4 of the current “Top 10 movies” in german Netflix are “Ice Age”. Tells you everything you need to know about the quality. There is simply nothing left to watch.

I don’t know and in my opinion letting children use LLMs unsupervised is a bad idea regardless of which provider is used. But as long as teachers don’t understand the basics of how LLMs works and treat “AI” as a magical answer box there is not much hope left anyway. Sorry if I’m bitter here. Teachers are expected to know about the materials and technology they are using to teach children. The blatant lack of knowledge and ignorance of the teachers are what makes school AI usage dangerous for children.

Well, even if there are budget constraints, and they’ll end up using Gemini because of these: They should have looked at alternatives at least, just to know what else exists, because knowledge is the basis for education… Alternatively, they could have been stated the true reason. I’m merely criticizing the poor wording.

said Gemini was chosen because it was the only tool the board evaluated

We chose Gemini because we couldn’t be bothered with doing actual research. Educators of the year award.

Interesting analogy. So if you were to skip the high level os functions you could connect with your inner workings. But that’s probably as difficult as consciously controlling your heartbeat

Tried turning DLSS5 off, still shit.

I don’t have an internal monologue, it works more like a blackbox releasing thoughts when they are finished, the reasoning stays hidden more or less. I can reject the thought or send it back for further refinement, but it does not at all resemble a monologue or train of thought thing. Fun story, I was at a Buddhist meditation session once, and while sitting there I discovered that I can turn my thoughts off almost completely. Which includes the processing of sensory information, like leg going numb or the guy next to me farting. These continued to exist but lost any meaning or relevance to react upon. It was a very weird experience, turning my mind completely inwards, experiencing an intense but pleasant void of complete nothingness while being conscious. It took about an hour for me to get back to normal afterwards. I asked the Buddhist guys later if that is an expected experience with this type of meditation, and they had never heard of such a thing.

Odd how different people’s brains can be wired internally. And yet, I am able to communicate with all those fancy “internal monologue” people as if I was one of them.

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However building a power plant, even a small one, comes with a lot of bureaucratic hurdles in most of Europe. Its not a “build it and they will come” situation like in the US

Easy to explain actually, greed and stupidity. The late capitalist endgame.

“Microsoft changed course” (about shoving Slop into every nook and cranny of their products)

I very much doubt that. When I have to open Office365 (Copilot… Sloppity… WhateverItIsCalledThIsWeek) in a browser they manage to hide the actual apps like Word, Excel etc. a little more behind the giant empty chat interface. Last time I checked my pinned Apps were gone and now there is a tiny button containing some of the apps. To make it worse, this button changed the location on screen almost every time I opened this website in the past months (I’m not using it very often).

Oil wells in a city, disguised as commercial buildings. I’m speechless.

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I would never have guessed that we"d be able to make Idiocracy look like a documentary in my lifetime. What a spectacular decline.

The definition of legal meant here is likely more akin to de-facto legal. If laws exist but aren’t enforced by executive or judicative branches of a system then the crimes in question are de-facto legal. You’re probably right in the strictest sense of “legality”, but that’s not the point here.

I imagine it makes beeping noises and displays a blip on a radar display like the proximity devices in alien movies. Shudders.

Amazing how much shit an unremarkable pseudo distro can stir up. Deservedly. Techbros like DHH are a cancer.

I’m using it for a few months now. Coming from Kubuntu, I noticed that everything seems much faster/more responsive.Love it. Its not a pure gaming distro though. It’s arch-based, but with easy install and configuration, you have access to the whole Arch repo.

And of course as a bonus I can now unironically say "I use arch by the way*

There’s a conflict of interests in there. Nvidia is heavily tied to OpenAI, Anthropic and the US government. The mostly chinese models hosted on huggingface are direct competitors and viewed as enemy tech by the US government.This is going to be a massive shitshow. Probably starts with banning de-censored versions of the models from the platform.

Care to explain? Sounds interesting, my last impression was that SK was a society with massive competitive pressure in education and career. What happened?