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Musk IS a **nt!, but he have obviously been targeted - just see how much Cash, products and media attention he have gotten. Look how much Cash is floating in the Anti-Musk Campaign. Activists usually don’t have money for Ad campaigns and shit, and hacking a prompt at XAI wouldn’t be hard for the right people. Whenever you see activists with new flags, banners and ‘expensive’ stuff, we know that someone have sponsored that event - usually US oligarchs.

So, don’t like Musk, don’t care much what happens to him, don’t need/want to defend him, but we should at least pay attention to the pattern of attacks, acknowledge that such targeted pressure/events against a single person is easy to create and happens all the time - even if completely false - AND can be used against somebody YOU like next ! These information war methods are already used against other Nations/competitors of US/The West, so re-focusing the geo-political ‘change’ apparatus against an internal enemy isn’t a problem at all. They have been ‘utilized’ in Britain (Corbin) and on non-liberal competitors in all the other Liberal/Western nations.

It happens daily…

“Nerd Humor - the best kind of Humor”

Guix is a great and modern Operating system, where most things are thought through in the FLOSS (free libre open source software) spirit. but besides the installer, you will get your hands dirty in the terminal, with a little Scheme coding (configs are in Scheme (a Lisp like language (that uses an insane amount of ()'s (!!)))) - imagine that. Anyway, standard Guix doesn’t come with proprietary drivers, so you’ll have to add the non-guix repository (gitlab/github) for many wifi drivers. Not quite as easy as other Distros, but doable if you take small steps and copy&paste your first configurations.

I use Flatpak’s to enhance the software selection, installing from git/pypi and others is also possible.

ONE anecdotal downside is that I have experienced a few machines where the installer fails, and I have to do it manually. Doable, but it does require a little nerdyness to fix.

All Guix experts have apparently mind-melded with Emacs, and are nerdy compared to normal users ! The main focus is not on UX, but its a cool environment if you become interested in the inner workings of the system, or any of the nerd tool (LaTeX is a Classic, so you are almost there ;-).

If that all gets to hairy, you could try out https://www.pantherx.org/ that are a guix based distribution. I think they have enabled non-free firmware by default, and you get a nice® desktop experience out of the box, so there’s that. I haven’t tried it yet, tho.

Guix is both very advanced under the hood (where all the lovelyness happens), very stable, and very FLOSS, but for doing light work only, you might overshoot on raw Guix. PantherX is likely easier, but you’ll perhaps have to live with a few proprietary blobs (closed source drivers) in the kernel.

I’m tired, sorry for errors…

Damn, the West are moving like a Snail in comparison ! I guess a society that isn’t purposed by Capitalist Oligarchs/Feudal Lords works quite well after all. Neat…

Oh, the 500ghz is the max theoretical switching (0<>1) limit for Bismuth itself, not for any production chip any time soon, sorry about that. I saw it in either the paper or at ‘Anastasia in Tech’ on youtube. (worth following if interested in chip development).

Functionality-wise, its a promising ‘personality’ training system. Could be my ‘guiding voice’ when my other agents run autonomously for longer time. Could also be used to create Agents imitating the thinking of some Hooman experts we want to influence some agent sub-system we have, or just creating a domain-expert AI.

However, it have the option to connect to a seemingly(?) closed-source ‘AI network’, where people can buy services, create NFT’s on personalities and similar market garbage, so I won’t be using that part - open or not.

…and they just replaced Silicon with Bizmuth in another study (>500ghz, smaller, more efficient). The West have already lost the ideological competitive race they still fantasize about…

Neat article. I too battled with the different definitions of Entropy (in relation to surprise, order/disorder, complexity etc), but didn’t come as close as this guy.

“But I have no idea what entropy is, and from what I find, neither do most other people.”

Something is happening on a Civilization scale.

Anecdotally, I’ve experienced the same phenomenon many times, to be a non-expert, and start questioning established knowledge/experts - finding gaps and inconsistencies - while getting annoyed/disappointed. I suspect that most common people that use AI for deep philosophy/Science seem to discover that experts don’t agree on many definitions or assumptions, and that there are huge knowledge gaps that are glossed over. The established knowledge space are suddenly under scrutiny by millions of people enhanced with AI, now looking at the conclusions, disagreeing with definitions/assumptions and finding new perspectives and maybe even methodologies for the problem.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Science/The Methodology, but it isn’t a perfect thing (far from it), and the handful of Hooman experts have been converging on whatever expert level a handful of experts and pre-AI tools could reach. They could only do so much.

So far, we’ve only heard about a single paper fully written by AI, but it seems reasonable to say that all new papers are assisted with AI. Experts are being accelerated by AI from rapid ideation and combinations of disparate methodologies/perspectives etc, so I suspect that a wall of papers are under way from the more rigorous academic side. They just take a bit longer to produce/show their new thoughts and ideas. We probably need a new Science publishing system that can handle quicker feedback/evolution of ideas and knowledge.

I think we are seeing the first glimpse of the coming knowledge explosion. Millions of ordinary people are testing out established facts, going new ways, and challenging assumptions/definitions etc. They will statistically puncture a lot of the current knowledge space, and significantly accelerate soft/theoretical expert knowledge.

We will have a temporary global Democratization of Knowledge, where almost anyone can enter the debate on frontier science, based only on ideas, co-developed and checked with/by AI. AI is lowering entry-requirements to the knowledge/ideation field, and lifting ordinary people closer to expert levels.

In only 5-10 years, our current societal structures will be judged by a global population with +50 IQ. I doubt anyone will be in awe over what they see.

