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marci··on Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations
Are you answering your own question? I read your reply as :

"How do we stop Z? X and Y are the cause of Z.

The thing is, I said gun control, but I'm not even sure that's real issue. I kinda took it backward. There are mass shootings because of the ease of access to guns, but it's not the ease of access to guns that pushes people to this.

In other ords, remove the guns, the mechanisms that drive people to think they want to kill remains. I might be wrong but it feels like in Europe there are more and more cold weapons attacks, or the use of ramming trucks.

I guess I have no suggestions.

marci··on Accountability sinks
Astronomy isn't the only issue with space pollution (e.g: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome)
marci··on How I failed to make a game: Raycasting on the GBA
Might be of interest to those of you that ended up here: PS1 Tomb Raider ported to the GBA, Sega 32X and other platform with the OpenLara project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igEUjEci-eg

They even made a web demo. I've been replaying the whole game with my GoG.com Tomb Raider copy.

http://xproger.info/projects/OpenLara/

marci··on Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing
Unfortunately, your link leads to nowhere.
marci··on Infinite zoom art turned into a game so fun
if you make a shortcut to the homescreen, I think there's no address bar then.
marci··on I Like Makefiles
Are you suggesting this: https://xkcd.com/927/ ?
marci··on I Like Makefiles
You might want to take a look at the "actually portable executable"* project, made by the person you're responding to. There may be tips that will make make more approchable to you, if you're still dealing with MAKEFILEs.

* https://justine.lol/ape.html

marci··on Moshi: A speech-text foundation model for real time dialogue
I'm sorry.
marci··on Speech Dictation Mode for Emacs
Might want to use M-x gptel instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsRnh_brggM

https://github.com/karthink/gptel

marci··on Nothing: Simply Do Nothing
Gamifying stillness.

- Share you highest score with friends.

- Set a reminder

- a “don’t break the chain” calendar in the background

marci··on Battlestar Galactica: Technical Manual (2005)
Unless they are a Cylon...
marci··on Battlestar Galactica: Technical Manual (2005)
And all these instances of distractingly bad uses are in my thoughts and prayers.
marci··on Show HN: A modern way to type in African languages
The issue might be in the "About" section:

"This application allows you to type most of the characters in the african language in any text field."

Maybe it should say "in AN african language", rather than "in THE african language".

marci··on Diffusion models are real-time game engines
'our' intelligence may not be the best thing we can make. It would be like trying to only make planes that flaps wings or trucks with legs. A bit like using a llm to do multiplication. Not the best tool. Biomimcry is great for inspiration, but shouldn't be a 1-to-1 copy, especialy in different scale and medium.
marci··on Should the richest 1% – who gained $42T/decade – be taxed more?
Neither. I reject your question.
marci··on 17-year-old student exposes Germany's 'secret' pirate site blocklist
I imagine a lot of the normies that got blocked trying to get to sci-hub didn't remain normies for long.
marci··on Antifragility in complex dynamical systems
I had read this comment, but didn't read it under this lens. Thanks for (re)pointing me to it.
marci··on Antifragility in complex dynamical systems
Now I wonder what a machine learning model with risk seeking behaviour would look like.
marci··on Zero regrets: Firefox power user kept 7,500 tabs open for two years
> In spite of your conntrarian phrasing you've kind of only sold me on tabs being a more advanced hypermedia bookmark than the simple bookmarks we've been given.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure I understand your phrasing.

> I'd also note that at 7500 tabs your computer almost certainly is not keeping those sessions alive

The person I was responding to was not talking specifically about the article, but "many people". And some people may use the tabs for one, more, or none of the reasons I listed. I was not trying to sell anything. I don't even think that tabs are a good product, only the best so far, with regard to those considerations.

marci··on Zero regrets: Firefox power user kept 7,500 tabs open for two years
Tabs aren't history, nor bookmarks:

- they keep sessions (a)live (audio/video, chat, where you stop reading)

- they can keep some or all of the history context ("how did I get here?")

- they can keep some of the browsing context ("what else was I looking at, what other tabs are around this one?")

- they are a filter. Every useless site, popup, get's into the history (>"If they don't close it, they want to remember it forever.")

- they (at least on desktop) have better ux than bookmarks and history (they're always there)

marci··on Mistral NeMo
For the benchmarks, it depends on how you interpret it. The other models are quite popular so many can have a starting point. Now, if you regularly use them you can assess: "just 3% better on some benchmark, 80% to 83, and at the cost of almost twice the inference speed and base base RAM requirement, but 16x context window, and for commercial usage..." and at the end "for my use case, is it worth it?"
marci··on Extraverted People Talk More Abstractly, Introverts Are More Concrete (2012)
I don't think the Socratic method is basic, but it sure is practical.
marci··on Parkinson's Link to Gut Bacteria Suggests Unexpected, Simple Treatment
Is Parkinson's rate lower in Australia/New Zealand?
marci··on Apple's On-Device and Server Foundation Models
The strange thing is Apple did mention (twice) in the article that their adapters are loras so I don't understand OP's comment.
marci··on Falcon 2
I understand, I'm just glad for the possible implications for future models: less expensive to make => less expensive to iterate. MoE are cheaper to train. My favorite right now is Wizard 8x22b, so as a random user, I don't really care about this model. Will probably never run it as-is. But makes me hope for a Falcon-MoE.

Also, the fact that it's less dense than llama 3 means there may be more room for lora fine-tuning, and at a lesser cost than required for llama 3 while sacrificing way less of its smarts. That may be my use.

marci··on Falcon 2
Maybe that's not the right metrics to compare.

True, the model is bigger, but required less tokens than Llama 3 to train. The issue is when there's no open datasets, it's hard to really compare and replicate. Is it because of the model's architecture? Dataset quality? Model size? A mixture of those? Something else?

marci··on Scientists Find an 'Alphabet' in Whale Songs
Temba, his arms open.

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.

marci··on Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'
The story of how MajorMeat/Phantom-Dense-XXb-fp64 and a 2501Silicon/MoE-XXb-64bit finetuned with the Whole-Internet Dataset frankenmerged.
marci··on Insects and other animals have consciousness
Or they play to practice procreation
marci··on Nintendo blitzes GitHub with over 8k emulator-related DMCA takedowns
They are probably talking about a "serverless" bittorrent. Some kind of Git-over-DHT. It would require this to be accepted: http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0050.html (Decentralized Mutable Torrent)
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