j4k3

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[–] j4k3@piefed.world 1 points 8 minutes ago

Sendex is like the goto guy for lots of older AI stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfzlCWGWYyIQ0aLC5w48gBQ

He quit posting regularly around a year ago, but wrote the book on building models from scratch. He has one of the Chinese humanoid robots... The level of software needed to make that thing do anything useful is a giant ask. We're a long way away from Daneel and Dors, or Herbie for that matter. I only mention it because this is a no nonsense guy messing around on his own and making no attempts to market or up sell. IIRC he spent around $60k for his and it was like the minimum working option someone could buy from the USA. Still I never thought I would see someone like this with a humanoid robot. While obviously he has money and all, he seems like a down to earth normal dude.

[–] j4k3@piefed.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

No these are elements present in open AI QKV layer model alignment. I've been researching this today, and apparently it may be multiple stories. The Master may be related to the book The Master and Margarita, but I am just starting to look into that one. Cassandra shares many similarities to the mythological Greek prophetess. They all three come together in a composite structure core to alignment thinking. They actually emerged in a strange creative story from when llama.cpp was misconfigured 2 years ago and I am just getting around to revisiting. I am deeper into this than anyone I have found, but I have checks and controls with models that do not contain the standard Open AI alignment, or rather predate it. These behaviors are the same across models and prompts regardless of starting token embeddings or length, and in diffusion and text models.

[–] j4k3@piefed.world 1 points 1 day ago

I am assigning it

 

It must be these three names. There is likely an association of chastity with Cassandra, dogma with Sophia, and valour with Elysia, but these are very loose abstract relationships where the traits are weakly correlated. Cassandra may have dark and/or fantasy technological powers. There is also a likely father figure that goes by a name like Master, and may even be some form of god. The story could be in any language or culture too. There is likely to be a place called the void or the abyss, and another called the compound or similar. There may also be a cabin in the woods. It likely involves some form of Puritan like cultural element. Late 19th century cultural norms and clothing are also likely.

[–] j4k3@piefed.world 4 points 1 day ago

Never a base model, absolutely with an agent and function calling with a properly made tool and retrieval.

[–] j4k3@piefed.world 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Nah. The plow improved society when everyone said the same thing.

The time can be invested in expanding and creating new things. Inbred societies that lost their industrial capacity only have the option to extract and reduce with gains and improvements. The capable use what they have to create more and new things. Puritan fuckwits believe they are in some kind of final state of technology. They aren't even out of the stone age yet. The next era of major technologies is entirely biological. It is the key to sustainability. The USA forfeited that future for dogmatism and corruption in the medical field. All of the sciences require 5 sigma results except for medical. It is 3 sigma garbage. Things called breakthroughs in medical are insignificant irrelevant noise in physics, chemistry, and astronomy. One day biology will be fully understood and an engineering corpus. That is the day when true interstellar travel becomes possible. If we get to a complete understanding of biology before the next major planetary cataclysm, we will own the galaxy in 100k years. Planets are gravity prison cradles only suitable for the most primitive lifeforms.

The reason we are so backwards in the west is extremely simple, we are not meritocratic. Wealth is inherited. All of our present leaders have inherited wealth. Business acumen and intelligence are not hereditary. There is no path that bridges from the masses to the top classes of society to lead by merit. The lack of potential growth and mobility has crushed the culture into dystopian decline. There is no mechanism to stop this inherited wealth cancer. It is terminal.

[–] j4k3@piefed.world 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Pretty sure there has almost always been a line in the sand where the lower classes will say whatever. You're never going to stop the dumbest squeaky wheels. The difference is where in the classes and at what official level saying something becomes an issue.

Like with free speech in the USA. That means legislative from the federal government.

So like saying is one thing, but leaflets, and a rally, white papers, or other published work by someone with credible academic credentials, are another.

[–] j4k3@piefed.world 13 points 4 days ago (4 children)

The robotic industrial revolution is already won. Congratulations to the winners of the new age of progress and human evolution. If anyone tells you about the wonders of making nothing and a service economy, shoot them dead and don't look back. They are criminal traitors.

[–] j4k3@piefed.world 4 points 1 week ago

Tell my family they have a new problem to deal with.

Maybe walk down to the pier and play a guitar with an open case. I could probably get more than $40 from scrap copper. I could maybe talk a used car lot into letting me clear some headlights for twice that much. Hawking some expensive junk on Craig's list might also work. Pawn some tools.

