find an alarming sight – more than half of the planet, Kepler-3, has golden lights dotting the dark half of the planet.

Initially, it’s dismissed as natural atmospheric disturbances, but a few insightful individuals point out that they can see what look like geometric shapes, organized behavior of some kind.

It’s at this point, the close range scans indicate not just some “organic gases” but trillions of organisms , all of them alien, and worst of all, possessing a chirality opposite to your own.

Your immune system and their pathogens, and your pathogens, are wholly incompatible. You touch anything, you get sick and die, and they get sick and die.

No amount of medicine cures opposite handed chirals. So you do the smart thing, and turn around and leave.

Then, a few years later, an organism on their planet says:

“Lame. Bad event happened and not even any aliens”, being completely oblivious to the biological apocalypse their planet has been spared from.

Revealing negative [accurate] information to a narcissist often carries the risk of backlash, known colloquially as “narcissistic rage”

Powerful quote, also true

If you are using CPU only, you need to look at very small models or the 2-bit quants.

Everything will be extremely slow otherwise:

GPU:

Loaded Power: 465W

Speed: 18.5 tokens/second

CPU: Loaded Power: 115W

Speed: 1.60 tokens/second

GPUs are at least 3 times faster for the same power draw.

I don’t know what GPU you’ve got, but Lexi V2 is the best “small model” I’ve seen with emotions, that I can just cite from the top of my head.

It tends to skew male and can be a little dark at times, but it’s more complex than expected for the size (8B feels like 48-70B).

Lexi V2 Original

Lexi V2 GGUF Version

Do Q8_0 if you’ve got the VRAM, Q5_KL for speed, IQ4_XS if you’ve got a potato.

My answer to this is yes.

I’m an AI Developer and my only option was to self host because I didn’t want my training data leaking out onto the web and by extension, China and the rest (I trained on my own data, writing, and notes, along with Wikipedia).

Self-hosting gives you complete freedom but also as one other user cautioned, don’t fall down the well/rabbit hole.

Use an executable like LM Studio, and then an off the shelf pre-trained model from Huggingface.

VRAM × 0.8 for max size.

Experiment until you find one you like.

When all you’ve got is weapons

…

Uhh something something hammer nails

Wait really? Since when? I’ve gotta try it now:

Luigi Mangione

Nope, that seems to work

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghrelin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptin

TLDR: The body has a setpoint for weight which is tuned to environmental conditions and will attempt to reach it by modulating hunger.

It takes 8-12 months for these hormones to reset, so any diet is ineffective unless permanently maintained.

High setpoint? Prepare to be ravenously hungry all the time if you eat below your hormonal baseline.

I’m sorry friend; I still feel that childhood demiurge of “the game”.

I got teary eyed this morning playing a particularly satisfying VR title.

I guess my advice is: Try virtual reality gaming.

TLDR: ROCM is AMD’s variant for general purpose compute on GPUs, like CUDA is for NVIDIA.

OpenAI being for profit.

I use ROCM extensively (I write, design and train my own AIs/LLMs) and it’s annoying of an acronym, especially in command lines:

--rocm-6.6.7.2-dev1  --cuda

But I figure it’s a four letter acronym to match “CUDA”.

I also pronounce it “Rock’em” in verbal versus “Koo’dah” (Barracuda).

Everything is about marketing and goodwill. You can just say something has “blast processing” and fail to elaborate.

Yes but meme man named the department DOGE (/s)