Friendship between western people and other people around the world is important to stop political warmongering, so its pretty cool with all the new Westerners getting the “China not bad” experience, and also that we all see how far and advanced China has become on so many fronts (Still having work to do, oc). Let’s hope the two information spheres and people can mix a little now, and some of the deliberate and honestly hateful misinformation can be dispelled.

I think I saw a few Sci-fi movies with this theme. Can’t be long before we see arenas, Robot ‘cock-fights’, Championships, betting and all that…

Rarely anything. There can be some newer Bios/chip features that are not supported in the kernel yet, and a few older/quirky machines requires setting correct kernel parameters in the boot phase. But overall, you wouldn’t normally do it any different from win, and a laptop from 23 should be supported with all newer kernels.

I’m sure there are Bios settings that could be changed dependent on operating system. Perhaps some internal timing works best with this and that ram clock, or whatever, but it would be a hazzle to figure out, and there may not be any gain - other than the fun of exploring oc…

Not sure…

1. An AI therapist can already easily handle general good mental advice, such as reducing cognitive load, perspective shifts, alternative methodologies, education of standard mental needs, processes and whatever low-level stuff we can benefit from. 2. hooman therapists are a coin-toss. Most are completely crap and build their business from archaic and/or wrong theories and personal ideology/feelings. 3. whatever flaws AI have now, is going away really really fast.

Hooman therapists cost a lot of money, and a shitload of people won’t get any help at all without AI.

So, I think it is fine. The potential damage is far less than no help at all. Just use a little common sense and don’t take anything as a Gospel - just as when we see hooman therapists.

Damn you :-)

You don’t say why the window is insufficient ? Anyway, how about a flat prototype Styrofoam box in front of the window, and a small PC fan connected to a remote usb-adapter ? It should easily be able to empty a small bathroom for moist air.

Cheap parts, quick to glue/tape, and it would give a hint if it is enough for your problem. Tho, you would have to make sure the moisture doesn’t just condense on the cold window frame and rot it, and you will lose the heat.

Yes, you are leaking data, but don’t panik. First of all, your mental health here and now is important - without it you won’t have energy for other things. Next, It takes a lot of energy to de-google or de-corp and you don’t wan’t to ‘leak’ now, but in 6 months, you’ll have your own private/foss talking AI assistant, and it will help you cut the ties to the last corporation then.

So, soon you’ll be more ‘invisible’ for the corps, and maybe you can live with the spying/manipulation for a moment longer ? Not sure how long it takes for their AI to find you anyway, but at least the removed have to work for it…

Alternatively, get a free account at Groq (also have ‘whisper’ stt), or sambanova and install/use open-webui for talking. These new hardware corps don’t train AI on free user interactions, and they probably don’t sell your information - yet. There are other methods for p2p sharing of AI resources, but they may not provide quality high enough or with all modalities.

Same here without vpn. Getting by using embedded yt player, but not optimal. Seems that freetube users could win if we had a common cache like ipfs where watched videos are stored. If one user gets the whole video, everyone have access to it via ipfs. There would still be trouble with rare videos/first view, but YT would probably not block an ip if most of the yt videos where loaded from ipfs instead ?

Just a quick thought.

Didn’t know what uBlue was, so here: https://universal-blue.org/

"The Universal Blue project builds a diverse set of continuously delivered operating system images using bootc. That’s nerdspeak for the ultimate Linux client: the reliability of a Chromebook, but with the flexibility and power of a traditional Linux desktop.

These images represent what’s possible when a community focuses on sharing best practices via automation and collaboration. One common language between dev and ops, and it’s finally come to the desktop.

We also provide tools for users to build their own image using our templates and processes, which can be used to ship custom configurations to all of your machines, or finally make the Linux distribution you’ve long wished for, but never had the tools to create.

At long last, we’ve ascended."

You can argue that a 4090 is more of a ‘flagship’ model on the consumer market, but it could be just a typing error, and then you miss the point and the knowledge you could have learned:

“Their system, FlightVGM, recorded a 30 per cent performance boost and had an energy efficiency that was 4½ times greater than Nvidia’s flagship RTX 3090 GPU – all while running on the widely available V80 FPGA chip from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), another leading US semiconductor firm.”

So they have found a way to use a ‘off-the-shelf’ FPGA and are using it for video inference, and to me it looks like it could match a 4090(?), but who cares. With this upgrade, these standard Fpga’s are cheaper(running 24/7)/better than any consumer Nvidia GPU up to at least 3090/4090.

And here from the paper:

"[problem] …sparse VGMs [video generating models] cannot fully exploit the effective throughput (i.e., TOPS) of GPUs. FPGAs are good candidates for accelerating sparse deep learning models. However, existing FPGA accelerators still face low throughput ( < 2TOPS) on VGMs due to the significant gap in peak computing performance (PCP) with GPUs ( > 21× ).

[solution] …we propose FlightVGM, the first FPGA accelerator for efficient VGM inference with activation sparsification and hybrid precision. […] Implemented on the AMD V80 FPGA, FlightVGM surpasses NVIDIA 3090 GPU by 1.30× in performance and 4.49× in energy efficiency on various sparse VGM workloads."

You’ll have to look up what that means yourself, but expect a throng of bitcrap miner cards to be converted to VLM accelerators, and maybe give new life for older/smaller/cheaper fpga’s ?

Pretty cool with China’s focus on efficiency in the AI stack. DeepSeek was the first eye-opener for how to re-think efficiency, but it appears to happen on all levels of the stack.

Fyi: article is paywalled, so block javascript on page with ublock…

Time to fill the drive with anti-establishment political literature + de-google material + google-service hacking news, fake stories about their leaders etc. Anything that goes against what Google propaganda models wants us to believe or what benefits them most…