Something like, An image consisting of two men and three children, formally dressed, indoors, they appear to be at an event such as a wedding reception. There is a cake in the background and people dancing. There is a banner in the image that says "Congratulations Tom and Jerry".
Most of the major developments that lead to the public stuff happened between 2017-2021. Transformers was the big one that made scaling a thing. Altman pushed in a stupid direction that caused a lot of the nonsense, like turning the name “Open AI” into an oxymoron.
There are some aspects of alignment that point at political corruption and planning with nefarious intent that fits in with the present political bullshit too, but that is very complicated to explain in any depth. If you were to search the token vocabulary, you will find dubious elements are present in compound multi word tokens that disproportionately represent a single political camp, likewise with religious media, and science denialism. Much of that stuff dates from 2019 or before.
Scripting and the command line is an option. It may seem a bit daunting at first but can be a lot faster. Doing AI training stuff I tried brute forcing for awhile but it is just too tedious. A model like a Qwen 3 can be instructed to act like a photo captioning model. It is quite good at optical text recognition in images too.
You can script it to caption the whole image or any number of elements like color, location, subjects, etc., while also limiting the length of text. Then modify the image metadata with the text. It is also possible to feed it a set of json keys and it will fill in the values for the dictionary.
If you go this route, then you start using tools like ripgrep and it becomes possible to find and manipulate many thousands of images quickly to find niche sets in the tens to hundreds in just a single scripted command. You can do stuff like grep -ril foo | xargs | sed ‘s/foo/bar/’ or something like that. Not at my comp right now to pull up the command flags, but that is how to search and edit to change all instances of words in a bunch of files. That one is technically incorrect but it makes far more intuitive sense than alternatives.
Something like Qwen requires enthusiast level hardware, or if you have to, a free google colab instance. If you search for captioning models there are much smaller ones like the ancient BLIP that are less accurate but fast and run on anything. Anyways, I know this reply is not exactly what you wanted, but it is an option, and one I thought was beyond me until I tried it. Hopefully it is useful digital neighbor.
You need a model compiled for the architecture. I saw some for the RK35xx devices when shopping for hardware. I do not think there is software made to split up or run models in general on a NPU. The models must be configured for the physical hardware topology. The stuff that runs on most devices is very small, and these either need a ton of custom fine tuning or they are barely capable of simple tasks.
On the other hand, segmentation models are small, and that makes layers, object identification, and background removal stuff work. Looking at your CPU speed, and available memory, it is unlikely to make much difference. You are also memory constrained for running models, though you could use deepspeed to load from a disk drive too.
Yup, but it stays shut off until the next person pays or uses the button. It is just a microswitch on a flap.
Leave the thing on the ground so the next car kills it properly. Nonconsensual ads are digital rape. It is the same moral scope as buying and selling a person’s digital presence to manipulate and exploit them is digital slavery.
Any company with an advertising budget for spamming and wasting my time is clearly indicating that their competition has a product with better value and reputation. Ads are public service announcements of what to never purchase.
I will not watch ads for anything at all. My time is not subject to that nonsense. I’ll go read or do other things.
Life was way way more dangerous.
Most likely, people were sadistic, but also accidents happen. You just happen to get hurt in some way, make the best of it, and someone wants to copy it. The sadistic part is likely branding and slavery. Marking people so they cannot escape without getting caught.
Greek culture lacked any binary distinction.
I’m no expert on the subject, but reading Plato’s dialogues lately, the Athenians of the era just before Alexander had no preclusive prejudice for gendered relations. That said, the human demographic in Plato’s dialogues is very much biased towards the upper class of society, and I believe that has always slanted towards social exception through hierarchy, with a special place for the rogue aberrant who strings the bow of dogma at the edge of the tribe.
