@Rob@jsreed5.org Hmm Coal -> Heat -> Stream -> Generator -> Electricity -> Resistance -> Heat

You do have an interesting point there 🤔 Seems rather wasteful just to produce some heat 🔥

It seems silly to me that we humans create thermal energy with coal, convert the thermal energy to mechanical energy with steam turbines, convert the mechanical energy to electrical energy with generators, and convert the electrical energy back into thermal energy with glass-top stoves and electric heaters.

It seems silly to me that we humans create thermal energy with coal, convert the thermal energy to mechanical energy with steam turbines, convert the mechanical energy to electrical energy with generators, and convert the electrical energy back into thermal energy with glass-top stoves and electric heaters.

@golang_news@feeds.twtxt.net Cool! 🥳

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah this is why I haven’t done it yet because I don’t know how to build it 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net Shellcheck is great but I hope you don’t care about a low package count for screenshots like some people.

My FairPhone has arrived and it looks great!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org we had a huge thunder/lighning storm last night here too. Kids got really scared (it struck something very close here), and the dog panicked (he opened all doors and would only sleep in kitchen). We woke up around 2 at night from it. But kids luckily fell a sleep again.

@prologic@twtxt.net the whole thing took less than 2 min 🤣

@prologic@twtxt.net The headline is interesting and sent me down a rabbit hole understanding what the paper (https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.279/) actually says.

The result is interesting, but the Neuroscience News headline greatly overstates it. If I’ve understood right, they are arguing (with strong evidence) that the simple technique of making neural nets bigger and bigger isn’t quite as magically effective as people say — if you use it on its own. In particular, they evaluate LLMs without two common enhancements, in-context learning and instruction tuning. Both of those involve using a small number of examples of the particular task to improve the model’s performance, and they turn them off because they are not part of what is called “emergence”: “an ability to solve a task which is absent in smaller models, but present in LLMs”.

They show that these restricted LLMs only outperform smaller models (i.e demonstrate emergence) on certain tasks, and then (end of Section 4.1) discuss the nature of those few tasks that showed emergence.

I’d love to hear more from someone more familiar with this stuff. (I’ve done research that touches on ML, but neural nets and especially LLMs aren’t my area at all.) In particular, how compelling is this finding that zero-shot learning (i.e. without in-context learning or instruction tuning) remains hard as model size grows.

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net See I told y’all 🤣 AI is “artificial incompetence” 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net Yup!

@bender@twtxt.net Ahh gotcha! That could be simple enough to work or maybe a different background for the card? 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net This is basically the problem. Even if you wanted to there generally isn’t any state for feeds stored on behalf of the user, in other words, a read status.

I don’t know how we will handle the resetting of it, after reading…

I thought about it a few times, but I’ve never really been able to figure out a way of coming up with a viable solution to that.

@bender@twtxt.net A tiny dot you say eh? 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net It’s looks like it’s basically all-in-one so yeah but simpler to use 👌

@bender@twtxt.net Both. I use it locally. Its basically a linter.

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yes I feel your pain 🙄

New Research Reveals AI Lacks Independent Learning, Poses No Existential Threat
ZipNada writes: New research reveals that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT cannot learn independently or acquire new skills without explicit instructions, making them predictable and controllable. The study dispels fears of these models developing complex reasoning abilities, emphasizing that while LLMs can genera … ⌘ Read more

Sounds great James. I don’t need PHP right now, will do everything using HTML - and I would love the zero configuration. How did you do that using my website, it has files in .txt format? I guess you just added the HTML bit with some code hey? What about hyperlinks? I think a variable is passed corresponding to the webapge number from 1.htm to 1200.htm.

Tomorrow is a busy day for me, off to tow a car home, so will be off grid pun intended. Thanks for the input your computer experts.

@xuu@txt.sour.is Yeah it seems to be quite easy to operate actually 👌 Love the zero configuration!

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Welcome back! Didn’t notice 🤣

@xuu@txt.sour.is I don’t get it? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net +1 for FrankenPHP. And built into caddy is also swell.

Wut?

Back!

Just in case Clownflare throws a couple of 5xx errors at your requests, I’m rebooting. See ya in a couple of seconds!

In fact I recommend this really, it’s just less “mucking around” and what we call “zero configuration”.

