Jayjader

Why do we even need a server? Why can’t I pull this directly off the disk drive? That way if the computer is healthy enough, it can run our application at all, we don’t have dependencies that can fail and cause us to fail, and I looked around and there were no SQL database engines that would do that, and one of the guys I was working with says, “Richard, why don’t you just write one?” “Okay, I’ll give it a try.” I didn’t do that right away, but later on, it was a funding hiatus. This was back in 2000, and if I recall correctly, Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton were having a fight of some sort, so all government contracts got shut down, so I was out of work for a few months, and I thought, “Well, I’ll just write that database engine now.”

Gee, thanks Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton?! Government shutdown leads to actual production of value for everyone instead of just making a better military vessel.

Je trouve dommage que l'article qualifie de "tâche sur son mandat" la prise d'otages et sa gestion, sans toutefois mentionner les soupçons envers Reagan et son équipe de campagne. Selon un article du New York Times paru en 1991 et que wikipédia référence de la manière suivante :

Abolhassan Banisadr, the former President of Iran, has also stated "that the Reagan campaign struck a deal with Tehran to delay the release of the hostages in 1980", asserting that "by the month before the American Presidential election in November 1980, many in Iran's ruling circles were openly discussing the fact that a deal had been made between the Reagan campaign team and some Iranian religious leaders in which the hostages' release would be delayed until after the election so as to prevent President Carter's re-election."

D'un côté ça ne qualifie pas directement Carter ni sa «gestion» de la prise d'otages. D'un autre côté si on veut examiner son héritage, sa contribution au monde d'aujourd'hui, il faut aussi parler de ce qui se passait "autour" de lui.

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🎶 Just a pair of Hitler fanboys, preparing to enter the white house 🎶

I can't believe it just clicked for me that we shouldn't be watching out for the "next Hitler" (which I was getting ready to assign to trump based on the past 9 years) but a group of fetishizing copycats.

Reminds me a bit of how Robert E. Lee and much of the confederacy saw themselves as real-life Misérables (https://boundarystones.weta.org/2019/05/13/how-les-miserables-became-lees-miserables).

The common point between Lee, Hitler, and the Misérables is they were all lost causes in the end (thankfully). Hopefully today's regressive shit-stains-of-a-human-being will go the same way.

Labeling the AfD as far-right is clearly wrong when you consider that Alice Weidel, the party’s chairwoman, has a same-sex partner from Sri Lanka! Does that sound like Hitler to you? I beg to differ!

Fuck you. There were gay Nazis. There are gay neo Nazis today. Fascism cares about power more than any internal consistency. The moment those gay Nazis are no longer useful to their higher-ups, they'll be disposed of.

When will someone with more reach than I, a random internet commenter, start saying this shit to his face?!?! The people who are swayed by his bullshit rhetoric are not coming here to read our takedowns, and I can't tell if I can expect them to read the counter- and response op-eds...

Ooooh, that's a good first test / "sanity check" !

May I ask what you are using as a summarizer? I've played around with locally running models from huggingface, but never did any tuning nor straight-up training "from scratch". My (paltry) experience with the HF models is that they're incapable of staying confined to the given context.

How feasible is it to configure my server to essentially perform a reverse-slow-lorris attack on these LLM bots?

If they won't play nice, then we need to reflect their behavior back onto themselves.

Or perhaps serve a 404, 304 or some other legitimate-looking static response that minimizes load on my server whilst giving then least amount of data to train on.

I'm not sure if this is how @hersh@literature.cafe is using it, but I could totally see myself using an LLM to check my own understanding like the following:

1. Read a chapter
2. Read the LLM's summary of the chapter
3. Make sure I can understand and agree or disagree with each part of the LLM's summary.

Ironically, this exercise works better if the LLM "hallucinates"; noticing a hallucination in its summary is a decent metric for my own understanding of the chapter.

Reminds me of Zdzisław Beksiński's oil paintings.

four year aged

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Tiens donc, c'est le même éleveur sur qui, il y a 5 mois, France 3 écrivait cet article : https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/hauts-de-france/nord-0/je-veux-juste-m-en-sortir-et-ne-pas-mourir-le-plus-grand-elevage-de-chameaux-de-france-menace-par-le-contournement-nord-de-maubeuge-3003116.html

GG pour le prix en tout cas!

My reading of the article is also that the anode is bonding with the protons (aka hydrogen nuclei) as part of the redox process to generate current.