What you should say: “There’s a problem with X and Y”.

What you shouldn’t say: “Hitler is right with X and Y”.

Even if this fucker is right on something, you don’t get the right people behind you with this wording.

I had this hope too, but he already went light-years too far and all I read is “soon …”.

I’m generally against violence, but I really hope you guys do something over there…

But going peacefully on the streets is only successful if the government you want to send a message to is listening, i.e. if it either cares for their citizens or is in any way rational.

I hope I’m wrong here, but I can’t see anything changing for the better in your country. It currently looks like 70 million people trying to talk through a knife fight.

The only field I see LLMs enhancing productivity of competent developers is front end stuff where you really have to write a lot of bloat.

In every other scenario software developers who know what they’re doing the simple or repetitive things are mostly solved by writing a fucking function, class or library. In today’s world developers are mostly busy designing and implementing rather complex systems or managing legacy code, where LLMs are completely useless.

We’re developing measurement systems and data analysis tools for the automotive industry and we tried several LLMs extensively in our daily business. Not a single developer was happy with the results.

You’re right 👍

The US as a whole is a third world country. Low average income, nearly non-existent health insurance, incredibly bad education (system), high wealth gap, fascism, insanely bad labor laws, the list goes on and on…

Correct, but if they need that much time to come to that conclusion they’re basically useless.

Why do I still see articles with the headline “X claims Israel is committing genocide”? “Claims”? Really? And how is that “news”? If we can’t get over pretending it’s not entirely clear nothing will change.

I know this is quite easy to say from the comfort of my couch in Europe, but guys you need to shoot this fucker in the face already.

Means they aren’t competing. They’re working in a completely different field. Nvidia isn’t producing anything sensible.

Competition in what? Producing bullshit?

But it’s 2⁵² addresses for each star in the observable universe. Or in other words, if every star in the observable universe has a planet in the habitable zone, each of them got 2²⁰ more IPs than there are IPv4 addresses.

Just when you thought Nvidia couldn’t get worse, they praise Trump.

But spending a lot of processing power to gain smaller sizes matters mostly in cases you want to store things long term. You probably wouldn’t want to keep the exact same LLM with the same weightings and stuff around in that case.

Ye but that would limit the use cases to very few. Most of the time you compress data to either transfer it to a different system or to store it for some time, in both cases you wouldn’t want to be limited to the exact same LLM. Which leaves us with almost no use case.

I mean… cool research… kinda… but pretty useless.

Ok so the article is very vague about what’s actually done. But as I understand it the “understood content” is transmitted and the original data reconstructed from that.

If that’s the case I’m highly skeptical about the “losslessness” or that the output is exactly the input.

But there are more things to consider like de-/compression speed and compatibility. I would guess it’s pretty hard to reconstruct data with a different LLM or even a newer version of the same one, so you have to make sure you decompress your data some years later with a compatible LLM.

And when it comes to speed I doubt it’s nearly as fast as using zlib (which is neither the fastest nor the best compressing…).

And all that for a high risk of bricked data.

Shoot this fucker in the face already

I would appreciate stripping citizenship for racism or fascism related crimes.

Well yes but also no. There are quite a few distros that are “minimal effort”, they just work for the average person without any more knowledge you’d need on Windows or Mac. The last part that’s still not so “minimal effort” is gaming, most things just work out of the box, some things don’t. Btw Android is Linux.

So I don’t think that the problem is that Linux needs a little more knowledge or effort, because it mostly doesn’t, but the fact that most people who would switch see a billion different distros and don’t know what to do. Having so much choice here actually hinders people from coming to Linux. Doesn’t mean it would be better with less choices, it’s just one of several reasons why we don’t see mass adoption.

Another reason is the outdated thinking that Linux is complicated to use (and this blog fuels just that).

Why would I need AI for that? We should really stop trying to slap AI on everything. Also no, I’m not that big of a fan of wasting energy on web crawlers.