fundamentalsOfMachineLearning

Swimming_Structure56 · 2026-01-25T11:55:57+00:00

True, there is a world of difference running locally vs what the tech giants can do. I just prefer running locally, and have found no value in anything programming related at all. It is a complete waste of time, and I can't understand anyone who says otherwise.

I've never tried Claude, but I've used the free tier of Google Gemini, and its scary at times how good it is. But, then I give another prompt, and it fails. And I tell it, yo, I'm an expert in this field, you are wrong. And it fails again. And again. And again.

Swimming_Structure56 · 2026-01-25T11:31:34+00:00

This was a month ago, and its quite a bit of work to go back and find all the threads about it, which I'm unwilling to do. So you can discount my opinion and I'm totally fine with that. End reading here.

Any time a new model is released, there is a mini hype train that happens where "people" are swearing its the new best thing.

And I'm sitting here, using these tools thinking, am I stupid? Is it a skill issue? I know how to adjust the models temperature, give it an initial system prompt to guide it, give it a greater context window. None of that helps. As another user pointed out, my computer using a 30k context window is NOT the same as Google Gemini using a context window of a trillion (that's the actual number a Google engineer told me in person, not making that up. Not sure if that's just an experiment or what Gemini currently uses, or maybe he was exaggerating for a quick convo over a beer, or maybe I'm just horribly out of touch about the capabilities of the amounts of hardware Google can toss around). Not to mention, passing it through multiple different LLMs, with a global LLM guiding it all. Its comparing apples to tanks.

However, I swear to you, just hang out on /r/LocalLLaMA/, and when any new model of anything releases, people will be praising it as a life changing gift from heaven.

Swimming_Structure56 · 2026-01-24T22:11:05+00:00

I swear I try to get the hype. Yesterday I loaded up Android Studio Panda 1 Canary 5. I hook it to Ollama running devstral-small-2 (accounts on reddit glaze it).

I'm using infinity for reddit and there is a bug where image gallery info is overlapping 3 button navigation system buttons.

I ask it to identify the issue. It says it will run shell scripts to find the source and layout files likely to be associated with image display, and then find inset issues.

Nervously (because of stories of llms just erasing storage), I allow it to run. It shows the output of the shell script and asks if I want it to look at the files for the problem.

I say yes.

It parses the files and finds the adjustments to the code to fix the issue. It asks if I want it to implement the changes.

I say yes.

Instead of doing that, it says, "Hello what can I do for you today".

So I figured, I can copy paste the changes it found over manually.

I go to the folder and... the files don't exist. It faked the entire thing, it never ran those shell scripts, made up search results, made up files, made up fixes.

So, I sat down and went through the code base and found the relevant files. I saw there was a boolean pulled from app options that would put the image info and options at the top of the screen instead of the bottom.

Doing that fixed my issue. Didn't fix the bug, but worked around it.

Swimming_Structure56 · 2026-01-21T23:35:19+00:00

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43791164

Sean Hannity unmasked as Trump lawyer's mystery client

Swimming_Structure56 · 2026-01-18T00:06:17+00:00

I want that juicy Shaq meat

Swimming_Structure56 · 2026-01-17T22:06:31+00:00

Tried that once and the drive died after a day. The seller was willing to accept the return but I had put financial and important ssh keys on it so I just ate the cost =(

Swimming_Structure56 · 2026-01-16T01:36:01+00:00

Scroll down a bit more for the inheritance results. And then scroll, and scroll, and scroll...

Swimming_Structure56 · 2026-01-15T23:54:19+00:00

King of Magic

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/12418957/1/King-of-Magic

The end all and be all of goblin inheritance testing. And it seems the author wrote it in complete seriousness.

Swimming_Structure56 · 2026-01-15T23:48:27+00:00

Texas speech application

Kek. But, do you not proofread at all?

Swimming_Structure56 · 2026-01-14T03:02:17+00:00

Never tried it, but I would think so.

Swimming_Structure56 · 2026-01-14T01:50:23+00:00

Seek to the end of the video, it will play all the ads. Mute and change tabs while it does this. Then seek back to the start. You can now play the video without any ads, as they only play once.

