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Pinellas County - Zone 2: 5.86 miles, 00:13:01 average pace, 01:16:16 duration
just some "training" in the humidity and such trying to keep it in the blue zone. frustrating! felt fine though.
#running
Pinellas County - Zone 2: 5.86 miles, 00:13:01 average pace, 01:16:16 duration
just some "training" in the humidity and such trying to keep it in the blue zone. frustrating! felt fine though.
#running
Pinellas County - Zone 2: 5.86 miles, 00:13:01 average pace, 01:16:16 duration
just some "training" in the humidity and such trying to keep it in the blue zone. frustrating! felt fine though.
#running
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@falsifian Can't argue with the some of the feats we've achieved for sure 😅 I think some of the good stuff is in smarter auto completion: summarization and pattern reproduction.
But "intelligent" it ain't 🤣
@falsifian Can't argue with the some of the feats we've achieved for sure 😅 I think some of the good stuff is in smarter auto completion: summarization and pattern reproduction.
But "intelligent" it ain't 🤣
@eldersnake Bahahaha 🤣 I doubt I could write a chess engine now 😅
@eldersnake Bahahaha 🤣 I doubt I could write a chess engine now 😅
@movq If it still existed I bet the first thing he'd do is convert it to Golang 👌🤣
@prologic I don't know what you mean when you call them stochastic parrots, or how you define understanding. It's certainly true that current language models show an obvious lack of understanding in many situations, but I find the trend impressive. I would love to see someone achieve similar results with much less power or training data.
@falsifian I don't believe so. But then again we'd have to define what cognitive understanding really is 😅 LLM(s) have none.
@falsifian I don't believe so. But then again we'd have to define what cognitive understanding really is 😅 LLM(s) have none.
@lyse Yeah in Australia it's only 20 paid days of annual leave (paid)
@lyse Yeah in Australia it's only 20 paid days of annual leave (paid)
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@stigatle @prologic Wow, that's surprising. Assuming a full time job, you are legally entitled to at least 20 days annual leave in Germany. Some companies even offer 30, esp. when in a union. I don't know how many companies actually do, but in my circle of friends and acquaintances, nearly everyone has 30 days paid vacation. I somehow thought it's very similar in Scandinavia and Australia.
Oh boy, the week is already over and I haven't accomplished much useful stuff when I look back on it. Gotta check the vacation calendars of my workmates tomorrow and take one or the other week off soon.
@prologic I thought "stochastic parrot" meant a complete lack of understanding.
@movq That's a tough one. Maybe drones and cameras. They make for greater videos to watch online (no, I don't have any of that). Not to forget high-speed internet, that's sloooowly getting rolled out.
@off_grid_living A gamer will not necessarily become a programmer. Especially these days I'd say.
@off_grid_living Hmm, but why is regular dirt not good enough for the hens outside?
Yeah, like with everything, quality has its price.
Nouveauté beta sur https://3r1c.net, la version TXT "smartphone" de chacun des articles. Accessible via le lien [M].
Nouveauté beta sur https://3r1c.net, la version TXT "smartphone" de chacun des articles. Accessible via le lien [M].
Pinellas County - Long Run: 7.58 miles, 00:11:16 average pace, 01:25:22 duration
not as long as i would have liked. got a late start because, well, i was enjoying the sleep! then i saw at 0500 the rain was not scheduled anymore so i slept in. then it rained!
so this run was hot, no cloud cover, 90% RH and about 90F. it was brutal. but overall had to cut it short due to shivers all over the body. i was not going to push it when i may be overheating.
highlight: raced a youg boy in boca ciega park
#running
Pinellas County - Long Run: 7.58 miles, 00:11:16 average pace, 01:25:22 duration
not as long as i would have liked. got a late start because, well, i was enjoying the sleep! then i saw at 0500 the rain was not scheduled anymore so i slept in. then it rained!
so this run was hot, no cloud cover, 90% RH and about 90F. it was brutal. but overall had to cut it short due to shivers all over the body. i was not going to push it when i may be overheating.
highlight: raced a youg boy in boca ciega park
#running
Pinellas County - Long Run: 7.58 miles, 00:11:16 average pace, 01:25:22 duration
not as long as i would have liked. got a late start because, well, i was enjoying the sleep! then i saw at 0500 the rain was not scheduled anymore so i slept in. then it rained!
so this run was hot, no cloud cover, 90% RH and about 90F. it was brutal. but overall had to cut it short due to shivers all over the body. i was not going to push it when i may be overheating.
highlight: raced a youg boy in boca ciega park
#running
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@stigatle Ahh nice! i only get 4 weeks off a year 🙄
@stigatle Ahh nice! i only get 4 weeks off a year 🙄
@off_grid_living Is there a particular reason why you run it through wine? And not the 'standard' ubuntu way of doing it? It'll make it much easier to make sure things are working the way it should.. :)
@prologic During summer - yes, since our kids have 2 months. First month of their vacation I still work, then I join them on their last month. We do have 5 weeks, so I save the last week for around Christmas. :)
@off_grid_living So tou mean wine? The windows emulator?
You don't need to use wine to run Apache.
It should be installable from the package manager (software center) or whatever it's called.
@off_grid_living So tou mean wine? The windows emulator?
You don't need to use wine to run Apache.
It should be installable from the package manager (software center) or whatever it's called.
