Zos_Kia
@Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on Intent recognition for HomeAssistant without an LLM? 3 days ago:
I don’t know about other STTs but if you’re using whisper you can “prompt” it for consistent spelling. If you put “todo” in the prompt it should always spell it like that.
Have you tried using a vector DB with an embedder ? It may give decent performance without the need for a full blown LLM
- Comment on Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word 2 weeks ago:
The problem with being a pragmatic LLM user is that you have on one side corporate America shoe-horning the tech in mediocre products none wants, and on the other side a large portion of the internet who loathe it but don’t use it and don’t even know what it does. Those conversations never go anywhere man. You’re talking to someone who thinks accuracy of 57% on SpreadsheetBench means the model gives wrong answers 42% of the time.
Hate to agree with Microsoft but yeah, Excel is probably a great place to introduce an LLM. It’s in that sweet spot between natural language and light programming, in an environment with math baked in so you don’t really care about the model’s accuracy or exact recall. All the data is here, and the model only has to manipulates cell numbers and writes formulas in this dumbed down language.
I’m sure you can get away with pretty small models too. It doesn’t need super human knowledge to implement 90% of common Excel use cases, and i suspect in real world scenarios the accuracy must be pretty interesting.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 3 weeks ago:
I think you may have personal feelings against christianity mixed up with the historical stuff and it doesn’t make for interesting discourse.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah well fuck those platitudes you must have me mistaken for a 13 year old on TikTok.
I don’t see how baiting a conversation then refusing to partake in it is “living your life” but hey good job Kerouac you’ve got this
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 3 weeks ago:
I honestly don’t understand the point here and your sarcastic mode makes the whole experience tedious and confusing.
You seem to be arguing that Jesus shouldn’t be considered a historical figure, for reasons that somehow do not apply to other historical figures, but you don’t wish to engage with actual discussion on the matter. I’m at a loss here and suspect you may be experiencing a critical shortage of slack.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah i don’t understand what’s so controversial here. This time and place was home to a million apocalyptic militant movements, and Jesus’s just was the most successful of his generation.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 3 weeks ago:
Such criteria is commonly applied to virtually EVERY significant figure in history
That is simply not true. There’s a lot of historical figures from Antiquity for whom we have zero archeological evidence, it’s kind of the norm in fact. Literary evidence is fine if it can be corroborated from multiple independent sources. If we go by your standards then Socrates and Pythagoras are not historical figures, neither is Tacitus, or Hannibal, or most people who were not kings and did not have steles or coin to their name.
Y’shua ben Josef during his lifetime, who later got turned in to an almost impossibly, legendary figure by political, financial and religious institutions
A couple centuries before his embellishment by the roman state, the so-called Jesus movement was flourishing and started to expand in pretty much every direction. The existence of this movement is abundantly attested in independent sources from very distant places.
Are you saying this movement did not exist and the sources that attest to it are not reliable ? Are you saying there was a movement but it wasn’t founded by a guy named Y’shua ben Josef from Galilee ? Why would that be ? Do you think they lied, or forgot the name and origin of their founder ? I understand the idea but what would be the point, and how would those various sub-groups, some of which were very distant geographically, have coordinated their lie so perfectly ?
At one point Okham’s razor says the most probable thing is that a guy named Y’shua from Galilee did indeed start a religious movement. It’s happened before, it’s happened again, why would this specific occurrence need an esoteric explanation ?
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 3 weeks ago:
But then you’re making up new standards of evidence for historical characters, and only applying them to Jesus.
All evidence points to a jew who, under roman occupation, organized a political and religious movement around his person with a message so powerful that it immediately started replicating. Otherwise, how can we explain the sudden outflow of missionaries from Galilee ? Whose message were they spreading, which travelled as far as Asia and Ethiopia with relative unity and consistence ? What reason do we have to doubt that a revolutionary mystical prophet such as Jesus existed (they were legion at the time in that region), and why should we subscribe to some more exotic, laborious explaination ?
