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I probably am not using the correct terms here so sorry about that. If all general LLM are eventually exposed to the same data, and a lot of the same use cases will they over time converge in responses? Even if they are…

I have gotten hold of a few classic Akai samplers from the 90ish. Sadly, the lcd screens are either not working, or impossible to read, or faintly visible. This is a common problem think with a lot of electrics from the…

I was walking my dog in the forest today. To one side there is a golf club with a bit of forest between me and it I could hear people at the driving range having fun. I had recently read about an F16 crashing in…

If someone wanted to take out the Starlink system, could it be achieved by throwing debris at it and could it be possible to target low earth orbit satellites without taking out others in higher orbit? The question is…

I am not that interested in learning about alpha / vaporware projects. I find it in particularly annoying and time wasting when I have to spend significant time to figure out what the maturing is. I think do think a lot…

I have a lot of fun playing with different generative AI text to image processes. They all tend to focus on parts of the text supplied as a description and leaving other parts ignored. "An emperor penguin sitting on an…

What are the likely consequences both short term and long term, if the United States decides to block one of the most popular applications on the internet. With an alleged 150 million users in the US, there will…

This is probably a case of me not paying enoguh attention to the news, but I would have thought that "AI Assistance" would be square in the middle of something Apple would want and need

Ambi Climate made a nifty system for remote controlling heat pumps. Now the company is shutting down and I have 5 remote control devices that will become worthless since they require connecting to their cloud services…

The civilian side of Boeing has been going through a long set of serious to catastrophic quality / maintenance / design issues for at least the last 3 years. Unfortunately, it appears that there is still more to come.…

I apologize for this but for some reason I am not able to get any good results from Google. I am looking for software that would allow me to create interative stories. The "scenario described" pick A or B to continue…

I think the adult entertainment sector of generative AI will be tremendously profitable. I spent some time today going to different sites. I got the distinct impression that all the site I visited are connected to the…

I have not paid much attention to Altman before the shocking sequences of events recently. I did not know much about the structure of OpenAI eiter. I have followed what they have made available to the public and that…

A lot of software products have claims similar to "Our product is used by 90% of the Forbes 100 companies" (or some other metric or grouping of companies) It sounds fairly straightforward. It is used by some minor…

I have noted a few people around me spend quite a lot of money on games. but prefer free software in other categories. Office like software, tools for developers, graphics / photo editing etc.

I have a diverse collection of books and sometimes it is joined by another collection and another. My system for keeping it all straight has failed. I have taken a couple of photos of my shelves. Now I wish to give the…

I think I have used VMware Workstation since its first release and I still use it. At home and at work. Through the years I have one ESX( whatever they call the commercial version of it now) For work. I have used Fusion…

A lot of amazing thingss are being done with AI now. Could someone train GPT to automate most of Git workflows and make the rest super easy? I would think if you can use it to code an entire whole application, it can do…

My bedroom window is located such that cigarette smoke from two different neighbors tends ot find its way into my bedroom. I find this disgusting. At the same time, I understand that they smoke right outside their own…

I mean foremost in topics in medicine or psychology Lately the majority of studies that i come across appear to all be meta studies. Which really is to sum up the results of other studies to draw conclusions? Made even…

I am thinking about moving my "web" hosting all the way home. It is a crazy idea from what my background informs me but I would like to try. What I would like to achieve is WordPress running on a read-only file system,…

Over my life due to a love for electrical gadgets I have gathered a nice pile of them. W ith moves, divorce, spring cleaning and just plain stupidity I have a lot of cool stuff that I can’t turn on because that nice…

A couple of weeks ago something strange started happening to my (audio) mixer. An audio record of it can be listened to here: https://d.pr/a/TklCXj (DropLr if that is not cool I am happy to post it somewhere better)…

Hi, I have scanned a couple of books written by an ancestor. He was not famous, and I doubt too many people are interested but I wanted to give the books a new digital life. I think the enormous back catalog of things…