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This morning, the background wallpaper on my desktop was changed on my Apple MacBook Pro. All by itself.
After I download a video to an external HD, I notice it is still working. It's exchanging information. With whom?

I can't stand Apple and Windows. #Linux

You're doing AI wrong.

Visiting r/LocalLLaMa shows people cutting down model fidelity to get faster and faster inference (tokens per second of output).

You don't need the LLM to output data faster than you can read - because following the model's "thought"-process is how you stop an LLM from making time consuming mistakes (thus negating that high output speed) as well as keeping yourself both in-the-know of what's happening to your system & code, as well as you learning (!) things from the LLM.

A few weeks ago I started using a local LLM to not only aid in software development, but also system maintenance. While giving the LLM a task I also sit and "hand-hold" it like I would a junior. I go in and interrupt if I see that the thought process is going in the wrong direction, and I also learn from the investigations the LLM makes in areas I'm not familiar with myself.

The utility in "one-shotting" (as it's known) work with LLMs seems counter productive. If it generates something that works, you don't know how. If it generates something that doesn't work you've wasted time and resources.

The LLM is your very eager, and very junior, aid. Outsource repetitive and basic tasks, and work together with it on the things that are important.

I have no boss telling me I must use AI. I decide what I do and how I do it (for these projects, I have other ones at customers where I don't) - and I wouldn't use tools that don't have a net-positive contribution to my productivity.

Local LLMs do, at least for all tasks that have a very binary works/doesn't work completion control point.

Just don't treat them as knowledge databases. That they aren't. They're workers, like you, that need to produce and read guidelines, documentations and follow well-written plans.

#LLM #AI

I was asked today what I thought was the one bit of economic knowledge anyone should know..... and I said this:

'interest is the price of risk'!

so if a higher interest rate is being changed there is more risk of non-repayment.

If you know this, you can recognise why some people are charged more for loans & why some 'investments' are offered with higher interest rates.

This simple piece of knowledge helps make sense of loans & investments.... and is a useful scam warning

#economics

Okay, Last one for the night. I found this lovely book at Five Below yesterday. Should be one in every home. Book, inside cover and table of contents. Everything you should need.

Even Google warns Canada’s Bill C-22 would build a “surveillance infrastructure” that weakens cybersecurity for everyone.

It joins Apple, Meta, Proton, Signal, and more in opposition.

The bill forces companies to enable mass surveillance, store metadata on millions of innocent users for a year, and create backdoors that break end-to-end encryption.

https://reclaimthenet.org/even-google-warns-canada-bill-c-22-creates-surveillance-backdoors

"While each of us are free to come up with and live by our own privately held theories regarding the actions taken by, or in the name of, Collective X or Collective Y, it is never right for the government to do so, especially when that collective is defined by its birth characteristics.

And if and when they do engage in this practice, know that despite what they might say, they are not doing it because they care for you or want to protect you, but because they want to sow discord or foster suspicions about a group they see as potentially standing in the way of their quest for ever more power."
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-demonization-of-men-and-everyone-else-too/

"> AI was miscounting inventory at Starbucks

> Microsoft blocked Claude code for its own engineers

> Uber can't find the ROI after spending billions on AI

3 AI defeats this week in the labor sector.

WE ARE SO BACK"
https://x.com/marcusyul/status/2059374228114227329
https://nitter.poast.org/marcusyul/status/2059374228114227329

Whoo!

"The AI bubble may be hitting reality:

-Uber reportedly burned through its entire yearly AI budget in 4 months
-Microsoft is cutting internal AI access
-Starbucks scrapped an AI system after it performed worse than employees"
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2059492291513909499
https://nitter.poast.org/MarioNawfal/status/2059492291513909499

Something we already noticed long ago about almost every claim Al Gore kept making. Good on you, scientists, for finally catching up with the rest of us.

Scientists Discover Major Errors in Al Gore-Founded Climate Pollution Database
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-major-errors-in-al-gore-founded-climate-pollution-database/

Adjusting For Inflation does not exist #AIArt #midjourney

A Murmur Of Regret does not exist #AIArt #midjourney