dustyData

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[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Or you could, you know, pay a person a living wage to be physically present at the store to assist shoppers and review the sales.

Or, hear me out. Maybe a 70% review requirement is not automation at all. Just saying.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The only money to be made in the LLM craze is data scraping, collection, filtering, collation and data set selling. When in a gold rush, don't dig, sell shovels. And AI needs a shit ton of shovels.

The only people making money are Nvidia, the third party data center operators and data brokers. Everyone else running and using the models are losing money. Even OpenAI, the biggest AI vendor, is running at a loss. Eventually the bubble will burst and data brokers will still have something to sell. In the mean time, the fastest way to increase model performance is by increasing the size, that means more data is needed to train them.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I agree it is not because they can't but because they didn't want to. But the truth is they haven't. Current offers match exactly what I have described in my comment. Intel and AMD have been sleeping on their laurels and ARM is coming for their lunch unless they move quick.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Power efficiency. Arm promises the same performance at lower temps and wattage than x86 at competitive price points. That's a really attractive proposition for the laptop market. x86 can be as small format, as power efficient, as cheap, or as powerful than ARM but not all at the same time.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 180 points 1 week ago (8 children)

This why kernel level anticheat is the stupidiest idea. It's already hard enough to have the developers coordinate on a mission critical component of the OS. Now imagine dozens of profit hungry, lowest effort publishing companies all meddling and putting their greasy hands into that code at the same time. No, thank you.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

OP left no indication of whether they enjoy or not. Just that it is hard. And it is hard. Broadcasters are trained formally to do it. It requires improvisation skills, acting and physical and mental stamina. But, it can also be very rewarding. Like most things in life, there's some level of initial discomfort and hardship involved in getting to do or experience cool things. You get to choose what you want to face or not.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Get a producer or anyone with you and talk to them. That's how radio and TV broadcasters used to do it. They would talk to the console or camera operator. Eventually it becomes natural to talk by yourself. It does look like unhinged behavior without the context. But it is an old skill, as old as radio broadcast. Try acting monologues to yourself, it also helps.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Most likely, as with all AI as a service startups. After a certain mass of users the models can't keep up. So to reduce the response times they pay offshore firms to have real people answer the chat. Unfortunately, doctors willing to answer a chat all day are way less numerous than cheap labor.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

It means nothing, it's just a paycheck you sign and then you get to say "I certify my OS is Unix". The little bit more technical part is POSIX compliance but modern OSs are such massive and complex beasts today that those compliances are tiny parts and very slowly but very surely becoming irrelevant over time.

Apple made OSX Unix certified because it was cheap and it got them off the hook from a lawsuit. That's it.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Digging on Concord was funny for longer than its server were online.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Luddites weren't against new technology, they were against the aristocrats using new technology as a tool or excuse to oppress and kill the labor class. The problem is not the new technology, the problem is that people were dying of hunger and being laid off in droves. Destroying the machinery, which almost always they were the operators of when working on said aristocrat's factories, was an act of protest, just like a riot, or a strike. It was a form of collective bargaining.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

You assume most stock investors read beyond the headline, you assume wrong.

 

I don't mean system files, but your personal and work files. I have been using Mint for a few years, I use Timeshift for system backups, but archived my personal files by hand. This got me curious to see what other people use. When you daily drive Linux what are your preferred tools to keep backups? I have thousands of pictures, family movies, documents, personal PDFs, etc. that I don't want to lose. Some are cloud backed but rather haphazardly. I would like to use a more systematic approach and use a tool that is user friendly and easy to setup and program.

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