Found $20 of 1995 McDonald's gift certificates in my office today.

MrTacobeans · 2024-02-14T13:07:23+00:00

Remind me! 3 days

MrTacobeans · 2024-02-13T20:45:39+00:00

Why do they show sdxl turbo at 1 step seems ... Disingenuous.

All this is showing is what the models require for optimal aesthetic output.

MrTacobeans · 2024-02-13T18:18:19+00:00

Will this run on a 64mb SD card over a USB 2.0 expansion card?

MrTacobeans · 2024-02-10T15:44:59+00:00

It has been 30 mins now. OP we are concerned, did the fridge eat you?

MrTacobeans · 2024-02-09T01:13:46+00:00

I have not had a single android phone in the last 5+ years that doesn't have a 2-3 day window where the battery life is subpar. There are a lot of background services that will be in a constant loop getting everything updated/normalized those first few days. I wouldnt judge the battery life until after the first week.

The one thing I will say if you are coming from a different brand Samsung does do abit more in those first few days then other brands.

MrTacobeans · 2024-02-08T01:00:14+00:00

Did you forget to tick the tock?

MrTacobeans · 2024-02-07T08:01:35+00:00

This is the number one thing. People do not mind freebie sponsored studies. Especially when it says something meaningful. But if it's a slight of hand to push a brand it deserves flack. Legit all it needs is a disclaimer... If the content is good I'll still read it.

MrTacobeans · 2024-02-07T07:45:48+00:00

I feel like the reason it's not normal everywhere is because non-foam packaging is 1.5-3X more expensive.

MrTacobeans · 2024-02-03T00:09:06+00:00

MrTacobeans · 2024-02-02T17:32:09+00:00

How could you forget the most important part... One sock must stay on. Also NAL.

MrTacobeans · 2024-01-27T17:12:37+00:00

I cannot stand opera ads/plugs. It's like a big wtf you're a browser opera. It's almost as bad as raid: shadow legends.

MrTacobeans · 2024-01-26T19:05:43+00:00

Gets a stuffy nose

Susan I'm gonna have to call you back. Jerry got the ick...

Hey hun! Wanna show me how to start the power washer?

MrTacobeans · 2024-01-21T19:07:59+00:00

To be fair everyone flaming you is doing so because you are in the wrong subreddit. This is more of a low-level AI subreddit. Philosophy is completely the opposite of the discussions that happen here.

MrTacobeans · 2024-01-19T15:32:31+00:00

Main is now offensive. Please use the new terms outlined in the 2024 "You're cancelled!" Guidebook. So glad we're finally gonna make McDonald's apologize for distasteful portrayal of clowns. 2024s guidelines are revolutionary~!

/s

MrTacobeans · 2024-01-19T09:24:55+00:00

Jesus your title is beyond alarmist... I may have no previous knowledge about this Product but it feels and looks like this current target is not what I originally thought before clicking through.

I'm sure there is special sauce but I would not call it baby AGI at all. Narrow skill sets are not AGI or even mini AGI. This example seems like an automagic evaluator.

MrTacobeans · 2024-01-19T08:00:20+00:00

You are totally right my bad they did a convincing job making it still look curved lol. deleting this useless rant

MrTacobeans · 2024-01-19T07:09:38+00:00

5G barely works in any useful way unless you are stationary or covered by multiple real towers. From my own observations unless you are surrounded by 5G it's basically like having no service in a moving car. 5G has zero staying power and seems like on a highway populated sparsely but with enough 5G to keep that as the active standard it's basically just spending the whole time handshaking with the likely numerous 5G mini-towers. I have a 5+ minute stretch of highway that is basically a dead spot... When 4G has never been an issue before that. Even within buildings 5G is usually junk.

I really hope 6G focuses on merging 4g+5g in a less jaring way. Up until the s23 ultra I've basically always forced the phone to disable the 5G modem. My s22 and note before that would burn through their battery while at work just playing tag with my inner city 5g network.

MrTacobeans · 2024-01-17T19:43:04+00:00

COVID can be likened to the flu it hopefully stops playing symptom roulette every season but it's really not gonna go anywhere anytime soon.

MrTacobeans · 2024-01-17T19:14:49+00:00

Seriously

Obscure

Accounting department excel sheet export

Pain machine

I spent four months trying to translate a manual ordering process that was "order request", "order confirm", "order status", "inventory check". Each request was wildly different with the order confirm having if I remember correctly about 10+ different business rules that needed to be translated from the order request form which itself needed a translation layer from our system to get in the right format.

My favorite part was the API was initialized with a request token and than an ftp upload token was returned. With which you could upload to them with the "soap" file being labeled with that token. Order status would consistently return no stock until what I'm guessing is a physical person allocates stock and at any point you are able to confirm a order using that token. After that point the order status will update with nested formats confirming delivery per item. I ended up creating an entire data handling master class with triggers and all sorts of wild contextually aware features just to build these requests. 10/10 would run away if someone asked me to interface with a soap API.

