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  • pebblesOPtoLocalLLaMAI'm excited for dots.llm (142BA14B)!
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    Yes with llamacpp its easy to put just the experts on the CPU. Since only some of the experts are used every time, the GB moved to RAM slows things down way less than moving parts of the model that are used every time. And now parts that are used every time get to stay on the GPU. I was able to get llama4 scout running at around 15 T/s on 96GB RAM and 24GB VRAM with a large context. The whole GGUF was about 80GB.

    Also they actually are a Chinese company. I am pretty sure it is the company that makes RedNote (Chinese tiktok) and thats why they had access to so much non-synthetic data. I tried the demo on huggingface and never got any Chinese characters.

    I also really enjoyed it’s prose. I think this will be a winner for creative writing.










  • pebblesOPtoMicroscopy@mander.xyzStentorchestra
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    Oh cool, thanks for sharing! Biofilm is exactly where I tend to find them. I think they need a decent bit of oxygen, and if there is algae then they’ll eat the bacteria attracted to algae’s oxygen.

    My most stentor populated samples were pond samples with a good bit of dirt and leaves that I sat on a shelf for a few days.

    Once they’ve sat you’ll see a film start to form at the top that wasn’t there before. For me that film was made of really long bacteria all tangled together and tons of other life attached to and living around it.

    This video doesn’t have stentors, but it is of my thickest biofilm, a lot of stentors were found in the same sample: https://youtu.be/T3Bbg-ObTok

    Good luck microbe hunting!



  • Man this is really getting into the weeds. I don’t have those histories in my head well enough to talk about specifics like that. (Though I do appreciate all that you wrote. It is interesting to read.)

    If you’re an anarchist, I cannot imagine how a western religious institution propping up a fascist regime’s military dicatorship over half the old nation’s territory benefits you in any way.

    Me either.

    I’m pretty sure the main focus is just about the abstract idea of a group wanting to leave a larger group.

    How on earth does this benefit any kind of anarchist cause?

    Secession is anarchist in the sense that it rejects and fractures a dominant power in favor of one that better represents folks. So not full anarchist, but definitely more in that anarchist than restricting that ability.

    Secession is a tool. Of course there are going to be bad examples, but that doesn’t mean it’s never justified and never a good way forward.

    What if you had just been annexed? Not allowed to try and leave?




  • (I get this has gone on a while, of ya wanna stop just tell me. That way I’m not waiting on your reply.)

    I lean pretty consequentialist, if that’s relevant.

    Yeah that’s pretty helpful. It’s nice to be able to look into that without taking up too much of your time.

    I guess I should say I don’t really believe in judging people either, per se.

    Noted! This lines up with your last paragraph on not being able to use info you don’t have. That sort of reasoning drives a lot of my non-judgement as well.

    I wouldn’t distinguish in any sense between a bad pair of shoes and a bad person.

    This sort of dryness speaks to me. I disagree, but I like the energy it’s putting out there. I don’t put extra moral weight into humans. I’m no human exceptionalist.

    So this all leads me to two questions that have a lot to do with practical application:

    1. You said

    Both are obstacles to the world being how I (and most people) think the world should be.

    Does this imply that human consensus drives the goodness / badness of an action and therefore the goodness / badness of the actor that brought about that action?

    If so, what happens when there isn’t consensus? Sometimes a non-consesus still has intense emotions behind it (abortion for example). Also does that mean minority opinions are morally less good?

    If not, what defines an action’s good/badness?

    1. What are the implications of an actor being bad? There’s a reason we designated them. What for?

    2/3 are not off the hook,

    Off what hook? What would being on the hook be for someone?

    I would toss bad shoes. But also I know shoes don’t think about being tossed. I guess I could extend an earlier thought and say we do whatever the consensus is to that actor. That way we maximize goodness. Though I think leaving it at that would allow us to justify some radical things.



  • I would not call splitting the baby progress.

    Not when you put it like that! Lol

    Vietnam, for instance, wasn’t liberated through division. It had to be reunited before either half was free from civil war. Same with Germany. Or Korea, for that matter.

    In those instances splitting may have been an important step forward even if it wasn’t the final step. (I don’t remember the context that well for those examples) (I looked it up, at least in Vietnam, idk how you expected them to go forward without splitting given all of the external pressure.)

    I think the world will always be in flux. Do you think we’ll eventually just have a static set of countries with static borders and all of the people will be happy? If so, I’d love to hear why. If not, then by what actions do you suppose those nations change to deal with ever evolving groups, environment, genes, etc? Why would secession be particularly worse than other options?

    For example, I’m not so sure the legitimacy of North Korea is affirmed by the existence of south Korea more than it is affirmed by their allies (China, Russia, etc). Why would we focus on South Korea seceding more than other countries supporting?



  • What proportion of Texan’s incarcerated population is forced to labour for next to no salary again?

    This would be my first time actually.

    Hint: no.

    I always appreciate the hints.

    Slavery is alive and well in the USA, and Texas is one of its largest users thereof now. So yes, I think the average modern Texan secessionist would be pro-slavery … because they already are.

    Yeah I didn’t really consider their prison population, solid point. Prison slavary is bad. Though I think it is good to note scale differences. Both are bad, it’s just that slavery was much much worse in the past.

    According to https://userpages.umbc.edu/~bouton/History407/SlaveStats.htm

    During slavery in the US about 1/3 of folks in the south were slaves. Compared to the 0.4% of today in Texas that’s pretty staggering.

    So yeah, I’d go far enough to say that the average Texan isn’t pro-slavery in the sense that immediately hits my mind. Enough belive prison labor though, so you can’t say the aren’t pro slavery.



  • Rejecting the authority of a monarch is very different than putting up hard borders along an arbitrary line of demarcation and reinforcing residency by birthright.

    I’d say progress is progress, even if it isn’t perfect. Large scale coordination is more difficult than smaller scale stuff.

    Secession, in this instance, affirms the rights of the monarch at a distance.

    I can see this, but it also relives the residents that succeeded. Gives them a safer place to build infrastructure.

    Obviously it didn’t work. But more because neoliberalism valued trade over civil rights and private profit over public prosperity.

    Yeah that kinda stuff is my lack of optimism. If inegalitarian systems come together to decide on law for the world, then we may not get good laws.

    I think there is a lot of local work to do before I am confident in a global order. If we had systems that represent us well, then combining them to set global standards would rock.

    This is the principle of Constitutional governance. Power isn’t embodied in an individual, it is a social contract between all residents.

    Inequality is on the rise globally, and has been for a few decades. So that social contract is being negotiated by parties on increasingly uneven ground. Therefore this statement is not calming to me. Lots of people agree to bad deals every day.

    Edit: BTW thanks for sharing your views, I know I can sound kinda spicy at times when debating. We both obviously just want folks to have comfortable lives.