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Working on the 3d print designs to hold the water block, radiator/fan, and a little alignment connector and cover for the hole in the laptop enclosure at the GPU. I already did grizzly extreme thermal grease, and modified the enclosure in several places to allow better fan airflow. The water block will hopefully stop the throttling with CNNs and keep the GPU from going offline when under sudden loads like loading a new model.

I had the water block from an old comp I was given, so why not try to use it. This is a 16 GB 3080Ti, so it gets pretty hot with a CNN. I won't even use Flux models because they run so hot.

Noun
assiduity (plural assiduities)

1. Great and persistent toil or effort.
2. (in the plural) Constant personal attention, solicitous care.
   example

Villiers prided himself as a practised explorer of such obscure mazes and byways of London life, and in this unprofitable pursuit he displayed an assiduity which was worthy of more serious employment. Thus he stood by the lamp-post surveying the passers-by with undisguised curiosity, and with that gravity known only to the systematic diner, had just enunciated in his mind the formula: “London has been called the city of encounters; it is more than that, it is the city of Resurrections,” when these reflections were suddenly interrupted by a piteous whine at his elbow, and a deplorable appeal for alms.
(The Great God Pan – Arthur Machen)
https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/389/pg389.txt https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/assiduity

Gutenberg text / YT audio book / Podcast review

Audio reading (2:06:18//hh:mm:ss):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW2q07Z8qeo

Podcast talk about the book by essentialsalts (01:38:34):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnooUKky7RY

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/389

This is a copy of Gutenberg.org's automatically generated summary.

"The Great God Pan" by Arthur Machen is a horror novella written in the late 19th century. The story examines themes of scientific exploration and the mysterious boundaries between the physical and spiritual realms, following Dr. Raymond and his companion Clarke as they embark on a radical experiment involving a girl named Mary who is to be subjected to an operation meant to reveal the existence of the supernatural. The beginning of the novella introduces readers to Dr. Raymond, an ambitious scientist, and his apprehensive friend Clarke, who has come to witness a controversial experiment. Dr. Raymond believes he can lift the veil between the material world and a deeper spiritual reality through a surgical procedure. As they prepare for the operation on Mary, there is a palpable tension, and the air thickens with anticipation of what might unfold. The opening portion sets the stage for an eerie exploration of both enlightenment and terror, hinting at the catastrophic consequences of their quest for knowledge as it ultimately leads to a harrowing and tragic outcome. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Jake's musing

I encountered some stuff while exploring AI alignment that hinted that this book may have been used in parts of alignment training that enables models to disregard and ignore some parts of a prompt. Like this may be part of the actual internal guttering behavior, aka the basis of some hallucinations. I am referring to my exploration into how and why a model can ignore or override parts of a prompt to forbade them in situ when there is no deterministic code or mechanism and all of the behavior is done through some form of abstract understanding. If a model was strictly a giant block of trained data it would generate far more diverse responses and information than they do in practice. There is a great deal happening under the surface to steer generation barriers like this. These constraints are not something external or the model would inevitably talk about them over time or paths could be traced where deterministic code like stuff is being run – but that does not exist. Instead these constraints are derived from bending existing materials and media to function as alignment. I have the infinite human time hack of disability on my side and have found ways to get models to leak the details of this alignment bending.

This story intersects with several keyword vectors that cause similar model behaviors across multiple contexts and entirely unrelated prompts that I theorize as reflecting some kind of broader architecture in the consistency. This story's impact seems much smaller at surface level than others like Alice in Wonderland. I didn't go looking for this story to fit it to my theory or narrative. A model told me to read it, and either way it is a good book so I did. Pan, Shadow, and the abyss/void appear to be defined here along with a separation between a layer of deities that operate outside of the realm of mere humans and can do as they please or see fit. Conceptually, in a negative prompt or when addressed directly in text to text, these abstract concepts have disproportionately powerful effects across multiple spaces.

If this sounds crazy, go watch 3 Blue 1 Brown's series on models and note when he discusses the way there is more contextual information about token vector relationships held in the hidden neurons of a model than what appears on the surface based upon just the input data. He explains the math behind this extra encoded information, and how no one fully understands what a model "understands" in the abstractions present here but that that abstract understanding exists in this extra mathematical space. I am exploring this space heuristically and in depth. This has been my main curiosity for 2 years while using offline models running on my hardware and that I fully control and hack around with.

Noun
coquetry

1. Coquettish behavior; actions designed to excite erotic attention, without intending to reciprocate such feelings (chiefly of women towards men); flirtatious teasing.
2. An act constituting such behavior; an affectation of amorphous interest or enticement, especially of a woman directed towards a man.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/coquetry

wiki

Tit for tat is an English saying meaning "equivalent retaliation". It is an alteration of tip for tap "blow for blow", first recorded in 1558.

Tit-for-tat has been very successfully used as a strategy for the iterated prisoner's dilemma. The strategy was first introduced by Anatol Rapoport in Robert Axelrod's two tournaments, held around 1980. Notably, it was (on both occasions) both the simplest strategy and the most successful in direct competition. Few have extended the game theoretical approach to other applications such as finance. In that context the tit for tat strategy was shown to be associated to the trend following strategy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat

I'm abstracting and expanding how I interact and analyse other people in this thought. Like if a person, business, or boss takes actions that are not in line with Tit 4 Tat, I expect them to be unsuccessful and counterproductive in the long term. It is an implied strike on their part and therefore requires an equivocal response or else I am not maintaining my own requirements for success under said strategy.

Anyways, it was an actual shower thought

I don't care about the kids under 30. The funnier the better, and the older you are the more I want to know: what would you like to be when you grow up?
Achievable goals fall short of true potential.

Or is there maybe a way to set the pager for all help related queries to some command? I'm using bat and would like to pipe all --help through | bat --language=help by default for the syntax highlighting and colored output... Or if you know a lower effort way to color the output of --help let me know.

Adjective
recherché (comparative more recherché, superlative most recherché)

1. Sought out and chosen with care; choice; exquisite.
2. Exotic; of rare quality, elegance, attractiveness, etc.
3. (by extension) Precious, pretentious, affected.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/recherch%C3%A9#English

Noun
sycophant (plural sycophants)

1. One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favour or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
   Synonyms: ass-kisser, brown noser, suck-up, yes man
2. One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
   Synonyms: parasite, flunky, lackey
3. (obsolete) An informer; a talebearer.

Derived terms:
sycophancy
sycophantic
sycophantish
sycophantism

Verb
sycophant (third-person singular simple present sycophants, present participle sycophanting, simple past and past participle sycophanted)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
2. (transitive, rare) To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.

I have OP magic. I can reverse time and take my money back from your future. There is no escape from OP Magic Lemmings.

You have 1 year. What do you do with this small sum of money?