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net If you’d like to try something new (I know I know!); I just modified your site’s file a teeny weeny bit and got it working with FrankenPHP a nice little portable web server written in Go that “just works”™ that is able to handle and execute PHP for you and your site basically “just works”™ out of the box locally, run from any directory.

I mean if you didn’t really need PHP (I suspect you do?) you could run any ‘ol web server in the current directory where you have your site and just serve that straight up locally.

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net Normally, in the days when I used to run Linux on the Desktop and used Apache once upon a time, the default configuration would mean files served out of your public_html directory in your home directory was the place where the web server looked for to serve files from. This would make something like http://localhost/~your_username work. But it’s been a while since I’ve done any of this myself…”

Hmm? I see

Problem I see is the files are located where Ubuntu wants to put them, not where I want to put them?

“Your package manager (apt) does not prompt you, because the package maintainer has chosen some defaults for you which works with the rest of the system. So there is simply no need. Why would you want to change the installation directory anyways?” I see Lyse, but that is the point of file management, moving files and the executable to where you want them. One memory stick for example. To run them double left click on them

I don’t like the files in a folder /var/www/ why can’t I make my own path, and confige Apache.exe to run from a configured path? Say entirely off a memory stick?

If you create a website, you want the entire executable to move with you… easier that way…. You take the memory stick with the executable file with you, and it runs and uploads with a double left click. The idea of running through a Linux default means you can’t remove your website elsewhere?? For example I have many small software programs that go where I go, I wish I too Word 7 with me, docX files are a pain. GIF emulator.exe for example, Note2Pad.exe another example. I don’t like apps stored inside some machine. Emails is another pain, all my emails are stored in rich file format on files outside of the program. For example is a bank fails, what happens to your money ? Old schooled keep things more robust.

Dear OnlyDomains, part of Team Internet. Do you think you could stop being so incompetent when it comes to Domains, DNS and basic HTTP? I reported this to you on Friday, and you are still arguing with me over Support the legitimatecy of the claims? Seriously?! 😧

$ dig @1.1.1.1 +short onlydomains.com.au a
198.50.252.65

$ nc -vvv 198.50.252.65 443
nc: connectx to 198.50.252.65 port 443 (tcp) failed: Connection refused

#OnlyDomains

And errors out expectedly using dash or ash, very nice POSIX Sh compliant shells:

$ ./foo.sh
./foo.sh: line 5: [: bar: integer expression expected

So the lessons here are twofold:

• Always use shellcheck to check your shell code
  
• Never use Bash or rely on Bash(isms). Always prefer POSIX Sh

Which once fixed, removing the extra [ and ] errors out with shellcheck as expected:

Invalid number for -eq. Use = to compare as string (or use $var to expand as a variable). [SC2170]

I was/am right of course :D

In POSIX sh, [[ ]] is undefined. [SC3010]

Also, why isn’t shellcheck being used here? It would have picked this (contrived) example up?

bar is referenced but not assigned. [SC2154]

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It did however rain all night here however 🤣 Perhaps they were right afterall, just wrong on the location? 😅

What a glorious morning for a public holiday 💪 What shall I do today? Hmmm 🧐

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m not looking forward to summer at all 🥵

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Probably used one of the filters? 🤔

This is why you stick to POSIX sh as @mckinley@twtxt.net points out 🤣 Prwtry sure this is a “Bashism” right?

This one got me. I try to stick to POSIX sh so I’m not super familiar with the behavior of [[]]. I definitely should have gotten -eq, though.

Ready for Winter

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Variable names used with -eq in

yeah its the same dude.

This project is verrrry alpha. all the configuration is literally in the code.

It is good to be off work and have time to spend on my personal projects.

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net And we are surprised why? 🤔

Jobhunters Flood Recruiters With AI-Generated CVs
About half of all job seekers are using AI tools to apply for roles, inundating employers and recruiters with low-quality applications in an already squeezed labour market. From a report: Candidates are turning increasingly to generative AI – the type used in chatbot products such as ChatGPT and Gemini to produce conversational passages of text – to assist them in writing th … ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net No bubbles burst 💥 hehe 😝 All good! 👍 I think I was aware of the search results and the lack of interactivity there, artifact of borrowed template code from the search engine 😢 Just need to refactor it to use the same template as the normal timeline, but also support highlights, something it doesn’t do now either.

