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This seems to be the content - http://med.iiab.me/
The "The Global Emergency Medicine Wiki" is pretty cool, external link where they get it from - https://wikem.org/
Preppers seem interested too which is cool - https://www.tiktok.com/@deweylikedonuts/video/71236508943983...
I really don't get it. Many of these countries don't even have the resources for clean water, sewage, and reliable agriculture. The idea that they're going to just think their way out of poverty is a very western idea that comes from quite a privileged background. You're not going to be able to do any of that luxurious learning when your stomach is empty and you're having to sleep each night in some war-torn slum. Th…
But the level of poverty is unreal. I had multiple hotels charge me a deposit for key card so I'd return it, and breaking large bills (the equivalent to US $20) wasn't something that most shops actually had change for.
This is great. Thank You for the link! I have spent a little time each year over decades planning a library. The first draft planned a shipping container full of rack-mounted equipment, and several more shipping containers full of the equipment to power the library. That version never got built. My current iteration uses a bunch of 18 TB HDDs in a HP Z-series workstation. If I had the money to actually deploy prototy…
I really don't get it. Many of these countries don't even have the resources for clean water, sewage, and reliable agriculture. The idea that they're going to just think their way out of poverty is a very western idea that comes from quite a privileged background. You're not going to be able to do any of that luxurious learning when your stomach is empty and you're having to sleep each night in some war-torn slum. Th…
Is it really so binary that either they’re rich westerners or they’re so destitute they can’t benefit from this project? Also, this project ends up being a compact way to deliver educational material. Imagine sending them the equivalent in physical books and manuals
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Is it really so binary that either they’re rich westerners or they’re so destitute they can’t benefit from this project? Also, this project ends up being a compact way to deliver educational material. Imagine sending them the equivalent in physical books and manuals
it's a very privileged western view that all "third world" countries are destitute and starving
Not sure why your calling out this poster when the OP said the above.
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Is it really so binary that either they’re rich westerners or they’re so destitute they can’t benefit from this project? Also, this project ends up being a compact way to deliver educational material. Imagine sending them the equivalent in physical books and manuals
it's a very privileged western view that all "third world" countries are destitute and starving
There's a spectrum, and while we should have increased empathy and awareness of a LOT of places in the world where life is spectacularly rough and wildly different than ours (2 years of my childhood were in a civil war and my Canadian wife just cannot fathom any of those experiences), there are indeed a lot of places in the world where knowledge and access and technology are helpful.
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LLMs are not magic. If wikipedia takes up 100GB of space and your model trained on it is only 5GB big, there is NO WAY it will hold all the original information.
It doesn't need to be lossless to be useful. A lossy LLM can just throw all the redundant stuff away and focus on the actual information in the text, instead of the text word by word. It wouldn't need to keep dozens of languages around for if it could translate on the fly. And it wouldn't need to keep a full text when it can just have the raw facts and generate the text on the fly. Not sure what the state of the art…
What people in poor countries need the least is learn from source that have tons of random facts of knowledge censored out since some western corporation decided they're unetical or disturbing.
I really don't get it. Many of these countries don't even have the resources for clean water, sewage, and reliable agriculture. The idea that they're going to just think their way out of poverty is a very western idea that comes from quite a privileged background. You're not going to be able to do any of that luxurious learning when your stomach is empty and you're having to sleep each night in some war-torn slum. Th…
It's a end run around those corrupt bureaucrats.
Is it perfect or going to solve everything? Obviously not, but it's cheap, simple, and robust.
I really don't get it. Many of these countries don't even have the resources for clean water, sewage, and reliable agriculture. The idea that they're going to just think their way out of poverty is a very western idea that comes from quite a privileged background. You're not going to be able to do any of that luxurious learning when your stomach is empty and you're having to sleep each night in some war-torn slum. Th…
https://www.voanews.com/a/south-african-firm-aims-to-supply-...
You can see it was never used. I asked the guide, do they even use this thing? He laughed and said no. It was basically a decoration piece.
What did they use to cook? The wood they go out to collect.