andrew0

@andrew0@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People Believe If 90% Prefer A over B, A Must Be Much Better than B. Are They Wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is true only if the decisions were made independently. If you allow people to make a decision after they’ve seen the metrics, this no longer holds.

  Here’s an example of the first. You go at a farmer’s market with a cow and you ask everyone to write on a piece of paper what they think the weight is. If you get the replies and average them, you will find that the mean of all answers will be quite close to the real answer. A mix of non-experts and experts will iron out a good answer somehow.

  Now take the average experience of going to a restaurant. One might have just opened recently, has great food and great staff, but only 5 reviews, at an average of 3.8 or something. Another restaurant nearby has been open for 3-4 years, and has 1000 reviews, at maybe 3.9. People will usually follow the one with more reviews because they think it’s the safer option due to the information available. However, if you were to hide this and ask them to choose by just looking at the venue and the menu, they would probably choose the first one.

  Group dynamics are quite interesting, and the psychology behind this is quite funky sometimes :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can I use for an offline, selfhosted LLM client, pref with images,charts, python code execution⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All the ones I mentioned can be installed with pip or uv if I am not mistaken. It would probably be more finicky than containers that you can put behind a reverse proxy, but it is possible if you wish to go that route. Ollama will also run system-wide, so any project will be able to use its API without you having to create a separate environment and download the same model twice in order to use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can I use for an offline, selfhosted LLM client, pref with images,charts, python code execution⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ollama for API, which you can integrate into Open WebUI. You can also integrate image generation with ComfyUI I believe.

  It’s less of a hassle to use Docker for Open WebUI, but ollama works as a regular CLI tool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bulgarian border city hails Schengen tourism boom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, you didn’t need a passport before, did you? Since it was still EU travel, you could get in with just a national ID, or am I wrong?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will Trump tariffs and implied trade war have a significant effect on the global emissions of greenhouse gases?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was just announced that the EU is pausing sustainability requirements on smaller business (< 500 employees) for 2 years. This stems from fears related to the trade war, as they want to keep smaller businesses competitive. Nevertheless, I’m pretty sure that this won’t be great for the environment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developing a self-hosted alternative to Google Keep⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For notes, I have moved to Joplin with the option to synchronize my data using a WebDAV server. It works really well, and it has both a mobile and desktop app. If you’re interested in developing your project, maybe you can have a look at the options this provides. For example, I really like the ability to separate notes between groups, assign tags, create drawings, and the possibility to use Markdown.

  Good luck with your projects! To mirror @enemenemu’s suggestion, I would also look into collaborating with the people trying to push the EU Docs alternative. Not sure if that will work, but it’s worth a shot if you’re interested :D