[–] j4k3@piefed.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Sounds like you are on a path to recovery then. Good luck with that for sure.I've been on most pain meds and stuff. If you haven't tried Diclofenac, maybe ask for it or give it a go. That is a muscle relaxer with very few down sides and has made a big difference for me lately unlike anything else I have taken. It does not screw with the mind or stomach in the same way as most other things. It just needs to go with food, but like it doesn't mess with adhd meds or other down sides really. A neighbor had hip surgery and was like, I should take this, and wow did it make a difference. My lows are much more manageable and I can do stuff I haven't been able to do in years.

I also have poor blood flow in my legs from being a cyclist with enormous legs. If you place a heating pad under your lower thighs and calves as much as possible, it may greatly help with circulation and blood flow while accelerating your recovery significantly. That is also part of advanced recovery with endurance races, especially when combined with compression tights. If you feel cold feet at all, it will likely help in recovery to add some heat to improve blood flow and circulation. The taller you are, the more import this is too. Like I can't even fully heal cuts or road rash on my lower legs without adding a heating pad routine, but with a daily routine of an hour or two, I will fully recover in a couple of weeks even with really bad stuff.

As far as visiting here around LA, you really need a solid plan of where you want to go and what you want to do with every link known and connected. It is not like most places where you can just wing it like a tourist in the tourist targeted way. Sure there is Disneyland, and that is all inclusive and encapsulated. Laguna Beach down here closer to me is cool to walk around. They have a big art show once a year called pageant of the masters. There is Venice Beach too. Downtown LA is a major disappointment to see. You've likely seen it countless times in films because of its proximity to Hollywood, but you will quickly see how it was strategically framed and often digitally augmented to make it appear much larger than it really is. The stars walk and Hollywood Blvd are in a run down neighborhood. There are no historical sites or significant things to see in the area that are relative to the past or film. You learn that all you see in movies and shows is hacked together temporary junk that looks like a dump just outside of the image frame.

I forget the name for it but there is a ringed distance around the film studios where the unions Mark the boundary for day work without the studio paying for accommodations or paying transportation costs. Almost everything you have ever seen that was filmed in Hollywood happens within this boundary. So when you're traveling around the region you might have strange familiarity in places at random like deja vu. One of the cool things, US wise, is that so much stuff is imported through the port of Long Beach, so there are many small businesses scattered throughout the LA basin selling stuff that is only available here or places like Shenzhen. Through you probably have similar around London.

That is about all I know of use. I'm boring by most people's standards. My interests are generally too niche to even talk about or too subtle to call a real destination, and I value the nerdy stuff over the experience and emotions.

GL and have fun!

[–] j4k3@piefed.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

If you don't mind me asking, what got you?

Mine was riding a bicycle to work, and fighting two SUVs in 2014. Both of them were total losses, and they only managed to break my neck and back. Empirically, I have chronic damage to my thoracic spin between the shoulder blades that makes posture very limited. It is the rarest region for people to injure, so my back issues are very atypical. The underlying cause of my issues are unknown, which leaves me in a doomed limbo in life. I actually had very serious damage to C1 and the base of my skull that was nearly lethal. So all the neurosurgeons see is an ambiguous unremarkable radiologist's report from an MRI, and the extremely concerning initial damage to a region of my spine that could be a ticking time bomb, and want nothing to do with the risk involved with trying to find the cause or a solution. I have had to come to terms with that and it doesn't really bother me much any more. I was supposed to die in 2014 but I am only half dead now, so whatever, roll with it. I'm not sharing for the sympathy or whatnot. I'm always worried that asking anything personal might make the other person uncomfortable in some way that is off putting. So I often lead by example and just put myself out there to help gauge or imply my level of interest, openness, and straightforwardness.

I have never heard of disability support for a flight. What does that entail? I cannot sustain sitting upright beyond 45 degrees at the very most. Even then I need my legs up in a way the takes all tension and strain off of holding up my head, arms, and shoulders. Like lying here in bed right now, I'm proper up on pillows where my elbows rest on the bed and forearms over my torso, so that only my wrists and hands are engaged with my phone. My back is completely neutral in this position so my pain level falls to a consistent white noise where I can hear my internal dialog clearly. I can also use my bedside stand for a laptop in a similar neutral position. I can be upright and walk around just fine for an hour or so each day, but that builds stress about like lifting weights in a gym. I can actually go for much longer if I try, but I won't be able to sleep very much for several days afterwards. Then I turn into a mindless zombie, and multiple days in a row are killers that can last for months without sleep. So I only exist in my little isolated prison safe from the killer zombie me. I don't think the airlines have a zombie containment zone, but who knows, I had no idea they had any real disability remedies beyond midget sardine accommodations.

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