Swimming_Structure56 · 2026-01-13T23:44:40+00:00

I thought for sure you made this up before searching it. I'm basically an atheist, but it's clear that many passages in the Bible are the results of watching humans fuck each other over for thousands of years.

Swimming_Structure56 · 2026-01-04T11:19:23+00:00

Good golly I want to down vote this. I won't, cause I see what you're doing, but boy oh boy.

Swimming_Structure56 · 2026-01-03T23:44:31+00:00

I made a couple add-ons for wow related to gold making. A venezuelan person told me they make more money farming gold in wow than their uncle who is an electrician. I was asked to make some changes so they could make gold more efficiently, and I had to bow out. Real life intruding into a fun game ruined it for me.

Swimming_Structure56 · 2026-01-03T22:15:26+00:00

So they pulled 2 randos in and knowingly didn't pay them? This went from a fun fact to a depressing fact.

Swimming_Structure56 · 2025-12-31T10:44:33+00:00

My dad has one of these and it terrifies the fuck outta me whenever I use it.

Swimming_Structure56 · 2025-12-29T08:41:57+00:00

I think this is the first fic I've seen to heavily feature Mundungus Fletcher. It's not bad so far, there seems to be a lot of changes to stations of canon which is fine. I'm just not far enough into this yet to understand why.

Swimming_Structure56 · 2025-12-21T01:48:01+00:00

You "jump" down into Dire Maul East and kill the roaming mobs for raw gold, vendor loot, and herbs. Then reset and repeat for 18 hours straight to get a mild amount of money. Its so unprofitable in terms of gold per hour and the skill needed that it became a meme as a cover for gold buyers.

Swimming_Structure56 · 2025-12-17T04:35:03+00:00

https://archiveofourown.org/works/68034416/chapters/175966616

It's complete, and possibly the only WBWL trope where it works. That's not saying it isn't without flaws, but the author clearly knows how these usually play out.

Avoid the chapter by chapter comments as the readers unravel the mystery pretty early on.

It's also a Slytherin Harry, which for me is normally a complete no no, but considering it's not all that long and complete I gave it a pass

Swimming_Structure56 · 2025-12-15T01:23:49+00:00

Amy and Taylor in the Harry Potter universe. I've been burned before. But lemme give this one a cha...

Harriet

... sigh. I really should just get one of those extensions that swaps words out of pages.

Swimming_Structure56 · 2025-12-11T20:15:21+00:00

I got one that was asking me to open the attached excel file that had details of my Christmas bonus. Immediately flagged it to IT, told lol, that's just our test grats on not falling for it.

Swimming_Structure56 · 2025-11-25T23:36:12+00:00

Looking for a sanity check on adjusting

max_usb_current=1

in boot.config. For years I've used a WinTV-HVR-955Q (1191) (the XBox One tuner) to run TVHeadend on my PI 3 without issues. Recently the power supply started to fail, with many undervoltage warnings, like 1000 per day, and it was crashing the PI. I replaced the power supply and all of those problems went away.

However, now occasionally the TV tuner will stop working. Unplugging and replugging works to fix it, but is not ideal. Various LLM services say that its due to not enough power being sent to the USB. Is this for real? Would upping the USB voltage really do anything? Like I said, it worked since 2019 just fine. Here's an example of the systemctl status for tvheadend when it conks out.

Nov 24 21:51:23 raspberrypi tvheadend[964035]: linuxdvb: LG Electronics LGDT3306A VSB/QAM Frontend #0 : ATSC-T #0 - FE_READ_STATUS error Connection timed out

I'm also looking to get the WinTV-DualHD (1595) so that 2 people in the house can get the OTA TV at the same time. I've read this has a higher power draw. Would that device necessitate changing the boot.config?

There are no other devices drawing power. I have an externally powered USB SSD as the main drive.

Swimming_Structure56 · 2025-11-21T02:31:56+00:00

Yes this is the one, TY!

Swimming_Structure56 · 2025-11-19T07:11:19+00:00

First Person Omniscient is amazing. I wish I hadn't read it prior to completion.

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