ABoxOfNeurons

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[–] ABoxOfNeurons@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

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@lemmy.one 5 points 2 years ago

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@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] ABoxOfNeurons@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

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@lemmy.one -4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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?

[–] ABoxOfNeurons@lemmy.one -2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I did. I'm not convinced the author knows the space very well though. There are larger models out there with similarly absent safety features. This isn't a remarkable release, and the tone is of ragebait.

Guardrails are a term of art for something like Nemo, which is more like the unreal ramen shop demo or a corporate chatbot. Most raw open models I've tried will tell you how to make meth if you ask them.

[–] ABoxOfNeurons@lemmy.one -3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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

[–] ABoxOfNeurons@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks! Might steal that for my setup.

[–] ABoxOfNeurons@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] ABoxOfNeurons@lemmy.one 6 points 2 years ago

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

[–] ABoxOfNeurons@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

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.

 
 
 
 
 

I'm still obsessed with No Man's Sky and Skyrim. Something about VR hiking is just magical.

 
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