The question is not whether Jesus’ story was embellished and distorted, because it was, with 100% certainty. But then that’s true of everything we know from that time period. We have 0 archeological evidence of most historical characters existence, only hearsay and unreliable testimony. But we don’t doubt their existence because the alternative would have to be far fetched and contrived to fit the evidence.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know man, my first presidential election is far in the past but as far as i remember my generation wasn’t manipulated by social media to trigger WWIII as our first political act. I don’t know if you realize the kind of blitz psy-ops shit that has been going on. Most adults are susceptible to that, and i have no problem blaming them, but how can you expect teenagers to not get caught in the net ? They’ve been priced out of IRL, and all of their online spaces, each and every fucking one of them, has been colonized at least since COVID. Of course they were easy to tip, and of course a lot of them are going to regret it now. Shit is going to get very dark when they come to actions.
Most of us have made our first political mistakes by voting for some kooky marginal candidate, not by bringing the God-King to power. We should consider ourselves lucky.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
To be fair this generation had it rough. Thrust into the world of social media with little parental guidance and the powers that be actively conspiring to grift them…
They’ve been fucked out of political agency on their first ever presidential election, do you think they’ll ever trust anything ever again? It’s pretty tragic and the backlash will be phenomenal.
- Comment on Greta Thunberg Steps Down from Gaza Flotilla Steering Group 4 weeks ago:
For the record I found your message very clear and don’t know what the fuck the other lemmings are on about.
We’ve reached such a level of teenage idiocy on this fucking website that you can say “kudos to Greta for putting impact over drama” and they’ll interpret it as the exact opposite. There’s a nutcase in here calling you a fascist for… Talking about democrats I guess? And getting pats on the back “oh yes very wise indeed”. Just children cosplaying as concerned citizens.
Your mental health bit is super cringe but I can see where the frustration comes from.
- Comment on Alternative to github pages? 1 month ago:
I honestly wouldn’t recommend it if you don’t have a minimum of security knowledge. The moment your home server pops up with a domain name it will get scanned by shady actors and possibly exploited.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 month ago:
And if it bugs you, you can bug Jack Baron about it
- Comment on I'm "use NFS forfilesharing old." what's the current optimal solution for shared drives if I have like 3 linux machines in the house? 1 month ago:
I use exclusively sshfs, including in my lan, is there some downside to it?
- Comment on Nvidia Sales Jump 56%, a Sign the A.I. Boom Isn’t Slowing Down 1 month ago:
Funny, I would propose the exact opposite. OpenAI is doomed, they are committed to spending more money than they can ever hope to earn, and already have a hard time raising anything covering their operating expenses, let alone the training of new innovative models. Their life will only keep getting harder and they’ll never have it as good as they did in 2023.
On the other hand, alternative models get better every day and have tokens that cost a fraction of those from large model makers. Some of what you call ChatGPT “wrappers” actually have solid and healthy business models and are burning reasonable amounts of cash (reasonable for VC backed businesses anyway). They’ll just switch to cheaper models when price pressure tells them to and they’ll be fine.
- Comment on Nvidia Sales Jump 56%, a Sign the A.I. Boom Isn’t Slowing Down 1 month ago:
That is Apex internet thank you my good sir
- Comment on How To Argue With An AI Booster 1 month ago:
He’s pretty explicit in that regard. He even added an interesting point at the start of the article : most people he knows who actually work with AI and know shit about it are not boosters. It’s an important distinction that Ed doesn’t ignore.
He is against the over hype of “AGI” and skeptical of the hundreds of billions that have been poured into it for sinister reasons. He’s not denying that the tech has uses, but rather confronting the value of those uses with their actual, non subsidized cost.