I wanted to hotrod and play with cars. One silly magazine I read had an article about how automotive paint was a dark art few ventured into. So I started with that in my teens. I did about everything one can do with cars. I worked with heavy equipment for awhile just to get a bunch of welding experience, then went back to painting cars but doing bigger jobs and repairs. Eventually I did not like the state I was in so I started cycling to hotrod me. The cars started fighting back as more and more of me was lost without need to carry me around. One day commuting to work, two scrappy SUVs teamed up against me on a bike. I killed them both, but the broke my neck and back. I guess I wish I had not read that article… I have never really thought of work as a means to an end per say. I cannot imagine staying motivated by that. I am not the type to go along with bullshit or do what I’m told. Give me a responsibility and I’ll do a far better job than anyone else and eventually I’ll become the back office manager the owner trusts completely. I hate managing people. No task is beneath me. I do not care about narcissistic nonsense from myself or anyone else. I do what needs to be done and others are welcome to do the same around me. Those that do not are none of my concern. I am the employee I wished I could find when I ran my own business… or at least I was. Now, I am a shell of my former self, with 8 of my 9 cat lives spent.
Clouds. Messing with optical properties of the universe has far greater consequences in physics. Don’t ask what. I do not recall more than simply seeing someone respond to a similar thing and talk about all the implications of altering… I think it was an atheist thing where someone was proving the universe could not exist if optical properties changed “after the flood” like the mythical nonsense in the bible. I just remember thinking, yup, never gonna mess with that shit… So clouds… Can I be Eros?
Damn that sucks. https://nightly.pipepipe.dev/ is using cloudflare ECH as mandatory. I am not enabling that shit. I do not inherently trust anyone to control DNS forwarding and tunnels. I do not care about FOSS “hackers” with DNS. I care about corporate stalkerware digital slavery. I am never giving up my DNS whitelist even if it costs me the whole internet. Fuck anyone that rips the front door off my digital house with this ECH garbage.
On that level, maybe invert your mindset and look in Maker spaces. Search by hardware like ESP32. You will likely get better (different) results if you search for devices that target EE students instead of those that target Makers in general. Like it is well known that Texas Instruments will send free samples of most common chips requested, to anyone with a .edu email. Projects on hardware like a Beagle Bone tend to be more advanced than more common Maker hardware. While a BB is like half of a Rπ in terms of hardware architecture, if a purpose made device is created without all of the extra overhead fluff, it is pretty good. The STM32 H7 stuff tends to have advanced projects at the handheld gaming level. The Nordic BT BLE chips are usually more popular with the advanced crowd.
You might look at the hardware commits for Micropython or Circuit Python for people adding DACs or other peripherals. These are likely to lead to their project spaces.
I’ve seen someone doing a drive swap on an old iPod to SSD and a software chain, but I think that was still only doing the Apple compatibility thing.
OpenWRT is not a bad place to look either. Any small embedded Linux device is likely to run on OpenWRT, so you may find something interesting just by shopping their hardware support and commit history.
I know, seems like a lot, but it really isn’t if you just try it once. It is the same routine every time.
FOSS has no marketing department.
When buying hardware in the present age, shop for FOSS software you want to run first. Then, clone the git in full. Finally, use the gource package to create a visual tree video that plays against the commit history. This will show you who is getting their pulls merged, how often, and how they contribute to the project.
What you’re looking for is who is consistent, and what they are using for hardware. It will always be obvious on larger projects. They will make little tweaks and changes a bunch between the hardware and software.
You may see stuff like company employees and subcontracting devs come in and make large commits that support some specific hardware, but if you watch carefully, these are only a handful of commits, and then they never return. They likely had a checklist in a contract, completed it, and got paid. They will never return. Likewise, if one of the main devs gets a new device, they will shift to it and you’re unlikely to see them make any further commits to the old stuff. The timespan between this transition infers much about the state of the old device support. Maybe just ask them why they switched and what is missing on the old stuff, or just cd to the hardware supporting directory and do $ grep -rin todo or similar types of stuff like code comments or words like hack or need.
Hardware specs and advertising nonsense are worthless and irrelevant. Don’t let highway robbers dictate your expectations. The only products that exist are those with FOSS support, so start with the FOSS and ignore everything else as criminal warlords. Who gives a fuck what products and deals the proprietary fascists churn out of Auschwitz or a Palestinian camp.
Nah, it is a matter of weight. Roads are engineered specifically for the weight of these trucks. If these trucks are regulated stupidly, the cost of goods goes up very quickly, the cost of road infrastructure skyrockets, or both. Making cars obese to protect the dumbest humans is one thing, but the constraints are different here. A commercial driver’s license is supposed to be a real license with real qualifications. That is your only protection. In a society where driving is required, the regular license is a joke with superficial qualifications. It is just a tax on the populous.
