ABoxOfNeurons

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ABoxOfNeurons,

The last time I went to a doctor, they read a list of questions from a form, entered my answers into their system, and then said they’d get back to me in a couple weeks to tell me if my insurance company would allow a follow-up. That appointment should have been a web page.

Most doctor’s appointments I’ve had recently have followed the same pattern. A good doctor is invaluable. A burnt-out noob doctor following strict procedure is like a worse GPT that your have to meet in a building full of every conceivable virus, and that costs $500 instead of $0.05. A motivated layman with GPT4 and a prescription pad would have beaten 3 out of 4 doctors I’ve seen since covid.

This is just my experience in the US mind you. Maybe I’ve had bad luck with humans, but I haven’t been impressed since all of the experienced ones retired.

ABoxOfNeurons,

This is based on a misunderstanding of how prices are set. The price is set based on what the market can bear. Costs pretty much only determine if the thing is worth making, given that.

It’s the same reason rent doesn’t go down when property taxes do. I mention this not to tear you down, but because it’s a common argument for bad policy.

ABoxOfNeurons,

I have something similar to this, but I initially used an old android tablet running Macro Deck, an open source application that basically replies a stream deck. It has a good ecosystem of plugins for stuff like home assistant, and it was easy to add command line stuff to talk to custom electronics.

The upgrade path is good too. I ultimately switched it out for custom hardware, but it just sends keyboard shortcuts to trigger macro deck.

ABoxOfNeurons,

I use separate buttons for that, but it has pages, so you could do something with that.

ABoxOfNeurons,

GMO is kind of a red herring. It is often done to allow plants to survive Round Up, which had recently been shown to have toxic effects. There’s also compelling evidence that many people who think they can’t tolerate gluten actually can’t tolerate Round Up.

The genetic modification isn’t intrinsically a problem, but the chemicals that plants need to be modified to tolerate are.

ABoxOfNeurons,

After going in suspicious, this actually sounds like a pretty decent idea.

The technology isn’t stopping or going away any more than the cotton gin did. May as well put control in as many hands as possible. The alternative is putting it under the sole control of a few megacorps, which seems worse. Is there another option I’m not seeing?

The promptfans reckon you can fix moderation in post (www.404media.co)

The Mistral 7B Instruct model is a quick demonstration that the base model can be easily fine-tuned to achieve compelling performance. It does not have any moderation mechanism. We’re looking forward to engaging with the community on ways to make the model finely respect guardrails, allowing for deployment in environments...

ABoxOfNeurons,

It’s a 7b model. There are plenty of other larger open source models out already. I fail to see the issue.

Altenswoop, 34 keys + 2 encoders wireless split with pinky cluster (programming.dev)

I wanted to experiment with a better pinky column, as for me using the bottom row with the pinky felt awkward and sometimes painful. Thus I created an alt version of my arkenswoop (swoop based), and named it the altenswoop because my brain thinks it is very original and funny. It will take some getting used to, and I’ll need...

ABoxOfNeurons,

I’m not sure, but what are the wheels mapped to? Are they scroll or mouse x/y/something else?

ABoxOfNeurons,

Thanks! Might steal that for my setup.

ABoxOfNeurons,

I once used it to throw an unreachable chest into a chaam out of spite…

ABoxOfNeurons,

If you haven’t played Inscryption, just ignore everything else and do that first. It’s the most innovative deckbuilding game I’ve played, but saying more would spoil it.

Ascension is a short-ish one I’ve sunk a lot of hours into. It’s sort of like dominion meets Magic. The expansions make it a lot more interesting, but the full package is pretty cheap. It was designed by an MTG pro player who was sick of exactly that.

Black book is excellent, and managers to put a compelling narrative spin on a TCG.

Monster train is a good “it’s like slay the spire, but not slay the spire” option for when you just can’t look at another shiv.

ABoxOfNeurons,

That genre is mind-blowing in VR. Have you considered an hp reverb and a cheap monitor instead?

ABoxOfNeurons,

If I were you, I’d look into something like the HP Reverb G2 that has inside-out tracking (no external cameras or lighthouses). The immersion you get with VR is way beyond anything you can get from a screen.

My full setup a Vive Pro 2 with a VKB HOSAS setup and a YawVR 2, and it feels spectacular, though getting interdicted the first time almost made me piss myself.

High-End Build Sanity Check (pcpartpicker.com)

I’m looking to build a high-end pc to be an all-in-one general build (gaming, productivity, daily driver, LLM/AI tinkering). How does the list below seem for a high-end build? Is there anything I’ve forgotten? Haven’t thought of? Am un aware of? Basically I’m asking for a sanity check or for any additional insight I...