- Comment on Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air 1 month ago:
It’s a valid translation overall, it just missed this colloquialism
- Comment on Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air 1 month ago:
Just a nitpick, “jeu de mort” would never be translated as “death game”. In this context “de mort” would be an intensifier like “fucking” or “damned”.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I was gonna say it reads it reads like one of those obnoxious LinkedIn posts
- Comment on In the star wars holiday special, there's a segment where Princess Leia sings. This act retroactively makes her a legitimate Disney princess. 2 months ago:
Damn, busted :(
- Comment on In the star wars holiday special, there's a segment where Princess Leia sings. This act retroactively makes her a legitimate Disney princess. 2 months ago:
The xenomorph is initially spawned by a queen, and Disney owns the alien franchise, so the xenomorph also is a Disney princess!
- Comment on Finland | Minister: "Burkas and niqabs are not suitable for school" 2 months ago:
It’s downright obvious you’re trolling
Truly an insufferable prick
- Comment on Finland | Minister: "Burkas and niqabs are not suitable for school" 2 months ago:
Just because a thing doesn’t have “a discernable point…” TO YOU, doesn’t mean it doesn’t have at all
Show me the fucking data then you muppet. Kids in burqa in school is such a high-profile problem that it needs legislative action, surely there must be a mountain of data documenting the harm they do, and how prohibiting burqas in school makes that harm go away.
Or are you saying we shouldn’t legislate based on data ? Dicks out, pure vibe, and if someone disagrees you just tell them they don’t get it or maybe they think they’re literally all-knowing. Jesus fucking christ man.
- Comment on Finland | Minister: "Burkas and niqabs are not suitable for school" 2 months ago:
No i’m trying to see the bigger picture here. Our great grandparents were deeply religious too and because schools are accomodating to all ways of life (the burden of laicity is not on the user) they were allowed to integrate with each other and that’s how you get from >90% of religious practice in a country to <50%.
Those burqa laws have no discernable point, there is no metric that you could point to and say “see, that’s how it’s making society better”. They only have negative externalities. Sure you can punish that teenage girl and make her life more complicated. Hell, you might even get her to quit public school, that would be fucking sweet right ? What does society ever gain from that ?
It’s a solution in search of a problem, and as these things often are, it will be misused by someone whose agenda you despise.
- Comment on Finland | Minister: "Burkas and niqabs are not suitable for school" 2 months ago:
That’s a great joke. I’m sure there’s no reasonable scenario you could have picked instead of that one.
It’s not like some places in the world are prohibiting discourse about homosexuality or the criticism of religion, under the same guise of “protecting children from indoctrination”.
- Comment on Finland | Minister: "Burkas and niqabs are not suitable for school" 2 months ago:
I think that’s a misinterpretation of the concepts of Freedom of Religion and Laicity (freedom from religion).
In the French understanding, laicity means that no representative of the State is allowed to show their religion, or treat people differently according to their religion / political orientation. Traditionally it even extended further : for example teachers would refrain from exposing their religion / political views because they recognized the influence they held on their community, and that being outspoken is unfair to those who do not share those views.
That being said, the Burqa laws are an attempt to place that burden on the users of the services of the State. It’s pretty toxic because they should be served equally, which obviously they can’t be when you write laws that target one specific group over others.
The attempt to place the blame on parents is equally toxic. You have the freedom to raise your kids the way you see fit : having a conscience is not illegal. If that leads them to do illegal stuff, well that’s when the law comes in, but not before.
It’s all fun and games until the next fascist administration uses the same Burqa laws to prohibit whatever you hold dear.
- Comment on Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion 2 months ago:
Weird comment as this iteration has spawned the fastest growing products of all time. There’s no comparison possible with bubbles such as NFTs or the Metaverse.
Financially it’s a bubble because those products are grossly unprofitable even by VC standards, but the consumer appeal definitely is there.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 2 months ago:
It’s been obvious, since early 2025, that they are chasing the next step change but not getting any closer to it. OpenAI is in a catastrophic financial position and it’s hard to imagine a scenario where it gets any better.
Ironically, I think only AGI could get them out of this pickle, but even they are starting to realize it’s not around the corner.
- Comment on People were mad because they lost their AI boyfriend after GPT-4o deprecation 2 months ago:
That’s contrary to my experience, but we may be working on different use cases. Do you have some specific issues in mind?