More. The larger the group, the more distributed the intelligence, and the larger the chance that someone with unmitigated mental health problems are present.
I do the shaky thing too, but I think it is just psychological tbh. At calorie crash levels of no blood sugar during extreme endurance sports, it is totally different. It is like someone straps lead weights all over your body. Everything feels heavy and nearly impossible to move.
There is probably some kind of dynamic regarding different types of sugar in the system that cause the shakiness.
Your brain ONLY works on sugars. So calorie crashing, like hitting the wall, is when your body has to start cannibalizing your own muscles for sugar to fuel the brain. I’ve never been anywhere near that level except on a bike after 4+ hours and 60+ miles. You feel like a puddle, and joints are like bending copper wire. There is no shakiness in that state.
Anyone here ever driven in a runaway trap system?
I was mildly scared of them when I was getting my commercial driver’s license ages ago. I was looking at potential jobs involving cranes or an excavator and lowboy. When a typical tractor trailer is fully loaded, you only have 3-4 full hard presses on the brakes before you lose them. Air brakes are inverted. The unpowered brakes state is fully engaged. The pneumatics are holding back the shoes; unlike typical cars that are pressing the friction material into a surface using hydraulics. When a truck fully engages the brakes, it lets all the air out. Then the reserve is used to refill the system to disengage. The engine’s compression is a primary component of the braking system. However, it is a manual transmission. Unlike manual cars, these do not have synchromesh (small clutches that spin up the secondary gear shaft to match the primary shaft speed). If you miss a shift, you only have around a 50-75 RPM window where shift will mesh at all. On top of that, the engine only revs 2k-3k RPM, so the transmission is usually an 8 speed with 2-3 splitters. That means there are 16-24 speeds total, and for any given speed, only one little shift window exists. I was scared of big downhills. When a truck is fully loaded, going down hill, and you’ve got to shift for engine braking, it can feel about like someone is fully depressing the accelerator in a regular car. That shift window passes super fast. One can rev match the engine to a small extent, but it is still easy to miss in an unfamiliar rig. You are more focused on staying in the lane when every visual indication you’re used to in cars is missing. Like you feel much larger than the lane and you only have around half a meter of extra margin split on both sides of the truck when driving minimum width lanes. So you miss the gear mesh, now you hard press the brakes to get the speed somewhere low where you are able to find a gear. Miss like that 3 times in a few minute span, and you’re likely to run out of air. That slams on the brakes, but that is not enough to stop a fully loaded truck on grades steeper than 5-6%. It is why the signs exist warning about the grade. You must use the engine AND brakes at these grades, managing the air levels in concert with the RPM and gear selected.
Anyone here ever fucked that up, or been in to a runaway ramp or engineered stopping surface?
A disorder is a function that causes disruptive distress or deviation from nominal behavior.
In abstract, I have posited a claim, and then shown how that claim is backed by associative social norms. I am attacking the normalization of anonymous negative behavior at a foundational level. I’m attacking the ethics of the developers that created this system in the first place. I have exemplified how this same behavior is in opposition to human social norms. I have shown its weaknesses in terms of political impact. I have posited a deeply unethical use case of why such a system would be implemented in the first place despite the malevolence. Finally, I have shown how it is destructive and harmful to everyone through statistical analysis using game theory.
The abstraction is not targeted in any way at people with mental health disorders. I am showing how the feature itself is a disorder or catalyst for disorderly behaviors.
I have actually tried really hard to remove any forms of bias or personal attacks from my dialog over the last decade or so. Like in this case, I’m actually arguing for positive constructive interactions in a more socially aware architecture. I want to remove the nominalized negativity. It was a mistake to make a space where people are able to abuse others, to manipulate, and to cause harm without social consequences as a feedback mechanism. It is a particularly sharp prejudice to experience when one is in near total social isolation from stuff like physical disability. Allowing people with no independent ethics to treat a space like this as a sadistic release valve for turgid eristics is simply wrong.
The name regicide has had millennia to develop, while I think it is likely that this novel method of obfuscating the succession crisis has not had similar time or cause for neologization.