ABoxOfNeurons,

I have a similar build for similar reasons. It works great, though I use Windows, so no driver issues (VR introduces too much jank with Linux). Notes below.

CUDA is essential. Definitely the right call paying the Nvidia tax.

My Gigabyte 4090 works for LLM stuff without a second card, and has no coil whine I can hear. I use Alpaca 4-bit entirely in VRAM, and SDXL runs like a dream. I only have 48GB of RAM total, but VRAM is pretty much always the limiting factor (if I understand correctly, it works best when you have at least enough spare RAM as you have VRAM when you’re loading the model, but after that the computation is on the GPU if you have a 4090. Moving layers to the CPU/RAM drops performance fast). I have an A4000 in another machine that I was planning to add with a riser cable, and I just haven’t bothered because I didn’t end up needing it.

Leaving the upgrade path open is a solid choice. The space is so volatile that it’s impossible to predict what the requirements will be like in six months. They could even go down like they did when 4-bit happened.

I use an external DAC, so can’t speak to the whine there. They’re not that expensive though.

ABoxOfNeurons,

I had one option for a backpack skin available from the deluxe version (don’t judge), but that was all so far. I haven’t finished any major quest lines though,

ABoxOfNeurons,

I’m for defederation at least until instance blocking is available. I’ve already blocked most of their communities from my feed, but comments have been really unpleasant since they federated.

It’s not really about the ideology as much as not wanting to have to scroll past endless political bickering. Rage addiction is real and contagious.

ABoxOfNeurons,

I’m having a great time, but I also love FO4 and No Man’s Sky. The toe-dip I’ve done into colony building shows that they put real thought into Astroneer-like automated manufacturing stuff, which is my crack, and something I missed in NMS and FO4. It’s also clear from the first city that they know how depressing FO4 is, and wanted to add more variety.

Story and characters are a cut above any other Bethesda game so far, but that’s not saying much. My wife is replaying BG3 next to me, and it makes Starfield’s writing look amateurish by comparison. It’s not the core of the game though, so eh.

Downsides so far have been that the minor planets/moons don’t have much to do, and that inventory management is annoying with how much crafting components weigh.

Ship combat is… Fine. It’s not as intricate as Elite: Dangerous or SW:Squadrons (for sim gamers, weapons are all on REALLY forgiving gimbals, which makes precision unnecessary), but not actively bad like NMS VR. I think it’s a good compromise, because not everyone wants to deal with a realistic sim in what is essentially a minigame.

It’s also complex, which is good, but adds some awkwardness to the beginning.

ABoxOfNeurons,

I think they made the right call too. It’s better for almost everyone. A lot of flight sim types are also techies, so I bet the mods will bias that way.

ABoxOfNeurons,

FWIW, as a native speaker, “much more images” is incorrect enough that seeing it would tell me that the author’s first language isn’t English.

Having complex and arbitrary grammatical rules solely to telegraph education sucks though, so vive la revolution.

ABoxOfNeurons,

Root cause? The complexity of English makes it an absurd choice for a worldwide standard.

Sci-fi books which don't involve too much space travels and massive world builds?

Don’t really know how to explain this. I like sci fi and would love to dig deeper into it. Am avid reader and enjoyed Project Hail Mary (though set in space, this book is just amazing), Dune, short stories by Ray Bradbury and TV shows like Raised by the Wolves, Westworld, From (love From!). But e.g. Foundation I really...

ABoxOfNeurons,

Love that cozy sci-fi. The Last Gifts of the Universe was also really good. Mostly a story about people in space.

ABoxOfNeurons,

Scorn was worth a shot if you’ve already played Soma and RE. The mechanics are… Fine. The art is jaw-dropping. It’s like Amnesia if H. R. Giger had been the art director.

ABoxOfNeurons,

That’s bizarre. Have you tried flipping the cable on the Mac end?

House, MD, pilot episode. [Neuroradiology] [CT] [MR] (lemmy.world)

I remember this episode quite well because it happened around the time I decided to get into the medical field. In the episode, a young teacher had a first-time seizure while in the middle of teaching. House and team attempted to get a brain MRI, but she got an allergic reaction from the IV contrast. Thereafter, some drama...

ABoxOfNeurons,

FWIW, I watched the show with a doctor, and he would occasionally comment stuff like “she would have gone blind way before she went crazy.”

ABoxOfNeurons,

Spirituality is kind of an odd word because it can mean either “rigorous self-examination” or “crystal magic.” The former is indispensable. The latter… Not so much.

I haven’t read those, but the general tradition of Secular Buddhism they seem to be describing is covered in a ton of great books like The Mind Illuminated and The Science of Enlightenment, both of which I recommend.

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