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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

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 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…

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…

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…

The media has frequently been screaming about the dangers of one of the nuclear powerplants in Ukraine being targeted and damaged in the war. A dirty nuke, radiation over Europe the scenarios being discussed are…

In Europe energy prices have skyrocketed. I will leave out why for an entirely different post. We already see the cost of everything rising way past anything we have seen before (at least in my life) and far more people…

There are an ever-increasing stream of places, even just inm the US that is in severe shortage of water. That is a local problem. The Earth has an extreme abundance of water. 71% of the surface is covered with it and it…

There are many ideas suggested a greener globe. What about shutting down all sports evens across the globe? There are a lot of them, ususally weekly, usually more, in most cities at least of some size. There are huge…

My great grandfather was an author, and he wrote quite a few books. He was never famous or successful, but he made a living as an author. I have most of his books that have been handed down. They are old and fragile.…

As with most things of I presume this already exists. A majority of the start of my interaction with my browser is typing in something like "Nietzsche Cafe" because I want to go to their website and look at their menu.…

AMD and Intel each have instruction extension that are exclusive to each company. How does a modern compiler deal with those? The easiest would be to ignore them entirely. Or can you say "turn on AMD extensions" (or…