They are promoting the disproven conspiracy theory that illegals are impersonating US citizens and then casting ballots under false names.

Greg Palast’s reporting proved that they are trying to purge minority and left leaning voters from voting rolls.

I know what you mean. All the code generated with ai was loaded with problems. Specifically it kept forcing my api keys into the code without using environmental variables. But for basic coding concepts it has so far been perfect. even a 3b model seemingly generates great definitions

Snippets are a great use.

I use StableCode on my phone as a programming tutor for learning Python. It is outstanding in both speed and in accuracy for this task. I have it generate definitions which I copy and paste into Anki the flashcard app. Whenever I’m on a bus or airplane I just start studying. Wish that it could also quiz me interactively.

It’s a huge disaster in the making. There’s probably a game theory model that explains what’s happening but damned if i know it. AI is a trap.

At the beginning of LLMs as a consumer tech phase, the big tech companies believed that they would soon generate synthetic data without human labor costs. But synthetic data caused model collapse when used as training data. So they still need humans.

But now their competitors are using scrapers and summarizers and those are expensive so they have to extract more value from search traffic and that means fewer referrals to sites. Fewer referrals to sites reduces original content and leadabto less traffic and training data for their models.

The only two ways out are to create an international regulatory body ornto break up facebook, microspft, and google.

There are different studies which show a shockingly high percent of the population are fools but the most compelling is the one by Cambridge Analytica which found a population cluster in Facebook’s massive amount of user data. They called this the average cluster.

The Republicans targeted this group in the 2016 election. Around 30 percent of the b population fall into this group.

There are small language models out there that can run fluently on smartphones. I’m fond of StableCode as a coding tutor. My dream is to be able to speak to the tutor and see its code instructions without having to dig my phone out.

Going off what I’ve read, on the more severe end of the NPD spectrum you have malignant narcissism and anti-social personality disorder, which are widely regarded as being untreatable:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00030651070550020701

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12144-019-0147-1

A lot of research strongly suggests that narcissism is actually a personality trait.

All of the research indicates that people on the far end of the narcissistic spectrum cannot be treated. NPD seems to be rooted in personality rather than it being a treatable illness. Trying to treat them would be like trying to make an intellectual person no longer curious about the world around them.

Post modernism seems to be overly concerned with the human condition being like wet clay. Moldable into anything. But evidence suggests that some people can be selfish, sadistic and disagreeable because of evolution. No amount of therapy can make them less selfish. Pharnaceutical research suggests that some drugs can very briefly allow narcissists to experience empathy. But no therapy has shown to work reliably on extreme cases.

It’s odd to me that someone would feel the need to compensate for their socially awkward highschool years by learning Brazilian Ju-Jitsu and taking growth hormone. You’d think being rich would be enough for these people but it’s not.

For a brief period of time, I entertained the hope that the t-shirt was Zuck’s way of warning the world that the US was slipping into a fascist dictatorship, but that was not the case. It seems clear that that he wore the shirt out of hubris. It was his way of telling the world that he was the modern era’s Caeser and the two others men running the failing superstate were crassus and pompey. An absolutely mindless message given how it ended for all three of these men.

By the way, isn’t the word “commode” derived from Commodus? We should name something after Zuck. Perhaps this new strain of bird flu that’s been spreading wildly because of a lack of a federal response?

It occurred right around when the kingdom in orange took power. Somehow zuck thought that it would be advantageous to his interests to compare himself to Caesar during an obvious triumvirate. The orange one and phony stark would be crassus and pompey by extension. But I think commodus is a far more appropriate roman emperor for zuck to choose as his patron saint

For fitness its probably decent but Garmin seems to have placebo sleep tracking. In order to get anything remotely accurate the sleep tracking algorithm has to be compared to a lot of polysomnograph data. But because companies don’t want to spend any more than they need to sleep tracking is usually just tacked on. Garmin hasn’t shown a good track record in this regard.

There are a number of open weight open source models out there with all their data sourced from the public domain. Look up BLOOM and Falcon. There are others.