smayonak

@smayonak@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Trump Administration is Building a National Citizenship Data System; State and county election officials can now check the citizenship status of their entire voter lists.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They are promoting the disproven conspiracy theory that illegals are impersonating US citizens and then casting ballots under false names.

  Greg Palast’s reporting proved that they are trying to purge minority and left leaning voters from voting rolls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What exactly is a self-hosted small LLM actually good for (<= 3B)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know what you mean. All the code generated with ai was loaded with problems. Specifically it kept forcing my api keys into the code without using environmental variables. But for basic coding concepts it has so far been perfect. even a 3b model seemingly generates great definitions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What exactly is a self-hosted small LLM actually good for (<= 3B)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Snippets are a great use.

  I use StableCode on my phone as a programming tutor for learning Python. It is outstanding in both speed and in accuracy for this task. I have it generate definitions which I copy and paste into Anki the flashcard app. Whenever I’m on a bus or airplane I just start studying. Wish that it could also quiz me interactively.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website traffic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a huge disaster in the making. There’s probably a game theory model that explains what’s happening. AI is a trap.

  At the beginning of LLMs as a consumer tech phase, the big tech companies believed that they would soon generate synthetic data without human labor costs. But synthetic data caused model collapse when used as training data. So they still need humans.

  But now their competitors are using scrapers and summarizers and those are expensive so they have to extract more value from search traffic and that means fewer referrals to sites. Fewer referrals to sites reduces original content and leadabto less traffic and training data for their models.

  The only two ways out are to create an international regulatory body ornto break up facebook, microspft, and google.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. I just didn’t expect them to be such losers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are different studies which show a shockingly high percent of the population are fools but the most compelling is the one by Cambridge Analytica which found a population cluster in Facebook’s massive amount of user data. They called this the average cluster.

  The Republicans targeted this group in the 2016 election.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenPin is an open-source project to revive Humane's dead Ai Pin - Liliputing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are small language models out there that can run fluently on smartphones. I’m fond of StableCode as a coding tutor. My dream is to be able to speak to the tutor and see its code instructions without having to dig my phone out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s odd to me that someone would feel the need to compensate for their socially awkward highschool years by learning Brazilian Ju-Jitsu and taking growth hormone. You’d think being rich would be enough for these people but it’s not.

  For a brief period of time, I entertained the hope that the t-shirt was Zuck’s way of warning the world that the US was slipping into a fascist dictatorship, but that was not the case. It seems clear that that he wore the shirt out of hubris. It was his way of telling the world that he was the modern era’s Caeser and the two others men running the failing superstate were crassus and pompey. An absolutely mindless message given how it ended for all three of these men.

  By the way, isn’t the word “commode” derived from Commodus? We should name something after Zuck. Perhaps this new strain of bird flu that’s been spreading wildly because of a lack of a federal response?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It occurred right around when the kingdom in orange took power. Somehow zuck thought that it would be advantageous to his interests to compare himself to Caesar during an obvious triumvirate. The orange one and phony stark would be crassus and pompey by extension. But I think commodus is a far more appropriate roman emperor for zuck to choose as his patron saint

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get your new PebbleOS watch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For fitness its probably decent but Garmin seems to have placebo sleep tracking. In order to get anything remotely accurate the sleep tracking algorithm has to be compared to a lot of polysomnograph data. But because companies don’t want to spend any more than they need to sleep tracking is usually just tacked on. Garmin hasn’t shown a good track record in this regard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1987⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Food conglomerates had tried to sell a more efficient vision of the kitchen to working mothers:

  Less food prep time meant more time for family and career. But it also meant more sales of processed food and the extinction of the skills required to prepare food.

  The children of the seventies and eighties were among the first to experience this change toward preprepared foods.