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What kind of parameters do you end up changing, and how much difference does it make. Perhaps I am missing something and get more tok/sec, but I usually just do a git pull, then re…

What hardware do you run? I have a first-gen mac studio, and I just run cmake and build with no special options. Same thing with llama-server, I just specify the model and use the …

I'm left handed and I never really learned a good grip I could write with. So I've always struggled with handwriting. I also have an essential tremor in my left hand. As I have age…

My guess is design (features/functionality, not code). When you don't have to write every line of code and you can quickly iterate on features, you have a lot of freedom to dial in…

I have enough experience writing code by hand and designing complex systems with a team working for me. In a sense, this is no different. When I had a half-dozen mid to senior leve…

You'll have to take my word for it because I'm not going to disclose my private business or personal financial records. But, I'm running a small, two person business and we are bei…

Can you share the prompt you're using for each model?

“We experience it, therefore it exists” proves less than it seems. It proves there is an experience to explain. It does not prove that consciousness is what it appears to be from t…

Because you don't keep logs.

That depends on the purpose of the image. If it's used to create a false narrative (like a deep fake), sure, you should care. But if it's used as an alternative to a stock photo, o…

At this point I wish it were against the rules to accuse people or complain about articles as written by LLMs. It's creating so much noise that useful commentary is hard to find. I…

If they can't distinguish LLM text, then why should they care? Anti-AI people like to bring up hallucination as if everything AI generates is false. I can write pages of text, with…

"But here's the thing that gets missed in the narrative:" That's a pretty big clue that it is LLM assisted at least. That said, I don't mind. The article has substance and other th…

Most things I use it for could be done without it, it's just more convenient and entertaining. I had it make a daily aviation weather brief for a private airpark. It uses METAR, ou…

That's an interesting take, but I'm not sure 'easy to write' is the only advantage. There is also a really good ecosystem of libraries, especially for scientific computing. My expe…

What I love about OpenClaw is that I was able to send it a message on Discord with just this github URL and it started sending me voice messages using it within a few minutes. It a…

I'd love to use something other than ROS2, if for no other reason than to get rid of the dependency hell and the convoluted build system. But there are a lot of nodes and drivers o…

I recently filed a lawsuit in federal court, but because of the nature of the suit (adversarial proceeding on a bankruptcy case, wanting to cut my losses knowing collection is goin…

There is a way to trigger a script when a budget is hit, but they don't make it easy. You set up a billing notification that triggers a script, which can disable resources (like AP…

With all the home security cam privacy issues in the news recently, I thought I'd share my project. For about 3 years, I self-hosted my security camera system on the Synology surve…

I've been working on an open source, fully self-hosted network video recorder for about two months now. https://github.com/kevinbentley/ronin-nvr/ It works with cheap, generic IP c…

>Even if its not "artisticallly worthwhile", the process is rewarding to the participant at the very least I think that's the point though. What op did was rewarding to themselves,…

I’m genuinely curious how you feel about LLMs being trained on pirated material. Not being snarky here. Your comment reflects the old “information wants to be free” ideals that use…

We recognize slop because it's slop. Just because a bunch of people are submitting slop to open source projects doesn't mean that AI can only generate slop. His argument is basical…