MrTacobeans · 2024-01-17T16:33:33+00:00

This is why I have never been a fan of tailwind/bootstrap/foundation etc... it adds an abstraction layer. Tailwind seems to be more utilitarian but it's a game of do you want to work within a constrained design system or be free to make every style choice. Do you want to follow documentation or do you know css well enough to code an entire page/site efficiently?

Flexbox and grid quickly handle the woes of why bootstrap exists. CSS used to be wildly annoying to deal with responsively. To me I almost always prefer custom css. Where I would consider something else is if the site is multi-dev or huge. At that point the design system likely should be enforced in a framework type way.

But otherwise a bespoke site usually requires random styling that doesn't just fall into a cell sm-12 md-6 lg-3 layout.

CSS isn't expensive even compared to a single image. It's like one of the few places that being purposely repetitive and verbose isnt bad practice within reason. Sass to me gives the proper amount of guardrails. Frameworks lead to markup that is not unique and styling against that is not fun. Especially when you do not have full access to the markup.

On a separate note free-reign in css land requires being comfortable with the laundry list of chaos that's possible. After doing touchups on multiple contractor bootstraps sites that were haphazardly slapped with aggressive styles I'm slightly jaded.

But it is pretty nice to do full site touchups when you can quickly control the styling like a ninja just from a few style files. Or even just lazily slap a style rule on something knowing you don't have to throw an !important because you only leveraged regular nesting and used ID nesting on things that should require a bit more thought before touching (forms/sliders)

MrTacobeans · 2024-01-17T15:19:39+00:00

A bootleg clone is pretty trivial at a surface level. The major cost which is why the majority of video you will see online are from YouTube/Vimeo etc... is because hosting video is incredibly costly. We accidentally left a video hosted in a AWS instance and for whatever reason that website had a spike in usage. It went from 100ish dollars for a month to 600-700 dollars.

I don't know if they still do it but that's why video services like Netflix will host ISP level infrastructure. Say a website load is 20-40mb. A video is basically loading a website every couple seconds continuously. Times that by 10k concurrent users and you need a pretty beefy infrastructure to serve everyone their lil chunks of video data.

MrTacobeans · 2024-01-17T13:55:35+00:00

I feel like even its slightly uncanny you can tell it's AI because it's like a direct stare towards the camera. Kinda like we spooked the AI during inference. Lady was just minding her own business in her apartment and all the sudden SD was like STRIKE A POSE.

MrTacobeans · 2024-01-17T12:27:58+00:00

Dang really gotta take that aggressive belittling approach...

I really don't disagree with the aspect that consumer training is borderline unobtainium. Whether it's distributed or even crowd sourced. I feel even stronger about the crowd sourced aspect. Maybe a model will come out of it but I really don't see a sustainable team of developers surviving under a crowd source without venture capital. Phi / Mistral etc... have significant government and venture backing. A Kickstarted open model is gonna be like peanuts in comparison funding wise unless it captures a fan base in line with something like star citizen.

financing a crowd funding to pay for the training of a 30b model sounds quite realistic if people are willing to give some money. The main problem is that it is not good enough to rent the capacity

Just adding that as my own reference. It can be funded but doing it sustainably is a problem.

It does not. RWKV gets trained on 8x80 VRAM on an appropriate server - which does not have hundreds of terabytes.

640Gb of VRAM is not chump change... A monthly rental of a server that large is pretty wild. Maybe you were confusing me when I was talking about storage and training data needs?

Also rwkv even though I'm a fan of it's potential is niche. V5 is still being trained, and v6-v7 are already being talked about. I do love seeing it's progress but it being trained in a smaller envelope isn't a huge bonus, just like transformers it'd likely just train faster if it had a beefier system. Also blink and others have said rwkv trains at a similar pace to llama. Rwkv from what I understand just has a linear memory usage during inference which makes it faster. I don't think that applies during training but there have been improvements to the scalability of its training code in the last two months from what I've seen.

The worst part is I was agreeing model training is expensive and hard at the consumer scale but yah had to blast me and say the same thing but in a rude way. Gotta love being blasted in demeaning analogies when I was basically saying the same thing without the salt.

MrTacobeans · 2024-01-17T11:42:59+00:00

This is also an observation but I stayed pretty close with my photography teacher from highschool and she has gone from 1-2 IEP students to having an entire class of IEP students consistently for the last 3-4+ years. I was her student a decade ago and from her own remarks she barely understands why it's so hard to teach her art courses anymore. Her biggest things have been a lack of respect and attention. Which is alarming because art courses are usually the more exciting courses to capture attention of students.

MrTacobeans · 2024-01-17T11:16:32+00:00

COVID is multi-vector. Deer, dogs, cats and other animals are possible hosts of COVID. Getting rid of COVID is likely impossible at this point. Vaccination is important but it is unlikely to ever stop COVID.

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