trave<p>a funny corollary to learning about local LLMs is learning about the Tiananmen Square massacre</p>
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trave<p>I wish more things screwed in like lightbulbs. That was a cool design choice imo. Can you imagine screwing a flashdrive in? hehe</p>
Computer Facts<p>many of you are too young to remember when computers were briefly kind of cool</p>
trave<p>I had a dream I saw Bernie Sanders play King of Carrot Flowers in a Denny's</p>
trave<p>one example of an ok use of LLMs that comes to mind frequently is as an interactive thesaurus.</p><p>I can give a vague description of a word I'm looking for and it will spit out a variety of suggestions. We can have a discussion about language! And then I can take those words to a dictionary to learn their definition. And I can run this on my own laptop!</p><p>If I'm using a model trained on public domain data.... then who is this hurting?</p>
trave<p>I've been noodling on writing some thoughts about AI for a while and <a href="https://post.lurk.org/@iffybooks/114704476101632628" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">post.lurk.org/@iffybooks/11470</span><span class="invisible">4476101632628</span></a> finally got me to post something. I LOVE Iffy Books, obsessed. But "we've been against LLMs since before ChatGPT came along and we hope we're around to dance on its grave." feels unnecessarily enemy-seeking. I understand being anti-ChatGPT but there are legitimate and fascinating uses of LLMs that don't rely on stolen training data and don't destroy the environment any more than running your own laptop.</p>
trave<p>it's bananas to me how anti-LLM a lot of permacomputing, lefty and other sort of alt-tech people are. I understand the critiques: AI slop & misinformation, power and water usage, big tech domination, stolen training data, etc. </p><p>But for people who spend a lot of time reading and writing about technology, we should be the first ones who understand the nuances of the good and bad of technology, and fascinated by what computers are capable of. It's a toxic perpetuation of cancel culture to write off the entire idea of an LLM just because some big companies are doing a shitty job.</p>
trave<p>perhaps it's false wisdom but I feel like when you're organizing space you should organize the 'closest' space first: bedroom-> bathroom-> kitchen-> office-> living room-> garden, etc.<br />Work outward.</p><p>And when organizing time you work backwards:<br />- identify 5 year plan and work backwards to figure out how to get there<br />- figure out when we need to the event and all the transit to get there, and then we know how much time we have now<br />- etc</p><p>is that a thing?</p>
trave<p>I love little free libraries but not because I ever get books out of them. I just enjoy organizing the books in there. It's a little free activity for me.</p>
Sindarina, Edge Case Detective<p>If I ever retire from tech and start an automobile repair shop in a quiet town somewhere, I am going to call it ‘Auto Correct’ 🚗🧑🏻🔧🔧🧰</p>
trave<p>splitting my time today going through the hundreds of emails languishing in my inbox from the past few years and going through my father's unopened mail from 30 years ago... it all has to be dealt with at some point</p>
trave<p>if you're throwing out expired covid tests you can save the qtips. A single-wrapped q-tip is really nice to have on hand in a toiletries kit</p>
trave<p>if a nude is a pic of someone nude then is a clothed a pic of someone not nude? Are pics we send eachother just clotheds?</p>
agnes<p>this image is my philosophy for computerhobby</p>
trave<p>I'm such an overactive hard-refresher. If I'm the slightest bit frustraed while browsing I jam that shift key when refreshing like 'come ON load properly this time'</p>
trave<p>'YES the latest deck is in the mail and I got a copy of Susan's Thirst Trap, which is hot but also a punishing card against Jason's 2008 Birthday Party Throwback"</p>
trave<p>"ah I see you have cast Picnic July 2023... I will play That Weird Rainstorm In February on it and also bring Steve's Dog Terrence into play equipped with Tracy's New Vest"</p>
trave<p>and what if there was some sort of cartomancy you could do with it? What if there was an AI you could just feed your memories to and it would come up with a game like Magic or tarot and auto-assign values to the cards. Like yes it would be cooler if a friend did this with their own brain but it seems feasible for it to happen automatically and still be good.</p>
trave<p>I saw this screenshot and thought it was a magic or tarot card but it was actually one I took of a friends story. And my sleepy morning brain wonders if instead of ephemeral, our friends stories were mailed to us as physical cards</p>
trave<p>"here's your sandwich" they'd say and then I eat the sandwich</p>
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