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?

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

En cherchant des illustrations #solarpunk pour mes cours, je m’aperçois que c’est encore difficile à trouver

@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

On my blog: Developer Diary, World Elephant Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/08/12/elephant.html #programming #project #devjournal

@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.

On my blog: Open Source Characters https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/08/11/open-source-characters.html #freeculture #licenses #rant

@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.. :)

@prologic@twtxt.net During summer - yes, since our kids have 2 months. First month of their vacation I still work, then I join them on their last month. We do have 5 weeks, so I save the last week for around Christmas. :)

Hello from BROWSER

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net So tou mean wine? The windows emulator?

You don’t need to use wine to run Apache.

It should be installable from the package manager (software center) or whatever it’s called.

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net cc @mckinley@twtxt.net can you help here? 🙏

You really have to train your kids early, university teaches you nothing, I used to have two University degrees, so long ago they would be seen as rubbish. Self taught is the only way to learn and get the ones who are interested to start early…. Cheers

If some of you budding fathers want to know how I created a computer nerd to one day work for Facebook in the big USA, well you purchase a $1000 Xmas present, an enormous thick book with C++ programming, and say, you can play as many games as you like kids, but James has to create them using computer software.

SO James created once a 3D chess program with sound, took 6 months or so, really hard to beat, not based on logic moves point by point like other chess programs, this one was based on the depth of looking for patterns, set it to 5 moves ahead and you were toast every time. Nice program too, sadly gone over the years, computers suffer from bit rot. We used to try and mark rotten hard drive discs once as bad sectors, not sure how UBuntu does this these days, I see a dozen errors on the screen every time I load.

Today I would purchase for my kids AI CAD simulation software with metal 3D printer and get your child to build fancy 3D models and engines from scratch. This will make them an expert in the CAD AI industry by the time they are 14 years old. Sadly AI is here to stay and will spoil the Internet.

I remember once paying my Son aged 14 or so , twenty bucks, to hack into a computer software program called Civil CAD, expensive program with hardware lock costing over 7 grand, and finding out what it is doing…. Dad says Son, it’s trying to write to a drive E, a what? so we named the C drive to E drive, installed the software, renamed the E drive back to C drive and charged the fellow 300 dollars for fixing his problem…. arrh yes those were the day a father and son team in a strange far way country…. Now look at him, running TWTXT yarn.social software.

Hey for a 60+ year old man is this too simple a computer problem for you guys? or am I getting too old, self taught like my Son…. used to remember PHP programming once, Delphi and Javascript… now I showing my age, I remember the Lotus 123 days the big green screen and the 286 Window machines that cost a fortune and ran for 6 weeks if you were lucky, the main board soldering flux was not washed off properly the acid would eat into the board… arrh yes those were the days !!!

I suspect Vine may not be able to run the file via conf file, or I have the path configure wrong?

Here is a screen shot from double left click on Apache.exe - notice it helps you see file path

and the file path I edit in conf file

When it runs, VINE makes a blue screen and timesout after 15 seconds, so it’s reading the conf file I think?

The httpd.conf file has things like

#
ServerRoot “/home/rob/DESKTOP/SS/apache”

Not sure if this is the right way to configure the path. I used to run SS folder directly in Windows, on C:\ but while Ubuntu has no true C:\ would this be better than running it on the desktop as shown above?

Any advice welcome

Shalom

Hey all your computer experts, I am having trouble with running Apache on my Ubuntu machine using Vine, the problem I think is configuring the /apache/conf/httpd.conf file, I usually NotePad2.exe edit it and change the path to the appropriate files

For example see the next post

LLMs though, whilst good at understating the “model” (or shape) of things (not just natural language), are generally still stochastic parrots.

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org It’s also astonishing how much power these things use and how incredibly inefficient they are 🤣

But seriously though we have come a long way in some machine learning sxiwnde and twxh and we’ve managed to build ever more powerful and power hungry massively parallel matrix computational hardware 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de The success of large neural nets. People love to criticize today’s LLMs and image models, but if you compare them to what we had before, the progress is astonishing.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I don’t have a VR headset yet, but I still view it as one of the most improved pieces of tech.

@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no Very nice! 👌 I’ve enjoyed your photos and stories of your trips!

Do you normally take 4-week long vacations all in one go?

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net Setting up a local Apache + PHP server on your Ubuntu laptop is easy as pie 🤣

What do you think the world runs on 😅 Hint: Not Windows 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de There are drivers and such for linux as well. I also think it works fine with steamVR on linux (But currently my main computer for gaming is running windows) so I have not tested VR on linux yet. I am planning on installing linux on that machine when I get a extra disk for it soon. (I run linux on all other laptops I have, but those are not good enough for VR stuff).

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net @aelaraji@aelaraji.com , yeah, I have one. First one I bought was the first oculus on kickstarter. Then facebook delivered their first (after they bought oculus) on my doorstep for free (since I backed the first oculus on kickstarter). I use it a lot, especially for Xplane (flight sim) and Elite: Dangerous etc. It’s not one of those quest standalone VR headsets I have, it’s the one you hook up to a computer.

4 week vacation time is done tomorrow, then it’s back to work. A bit excited to see what happens there for the rest of the year, a bit stressfull too, but It’ll be nice to get back to work. This summer vacation has been super nice, and also felt like it lasted long. Been a super time with my family, we got to visit a lot of cool places, and went on a lot of trips etc. Been really nice. And we’ve already planned what to do next year - so I already look forward to that :)

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