[47°09′50″S, 126°43′13″W] Dosimeter fixed
[47°09′55″S, 126°43′39″W] Dosimeter malfunction
LLMs though, whilst good at understating the "model" (or shape) of things (not just natural language), are generally still stochastic parrots.
LLMs though, whilst good at understating the "model" (or shape) of things (not just natural language), are generally still stochastic parrots.
@falsifian It's also astonishing how much power these things use and how incredibly inefficient they are 🤣
But seriously though we have come a long way in _some_ machine learning sxiwnde and twxh and we've managed to build ever more powerful and power hungry massively parallel matrix computational hardware 😅
@falsifian It's also astonishing how much power these things use and how incredibly inefficient they are 🤣
But seriously though we have come a long way in _some_ machine learning sxiwnde and twxh and we've managed to build ever more powerful and power hungry massively parallel matrix computational hardware 😅
@movq The success of large neural nets. People love to criticize today's LLMs and image models, but if you compare them to what we had before, the progress is astonishing.
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@movq I don't have a VR headset yet, but I still view it as one of the most improved pieces of tech.
@movq I don't have a VR headset yet, but I still view it as one of the most improved pieces of tech.
@stigatle Very nice! 👌 I've enjoyed your photos and stories of your trips!
Do you normally take 4-week long vacations all in one go?
@stigatle Very nice! 👌 I've enjoyed your photos and stories of your trips!
Do you normally take 4-week long vacations all in one go?
@off_grid_living Setting up a local Apache + PHP server on your Ubuntu laptop is easy as pie 🤣
What do you think the world runs on 😅 Hint: Not Windows 🤣
@off_grid_living Setting up a local Apache + PHP server on your Ubuntu laptop is easy as pie 🤣
What do you think the world runs on 😅 Hint: Not Windows 🤣
@movq There are drivers and such for linux as well. I also think it works fine with steamVR on linux (But currently my main computer for gaming is running windows) so I have not tested VR on linux yet. I am planning on installing linux on that machine when I get a extra disk for it soon. (I run linux on all other laptops I have, but those are not good enough for VR stuff).
@stigatle That’s all on Windows, I guess? It does sound really interesting/tempting, though. 😲 I’ve only briefly toyed with a coworkers VR thingy ~10 years ago and it was rather clunky back then. That probably has improved a lot.~
@stigatle That’s all on Windows, I guess? It does sound really interesting/tempting, though. 😲 I’ve only briefly toyed with a coworkers VR thingy ~10 years ago and it was rather clunky back then. That probably has improved a lot.~
@stigatle That’s all on Windows, I guess? It does sound really interesting/tempting, though. 😲 I’ve only briefly toyed with a coworkers VR thingy ~10 years ago and it was rather clunky back then. That probably has improved a lot.~
@stigatle That’s all on Windows, I guess? It does sound really interesting/tempting, though. 😲 I’ve only briefly toyed with a coworkers VR thingy ~10 years ago and it was rather clunky back then. That probably has improved a lot.~
@movq @prologic @aelaraji , yeah, I have one. First one I bought was the first oculus on kickstarter. Then facebook delivered their first (after they bought oculus) on my doorstep for free (since I backed the first oculus on kickstarter). I use it a lot, especially for Xplane (flight sim) and Elite: Dangerous etc. It's not one of those quest standalone VR headsets I have, it's the one you hook up to a computer.
4 week vacation time is done tomorrow, then it's back to work. A bit excited to see what happens there for the rest of the year, a bit stressfull too, but It'll be nice to get back to work. This summer vacation has been super nice, and also felt like it lasted long. Been a super time with my family, we got to visit a lot of cool places, and went on a lot of trips etc. Been really nice. And we've already planned what to do next year - so I already look forward to that :)
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@movq That's a god one too!
@movq That's a god one too!
@movq Yup, definitely VR!
@movq Yup, definitely VR!
@stigatle Ahh so it's your way of trying to win a small lottery 🤣
@stigatle Ahh so it's your way of trying to win a small lottery 🤣
Floodgap has a list of new Gopher holes. The thing about Gopher is you explore and find things more "naturally."
Fixed so that when you hit 'reply' on a post - it adds the already mentioned people in the post (excluding yourself). Makes it much easier to reply properly to a thread.
@falsifian I do like to think of that recommendation as _sarcastic_ stab at twt-errr's rules 😉 so, IMO the more a twt exceeds the recommended limit the merrier! 😂
@falsifian I do like to think of that recommendation as _sarcastic_ stab at twt-errr's rules 😉 so, IMO the more a twt exceeds the recommended limit the merrier! 😂
@movq Hm, that has to be VR.
@prx ROFL. 🤣 Come on! That's evil. At least give them cup of hot chocolate, make it a win-win.
@prx ROFL. 🤣 Come on! That's evil. At least give them cup of hot chocolate, make it a win-win.
I’ll go first: Noise cancelling headphones. 😂 I often put them on in the evenings, no music, just enjoying the silence. ✌️
I’ll go first: Noise cancelling headphones. 😂 I often put them on in the evenings, no music, just enjoying the silence. ✌️
I’ll go first: Noise cancelling headphones. 😂 I often put them on in the evenings, no music, just enjoying the silence. ✌️
I’ll go first: Noise cancelling headphones. 😂 I often put them on in the evenings, no music, just enjoying the silence. ✌️
QOTD: What’s your favorite technological advancement in the last ~10 years? 🤔~