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gzt

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he is probably mostly here now. statistician, wizard, lazy person, orthodox, leftist, etc etc. for academic stuff, see him on scholar.social (same username). #statistics #datascience #rstats #chess and a lot of other things.

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gzt, to random
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Whenever I see Sam Altman I think about Torgos executive powder from Futurama

gzt, to random
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I worked into the evening yesterday and actually started as soon as I got up at six so I basically took the afternoon off

gzt, to random
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Noooooo I absent mindedly dumped a bag of recycling into the trash dumpster

gzt, to random
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okay great, so, I thought, all right, let's try downloading plex, they say it should be easy to get to work, and it's like... there's a lot of stuff unsaid here, because this does not just work and I have no clue what buttons to push to get it to work on my local network, if my router is even capable of supporting it.

gzt, to linux
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okay so i'm going to put a fast wireless/bluetooth card (not USB dongle) into my old desktop that i run fedora on. I need one that is:

  1. fast
  2. works with no hassles on linux
  3. seriously i need both of those. I can get 500Mbps down on my windows laptop, get only 10 on this desktop
gzt,
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I think the answer is any intel-based chips? my issues in the past have been non-intel, so that might be it.

gzt, to random
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It's breezy out

gzt, to random
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all right, i finally got my personal desktop up and running after switching hard drives. just have to finish putting backed up data in places...

uhhh this had just been sitting fallow while used my surface go and work laptop instead for.... 6months.

gzt, to ai
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apparently today is the 25th anniversary of the release of The Flaming Lips' Soft Bulletin. Could be wrong. But anyway, putting it on, strikes me that they ahve mcuh more cogent thoughts about AI safety than any of the rationalists/techbros

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Kolectiva users: we're radical, but we hate armed resistance movements!

gzt,
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@InternetEh i also love how when they do that they always actually judge the colonizers more leniently!

gzt, to guitar
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oh man so somebody fell on hard times -- walked by the pawn shop, there's a rather nice (epiphone) les paul for way too much money in the window next to a really nice marshall (for way too little money). seriously, though, i just bought an amp yesterday for good money off somebody, if i didn't, i'd be very seriously considering storming in there and getting it, it's criminally underpriced unless it's either broken or not what it looks like. #guitar #amp #marshall

gzt,
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it's a Marshall DSL40CR for $399. very good price. unless it's actually a DSL40C or is broken in some way.

gzt, to random
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It'd be nice if the lingering cough went away...

joabaldwin, to random
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A photographer's dream. I've been photographing at Mono Lake for many years, and never did I expect to get photos like these, I didn't think it was possible. The aurora came and went for only about 15 minutes with that intensity, shifting colors before vanishing.

Magenta pillars rising from the sierras, with Mono Lake tufa in the foreground. The aurora is mostly pink with a fringe of yellow-green underneath.
A cluster of Mono Lake tufa silhouetted over a bright pink and red aurora. The light pillars are not too defined, but the colors are intense and reflect on the lake.
More Mono Lake tufa towers with a pink, yellow, and red aurora glowing softly behind them.

gzt,
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@joabaldwin amazing - potentially a once in a lifetime opportunity

forensicgarlic, to random
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Every new pitch I hear for "AI" makes me think wow they must have come up with some interesting new technique, otherwise these claims are obviously false. And then you look into it and it's still just a very complex stochastic model underneath. But the financially motivated folks keep claiming that there's actual factual based use cases for this stuff and I really am not seeing it.

gzt,
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@forensicgarlic yeah, it's hard to come up with ACTUAL USE CASES for these general LLM AIs, they're typically going to be buried in the pipeline, and then the actual use cases turn out to be very hard to actually get right especially with these general models, it's not just a plug and play. meanwhile actual decent AI/ML, generally modestly sized models special built for the task, keep chugging along...

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The thing about RFK and his :lowly: is clearly just hypochondria. The guy basically just selects the doctor who tells him he has a disease where his skeleton is going to leap out of his mouth and escape down the street rather than the boring ones who don't say that

gzt,
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@InternetEh hmm eat more vegetables, or try this one weird trick?

gzt, to random
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ugh i'm trying to go back to work tomorrow after being sick.

gzt, to random
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with the boomers getting out of the way, i guess we'll have to start saying "okay Xer" instead.

gzt,
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@ucblockhead hey now

gzt, to guitar
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i got a new (to me) guitar a little bit ago, very flexible, got a great price off craigslist. pretty versatile, i really like it.

Model: PRS SE Hollowbody II Piezo Electric Guitar Black Gold Burst

gzt,
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now I just need a good mandolin. and maybe to replace my 61-key keyboard with a full size piano. and of course a bass amp and electric amp instead of using this headphone amp. and...

gzt,
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one of the selling points, besides filling out my ability to play whatever i want, is how light it is, given how my back has been bothering me lately.

gzt, to random
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a statement of the late steve albini's political views https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/td90c/i_am_steve_albini_ask_me_anything/c4nt0dr/

gzt, to random
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i really need to find a place that will convert my mandolin book into a comb-bound book

why do any of these books come in editions other than plastic comb bound???

gzt,
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@Stacky cool I'll try once I'm back in the saddle

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