@bender@twtxt.net You are right. I’ll have to fix the later for sure, the finding “reading” in “foo-reading” is probably a behavior of the indexing and search library being used. It probably behaves that way.

I like how tags like #reading now actually work correctly on Yarn pods 👌

T-Deck Plus: An ESP32 Handheld Device with GPS and LoRa Support
The LILYGO T-Deck Plus is an development platform tailored for IoT enthusiasts and professionals alike. Building upon the features of the original T-Deck, the Plus version introduces significant enhancements, including an integrated GPS module and a powerful 2000mAh battery, making it ideal for portable and versatile IoT applications. At the core of the T-Deck Plus

Morphotrophic by Greg Egan is built around an idea for how life on Earth could have worked out differently. It gets increasingly strange and interesting as the story progresses. My partner and I finished it last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. The beginning is free online: https://gregegan.net/MORPHOTROPHIC/00/MorphotrophicExcerpt.html #scifi #reading

Adorava conseguir escrever como este senhor, que torna o comportamento de uma substância perigosa em algo que dá vontade de ler até ao fim

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-dimethylcadmium

Kinda cool tool for bringing together all your timeline based data across socials.

https://github.com/timelinize/timelinize

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ooof that’s a bit warm 🥵

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It’s hot here as well. Luckily should only last a couple of days. Bunkering down in our home and keeping all the doors and windows closed. No airco. Fans give some relieve.

We had a great and relaxing three week vacation in Denmark and Sweden.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de What’s the temp? 🤔

Transparency petition - Whistleblower Justice Fund

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@off_grid_living@twtxt.net Normally you would so something like this on Ubuntu:

sudo apt install apache2

In fact I highly recommend you follow this guide:

Install and Configure Apache

its rainy out there

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org Can’t argue with the some of the feats we’ve achieved for sure 😅 I think some of the good stuff is in smarter auto completion: summarization and pattern reproduction.

But “intelligent” it ain’t 🤣

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club Bahahaha 🤣 I doubt I could write a chess engine now 😅

toki pona li wawa

@movq@www.uninformativ.de If it still existed I bet the first thing he’d do is convert it to Golang 👌🤣

@prologic@twtxt.net I don’t know what you mean when you call them stochastic parrots, or how you define understanding. It’s certainly true that current language models show an obvious lack of understanding in many situations, but I find the trend impressive. I would love to see someone achieve similar results with much less power or training data.

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org I don’t believe so. But then again we’d have to define what cognitive understanding really is 😅 LLM(s) have none.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah in Australia it’s only 20 paid days of annual leave (paid)

https://youtu.be/VfNk5GxHi98

What a complex pile of stuff…

In a Windows Apache, I would only need to configure the path of the directory and double left click on Apacjhe.exe file and it runs loading the index .htm file. You can also remove the folder to a memory stick and configure you version to run anywhere…. this video is way too complicated…

OK I found this one, small enough, but where does it install to? can’t find the app, of any files of anything.
Being a total novice to Linux stuff….where is this file located and why don’t they prompt you for a folder location of the program? And why such a stupid name? Dozens to choose from and most over 300MB, not what I want - I just want Apache to run the index.html webpage or the index.php webpage. I do not need Javascript or Java programming editors….

OK I found this one, small enough, but where does it install to? can’t find the app, of any files of anything.
Being a total novice to Linux stuff….where is this file located and why don’t they prompt you for a folder location of the program? And why such a stupid name? Dozens to choose from and most over 300MB, not what I want - I just want Apache to run the index.html webpage or the index.php webpage. I do not need Javascript or Java programming editors….

I see so there is a Linux version of Apache? My particular version of Apache for Windows, was intentionally cut down, to very few files, under 6MB if I remember, the PHP5 file seems to do most of the hard work (a 5MB folder)
I see php5.dll is 4.8 MB in size, hence one file is causing my version of Apache to be this size. So all up there are 22 files in the total Apache folder. Thanks for the tip Lyse.

@prologic@twtxt.net I thought “stochastic parrot” meant a complete lack of understanding.

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@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no Ahh nice! i only get 4 weeks off a year 🙄

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net Is there a particular reason why you run it through wine? And not the ‘standard’ ubuntu way of doing it? It’ll make it much easier to make sure things are working the way it should.. :)