Here Lemmy, have a peanut butter M&M

Thanks for this deal/offer!

Aggghhhhhh

Powerful quote, also true

No, it was a user on the FreeNode IRC in #Linux, not Stallman

What a thought provoking question.

I’d argue utility can exist outside of measurable systems but is defined by the measurements made within a system.

The measurements then determine with arbitrary values the utility of an object.

For instance, take two early human weapons: A wooden spear, and a club.

How would you rate the utility of each? By a varying degrees of ways, but they have different uses; a spear can hunt animals and has good penetrating power through flesh, a hammer can stun or knock out an animal, or drive a nail or stake.

But which of the two is the better use of the wood? That I believe, is at the core of your question.

The answer is both. A non-zero-sum system where both are valued for different purposes and no-one is the greater, or lesser thereof.

Epic photo

It explains in one photo why capybaras are brown

Delta-V Budget assuming standard parts

Getting anywhere in space requires ∆V, think of it like “gas needed” to go somewhere in a car, in an extremely simplified form.

The long form is a dimensionless change in velocity. You can point to any object in the night sky and calculate the ∆V required, like Jupiter.

In this case, NASA needed to go say, 384 miles to get to Jupiter and made it with less than 4 miles of fuel remaining using the car analogy. That’s a shocking degree of accuracy.

They then purposefully coasted into the gravitational terminus of Jupiter terminating the mission using the final 1% of fuel, while studying the planet over a number of years.

In space, informally, and also because I’m personally somewhat awful at space, a 20% margin of error in ∆V would be considered “good” for us mere mortals, because we need to have wiggle room for errors, mistakes, and course corrections.

(Flipping a lander or rover over on the Moon is considered to be average performance, see: IM-2)

People shit on NASA all the time, as if “private space exploration” is the future, but I did the math on their JUNO mission and their margin of error was 1%.

NASA is goated.

Er, I meant, high level players are decked out in magical trinkets and artifacts by L20/endgame anyway, it just seems like a synergistic effect of something most players tend to do on their own, PCs are loot goblins even when they aren’t dragons; if you don’t believe me, put one magic amulet in a chest at low level for a party of four

It’s only a minor criticism, I’m just an aged adventurer carrying an entire economy’s worth of artifacts when I play a melee class to avoid getting one-shot, haha

As a long time DooM fan, the constant “use fire hook with double barrel shotgun for armor” got really old, really fast.

If you didn’t do it on the higher difficulty settings, like Ultra-Violence, you simply died.

I’m actually hoping they take a page from HeXen for this installment

This is a pretty dope class, very well fleshed out for being a homebrew.

There’s some power asynchronicities, like with having the dragon patron, and an inventory full of magic trinkets to full heal every short rest, and some other minor stuff but this is a definite expansion into “useful warlock” or “Warlock+/Dark Sorceror”

Going from drunk to energized to inventing calculus, optics, a working theory of gravity and orbital mechanics in one lifetime

Thank you so much, I just learned there’s a blue version

If you are using CPU only, you need to look at very small models or the 2-bit quants.

Everything will be extremely slow otherwise:

GPU:

Loaded Power: 465W

Speed: 18.5 tokens/second

CPU: Loaded Power: 115W

Speed: 1.60 tokens/second

GPUs are at least 3 times faster for the same power draw.

I don’t know what GPU you’ve got, but Lexi V2 is the best “small model” I’ve seen with emotions, that I can just cite from the top of my head.

It tends to skew male and can be a little dark at times, but it’s more complex than expected for the size (8B feels like 48-70B).

Lexi V2 Original

Lexi V2 GGUF Version

Do Q8_0 if you’ve got the VRAM, Q5_KL for speed, IQ4_XS if you’ve got a potato.

My answer to this is yes.

I’m an AI Developer and my only option was to self host because I didn’t want my training data leaking out onto the web and by extension, China and the rest (I trained on my own data, writing, and notes, along with Wikipedia).

Self-hosting gives you complete freedom but also as one other user cautioned, don’t fall down the well/rabbit hole.

Use an executable like LM Studio, and then an off the shelf pre-trained model from Huggingface.

VRAM × 0.8 for max size.

Experiment until you find one you like.

Well, you are absolutely correct. A 1-2% DoD is something for like, the Voyager Probe though, not a smartphone :)

I charge wired (high speed, 18-22W). Wireless is known to be a lot slower and theoretically gentler on the battery.

I also use the phone heavily, like a computer, I’m a “power user”, so my battery thrashing is higher than average.

Us having the same durability lost on our engine despite me driving double the miles is a good analogy.