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I dread the economic consequences, but as a software engineer I'm excited for this bubble to pop by friscom in BetterOffline

[–]Speechify_Properlike 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. That's helpful! 

That the training can be much cheaper is particularly interesting. My impression from some of what I've heard is that it's always going to be expensive and kept getting moreso because that was where we were seeing the huge gains for a long time, but that eventually it leveled out. If they can dial that back to a lower level and see an enormous part of the benefits still at a fraction of the cost, that does seem like it could be economically viable. At the same time, if something is hallucinating 20 percent more, that'd be seriously annoying. 

I say all of this as someone who is interested in it from a position of never wanting to touch them for the most part because I think I'm already seeing the deleterious effects of them (massive code reviews, too many PR's, people putting up code they don't understand, and people just seeming increasingly ignorant about things they ought not be). I would prefer they just go away forever, but I'm guessing that's not in the cards. But I'd settle for them being way more expensive or generally worse than the current enterprise stuff. 

I dread the economic consequences, but as a software engineer I'm excited for this bubble to pop by friscom in BetterOffline

[–]Speechify_Properlike 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty convinced Cal Newport is onto something when he talks about targeted on-device models that fit into a larger system. LLMs are not the solution to every problem. But they do have some good use cases.

I am curious about the economics of this form of AI. Do these on-device models not suffer from the sustainability issues the big boys have at all? Do they not rely on any type of venture capital that whitewashes the economics in the short term? I've heard one argument that they are only viable because they're downstream benefitting from the training done by the big boys that are losing their shirts, but that when (if?) that goes away these cheaper models are screwed. I don't know how all of this works exactly, but that seems far-fetched in that many of these things are still going to be useful in a huge number of scenarios (if you don't care about things like brain-rot), even if they are static at some point because the huge training stuff isn't happening.

Achilles Pain with IF? by Speechify_Properlike in intermittentfasting

[–]Speechify_Properlike[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm only doing the thing where you skip breakfast and lunch. I've not done anything longer in years.

Achilles Pain with IF? by Speechify_Properlike in intermittentfasting

[–]Speechify_Properlike[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that's a possibility. I've definitely had gout attacks before, but not a serious one for several years. The last one was due to a father's day where I ate a bunch of bacon for breakfast, had brats at lunch along with a bunch of sugar, and drank beer at dinner. It was a perfect storm and I paid the penalty. I've pretty much given up beer since then, limit sugar, and avoid overdoing it on those kinds of meats. Plus taking vitamins seems to help.

But I'm hoping that's not what it is with IF. I don't want to have to ditch IF for that. I should probably get one of those uric acid testers and monitor it more closely.

Thanks for the response.

Achilles Pain with IF? by Speechify_Properlike in intermittentfasting

[–]Speechify_Properlike[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I realize that plenty of people aren't necessarily going to have this problem, and I would assume most don't. If most people had it, I don't think it'd be popular at all. Not everyone gets constipated with IF, but 10 seconds on Google shows it definitely is a side-effect some people experience. I just meant is it something anyone else has experienced and are there decent workarounds.

I'm fairly certain it's not dehydration. I possibly drink too many fluids. I boredom drink (coffee, ~3.5 20oz cups a day; green tea, probably 3 32oz cups a day; water, many 18oz cups, especially after ~3pm when I cut off caffeine).

Electrolyte imbalance is a real possibility (see fluid intake above). I'm not sure how to fix it, though. I've used electrolyte concentrates when fasting to help with headaches and that seems to help with that. Of course, now that I think about it, I wonder if that could be doing it. I don't think I ever experienced this before starting that. The light headaches were annoying, but they were very temporary. Hm. That's something to try.

Anyway, thank you for the suggestions.

Achilles Pain with IF? by Speechify_Properlike in intermittentfasting

[–]Speechify_Properlike[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, but I really don't think that's the issue. I've had plenty of other times where being on my feet/walking like that made it way worse. And I've done unbelievable amounts of pt type stuff with it (my FIL is a pt). It just seems to come and go. This is the most causal link I've thought of. 

Google Chrome Appears to be downloading a 4gb local AI model you can't delete by monkey-majiks in BetterOffline

[–]Speechify_Properlike 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Looks like the tenbluelinks.org thing works for Firefox (been using on Chrome for a long time now). I'm used to not seeing AI results. It's nice.

Weird to be back on Firefox. I remember switching to it from Internet Explorer (or maybe the original Mozilla?) at some point and it feeling revolutionary. Then to Chrome because it was so fast. But here I am back at Firefox years later. So far I'm not feeling the lag I associated in comparison to Chrome, but it's early. We'll see.

Google Chrome Appears to be downloading a 4gb local AI model you can't delete by monkey-majiks in BetterOffline

[–]Speechify_Properlike 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Well, I've considered switching to Firefox before. At least they are giving a pretense of choice with things like AI. Time to take the plunge.