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Before anyone buys a TPU for Frigate, try OpenVino on a cheap Intel N100 CPU. My mini PC frigate installation can handle 5 cameras easily.

I struggle to understand how people attribute things we ourselves don't really understand (intelligence, intent, subjectivity, mind states, etc) to a computer program just because …

"Ho ho ho! I'm sorry but our time is up. If you'd like to keep talking to me, please provide a credit card number. Merry christmas!"

"Inflation" simply refers to a rise in general price levels. The cause of inflation is known: someone sets a price. There isn't a single reason why someone might raise a price. It …

I don't know if the author is right or wrong; I've never dealt with protobufs professionally. But I recently implemented them for a hobby project and it was kind of a game-changer.…

Strictly speaking, yes, but there is so much variability introduced by prompting that even keeping the seed value static doesn't change the "slot machine" feeling, IMHO. While prom…

I went through a very similar thing at around the same age, and one of the insights that really helped me was meditating on impermanence, and cultivating more mental proprioception…

I think that if replacing programmers with "AI" was going well, the people doing it wouldn't shut up about it. So no, I don't think programming as a job will end soon, because ther…

It became evident to me while playing with Stable Diffusion that it's basically a slot machine. A skinner box with a variable reinforcement schedule. Harmless enough if you are jus…

War will happen as long as ignorance exists. Ignorance may exist as long as humans exist, but let's not pretend that humans are not responsible for wars. I take your general points…

On a long enough timeline we're all dead. In the near term, expect a lot of stupid decisions and huffing and puffing based on an ideological framing of what the national debt is. I…

Generally the experience of insight is prior to any discursive expression. We put our insights in terms of words, they do not arise as such.

There are no "things" in the universe. You say this wave and that photon exist and represent this or that, but all of that is conceptual overlay. Objects are parts of speech, reali…

I clearly do not meet the requirements to use the analogy. I am hearing the term super intelligence a lot and it seems to me the only form that would take is the machine spitting o…

Nor am I. I'm not claiming an LLM is a formal system, but it is mechanical and operates on symbols. It can't deal in anything else. That should temper some of the enthusiasm going …

Right. It's a dead thing that has no independent meaning. It doesn't even exist as a thing except conceputally. The referent is not even another dead thing, but a reality that appe…

I knew someone would call me out on that. I used the wrong word; what I meant was "expressed in a way that would satisfy" which implies proof within the symbolic order being used. …

Language models aren't world models for the same reason languages aren't world models. Symbols, by definition, only represent a thing. They are not the same as the thing. The map i…

Of course it's a bubble. It's only about 20% as useful as the claims driving the current irrational exuberance. All it can do is generate pictures and text, and we had those _comin…

That didn't take long. There appears to be some kind of outage now, I'm seeing unicorns all over the place. I even got a 403 from githubstatus.com.

Or they would say what they've always said when Trump openly does something hideous. "That girl was no angel." "She was asking for it." "Biden and Obama did the same thing but wors…

“See, there are basically two kinds of Philosophy - one's called prickly, the other one is called goo. Prickly people are precise, rigorous, logical - they like everything chopped …

"The only way to go fast, is to go well." ― Robert C. Martin

Even absent ethical or practical risks, it seems presumptuous to assume that we know what direction our evolution should take. The inferior beings that need improvement are the sam…

Yeah weird how LLMs randomly seem to reflect the politics of their owners, so random I guess we'll never know, weird.